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Apr 28

Research Seminars - School of Medicine
The School of Medicine Research Seminar Series will be held every Tuesday at 4.00pm via zoom.

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The School of Medicine Research Seminar Series will be held every Tuesday at 4.00pm via zoom.
The School of Medicine warmly invites you to attend our weekly research seminars on Tuesday's at 4.00pm.
Starting Tuesday, 28 April 2020, 4.00pm.
PRESENTERS: Include HDR Students, SOM Academics and invited national and international speakers discussing their cutting-edge research.
ZOOM INFO: ·https://uws.zoom.us/j/91764666589

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:00:00 +1000
Jun 29

Workshops available to improve your success at university
Free online Academic Literacy Workshops available.

Training and skill upgrade

students

Free online Academic Literacy Workshops available.
Brush up on your literacy skills by registering for a free online academic literacy workshop. These workshops will cover the essential skills for writing essays and reports, as well as researching, referencing, note-taking and reading academic texts. For more information on the workshops please go to www.westernsydney.edu.au/getreadyform

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +1000
Jul 13

Researcher Development Awards 2021
APPLY NOW - Researcher Development Awards - Closing 31 August 2021.

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Academics A, B & C
APPLY NOW - Researcher Development Awards - Closing 31 August 2021.
The Researcher Development competitive funding scheme, offers four different development awards for use in 2021. These funding opportunities are directed toward staff who are endeavouring to establish and/or expand their research profile including considering grant funding from an external agency. They are aimed at supporting staff that have experienced career interruption, or are early career researchers, with a particular focus on gender equity. These awards are not directed to staff with an established research profile (i.e. those that have previously been awarded external funding such as ARC and NHMRC grants).
Awards are open to Level A, B or C Academics (other eligibility criteria apply - please see Scheme Guidelines) Researcher Development Awards Categories -
- Women’s Fellowship (up to $30,000)
- ECR Fellowship (up to $15,000)
- ACA/DAP and Career Interruption (up to $10,000).
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +1000
Jul 13

Western ServiceNow Virtual Hackathon
WSU has partnered with ServiceNow and Deloitte to equip you with technological skills and knowledge that are highly pursued in the industry!

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WSU has partnered with ServiceNow and Deloitte to equip you with technological skills and knowledge that are highly pursued in the industry!
Western ServiceNow Virtual Hackathon is organised in collaboration with ServiceNow exclusively for Western Sydney University students. ServiceNow is a multinational company transforming old ways of manual working into modern digital workflows. With enterprise solutions, customers can create great experiences, drive business growth and enhance productivity. More than 6,200 enterprise customers worldwide use ServiceNow to drive their digital transformation.
By participating in this virtual hackathon you will:
- be trained to use the ServiceNow platform for FREE
- gain valuable industry skills and knowledge
- gain experience in delivering business solutions
- have the opportunity to meet industry professionals who may have employment opportunities available & more.
Register your interest today through CareerHub to receive further information and a link to the application form: https://bit.ly/3dy6mjM
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +1000
Jul 16

Dean's Research Seminar - School of Nursing and Midwifery
Dean's Research Seminar - School of Nursing and Midwifery.

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Academic Staff, Researchers, HDR Students
Dean's Research Seminar - School of Nursing and Midwifery.
School 3MT Competition 12md-1pm, Thursday 16 July 2020 School Research Impact Competition 1-2pm, Thursday 16 July 2020 “You Can’t Ask That!” Session will be held between the 3MTand RIC session.
- When: Thursday 16 July 2020
- Time: 12:00—2pm
- Zoom: https://uws.zoom.us/j/97323465941?pwd=V1NXMDJheUY4d2xSQ0lxcFB5dkpkZz09
- Meeting ID: 973 2346 5941
- Password: 970601
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:00:00 +1000
Jul 16

School of Science Research Seminar
New analytical approaches to characterize the hormone specific to human pregnancy then W files

