What's On at UWA

Campus Challenge aims to provide high school students with the opportunity to experience different aspects of university life through participation in academic, sporting, recreational and social activities on campus at The University of Western Australia.

The main objective of the event (...)

The School of Indigenous Studies is sponsoring 18 Year 11 and 12 students to complete WACE Revision Courses during the week 16 - 20 July. Students are from Albany, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Derby, Karratha and Katanning and will be residing at Trinity College. Apart from WACE Revision, students will be (...)

The School of Indigenous Studies is running a Science camp for Year 9 - 11 students from all over Western Australia from Monday 16 July - Friday 20 July. Fifty students will be participating: those students interested in Science or Engineering will take part in activities in Engineering, Physics (...)

A public lecture by Dr Michael J. Chandler, Emeritus Professor, The University of British Columbia, Canada.

There is overwhelming evidence that Australian Indigenous peoples’ mental health and social and emotional wellbeing is well behind that of other Australians and is a key (...)

Come along to the Working in WA State Government information session. The session is open to students from all years and all disciplines. You will be surprised at the opportunities available in the public service.

Bookings on CareerHub – http://uwa.careerhub.com.au

On Friday 21 September, the School of Indigenous Studies will be holding its 3rd Indigenous Careers EXPO. All Indigenous students at UWA are invited to meet with businesses, government departments and organisations to explore options for vacation employment, graduate programs, internships (...)

For the first time, the National Indigenous Legal Conference will be held in Western Australia. The conference is being run jointly by the WA Law Society, Notre Dame University and the University of Western Australia and will be held on Friday 5th October and Saturday 6 October.

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On Friday 23 November, the School of Indigenous Studies and the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health will acknowledge all the students who have completed the Aboriginal Orientation Course and the Indigenous students who have completed undergraduate and postgraduate courses at UWA in 2012 (...)

Presented by: The State Library of WA

Dr Wade Davis (Canada) is a best-selling author, intellectual, photographer, Explorer-in-Residence for the National Geographic as well as a noted two-time TED Talk speaker.

Described as “A rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and (...)

Commissioned by Perth Festival in 2006, the canvas remains of the most significant collaborative arts projects of recent times and represents a powerful image of the unity of the Noongar nation. The canvas will be hung in the Albany Entertainment Centre for the opening of the 2013 Great Southern (...)

Clint Bracknell - Songs from the South: The Wirlomin Project and Southern Noongar Song

Aboriginal people, language and song inform a rich sense of place in Australia. Wirlomin Noongar people from the southwest are in the process of claiming, consolidating, enhancing and sharing their (...)

Tuesday 21 May – ACTIVITY DAY 12 – 2pm, Oak Lawn. This week will be opened by Noongar Elder, Professor Len Collard and followed by activities including weaving, didgeridoo lessons, damper workshop and food tastings

Wednesday 22 May – SPORTS DAY 1pm onwards, James Oval SIS vs (...)

The School of Indigenous Studies is holding an Open Day on Tuesday June 25 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people interested in studying in 2nd semester at the University of Western Australia for 2013. Open Day is intended for students wanting entry to the Aboriginal Orientation Course (...)

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 (...)

Interested in studying for a semester overseas? Think about Canada, USA, UK, New Zealand, Europe (Sweden, Norway…), HK, Malaysia…..

Follow the lead of Indigenous students like Angel, Kelly, Kurtis, Rowena, Lilly, Nikki, Emma, Lianne, Michael, Bryce, Victoria, Marian, Rhiannon, Ruby- (...)

The Berndt Museum presents a free screening of the film Ten Canoes on Wednesday 25 September 2013, 6:30pm at the Robert Street Lecture Theatre.

Set in and around the Arafura Wetlands of Central Arnhem Land in a time before Western contact, Ten Canoes is the tale of young Dayindi (James (...)

Come and hear from a number of Indigenous speakers and join in a discussion on Indigenous health issues. The event will highlight stories from Indigenous health professionals and provide an opportunity for students and graduates to be involved in a discussion about Indigenous health.

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The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts will host a public workshop, part of the national Office of Learning and Teaching research project ‘Recasting Terra Nullius - Indigenising Built Environment Education and Practice'.

The workshop is organised in conjunction with (...)

Join us for a special talk by visiting speaker Dr Diana Young on October 23, 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Ernabella Arts, situated on Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the Western Desert, is the oldest continuously running Indigenous art centre in Australia (...)

Archival photographs of Aboriginal people were amassed during the colonial period for a range of purposes, yet rarely to further an Indigenous agenda. Today however such images have been re-contextualised, used to reconstruct family history, document culture and express connections to place. They (...)