Events

Upcoming events at Western Sydney University are listed below.

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• Nov 29
  Widevision 2021

  An online event to launch Widevision 2021 - a showcase of student work from Engineering, Design and Built Environment.

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  Industry, staff, students
  An online event to launch Widevision 2021 - a showcase of student work from Engineering, Design and Built Environment.

  An online event to launch Widevision 2021 - a showcase of student work from Engineering, Design and Built Environment at Western Sydney Uni About this event Every year Widevision showcases the final year projects from students of the School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment. These examples will showcase projects and approaches to solving real world problems around themes of health and wellbeing, new product development, work integrated learning and smart product interaction. Widevision will showcase the top student works from the following academic programs: Industrial Design Engineering Building Design Management Higher Degree Research Architecture We want to invite you to explore our talented student works and get a glimpse into the School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment and the new Western Sydney Parramatta Engineering Innovation Hub.

  Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:00:00 +1100
• Dec 2
  NICM HRI Webinar: The art and science of Lifestyle Medicine

  Join NICM HRI and guest speaker Dr Sam Manger as he discusses Lifestyle Medicine - key research, benefits and clinical use in optimising healthcare.

  academic events; Conferences and seminars; Information sessions; Online Events
  Researchers, academics, clinicians, staff, students, and anyone interested in Lifestyle Medicine
  Join NICM HRI and guest speaker Dr Sam Manger as he discusses Lifestyle Medicine - key research, benefits and clinical use in optimising healthcare.

  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.

  Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +1100
• Dec 2
  Chinese-Aboriginal Families of Northwest Queensland: A Focus on Archival Resources

  Following Federation, Chinese-Aboriginal families in Queensland laboured under numerous legislative frameworks including the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act (1897).

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  Following Federation, Chinese-Aboriginal families in Queensland laboured under numerous legislative frameworks including the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act (1897).

  Following Federation, Chinese-Aboriginal families in Queensland laboured under numerous legislative frameworks including the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act (1897) which could be construed as designed to discourage the existence of these families. Simultaneously Indigenous and Alien in their own Country, Aboriginal women either legally married to or in long-term relationships with Chinese men, were subjected to scrutiny by the local police engaged in their diverse legislative roles. The ambiguous status of these women led to widespread confusion by those in authority of how they should be treated resulting in unequal application of the law. For example, under the War Precautions (Alien Registration) Regulations 1916, only some Aboriginal women and their Queensland-born children were registered with the Chinese husbands. Other families were either ignored or referred to higher authorities by the local Protectors. This intense surveillance generated a trail of correspondence some of which is preserved in the Queensland State Archives and the National Archives of Australia. This presentation follows several families as they negotiate the legislation and the individuals charged with mediating their relationships and way of life. It will also focus on the research methodology undertaken and highlight the existence of record sets which will be of interest to the descendants of Chinese-Aboriginal families from across Northern Australia.

  Dr Hilda Maclean is an alumna of the University of Queensland. When she was attached to the University of Queensland Culture and Heritage Unit, she undertook historical and genealogical research centred on the Burke Shire and was a contributor to The Gulf Country (2019) by Dr Richard Martin. Hilda regularly presents at conferences on many aspects of the lives of Chinese in Queensland derived from original archival research.

  Register for Zoom link:

  https://uws.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7fQdq4y8Tz-ekQD0xTVjOQ

  Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:00:00 +1100
• Dec 3
  Writing & Society Research Centre

  'Caribbean Convicts in Australia', documentary podcast launch, with producers Sienna Brown & Ben Etherington, hosted by Brent Clough.

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  'Caribbean Convicts in Australia', documentary podcast launch, with producers Sienna Brown & Ben Etherington, hosted by Brent Clough.

