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Displaying from Tuesday, November 04, 2014
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November 2014
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Tuesday 04 |
16:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - RESEARCH WEEK EVENT: Teacher wellbeing and its impact on student learning : This presentation will discuss the relationship between school staff’s and students’ wellbeing and achievement
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Given the development of young people’s academic, social and emotional competencies in school settings is highly dependent on the presence of skilled and competent school staff, this presentation will discuss the relationship between school staff’s and students’ wellbeing and achievement.
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Wednesday 05 |
Psychotic symptoms indicate risk for mental illness. Despite much effort, our current ability to predict the course and outcome of early psychotic symptoms is limited, hampering timely intervention and treatment. Research in this area to date relies heavily on diagnostic categories, group-level (...)
13:30 - EVENT - Organisational Behaviour Research - A discussion as part of UWA Research Week : Featuring researchers from the UWA Business School and School of Psychology
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This panel discussion will showcase research on organisations, featuring a variety of speakers on topics including organisational change and structures, diversity and culture, and human behaviour and effectiveness in the organisational setting.
Speakers include Sharon Parker, Alex (...)
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Thursday 06 |
9:30 - EVENT - Understanding Human Values - A UWA Research Week event : Featuring UWA Business School researchers
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This event, featuring Julie Lee and Geoff Soutar, will showcase research into universal human values. The lecture focuses on the structure of values within individuals (children and adults) and explores patterns and their implications across societies.
The event is suitable for (...)
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Friday 07 |
12:00 - EVENT - UWA Staff Sports Fun Day : There is a time for work...and a time for play!
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UWA Staff Sports Fun Day is a day on campus for staff and postgraduate students to get together and participate in sport and activity. This year's theme is Brazil - be loud, be colourful and join in - up to 1000 participants expected throughout the day.
Get Involved: Contact your Team (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
R is a free and extremely powerful language and software environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. The course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. The course will include: Introduction to R: How to install R on (...)
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Thursday 13 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Self-, other- and joint monitoring in monologue and dialogue : School of Psychology Colloquium
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In the psychology of language, most accounts of self-monitoring assume that it is based on comprehension. Here I outline and develop the alternative account proposed by Pickering and Garrod (2013), in which speakers construct forward models of their upcoming utterances and (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Autism Spectrum Disorder and the DSM-5 : School of Psychology Colloquium
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Finally, in May 2013, DSM-5 by the American Psychiatric Association was published, after 15 years of planning and development. There were and are many controversies around the DSM-5, particularly regarding, neurodevelopmental disorders, and most prominently concerning autism (...)
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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 statistical package SPSS will be used to (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Reducing Distraction by Improving Driver Ability : Neurotrauma Research Program Seminar
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Every year road accidents take a significant toll on health and well-being in WA, and results in substantial costs in lost productivity and medical care. While conventional approaches have focused on tougher law enforcement and vehicle safety technology to mitigate risk (...)
18:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture: Testing the Limits of the Human Brain : Public Lecture presented by Professor Phil Ainslie
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Relative to its size, the brain is the most oxygen-dependent organ in the body, but many pathophysiological and environmental processes may either cause or result in an interruption to its oxygen supply. Remarkable feats, however, have been achieved where the human brain has survived extremely low (...)
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January 2015
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Tuesday 06 |
8:00 - SEMINAR - EPC Summer Special : 30 day membership for $30
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Come and try the great range of group classes available at the Exercise and Performance Centre for just $30. Classes include Pilates, Aqua and Circuit training. Valid for new members only, medical clearance may be required. Space in classes are limited and bookings are essential.
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February 2015
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Thursday 19 |
16:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture : "The tympanic membrane: Structure, damage and regeneration"
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Magnus von Unge is Professor and Senior Ear Surgeon at Akershus University Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway. He is member of the Swedish Surgical Society, Association for Research in Otolaryngology and Politzer Society, and has served on the editorial board of ACTA Otolaryngologica.
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Tuesday 24 |
Once a year we hold a colloquium in which we display the posters presented at research meetings during the previous 12 months. Please come and see the work presented in this manner by the School in 2014. we will provide something BBQ'd to sustain you while you chat with the staff and students who (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture: Professor Giles Plant : Human corticospinal motor neuron relay grafts for treatment of cervical spinal cord injury
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Professor Giles Plant obtained his PhD degree from The University of Western Australia and is now Basic Science Director of the Stanford Partnership for Spinal Cord Injury and Repair in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. The aim of Giles' research is to elucidate new cellular (...)
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March 2015
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Tuesday 03 |
1:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Prof Morrone: Development and Plasticity of Primary visual cortex in human
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Department of Translational Research in New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery University of Pisa - Fondazione Stella Maris IRCCS
Maria Concetta Morrone graduated in Physics from the University of Pisa, trained in Biophysics at the elite Scuola Normale Superiore and she is now a (...)
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Wednesday 04 |
The University of Western Australia's Careers Fair provides excellent opportunities for students to engage, network and meet prospective employers looking to recruit students for graduate programs, vacation work, internships and voluntary positions. From first year to final year, Undergraduate to (...)
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Thursday 05 |
12:00 - LECTURE - Raine Lecture: Direct to brain treatments for psychiatric illness: the new wave or a new fad?
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After graduating from The University of Western Australia, Professor Anthony Levitt undertook his specialty training in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, which he completed in 1989. From 1992-2002 he was Head of the Mood Disorders Programs, initially at the Centre for Addictions and Mental (...)
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Tuesday 10 |
13:00 - EVENT - Psychology colloquium: Prof David Burr: Cross-sensory integration and Calibration during development
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Department of Neuroscience, University of Florence.
Title: Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development
Much evidence suggests that humans integrate information between senses in a statistically optimal manner, maximizing the precision of performance. We have (...)
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Friday 13 |
The UWA French Club Play is a club tradition spanning over 70 years. After a four year lapse, the UWA French Club has revived this tradition to bring you the play Lysistrata.
This is a seductive comedy with a strong political bent. Set during the Peloponnesian War, the women of Greece (...)
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