Conferences and seminars
New analytical approaches to characterize the hormone specific to human pregnancy then W files
School of Science Research Seminar
Thursday 16th July 2020, 16:30 (4:30 pm)
Zoom Meeting ID: 484 163 7742
- Speaker: Nathalie Delaunay Laboratory of Analytical and Bioanalytical and Miniaturization, UMR 8231 CNRS - ESPCI Paris PSL, PSL University, Paris, France. 2Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
  Topic: New analytical approaches to characterize the hormone specific to human pregnancy
  Abstract: The human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is the hormone specific to human pregnancy. It is essential for the development of placenta and fetus. It is based on two heavily glycosylated subunits, hCGα and hCGβ, having 8 glycosylation sites. Some recent studies demonstrated that here is a correlation between the hCG glycosylation state and the fetus implantation. This is why the characterization of the hCG glycoformes is necessary. New analytical approaches have therefore been developed for this purpose.
- Speaker: Miroslav Filipovic School of Science, Western Sydney University
  Topic: Australia W-files
  Abstract: Where are they…. Everything that you ever wanted to know about Aliens and …. scared to ask? Fermi Paradox is alive or … What can we learn about so special planet Earth their inhabitants and nearby Universe. And, how to survive and live forever?
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:30:00 +1000
Jul 17

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

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Intersect Online Training: Research Data Management Techniques.
Why do this course? Are you drowning in research data? Do you want to know where you should be storing your data? Are you required to comply with funding body data management requirements, but don’t know how? 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. Combining slide-based background material, discussions, and case studies this workshop will equip participants with best practices for managing their valuable research data. You’ll learn about: 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.

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:30:00 +1000
Jul 20

NICM Health Research Institute Seminar: A heart healthy diet is good for the brain too
Join guest speaker Professor Karen Charlton as she discusses foods that may help in preventing cognitive decline in mild-to-moderate dementia.

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Researchers, academics, clinicians, professional staff, students, and anyone interested in the topic of Dementia

Join guest speaker Professor Karen Charlton as she discusses foods that may help in preventing cognitive decline in mild-to-moderate dementia.
NICM Health Research Institute presents Professor Karen Charlton, Advanced Practising Dietitian at the Smart Foods Centre, School of Medicine, University of Wollongong. Join host Associate Professor Genevieve Steiner and her guest seminar speaker Professor Karen Charlton online on Monday 20 July as she discusses the effect of bioactive compounds found in plant foods on preventing memory loss and cognitive decline associated with ageing. A nutritional epidemiologist and leader in nutrition and dietetics, Professor Charlton works at the interface between clinical care, primary care and public health. She has extensive international experience in translating research into policy. Professor Charlton conducts food-based clinical trials to identify the role of nutrients, foods and dietary patterns on health outcomes. She has published over 170 publications, with co-authors from 16 countries.
OVERVIEW
Professor Charlton's presentation, 'A heart healthy diet is good for the brain too' will explore her latest research and promising evidence that foods rich in anthocyanins (compounds that provide deep red, purple and blue pigmentation in foods) may help prevent further cognitive decline in people with mild-to-moderate dementia. Join us online for this informative and topical presentation, followed by Q&A session.
Please register for this event via the NICM Website

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:00:00 +1000
Jul 22

Excel for Researchers at Western Sydney: Online
Excel for Researchers at Western Sydney: Online

Training and skill upgrade

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. Who should take this course? This course is suitable for all researchers and research students from any discipline. The course will use a sample dataset from meteorology to demonstrate Excel's features and produce charts, but the techniques taught will be applicable to any field. You'll learn how to: Find, import and ‘clean up’ messy research data Organise, format and name your data in Excel Analyse your data (answer research questions) Interpret your data (filtering, conditional formatting) Perform calculations on your data (max, min, average) Extract significant findings from your data (pivot tables) Manipulate your data (data conversion, dates and times) Create graphs and charts to visualise your data

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:30:00 +1000
Jul 27

Schoold of Science research seminar
Final PhD seminar of Matthew Van Leuween: Relating starch structure in rice to its digestibility.

