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Apr 1

Exhibition: Beyond the Blind Spot
Curator Dr Alasdair Foster brings together four significant bodies of work, exploring the intersections of disability, sexuality and gender identity.

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Curator Dr Alasdair Foster brings together four significant bodies of work, exploring the intersections of disability, sexuality and gender identity.
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10am - 4pm. In this exhibition, Curator Dr Alasdair Foster brings together four significant bodies of work, exploring the intersections of disability, sexuality and gender identification (Outing Disability – Gallery Three), disability, violence and shame (Silent Tears – Gallery One), and disability and indigeneity (Unfinished Business – Gallery Two), while celebrating the courageous Indigenous women who speak out against domestic violence (Breaking Silent Codes – Gallery Three). When injustice is manifold, one inequity can blind us to another. The work of the artist Belinda Mason takes us beyond that blind spot. Fearless, empathic and poetic, her work movingly advocates for the rights of people with disability, those who suffer violence, and those oppressed on the basis of their sexuality, gender identity or ethnicity.

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +1100
May 7

Western Sydney Sculpture Award and Exhibition
Outdoor sculpture exhibition on Campbelltown Campus

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Outdoor sculpture exhibition on Campbelltown Campus
Western Sydney University Sculpture Award and Exhibition (Friday, May 7 2021 - Sunday, June 7 2021)
This biennial and culturally significant event that showcases outdoor sculptures by Australian and international artists, whose works have been designed specifically for the University’s environment and landscape.
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 10.00am - 4.00pm.
For more information visit http://westernsydney.edu.au/wsusculpture
For group bookings, contact Monica McMahon (02) 4620 3450 or monica.mcmahon@westernsydney.edu.au
Coronavirus Safety Do not attend event if you are unwell, have been in close contact with a positive case, or have been tested and/or been instructed to self isolate. Visitors upon arrival, are required to use the QR code to check-in, which is located at the information tent.

Fri, 07 May 2021 10:00:00 +1000
May 13

Intersect Online Training: Statistical Comparisons using R
Intersect Online Training: Statistical Comparisons using R

Training and skill upgrade
Intersect Online Training: Statistical Comparisons using R
Why do this course?
This practical workshop will help participants to choose and use the appropriate statistical test for their data by introducing key concepts of inferential statistics in R. Participants will learn how to compute, report, and interpret hypothesis tests for popular statistical models such as correlation, contingency tables, chi-square test, t-test and ANOVA.
Who should take this course?
This course is suitable for all researchers and research students from any discipline. Prior experience with R and the RStudio interface is required, as the basics of R will not be covered. Please consider attending our R101: Learn to Program: R(opens in a new window) training course to come up to speed beforehand.
You'll learn how to:
- Choose the right statistical test appropriate for the data and the research questions
- Carry out inferential statistics in R
- Generate plots, figures and tables of hypothesis tests using specific R packages
- Interpret and report the results of a range of commonly-used statistical tests
- An introduction to hypothesis testing terminology
- Correlation analysis between two continuous variables
- Statistical tests for both categorial and continuous variables
- ANOVA – testing with more than two groups
Thu, 13 May 2021 09:00:00 +1000
May 13

Intersect Webinar: AI and ML in Materials Design and Discovery
AI and ML in Materials Design and Discovery

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AI and ML in Materials Design and Discovery
Four peak presentations will showcase state-of-the-art research aimed at speeding up materials design and discovery by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques.
Australian and international speakers reveal how large, high quality datasets coupled with machine learning analysis algorithms can play a vital role in the process of new materials discovery.
The presentations will be of broad interest for scientists working in the field of HPC/Big Data in materials design and discovery, from advanced graduate research student level, to early career researchers and beyond.
For more information about the event, click here: https://bit.ly/3avgStB(opens in a new window)

Thu, 13 May 2021 12:00:00 +1000
May 13

Women in Mathematics Day 2021
Western's Women in Mathematics Day will be held on the 13th of May to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women active in Mathematics.

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Staff, Alumni, students
Western's Women in Mathematics Day will be held on the 13th of May to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women active in Mathematics.
Western's Women in Mathematics Day will be held on the 13th of May to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women active in Mathematics. This hybrid online and in person event consists of several invited talks given by mathematicians active in Western Sydney and other institutes in Australia and a showing of a short film about Maryam Mirzakhani, who was an Iranian mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, and the first and the only woman to win the Fields medal.
- Date: 13 May 2021
- Time: 3:30 to 6:00pm
- Venue: PC-01.5.82 Parramatta City Campus
- Registrations close Friday 7 May 2021.
Speakers:
- Rosalind Wang (Western Sydney University)
- Julia Collins (Edith Cowan University)
- Luci Ellis (Reserve Bank of Australia)
- Mary Myerscough (University of Sydney)
DUE TO COVID-19, REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL Web page: https://2021wimd.eventbrite.com.au(opens in a new window)
Thu, 13 May 2021 15:30:00 +1000
May 14

Intersect Online Training: Data Manipulation and Visualisation in R
Intersect Online Training: Data Manipulation and Visualisation in R.

