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Displaying from Tuesday, October 02, 2012
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October 2012
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Tuesday 09 |
16:00 - WORKSHOP - Business Awareness Workshop : Start to make your idea a reality in this interactive workshop for young people aged 15-21
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You might have a great idea, but are you ready for the business world?
Whether you are working on a specific project or have a bunch of ideas that might be a future business or product, this workshop will help you get started!
Our presenter, Jane Garrett is an entrepreneur (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : Sliding Doors in Academe: Idiosyncrasies of autobiography and controversy in psychometrics
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“Individual(s) ….embrace a new paradigm for all sorts of reasons ... . Some of these … lie outside the sphere of science entirely. Others depend upon idiosyncrasies of autobiography….” (Kuhn, 1970, p.l52). I will highlight some “idiosyncrasies of autobiography” that have led to (...)
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Monday 15 |
Dr. Susan Peters is a postdoctoral research associate at the Epidemiology Group of the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research. Her research activities focus on exposure assessment methods to apply in (occupational) cancer epidemiology.
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Wednesday 17 |
8:30 - EVENT - Australia China Business Council Education Forum 2012 : Chinese Language and Cultural Competency in Schools and Industry - Real Links to a Sustainable Relationship
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Whilst trade and enterprise have led Australia's bilateral relations with China, education promotes mutual understanding and long lasting links. This year's forum will focus on developing Chinese language and cultural competency in schools, universities and industry. His Excellency Mr Chen Yuming (...)
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Saturday 27 |
8:00 - EVENT - Infection Control Seminar Day : An educational seminar day about infection control for all members of the health care team
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An educational seminar day that will address local and global problems relating to infection control. Topics include antibiotic resistance and stewardship, superbugs, Clostridium difficile,viruses and pandemics, workplace sterilization, sharp safety and immunisation scheduling.
8:00 - EVENT - Infection Control Seminar Day : An educational seminar day about infection control for all members of the health care team
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An educational seminar day that will address local and global problems relating to infection control. Topics include antibiotic resistance and stewardship, superbugs, Clostridium difficile,viruses and pandemics, workplace sterilization, sharp safety and immunisation scheduling.
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Wednesday 31 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : NAPLAN: Driving school improvement or doing the work of the devil?
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Controversy continues to surround national student assessment in Australia. However, I argue that testing is neither good nor bad: the devil lies in what people – teachers, school, systems and even parents – do about the tests and the data they generate. I report the experiences of principals (...)
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November 2012
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Monday 26 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series: : W/Prof John Newnham presents "Improving lung health by preventing prematurity"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Improving lung health by preventing prematurity" by W/Prof John Newnham, Head of School, School of Women's and Infants' Health,
University of Western Australia.
A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Tuesday 27 |
This course will take you through the basics you need to do statistical analyses in R, a powerful freeware statistical package.
The course will cover basic statistics such as t-tests, regression and ANOVA as well as producing high quality graphics.
The course is hosted by the (...)
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Thursday 29 |
The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about designing and analysing experiments.
It will cover material ranging from a review of simple one-way ANOVA, to more complex designs and analyses including crossed and nested factors with (...)
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December 2012
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Tuesday 04 |
9:00 - COURSE - Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling : A Short Course using AMOS and Mplus
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SEM is used widely by researchers to test complex relationships among observed (measured) and latent (unobserved) variables.
This course will introduce you to SEM and also covers issues relating to model specification, identification and estimation, assessing model fit (goodness-of-fit criteria) (...)
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Monday 10 |
The course is designed as a comprehensive coverage of applied SEM techniques using the Mplus statistical software package. Mplus offers a general modelling framework that allows both the modelling of cross-sectional and longitudinal data using observed variables that are a combination of continuous (...)
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Wednesday 12 |
13:00 - CONFERENCE - Occupational and Environmental Risk Assessment Half Day Conference : Perth Epidemiology Group brings to you the half day conference: Occupational and Environmental Risk Assessment
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*Advanced methods in exposure assessment and epidemiology
*Methods for combining exposure assessments and epidemiological models for use in risk assessment and risk prediction
*Use of molecular markers in the identification of occupational and environmental risk factors
*Heat stress and (...)
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February 2013
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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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March 2013
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Monday 04 |
10:00 - EVENT - UWA Historical Society March 4th Convocation Centenary: Photo Shoot at 10am : All welcome on the steps of the old St George's Hall 500 Hay St Perth to celebrate 100 years to the day of the first meeting of UWA's Convocation.
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You are invited to join us mark the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the University of Western Australia’s Convocation.
The First meeting was held on March 4th 1913 in St George’s Hall, Hay St near the corner of Irwin Street. The historic façade including the portico (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - What does smoking and drinking have to do with breastfeeding? An epidemiological study of Australian and Western Australian women
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Dr Giglia will present her research titled 'Alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking of Australian women; changes with pregnancy and lactation'. In March 2009 the recommendations from her research were included in the revised NHMRC; 'Australian Alcohol Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from (...)
17:45 - EVENT - Stephenson-Hepburn Oration 2013 : Being Hot but Staying Cool: Complexities in Delivering the Dream of Density
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The WAPC and planning academia agree furiously that we need increased density in our city. The planning profession agrees that we need to shift the balance from the suburban towards the urban in order to contain the economic and ecological hazards of sprawl in our rapidly growing city. Socially, we (...)
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April 2013
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Wednesday 03 |
9:00 - CANCELLED - COURSE - Introduction to statistics : A short course using Microsoft Excel
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
Due to unforeseen circumstances the presenter is no longer available to deliver this course.
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This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a (...)
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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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Monday 08 |
In a confused world still tainted by a gross abuse of humanity, 18 artists have found a peaceful yet powerful way to express their wish for the end to the largest humanitarian concern in the world today through a return to traditional culture and values.
The artists in this exhibition (...)
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