Upcoming Student Events

Dear Colleagues, The School of Psychology would like to invite you to attend the Research Forum - Things that Matter: Strengths, Struggles and Settlement Strategies of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and Vulnerable groups -The what, why and how? We have some exciting international and local guest speakers attending. See attached Flyer, program and bios of speakers for more information. A summary of the details are: Date: Friday 21 October 2021 Time: 16:00-18:00pm Location: zoom link on flyer attached Please feel free to distribute amongst your friends, colleagues and students. Join Zoom Meeting https://uws.zoom.us/j/89111647408?pwd=M0h3MUNkS2JPTllXRzBtS3dqTnlRUT09 Meeting ID: 891 1164 7408 Password: 921784

The Research Creation Showcase 2021 is in its 7th year of coinciding with the University’s Research Week celebration of all things research. The School of Humanities and Communication Arts is proud to participate in activities that are featured across the research landscape of the University. 2021 is the second year in which we have moved online for our event, featuring research outcomes from School staff and postgraduate students across Design, Music, Media Arts, and Humanities. As a showcase of creative practice and research, we feature an online exhibition of creative works including posters, films, photography, writing and music curated by a team drawn from the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. This event highlights our prolific maker/scholars and establishes the intrinsic link between making and knowing. A suite of artists talks, curators’ presentations, panels, performances and keynotes are drawn from both academics and our partners in the creative industries. Additionally, the top researchers in the School will be recognised at our School researcher awards presentation. Over much of 2021 our working lives have again been transformed. COVID 19 and climate change means living with a global health emergency, an environmental crisis and permanent uncertainty. Our collective patience has been sorely tested. As in 2020, in response to the need for greater physical isolation, many of us have found ways to retain and even re-make social connections. The creative and communication arts have been indispensable to mobilising a response to these most impactful events in the human narrative. These making and knowledge practices assist us in learning how to inhabit this troubled world and how to heal it in the building of safe places. Creative arts can inspire us to understand and to act in a timely fashion—with urgency and across our gendered, racial and bodily diversities. While the Research Creation Showcase 2021 offers compelling examples of creative practice, we can also learn from the presenters of the kinds of knowledges that are embedded in these works as an emphatic indication of the importance of the creative arts and research in a time of crisis. Registration and full program can be accessed at https://bit.ly/3licXWL

The 21C Student Curriculum Partners at Western Sydney University are excited to be hosting the 2021 National Students as Partners Roundtable. Supported by the University's 21C Project, the theme this year is: THE PARTNERSHIP PARADOX Click on the video announcement to learn how you can be part of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxqjUfOIIA When: Tuesday 23rd – Thursday 25th November 2021 Where: Online on MS Teams and Zoom Cost: It’s free

The invitation is now open for students and staff to submit a Partnership Case Study, and to share their partnership practice with a national and international student-staff partnership community. It’s open to students, academics, researchers, professional and technical staff in tertiary and university settings to submit their initiative. We’re interested in student-staff partnership initiatives that focus on:

1. learning, teaching, curriculum and assessment

2. engaging students in research, or as researchers

3. co-curriculum activities and programs for student engagement

4. students’ participation in academic governance

5. academic and educational development

6. conceptual and theoretical challenges to student-staff partnership

We are delighted to confirm Professor Peter Felten, Elon University – one of the leading scholars in student-staff partnership – as the first of three keynote speakers.

Partnership case studies close Friday 1st October, and registration for the Roundtable opens mid-September.

Visit the National SAP Roundtable website www.saproundtable21.com to learn more, and follow on twitter #SAPRtable21 for updates to the program.

NICM Health Research Institute presents Dr Sam Manger, General Practitioner; Senior Lecturer and Medical Educator, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University; and President of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM). Join guest seminar speaker Dr Manger as he discusses key research in Lifestyle Medicine, and its benefits and clinical use in optimising healthcare. ABSTRACT Lifestyle Medicine is growing in popularity amongst clinicians, public health professionals, healthcare executives, researchers, scientists and educators. In this presentation, Dr Manger will address why there is a need for this growing approach, explain what Lifestyle Medicine is, and highlight key studies in Lifestyle Medicine covering a broad range of physical and mental illness from depression to diabetes. He will also discuss its economic benefits, application in practice including health coaching, and the new models of health care delivery utilising Lifestyle Medicine.