Training and skill upgrade; Online Events
Intersect Online Training: Data Manipulation and Visualisation in R.
About this Event: R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language for statisticians, data scientists and researchers. It has an excellent ecosystem including the powerful RStudio and the Shiny web application framework. In this workshop, you will learn how to manipulate, explore and get insights from your data (Data Manipulation using the dplyr package), as well as how to convert your data from one format to another (Data Transformation using the tidyr package). You will also explore different types of graphs and learn how to customise them using one of the most popular plotting packages in R, ggplot2 (Data Visualisation). We teach using RStudio, which allows program code, results, visualisations and documentation to be blended seamlessly. Join us for a live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from Intersect and the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation. You’ll learn:
- DataFrame Manipulation using the dplyr package
- DataFrame Transformation using the tidyr package
- Using the Grammar of Graphics to convert data into figures using the ggplot2 package Configuring plot elements within ggplot2
- Exploring different types of plots using ggplot2
Prerequisites: Either Learn to Program: R or Learn to Program: R and R for Research needed to attend this course. If you already have experience with programming, please check the topics covered in the Learn to Program: R and R for Research courses to ensure that you are familiar with the knowledge needed for this course.
Fri, 14 May 2021 09:30:00 +1000
May 17

Research Report Launch: LGBTQIA+ Young People & Social Media Platforms
Join Western Sydney University researchers who share their research about how LGBTQIA+ young people have used social media during COVID-19.

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Anybody interested
Join Western Sydney University researchers who share their research about how LGBTQIA+ young people have used social media during COVID-19.
About this Event:
- How were young LGBTQIA+ people using social media during COVID-19?
- What impact has it had on their health and wellbeing?
- How could social media platforms better support LGBTQIA+ young people?
Join us on IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia) - the 17th of May - to hear the answers to these questions and launch the report:
Mon, 17 May 2021 16:00:00 +1000
May 19

Research Hour
Informal session for researchers to connect with research support staff from ITDS/Library/Research Services/Intersect; share ideas and ask questions.

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All researchers across WSU

Informal session for researchers to connect with research support staff from ITDS/Library/Research Services/Intersect; share ideas and ask questions.
Researchers from across Western are invited to join us for ‘Research Hour’; hosted by ITDS, Research Services, Intersect and the Library. Come along to ask questions, learn new techniques and share ideas. Incorporating ‘Hacky Hour’: swap notes, get help, learn techniques in programming and data science, code, digital tools, HPC etc.
With experts on hand to answer questions and provide assistance across a range of research related topics (e.g.: managing your online researcher profile, strategic publishing, Open Access, metrics and impact, data management plan, research data storage, equipment and facilities).
Research Hour is open to Researchers from any discipline and at any level of their career: undergrads, HDR students, ECRs, MCRs and beyond… everyone is welcome.
This is a participatory discussion session, not a presentation – come along prepared to engage!

Wed, 19 May 2021 13:00:00 +1000
May 20

Intersect Online Training: Getting started with NVivo
Intersect Online Training: Getting started with NVivo

Training and skill upgrade
Intersect Online Training: Getting started with NVivo
Why do this course?
Does your research see you working through unstructured and non-numerical data? With the ability to collect, store and analyse different data types all in the one location makes, it’s easy to see why NVivo is becoming the tool of choice for many researchers.
NVivo allows researchers to simply organise and manage data from a variety of sources including surveys, interviews, articles, video, email, social media and web content, PDFs and images. Coding your data allows you to discover trends and compares themes as they emerge across different sources and data types. Using NVivo memos and visualisations combined with the ability to integrate with popular bibliographic tools you can get your research ready for publication sooner.
You’ll learn to:
- Create and organise a qualitative research project in NVivo
- Import a range of data sources using NVivo’s integrated tools
- Code and classify your data
- Format your data to take advantage of NVivo’s auto-coding ability
- Use NVivo to discover new themes and trends in research
- Visualise relationships and trends in your data
Thu, 20 May 2021 09:30:00 +1000
May 21

Writing & Society Research Centre Seminar Series
On Literary Value -with guests Eugen Bacon, Tamryn Bennett, David Carlin & Julienne van Loon.

