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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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July 2013
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Tuesday 02 |
The course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. Those without this experience are encouraged to attend the Introductory Statistics course first.
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Thursday 04 |
This course covers material ranging from Kaplan Meier curves to the analysis of censored data and Cox's proportional hazards models.
Participants must bring their own laptop with R installed.
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Tuesday 23 |
8:50 - SYMPOSIUM - Symposium of WA Neuroscience : Free symposium for neuroscientists, clinicians, students and the public
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The Symposium of WA Neuroscience (SWAN) will be held in association with the Neurotrauma Research Program of WA on Tuesday the 23rd of July, 2013 at The University of Western Australia in the MCS lecture theatre (G33).
This year SWAN will comprise four sessions. The first of these is (...)
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Friday 26 |
14:00 - ORATION - Three Minute Thesis Competition Final : An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to present - their time 3 minutes!
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The task for the 10 finalists is to give an engaging talk on their PhD topic and it's significance in language that everyone can understand - in just 3 minutes. The audience will vote for its People's Choice.
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August 2013
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Sunday 11 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - 2013 Open Day : Join us for our Centenary Open Day and experience all that UWA has to offer
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Come and find out about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.
There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music, entertainment, and plenty of fun activities (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
13:00 - TALK - CAREERS MONTH - Industrial Relations Association - Careers Panel : What does it take to get your career in work and employment relations started? Why not ask a professional!
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Studying commerce, arts, or law? Not sure how your future career is going to look like after uni? Interested in work and employment relations? This is your opportunity to find out what you career in the field of work and employment relations can look like.
The UWA Career Centre and the (...)
13:00 - EVENT - CARE Tales from Peru : Assessing the relationship between attentional control and attentional bias in trait anxiety.
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Speaker: Patrick Clarke
Title: Examining the Functional Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias Acquisition: Evidence from tDCS
Biased attention to threatening information is consistently implicated in the development and maintenance of anxiety pathology (...)
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