What's On at UWA

In this public lecture, Professor Roland Span, Dean, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum will highlight how models developed for oil and gas applications are deficient for many important Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) applications. He will discuss new models for predicting (...)

The UN, with its 2015-2030 process, is going to set the global goals for the next 15 years in September, following the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Since these could end up determining a large part of the periods $2.5 trillion development aid, it is important we pick targets more (...)

The award-winning UWA Nedlands Bike Breakfast is the University's premiere bike event, held every year during BikeWeek. Cycle to UWA to enjoy a free, fully-cooked breakfast, give your bike a health check with our bike doctors and be in the running for some prizes.

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Like the idea of enjoying home grown fresh produce?

Hear from gardening professional Steve Wood about growing organic vegetables at home. Steve will also discuss some of the issues surrounding commercially produced food and also imported food.

Steve Wood has owned and managed (...)

This lecture by David Gordon, Director of the Queen's University School of Urban and Regional Planning will present current practice in better design and redevelopment of suburban areas, extensively illustrated with examples from across Canada provided by the Council for Canadian Urbanism.

In this public lecture, Jonathan Rigg, Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore, will argue that 'liberal resilience' plays into a growth-development-resilience 'trap' where economic growth has become a de facto synonym for development and, often, development a synonym for (...)

The 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April has already claimed the lives of more than 7,000 people with an estimated eight million people affected. The Red Cross is at the forefront of the international response, sending shelter and water and sanitation specialists, setting up (...)

In this public lecture Gustavo Striker, Assistant Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, will address the question of what we are doing to solve new problems. The increased area and yields of crops has benefited farm incomes. However, new challenging problems have emerged: (i) the appearance (...)