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Displaying from Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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October 2012
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Wednesday 17 |
8:30 - EVENT - Australia China Business Council Education Forum 2012 : Chinese Language and Cultural Competency in Schools and Industry - Real Links to a Sustainable Relationship
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Whilst trade and enterprise have led Australia's bilateral relations with China, education promotes mutual understanding and long lasting links. This year's forum will focus on developing Chinese language and cultural competency in schools, universities and industry. His Excellency Mr Chen Yuming (...)
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Wednesday 31 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : NAPLAN: Driving school improvement or doing the work of the devil?
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Controversy continues to surround national student assessment in Australia. However, I argue that testing is neither good nor bad: the devil lies in what people – teachers, school, systems and even parents – do about the tests and the data they generate. I report the experiences of principals (...)
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November 2012
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Wednesday 14 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Cherishing our place: Do women have a special role? : Guest lecture by Professor Carmen Lawrence
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There are two glaring omissions from orthodox models and theories of economic growth: the planet and the human families and communities which live within it. These models neglect the fact that the human economy is embedded in the biosphere which consists of living things, the products of living (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
This course will take you through the basics you need to do statistical analyses in R, a powerful freeware statistical package.
The course will cover basic statistics such as t-tests, regression and ANOVA as well as producing high quality graphics.
The course is hosted by the (...)
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Thursday 29 |
The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about designing and analysing experiments.
It will cover material ranging from a review of simple one-way ANOVA, to more complex designs and analyses including crossed and nested factors with (...)
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December 2012
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Tuesday 04 |
9:00 - COURSE - Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling : A Short Course using AMOS and Mplus
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SEM is used widely by researchers to test complex relationships among observed (measured) and latent (unobserved) variables.
This course will introduce you to SEM and also covers issues relating to model specification, identification and estimation, assessing model fit (goodness-of-fit criteria) (...)
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Monday 10 |
The course is designed as a comprehensive coverage of applied SEM techniques using the Mplus statistical software package. Mplus offers a general modelling framework that allows both the modelling of cross-sectional and longitudinal data using observed variables that are a combination of continuous (...)
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February 2013
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Saturday 09 |
As part of the UWA Centenary celebrations, the School of Psychology will be holding an event on the Alumni and Friends Weekend. The event will take place between 3:00pm and 4:00pm on Saturday 9th February and will include a tour through the Psychology Hub (including the Robin Winkler Clinic) and (...)
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Monday 18 |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Subsidised rates are available for (...)
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April 2013
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Thursday 04 |
9:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Unisuper Financial Advice : Unisuper Financial Adviser will be on campus at UWA
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Book your financial advice appointment on campus at the University of Western Australia with a Unisuper Financial Advisor.Whichever type of advice you choose, your first appointment with UniSuper Advice is complimentary. If you wish to proceed, a fixed quote will be provided at the conclusion of (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
“INTENSELY COMPELLING…EXTRAORDINARY.”
Karen Curry- Former CNN Bureau Chief New York
The fates of a woman living in Beijing and a man living in New York become inextricably linked because of a common conviction…
The multi-award winning “Free China: The Courage To (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
16:45 - STAFF EVENT - Retirement Planning & Centrelink : Presented by Unisuper and Centrelink experts
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This presentation combines the Retirement Planning seminar with an additional presentation from a Centrelink representative. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from both UniSuper and Centrelink experts on key retirement planning and Centrelink issues. Members wishing to attend the seminar must (...)
19:30 - EVENT - From birth to 10 years: A longitudinal study of families created using gamete donation and surrogacy : Reproductive Technology Council Special Event
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Dr Jadva will present data from a longitudinal study of families created using assisted reproduction, specifically egg donation, sperm donation and surrogacy. The children were born around the turn of the new millennium and families were visited when their child was aged 1, 2, 3, 7 and 10 years (...)
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Thursday 18 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - HDR Supervision Series : “Supporting HDR supervision: Lessons from the field”
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This event is open to both new and more seasoned staff who would like to gain a wider perspective on the joys and challenges of supervision from an Education perspective.
Topics include: Supervising at a distance/Supervising international students; and Balancing the fine line between (...)
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Monday 22 |
13:00 - TALK - Talk: James T. Enns (UBC) - The Predictive Brain
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In the late 1990’s my colleagues and I began to ask whether the emerging view in neuroscience
— that the brain was massively reentrant — had any consequences for visual perception and
psychophysics. We came to the conclusion that it fundamentally changed the way we understood
visual (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
12:00 - TALK - Talk: Amy Dawel (ANU) - Integration of dangerous context and fearful expressions in children and adults: Gaze-cueing and threat bias effects
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In real life, we use contextual information from the environment to help us interpret the emotions signaled by others’ facial expressions. Yet, because emotion perception has often been studied using facial expressions in isolation, we know little about how this important social skill develops (...)
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May 2013
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Tuesday 14 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The Raine Study � A unique West Australian resource for health and medical researchers. : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world. It began in 1989 at King Edward Memorial Hospital with the recruitment of 2,900 pregnant women in early pregnancy. These families were (...)
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Tuesday 21 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Teaching in a virtual world, Building a virtual school on the UWA campus in Second Life : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The Vice Chancellor has called for “a full review of pedagogic purpose and practice in 2013, with the aim of introducing new pedagogies from the beginning of 2015” this aim was subsequently approved by the Academic Board. Unfortunately the primary driver for such change is often (...)
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June 2013
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Thursday 13 |
13:00 - PRESENTATION - Preparing and presenting a Three Minute Thesis talk : Guidelines on how to present a suitable talk for UWA's 3MT competition in 2013.
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The rules and details of UWA's Three Minute Thesis Competition will be described, and guidance will be given on how to present a talk suitable for this event.
Doctoral and Masters Researchers, ECRs and academics within 7 years of PhD completion are eligible to compete.
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Tuesday 25 |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA).
The course is subsidised for UWA (...)
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