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Some of us find it hard to voice our ideas in tutes, yet speaking up is one of the most important skills you can develop at university and in you career. Learn simple strategies so you can communicate more confidently and effectively in group situations.

Almost 1 in 20 Australians will be diagnosed with a malignant melanoma. Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to find out how scientists and clinicians are waging war on melanoma and using new treatments to halt the rising tide of fatal melanoma cases. World expert, Professor Grant McArthur is (...)

If you want to know how to incorporate sources more effectively in your writing, this is the place to start! Discover different ways of referring to sources to improve your academic writing style.

This workshop aims to explain the notion of a function as a graphical representation of a mathematical or experimental relationship. Students will develop intuition for the concepts of domain and range, as well as see how to calculate these both graphically and algebraically. An introduction to (...)

The circulation driven by wave breaking, tides and winds within a fringing coral reef system (Ningaloo Reef) in Western Australia was investigated using field observations and numerical modeling of a section of reef at Sandy Bay. The observed circulation followed a consistent pattern, with cross-re (...)

The terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 catapulted the world into a new era of interstate and global relations. The lexicon of terrorism and counter-terrorism entered the vocabulary of policymakers, analysts and ordinary citizens. The subsequent years and continuing militant (...)

Nikolai Demidenkos passionate pianism is in demand worldwide. Russian born and trained, Demidenko has steadily built an international career of the highest calibre, playing concertos with many of Europes greatest orchestras and conductors, and playing a landmark series of recitals in Londons (...)

What constitutes a good academic assignment? Discover the criteria lecturers use when they grade your assignments so that you can earn better marks! Using Sources

Want to be a powerful speaker, but unsure about how English rhythm can help? Come to this active learning workshop to practice using English rhythm to get your message across.

If you’re not used to it, speaking in front of a group can be a challenging task! This workshop is designed to give you practical advice on effective communication including how to use your voice, what to do with your hands and how to appear calm and in control (even if it might not feel that way) (...)

These workshops are for postgrads writing a dissertation as part of a coursework degree. Each workshop provides a brief session on a different aspect of writing and an opportunity to get individual help.

Achieve a simpler, smoother writing style through the effective use of paraphrase.

This workshop offers students a collection of tools which will help them to calculate limits. Students will see that most limits can be calculated mentally, and will see how to develop their thought process before writing down their workings. Many different examples will be given, including some of (...)

This workshop aims to demonstrate that most of the functions we deal with are transformations of simpler functions. Furthermore, there are certain ways of reading functions which allow us to graph and understand more complicated functions.

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA, these seminars are presented by the School’s honours-level students.

Want to be a powerful speaker, but unsure about how English rhythm can help? Come to this active learning workshop to practice using English rhythm to get your message across.

What constitutes a good academic assignment? Discover the criteria lecturers use when they grade your assignments so that you can earn better marks! Using Sources

Hugh completed a PhD at the Baker Heart Research Institute and CSIRO’s Division of Human Nutrition in the field of lipoprotein metabolism. He subsequently spent eleven years at the University of Washington, Seattle, in the Department of Bioengineering, initially as a research fellow and finally (...)

If you’re not used to it, speaking in front of a group can be a challenging task! This workshop is designed to give you practical advice on effective communication including how to use your voice, what to do with your hands and how to appear calm and in control (even if it might not feel that way) (...)

Achieve a simpler, smoother writing style through the effective use of paraphrase.