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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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Tuesday 20 |
13:00 - TALK - CAREERS MONTH - Welcome to the W.A. Public Sector - employment opportunities abound! : Come along and hear from a representative of the Public Sector Commission who will discuss life in the WA public sector, how to apply for positions and where to find current vacancies.
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Welcome to the Western Australian public sector and the never ending possibilities of working for the Government and contributing to the administration of the State. The public sector is made up of a wide range of government departments and agencies with locations throughout the whole of Western (...)
13:00 - Colloquium - The Raine Study � A unique West Australian resource for health and medical researchers. : The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world.
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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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Thursday 22 |
19:00 - PUBLIC TALK - UWA Extension - How we can shape our minds : Presented by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
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Barbara Arrowsmith-Young is recognised as the creator of one of the first practical treatment applications utilising the principles of neuroplasticity. She will share with you her personal journey of discovery, driven by her hunt for a solution to her own debilitating learning disorders.
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Monday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - CAREERS MONTH - INTERNATIONAL CAREERS WEEK: Marketing Yourself in Australia � work, study AND stay : Are you an international student who wants to gain work experience in Australia? Find out what you need to do to market yourself effectively to Australian employers.
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This workshop is aimed at UWA’s international students to assist them in developing strategies for marketing themselves successfully to Australian employers. Learn about the importance of self –marketing, utilising contacts, researching and networking skills effectively, as well as managing (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Predicting Self-Harm Among Psychiatric Inpatients in Real Time: An Example of Practice-Based Evidence : Psychology Colloquium
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Despite suicidal ideation exhibiting variability, limited research has examined the short-term course of suicidal ideation. We hypothesised first, that distinct patterns of suicidal ideation could be identified by tracking daily ratings of suicidal thinking, and second that a predictive model based (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : Publishing to the Index
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In education, the role of assessment is ubiquitous and indispensable. However, even though it is intended to enhance performance, because it has the potential to corrupt learning, ‘teaching to the test' has a pejorative connotation. In academe, a relatively new phenomenon of being assessed by one (...)
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September 2013
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Tuesday 17 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Some Results From the Motivational Leadership Training Program : Psychology Colloquium
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Organizations need to know how to motivate and engage their employees in a healthy fashion (i.e., preserving or enhancing their well-being). A large number of organizations send their managers to leadership training, even though we know surprisingly little about its impact on employee motivation (...)
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Monday 23 |
13:00 - Information Session - Prospective Postgraduates Information Session - Accelerated Learning Laboratory & Centre for Safety
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The Accelerated Learning Laboratory and the Centre for Safety will be co-hosting an information session for current and prospective postgraduates in the ALL (General Purpose 3, G06) on Monday 23rd September between 1pm and 3pm. Winthrop Professors Sharon Parker and Mark Griffin will present on the (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
13:00 - Colloquium - To be (broad) or not to be (broad) : To be (broad) or not to be (broad): The dynamics of attentional focusing
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Focused visual attention is a mechanism by which relevant visual information is selectively prioritised for further processing. Given this vital role, focused attention is essential for the efficient visual perception of a world that is not only richly varied, but also continually changing. Great (...)
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Wednesday 25 |
16:00 - EXPO - 2013 Postgrad & Honours Expo : Discover how further studies at UWA can help you achieve your ultimate career or research goals.
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Explore the array of coursework and research programs on offer, learn about admission requirements, postgraduate scholarships and talk to staff, honours and postgraduate students.
A series of information sessions will run alongside the Expo to allow you to discover more about (...)
The Psychology Postgraduate Information Session will focus on the postgraduate programs offered in 2014:
* PhD and Master by Research
* MPsych/PhD in Clinical Psychology
* MPsych/PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology
* MPsych/PhD in Industrial and Organisational
* MPsych in Industrial and Organisational (...)
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Thursday 26 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : Considering agency alongside structure in current considerations on child abuse in Catholic educational institutions: historical perspectives
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In 2013 a six-member Royal Commission was established in Australia to investigate Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. This is the latest in a large number of such commissions that have been established around the world in recent years. It is clear that it will report many cases of abuse (...)
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Monday 30 |
Come and meet with our Honours coordinator to learn more about our 2014 Honours program. You will learn more about entry requirements and prerequisites, the application and selection process, and also what you can expect from the Honours course.
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