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All welcome

On Literary Value -with guests Eugen Bacon, Tamryn Bennett, David Carlin & Julienne van Loon.
This seminar addresses the changing nature of literary value in 2021, against a movable backdrop of post-COVID Australia. It shares diverse findings from a collaborative project between the Sydney Review of Books and the non/fictionLab at RMIT University in Melbourne. The collaboration seeks to elicit experimental, essayistic approaches to questions of ‘value’ in the literary and cultural sectors. Our early conversations about the project were conducted in mid-2020, as Australians were being encouraged to stay home, as university teaching transitioned online, and as writers wondered how they would secure work to pay their bills. Writers and literary scholars had, we reflected, become adept at talking about the value of their work in the terms required by funding agencies: outputs, impacts, reach. We’ve all had to learn how to apply the tools of cultural measurement to our own work and practice, even as the arts and social sciences are being devalued by governments. How do we, writers and scholars, value our own work? What is valuable about literature? We sought essay-length responses to these questions, asking for submissions that paired RMIT writers with external peers. Conversation, collaboration and exchange have been defining features of the project. The series, titled Powerful and Moving, is published on the Sydney Review of Books. This seminar will take as its starting point three essays published by the panellists: Julienne van Loon on literary value in the wake of the current federal parliamentary inquiry into cultural and creative industries, an experimental conversation on speculative fiction by Eugen Bacon, and a foray into the social dimensions of poetry, as represented by the activities of Red Room Poetry, by Tamryn Bennett. Chaired by Catriona Menzies-Pike, Editor, Sydney Review of Books.

Fri, 21 May 2021 11:00:00 +1000
May 21

Intersect Online Training: Research Data Management Techniques
Intersect Online Training: Research Data Management Techniques

Training and skill upgrade

Intersect Online Training: Research Data Management Techniques
Why do this course?
It is increasingly acknowledged that publication and re-usability of research data brings great benefits to researchers, institutions, and the scientific community at large. Therefore the management of your valuable research data becomes an important task. In fact, WSU’s Research Data Management Policy requires all researchers to have a data management plan (DMP) in place at the beginning of their research project.
This workshop is ideal for researchers who want to know how research data management can support project success and are interested in research data management services and support available at their institution. We will step you through the process of creating a comprehensive DMP within our Researcher Dashboard, and along the way we will discuss:
- How to manage research data according to legal, statutory, ethical, funding body and university requirements.
- Approaches to planning, collecting, organising, managing, storing, backing up, preserving, and sharing your data.
- Services supporting research data at your institution.
Co-presented by: Library, Intersect, ITDS

Fri, 21 May 2021 14:00:00 +1000
May 25

Intersect Online Training: Exploring and Predicting Using Linear Regression
Intersect Online Training: Exploring and Predicting Using Linear Regression

Training and skill upgrade
Intersect Online Training: Exploring and Predicting Using Linear Regression
Why do this course?
This workshop is designed to increase participants' understanding of statistical relationships between data. It introduces principles and methods of regression models using R, and how to interpret relationships between variables. The course covers basic principles of regression methods through to interpreting the output of statistical analyses, and includes practical sessions giving hands-on experience with regression analysis in R.
Who should take this course?
This course is suitable for all researchers and research students from any discipline. Prior experience with R and the RStudio interface is required, as the basics of R will not be covered. Please consider taking our R101: Learn to Program: R(opens in a new window) training course to come up to speed beforehand.
You'll learn how to:
- An introduction to continuous, discontinuous and categorical variables
- Understanding the relationship between variables and plotting that relationship graphically
- Calculating parametric and non-parametric correlation
- Assumptions, errors, and what can go wrong in regression analysis
- Understand the principles of linear regression methods
- Identify the appropriate correlation or regression analysis for a dataset
- Performing simple and multiple linear regression analysis using R
- Interpret and report on the results of that analysis
Tue, 25 May 2021 09:00:00 +1000
Jun 3

Intersect Online Training: Excel for Researchers at Western Sydney: Online
Intersect Online Training: Excel for Researchers at Western Sydney: Online.

