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May 2019
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Wednesday 01 |
With a few tweaks you can improve your writing, whether it’s for work, a blog or personal correspondence. Linguist Daniel Midgley presents a fun and easy crash course in English grammar. Along the way, he’ll show you how language really works. Some well-placed commas will make you feel better.
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Friday 03 |
This session will be useful for researchers who are applying for grants, tenure or promotion; or generally, wish to monitor their research performance. It will cover finding:
· Evidence of quality for journals in which you have published;
· Citation numbers for individual (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
Find out about the role of publishing in today’s academic environment, how to decide what publications are right for your research, and what new developments such as open access and ebooks mean for academics and researchers.
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Wednesday 08 |
Searching grey literature is an important step in ensuring that your systematic review is truly comprehensive. Come and learn some strategies and sources for searching grey literature, which includes everything that has not been published in a conventional sense.
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Tuesday 21 |
14:00 - SEMINAR - Copyright and your Thesis : Understand the lifecycle of copyright in a thesis
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This session will provide an overview of the lifecycle of copyright in a thesis to ensure you understand your copyright obligations and can confidently use copyright material in your thesis.
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Wednesday 29 |
Want to expand impact of your research? Interested in increasing collaboration, ensuring the integrity of research methodology and reducing duplication of effort? Keen to ensure your research can be relevant into the future? Or maybe your publisher just says that you have to make your research data (...)
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June 2019
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Wednesday 05 |
Learn to use Web of Science and Incites to benchmark your research against your peers, your area of research and even the whole world.
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Thursday 06 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Assessment Essentials : A workshop for academics and postgraduate students
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The objective of this two day workshop is to enhance the skills of the faculty and postgraduate students in the assessment of student learning. The topics covered include; Writing test items, creating assignments, conducting pre and post examination reviews, assessment of professionalism, feedback (...)
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Monday 10 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Advanced Thinking Skills - 2 Day Workshop : Hosted by The Centre for Exploration Targeting, UWA
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The purpose of this workshop is to expose participants to a variety of practical thinking styles and tools to enhance the focus, quality and speed of their thinking.
There is a need from university through to the workplace to better understand both basic and advanced thinking processes for better (...)
16:00 - COURSE - Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence - online course : A free online course for UWA staff and students via LMS
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Do you feel confident to support students who have experienced sexual violence? Do you know how to best respond and where to refer the person for support if needed?
Developed in collaboration with higher education experts and service providers, Responding to Disclosures of Sexual (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
9:00 - COURSE - A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory : A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory in collaboration with The University of Sydney will take place 11 & 12 July 2019 and 15 - 19 July 2019.
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Rasch models for measurement are used in large scale national and international assessments, not only to analyse test data after collection, but to use as criteria for design of test items and their administration. The GSE Psychometric Laboratory undertakes research and development for application (...)
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Friday 14 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Everyday Life as a Methodological Challenge: household, gender and materiality : A masterclass with Svante Norrhem, Associate Professor of History at Lund University and 2019 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow
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This workshop aims to capture student and researcher interest across History, Gender Studies, Fine Arts, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Professor Norrhem will discuss both the many benefits but also the methodological challenges when working with gender, power and (...)
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July 2019
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Wednesday 24 |
9:30 - EVENT - Research Impact Series - Achieving Your Research Outcomes : Wed 24 Jul and Thur 25 Jul 2019
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Achieving Your Research Outcomes is series of 12 events for UWA researchers, staff and postgraduate students to learn about the processes and functions that can help you achieve your research outcomes.
Sessions will run in succession at the Hemsley Learning Suite, Reid Library during (...)
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - Finding Rembrandt in Love and Life : A public lecture by Professor Susan Broomhall (The University of Western Australia)
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This lecture explores how the character of Rembrandt van Rijn is interpreted through place, gender and emotions in museums and heritage sites in the Netherlands today. It focuses on the cities of Leiden and Amsterdam, Rembrandt’s homes, and particularly, the role of women in shaping (...)
Grammar holds sentences together, but it also communicates who you are. With the skills found in this course, you will gain a more advanced understanding of the grammar of English, and use this knowledge to make your writing more clear. This course is directly focused on writing, and gives you (...)
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Thursday 25 |
13:30 - FORUM - The UWA Institute of Agriculture Industry Forum : Finding Common Ground: Bringing food, fibre and ethics to the same table
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With increasing public scrutiny of agricultural practices in food and fibre production, rebuilding trust
between innovative primary producers and ethically informed consumers is becoming more important
than ever before. Join us for a lively discussion on finding common ground and moving forward (...)
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August 2019
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Tuesday 27 |
1:00 - EVENT - Conducting a comprehensive literature search (Humanities and Social Sciences focus)
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Ensure that your literature searching is effective, efficient and thorough. Learn how to:
Develop a search strategy;
identify relevant, scholarly information sources and;
use tools and techniques to track the literature related to your research.
This session has a Humanities and Social (...)
Feeling a bit lost trying to navigate the deluge of scholarly literature in your area of research? Let us help you feel confident that you are finding the best and most relevant information for your literature review in an efficient and effective way. We will show you how to:
- Develop a (...)
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September 2019
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Thursday 05 |
A systematic review requires a rigorous and systematic search of the literature. In this introductory seminar we will overview a comprehensive approach to systematic searching, key sources and tools available to you. This workshop is intended for researchers in STEM disciplines planning on (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
It's important for researchers to understand their rights before entering into publishing agreements. This session, run by UWA's Copyright Librarian, will explore the rights that researchers have as authors, and will highlight some of the common publisher agreement terms to be aware of.
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