What's On at UWA

Ace your Video Interview will cover:

What is a video interview, at what stage of the recruitment process would you normally complete a video interview, what can you expect when conducting a video interview and how can you best prepare.

Students from all degree backgrounds are (...)

Learn how to structure your responses to the selection criteria to give your best shot at getting to the interview stage.

During this practical 75 minute workshop you will learn a framework to better structure your response to the selection criteria and communicate your suitability for (...)

Professor Joseph Piven is currently Director of the federally-funded University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the University of North Carolina and NICHD-funded Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, while leading an NIH-funded T32 Post-Doctoral (...)

The Careers Boot Camp will get you ready for employment! Brush up your networking skills, update your resume and get tips to help you find a job.

All students welcome to attend.

Book for the individual workshops on CareerHub (http://uwa.careerhub.com.au/students/events)

Quit Smoking Successfully!

The Robin Winkler Clinic at The University of Western Australia will be conducting a SMOKING CESSATION treatment program commencing in the first half of OCTOBER 2015.

The Smoking Cessation treatment program combines nicotine replacement therapy with (...)

St George's College and the SAS Resources Trust are combining together on Saturday 10th October for a day of interest and enjoyment at the College. The activities will include an SAS historical display and talks from former SAS officers. The "Midday Live Set" featuring resident musicans (...)

Join the UWA psychology students and staff on a journey of reducing stigma and demystifying mental illness for Mental Health Week 2015.

Presentations focus on understanding and acting on mental health issues, including: What does depression and anxiety look like? What does getting help (...)

The Seminar: Cooperation is the foundation of human social life and by any definition the essence of culture itself: shared meaning, value, and goals. But how it evolved remains a mystery. Game theory shows that it can evolve but is silent about mechanisms - what motivates us to cooperate? Moreover (...)

A public lecture by Elina Hermanson, Head of Adolescent Health Services, City of Helsinki, Finland.

As an adolescent medicine physician, Elina Hermanson meets teens with worries and sorrows that need the attention of a professional. Some have obvious troubles that could have been (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



-----------------

Professor Dr Magdalena Götz is the Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, and Chair of the (...)

Interested in developing and funding international research collaborations, particularly in the fields of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences? Come hear how others have been able to do so, and learn how you can be more strategic in your approach.

The Seminar will run from 12:00 - 1:00 (...)

Our Science Experience event is now open for registration!

UWA/ConocoPhillips Science/Engineering Experience - 19-21 January 2016!

Budding scientists/engineers in Years 9/10 (this year) are welcomed to UWA’s campus for three days of fun and to fuel their passion for science (...)

The next meeting of the Faculty of Science, Women in Science group will be a morning tea. All are welcome.

The morning tea is a great opportunity to network with other scientists in an informal setting. We will be discussing the implementation of the Faculty of Science mentoring (...)

The Seminar: Primates live in diverse social organizations that differ markedly in their sizes and composition. Primates also vary substantially in the degree to which they express sexual dimorphism in body mass and secondary sexual traits (ornaments). In this seminar I explore the evolutionary (...)

Research has tended to focus on the top-down cognitive-biases that drive cultural evolution, with little consideration of bottom-up social interactional processes. In this talk I’ll present evidence (experimental & computational) that cognitive-biases plus social interaction are critical to (...)

A public lecture by Paivi Hietanen, oncologist and psychotherapist, Helsinki.

As an oncologist and psychotherapist Paivi Hietanen has met many cancer patients and their family members who struggle with anxiety and depression when facing a life threatening illness. Her lecture will deal (...)

Jaya Matthews: Socioecology of eastern chimpanzees in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda: Assessing the impact of food availability on grouping patterns

Group-living provides many individual benefits but inevitably there are associated costs, principally surrounding competition for shared (...)

On behalf of the organising committee of the Symposium of WA Neuroscience (SWAN), in association with the Neurotrauma Research Program of WA and supported by the WA Neuroscience Research Institute, the Australasian Neuroscience Society and Murdoch University, it is my pleasure to announce that (...)

This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, it concentrates on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and discusses (...)

Professor David Lawrence from the Telethon Kids Institute and the Faculty of Education will present key results from Young Minds Matter, and will also draw on findings from Student Attendance and Educational Outcomes: Every Day Counts and the Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey to (...)