Training and skill upgrade

Intersect Online Training: Excel for Researchers at Western Sydney: Online.
Why do this course? Data rarely comes in the form you require. Often it is messy. Sometimes it is incomplete. And sometimes there's too much of it. Frequently, it has errors. We'll use one of the most widespread data wrangling tools, Microsoft Excel, to import, sort, filter, copy, protect, transform, summarise, merge, and visualise research data. While aimed at novice Excel users, most attendees will walk away with new tricks to work more efficiently with their research data. You’ll learn to: ‘Clean up’ messy research data Organise, format and name your data Interpret your data (SORTING, FILTERING, CONDITIONAL FORMATTING) Perform calculations on your data using functions (MAX, MIN, AVERAGE) Extract significant findings from your data (PIVOT TABLE, VLOOKUP) Manipulate your data (convert data format, work with DATES and TIMES) Create graphs and charts to visualise your data (CHARTS) Handy tips to speed up your work.

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +1000
Jun 9

Intersect Online Training: Surveying with Qualtrics
Intersect Online Training: Surveying with Qualtrics.

Training and skill upgrade; Online Events

Intersect Online Training: Surveying with Qualtrics.
Why do this course? Needing to collect data from people in a structured and intuitive way? Have you thought about using Qualtrics? Qualtrics in a powerful cloud-based survey tool, ideal for social scientists from all disciplines. This course will introduce the technical components of the whole research workflow from building a survey to analysing the results using Qualtrics. We will discover the numerous design elements available in order to get the most useful results and make life as easy as can be for your respondents. If your institution has a licence to Qualtrics, then this course is right for you. You’ll learn to: Format a sample survey using the Qualtrics online platform Configure the survey using a range of design features to improve user experience Decide which distribution channel is right for your needs Understand the available data analysis and export options in Qualtrics.

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +1000
Jun 10

NICM HRI Webinar: Leveraging personal digital devices to assess depression
Join NICM HRI and guest seminar speaker Dr Paola Pedrelli, as she discusses how digital phenotyping can be used to assess depression.

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Researchers, academics, health care professionals, staff & students

Join NICM HRI and guest seminar speaker Dr Paola Pedrelli, as she discusses how digital phenotyping can be used to assess depression.
NICM Health Research Institute presents Dr Paola Pedrelli, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School; and Associate in Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital, United States. Join guest seminar speaker Dr Pedrelli on 10 June, as she discusses how digital phenotyping, using personal digital devices such as smartphones to assess human behaviour, can be used to assess depression.
ABSTRACT
Unlike other fields of medicine, psychiatry does not rely on objective indices to diagnose mental health disorders and to assess symptoms severity. Recent advances in the fields of engineering, computer science, and computational science have led to the development of novel methods to quantify and measure behavioural phenotypes of mental health disorders. In this presentation, Dr Pedrelli will describe the concept of digital phenotyping and outline research measuring depressive symptoms severity by collecting behavioural and physiological data with wearable and mobile sensors.
VENUE: Zoom webinar
COST: Free and open to all
RSVP: Register by visiting the link below.

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +1000
Jun 11

Researcher Development Showcase 2021
You are invited to virtually attend the Researcher Development Showcase event.

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All welcome

You are invited to virtually attend the Researcher Development Showcase event.
Each year the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research Enterprise and International provide a suite of awards to early and mid-career researchers from across the University, with a focus on gender equity and research career development. This year, hosted by Professor Kevin Dunn (Pro Vice Chancellor Research), we have 18 researchers presenting the outcomes of their hard work and will discuss the next steps for their project. The event will be presented in research themes, including Education And Work, Health and Wellbeing, Urban Living Futures and Society, Environment and Sustainability. Our Research Theme Champions will be chairing the sessions, where each presenter will speak for five minutes and will be followed by two minutes’ questions from the audience. We invite you attend this showcase, which will be presented in a webinar format. Please feel free to forward this to colleagues and industry partners.

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +1000
Jun 15

Intersect Online Training: Data Capture and Surveys with REDCap
Intersect Online Training: Data Capture and Surveys with REDCap.

Training and skill upgrade; Online Events

Intersect Online Training: Data Capture and Surveys with REDCap.
Why do this course? Would you like to enable secure and reliable data collection forms and manage online surveys? Would your study benefit from web-based data entry? Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) might be for you. This course will introduce you to REDCap, a rapidly evolving web tool developed by researchers for researchers. REDCap features a high level of security, and a high degree of customisability for your forms and advanced user access control. It also features free, unlimited survey distribution functionality and a sophisticated export module with support for all standard statistical programs. You’ll learn to: Get started with REDCap Create and set up projects Design forms and surveys using the online designer Define basic branching logic Enter data and distribute surveys Set up basic longitudinal projects.

