What's On at UWA

Course outline: In this five-day course, students are given an overview of Aboriginal lifestyle, focussing on traditional and environmental responsibilities and the social practices of indigenous communities during pre- and post- colonial times.

The post-colonial section of the unit (...)

Australia is sometimes portrayed as a dangerous place, bulging with an array of deadly animals. Envenoming syndromes (toxicity due directly to the venom) occur most commonly to snake and redback spider bites on land and a variety of jellyfish in the sea. However the majority of deaths are caused by (...)

Assoc Prof Duane Falk from the University of Guelph in Canada, will give a series of lectures in the Agriculture Lecture Theatre at 12pm on the 23rd, 25th and 27th November on ‘Advanced Plant Breeding’. On the 8th-10th December he will then co-present a workshop entitled ‘Optimising Evolutionary (...)

A workshop by Distinguished Visiting Teacher, Dr Chris Rust. Dr Rust is being brought to Australia by the ALTC.

The importance of assessment, and especially feedback, and its effect on student learning, and students’ approaches to learning, is widely acknowledged in the literature. But (...)

Abstract: Human space flight is not and probably will never be a low risk activity. However, the two major space shuttle accidents that took the lives of fourteen brave and dedicated 'astronauts' were accidents that could and should have been avoided. In the Challenger accident it was clear that (...)

Reflections on the Kable principle in the light of Totani v South Australia [2009]

The High Court, in its judgments in Kable and Bradley, discovered that, in order to be capable of exercising the judicial power of the Commonwealth, State courts must have the necessary degree of (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Stephen Howe (ANU)

will speak on

Analysing random graph processes using differential equations

at 12 noon in MLR1 on Tuesday 24th of November.

Abstract: Differential equations often arise when approximating (...)

Dr. Fleming is a Professor of Pediatrics, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Notre Dame and Doctor of Medicine from Saint Louis University (...)

Presented by Douglas Osheroff, J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics, Stanford University and 1996 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics (with co-recipients David M. Lee and Robert C. Richardson).

How advances in science are made, and how they may come to benefit mankind at (...)

PASW Statistics (formerly SPSS, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a data management and analysis package used extensively in health research in WA.

It is available in hospitals, universities, government and other organisations. It is possible to 'teach yourself' with (...)

The Southern Ocean is home to the world's strongest and most dynamic ocean current: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). The ACC plays a vital role in transporting mass and tracers between the three major ocean basins. Moreover, the Southern Ocean has a strong overturning cell ( that is (...)

This is an intensive five-day course on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an introductory to intermediate level.

Rapid growth in data linkage projects has led to a shortfall in analyst skills.

Some researchers understand (...)

Have you ever wanted to:

Communicate important study related events to your students?

Provide a unit outline and learning materials in a central location?

Manage access and release results to individual students?

If you answered yes to any or all of these (...)

Increased demand for feedstocks to meet Australia's biofuels goals include many uncertainties such as what types of feedstocks will be used, at what prices, grown where, and with what implications for greenhouse gases and sustainability?

Adjustments in the agricultural sector to this (...)

The talk: Energy, Climate and People - The world is running out of cheap oil and gas. If the past is any guide, energy demand is set to increase as the global population both increases and looks for higher living standards. There will be parallel but different pressures on water. The way (...)

Have you ever wanted to:

Communicate important study related events to your students?

Provide a unit outline and learning materials in a central location?

Manage access and release results to individual students?

If you answered yes to any or all of these (...)

Two-Day Media Skills Workshop

9am to 5pm on December 4 & 11, 2009

The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA

Have you ever wondered… What makes a media friendly story? Why doesn’t the story look like the information I provided? Why do I feel at the media’s (...)

This course focuses on the application of epidemiologic research principles to questions relating to clinical diagnosis, prognosis and the efficacy of therapeutic interventions.

Course outline: This five-day course considers: * design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials * (...)

This is an intensive five-day course on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an intermediate to advanced level. Course outline

Advanced principles of health care epidemiology are combined with hands-on practical exercises in the (...)