  In the ABC Radio National documentary podcast Caribbean Convicts, the novelist Sienna Brown tells the story of the cohort of West Indians convicts who arrived in NSW on the ship the Moffatt in 1836. Most had been enslaved, including William Buchanan, a Jamaican man who was transported for participating in the Christmas Day slave uprising in Jamaica, in 1831-32. Caribbean Convicts weaves together several of the West Indian men’s stories and brings them to life with interviews, archival sources, and scenes from Brown’s novel Master of My Fate, set to a score by the Trinidad-born composer Felix Cross. Hosted by the former ABC presenter and reggae researcher Brent Clough, this online launch will include excerpts from the documentary and discussion with Sienna and co-producer Ben Etherington. Sienna Brown is a Sydney-based novelist born in Kingston, Jamaica. While working at Hyde Park Barracks as a guide, she discovered William Buchanan and other Caribbean convicts in the indent database sending her on a research journey that led to her novel about Buchanan, Master of My Fate (Penguin Random House, 2019). It won the MUD Literary Prize for the best debut novel by an Australian writer and it was shortlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize. Sienna has been a professional dancer, documentary director and editor and is currently writing her second novel. Ben Etherington is a Senior Lecturer and member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. He has previously produced features for ABC Radio National on dancehall soundsystems in Kingston (with Matthew Baker) and the Gangalidda leader Clarence Walden (with Alexis Wright). Recent publications include Literary Primitivism (Stanford UP) and a chapter on poetry and print culture for the second volume of Caribbean Literature in Transition (Cambridge UP). His current project is on the poetics of Anglophone Caribbean creole verse in the period between the abolition of slavery and decolonisation. Brent Clough was born in Aotearoa/New Zealand. His childhood love for reggae was deepened by a chance to interview Bob Marley in 1979 as well as time spent immersed in the London reggae scene. He has been a producer/presenter of arts and music programmes on ABC Radio National and community radio and a long time DJ and promoter of reggae events and his academic work centres on reggae and Caribbean culture in Australia and the Pacific. Brent is currently writing up his PhD research on reggae culture in Vanuatu in the Western Pacific. He co-presents the show, Bambu Hut with Jamaican-Australian, Amma Owusu and veteran Jamaican DJ, Keith Williams on Eastside FM. Caribbean Convicts was produced for ABC Radio National’s The History Listen with seed funding from the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and the Writing and Society Research Centre. Producers: Ben Etherington & Sienna Brown Writer & narrator: Sienna Brown Location sound & editor: Ben Etherington Composer: Felix Cross Sound engineer and design: John Jacobs Actors: Michael St George, Scott Cummings, Christian Price, Russell Stapleton

  Register your RSVP here and you will be sent the Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/caribbean-convicts-in-australia-documentary-podcast-launch-tickets-213359683557

  Fri, 03 Dec 2021 11:30:00 +1100
• Dec 7
  Learning Futures and Sydney City Campus Showcase 2021

  This festival of teaching and learning will highlight the exciting, innovative work of our staff.

  Conferences and seminars; Online Events
  All staff
  This festival of teaching and learning will highlight the exciting, innovative work of our staff.

  Badugulang is proud to support the 2021 Learning Futures Showcase and Sydney City Campus Festival of Teaching and Learning, that will highlight the exciting, innovative work of our staff. This year's theme is “The Evolution of Higher Education at the technological nexus of teachers, students, employers and society.” The theme is timely as the Higher Education sector rethinks the vision of teaching and learning in 2022, as we transition out of the pandemic and debate what that looks like for Western in our very own centre of teaching and learning excellence - Badugulang. Western’s staff are responding to this change now, and this partnership event will allow the wider University community to engage and connect with their work. The program will commence with a keynote address on “Indigenous Education at Western” presented by Professor Susan Page, Director of Indigenous Learning and Teaching where she will weave together praxis, empirical research and critical reflections and illustrate ways to transform curriculum, buttress teaching and foster transformative student learning. Through four concurrent sessions, we will then highlight the exemplary and innovative current practices of our staff as they work across the areas of Alternative Credentials, Digital Transformation, and Flexible Learning, including the excellent work of some of the DVCA COVID-19 commendation winners. This will provide a platform for participants to debate and reflect on the strategies and examples presented of how we can navigate and thrive in this challenging environment going forward.

  Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +1100
• Dec 8
  Introduction to Text Analysis with NVivo for Mac

  Learn the fundamentals of NVivo for Mac including importing data, creating codes, searching text and producing basic visualisations.

  Training and skill upgrade; Online Events
  Learn the fundamentals of NVivo for Mac including importing data, creating codes, searching text and producing basic visualisations.

  Please note this session is only for NVivo for Mac user. You will need to have NVivo INSTALLED BEFORE attending this workshop. We will introduce how to use NVivo for Mac to:

  - Import different type of data sources

  - Code and classify your data

  - Use Text search and Word Frequency to discover themes and trends

  - Visualise relationships and trends in your data Zoom link will be sent prior to the session.

  If you need help with NVivo installation or have any questions, please contact eResearch Analyst Jeff Wang (jeff.wang@westernsydney.edu.au).

  Wed, 08 Dec 2021 09:30:00 +1100