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +1000
Jun 16

Research Hour
Informal session for researchers to connect with research support staff from ITDS/Library/Research Services/Intersect; share ideas and ask questions.

academic events; Information sessions

All researchers across WSU

Informal session for researchers to connect with research support staff from ITDS/Library/Research Services/Intersect; share ideas and ask questions.
Researchers from across Western are invited to join us for ‘Research Hour’; hosted by ITDS, Research Services, Intersect and the Library. Come along to ask questions, learn new techniques and share ideas. Incorporating ‘Hacky Hour’: swap notes, get help, learn techniques in programming and data science, code, digital tools, HPC etc.
With experts on hand to answer questions and provide assistance across a range of research related topics (e.g.: managing your online researcher profile, strategic publishing, Open Access, metrics and impact, data management plan, research data storage, equipment and facilities).
Research Hour is open to Researchers from any discipline and at any level of their career: undergrads, HDR students, ECRs, MCRs and beyond… everyone is welcome.
This is a participatory discussion session, not a presentation – come along prepared to engage!

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +1000
Jun 18

Intersect Online Training: Research Data Management Techniques
Intersect Online Training: Research Data Management Techniques.

Training and skill upgrade

Intersect Online Training: Research Data Management Techniques.
Why do this course?
It is increasingly acknowledged that publication and re-usability of research data brings great benefits to researchers, institutions, and the scientific community at large. Therefore the management of your valuable research data becomes an important task. In fact, WSU’s Research Data Management Policy requires all researchers to have a data management plan (DMP) in place at the beginning of their research project.
This workshop is ideal for researchers who want to know how research data management can support project success and are interested in research data management services and support available at their institution. We will step you through the process of creating a comprehensive DMP within our Researcher Dashboard, and along the way we will discuss:
- How to manage research data according to legal, statutory, ethical, funding body and university requirements.
- Approaches to planning, collecting, organising, managing, storing, backing up, preserving, and sharing your data.
- Services supporting research data at your institution.
Co-presented by: Library, Intersect, ITDS

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +1000
Jun 22

Intersect Online Training: Getting started with NVivo
Intersect Online Training: Getting started with NVivo.

Training and skill upgrade; Online Events

Intersect Online Training: Getting started with NVivo.
Why do this course? Does your research see you working through unstructured and non-numerical data? With the ability to collect, store and analyse different data types all in the one location makes, it’s easy to see why NVivo is becoming the tool of choice for many researchers. NVivo allows researchers to simply organise and manage data from a variety of sources including surveys, interviews, articles, video, email, social media and web content, PDFs and images. Coding your data allows you to discover trends and compares themes as they emerge across different sources and data types. Using NVivo memos and visualisations combined with the ability to integrate with popular bibliographic tools you can get your research ready for publication sooner. You’ll learn to: Create and organise a qualitative research project in NVivo Import a range of data sources using NVivo’s integrated tools Code and classify your data Format your data to take advantage of NVivo’s auto-coding ability Use NVivo to discover new themes and trends in research Visualise relationships and trends in your data Prerequisites This course is taught using NVivo 12 Pro for Windows and is not suitable for NVivo for Mac users.

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +1000
Aug 19

NICM HRI: The quest for novel therapeutic agents for pancreatic cancer
Join guest seminar speaker, Professor Christopher Scarlett, as he discusses novel therapeutic research approaches to treat pancreatic cancer.

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Researchers, academics, clinicians, health care professionals, students

Join guest seminar speaker, Professor Christopher Scarlett, as he discusses novel therapeutic research approaches to treat pancreatic cancer.
NICM Health Research Institute presents Professor Christopher Scarlett, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle. Join guest seminar speaker, Professor Scarlett on 19 August, as he discusses novel therapeutic approaches in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. ABSTRACT Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with an abysmal survival rate of approximately 10% at five years. In Australia there were 3,900 new cases and 3,300 deaths in 2020. Current therapies are palliative at best highlighting the urgent need for novel therapeutic agents targeting molecular phenotypes not responsive to current treatments. The highly heterogeneic and metastatic nature of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), a type of pancreatic cancer, presents a major challenge in therapeutic development. Professor Scarlett, along with the Pancreatic Cancer Research Group he leads, are searching on land, at sea, and within the laboratory for potential therapeutic agents targeting molecular mechanisms that contribute to these aggressive, metastatic subtypes. WHEN: Thursday 19 August 2021 TIME: 12.00pm - 1.00pm AEST VENUE: Zoom webinar COST: Free and open to all RSVP: Register by visiting https://nicm.edu.au/news/events

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +1000

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