Conferences and seminars; Online Events

Final PhD seminar of Matthew Van Leuween: Relating starch structure in rice to its digestibility.
School of Science Research Seminar Final PhD seminar
When: Monday 27th July 2020, 10:00
Where: Zoom Meeting ID: 484 163 7742 (see below for full zoom invite).
Who: Matthew P. Van Leeuwen School of Science, Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS), Western Sydney University
Title: Relating starch structure in rice to its digestibility Abstract: A correlation between starch in rice and its digestibility has been observed in the literature, highlighting the role of starch structure in the functional properties of rice. However, starch is a complex biopolymer natively existing in a hierarchical structural organisation. An in-depth investigation of multiple levels of starch structure in rice was undertaken to determine what factors of starch structure are capable of distinguishing rice varieties, and how these structures relate to digestibility.

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +1000
Jul 29

Online and Remote Methods for Data Collection
RESEARCH WEBINAR Online and Remote Methods for Data Collection.

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RESEARCH WEBINAR Online and Remote Methods for Data Collection.
Have your plans for research and data collection been disrupted by COVID-19? Are you interested in hearing from a couple of Western Sydney University researchers about methods and platforms they have been trialling for online data collection? This 90-minute session will include short presentations on both quantitative and qualitative methods for online data collection and will be relevant for research in and across STEM, Health and HASS clusters. Presenters include Dr Julie Beadle and Dr Anthony Chmiel, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development and Professor Amanda Third, Young & Resilient Research Centre & ICS. We’ll plan plenty of time for questions and discussion. We’d love students and staff to join part or all of the session. Zoom link will be sent to registrants prior to the event. Hope to see you there.
Program:
1. Acknowledgement of Country and overview of the session – Kate Stevens & Paul Breen
2. Prof Amanda Third: “Remote Control: On distributed data gathering in a pandemic”
3. Dr Julie Beadle: “Using PsychoPy3 and Pavlovia for online data collection”
4. Dr Anthony Chmiel: “PsychTestR: An interface for online experiments using R”
5. Q&A throughout
Brief Bios
Professor Amanda Third is Co-Director of the Young and Resilient Research Centre in the Institute for Culture and Society and the Translational Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University; Research Stream Co-Leader in the Victorian Government-funded Centre for Resilient & Inclusive Societies; and Faculty Associate in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (2020-2021). Her research focuses on young people’s technology practices, with a particular emphasis on diversity, children’s rights and the translation of children’s insights into policy and practice.
Dr Julie Beadle completed her PhD at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Julie’s current role as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Macquarie University has involved developing and evaluating a novel speech comprehension test. Julie will review how this project has adapted during the COVID-19 restrictions and provide an introduction to using PsychoPy3 and Pavlovia Software for online data collection
Dr Anthony Chmiel is a music psychologist within the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development. He is working on the ARC Discovery Project “Maintaining active minds and bodies through older adult music education. This presentation will outline the capabilities of PsychTestR, a package for the free program R through which online experiments can be created and implemented. This presentation is accompanied by a detailed technical guide that attendees are able to download, outlining each step to create your own server and install the required software to run PsychTestR.
REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE BY 27 JULY 2020: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/113577007888

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:00:00 +1000
Jul 31

Intersect Online Training: Unix Shell and Command Line Basics
Intersect Online Training: Unix Shell and Command Line Basics

Training and skill upgrade
Intersect Online Training: Unix Shell and Command Line Basics
Why do this course? The Unix environment is incredibly powerful but quite daunting to the newcomer. Command line confidence unlocks powerful computing resources beyond the desktop, including virtual machines and High Performance Computing. It enables repetitive tasks to be automated. And it comes with a swag of handy tools that can be combined in powerful ways. Getting started is the hardest part, but our helpful instructors are there to demystify Unix as you get to work running programs and writing scripts on the command line. Every attendee is given a dedicated training environment for the duration of the workshop, with all software and data fully loaded and ready to run. We teach this course within a GNU/Linux environment. This is best characterised as a Unix-like environment. We teach how to run commands within the Bash Shell. The skills you'll learn at this course are generally transferable to other Unix environments.
You'll learn how to:
- navigate and work with files and directories (folders).
- use a selection of essential tools.
- combine data and tools to build a processing workflow.
- automate repetitive analysis using the command line.
Fri, 31 Jul 2020 09:30:00 +1000
Jul 31

Writing & Society Research Centre, Room To Listen online seminar series
Reading Michael Farrell's 'Family Trees' - Michael Farrell with Ivor Indyk and Kate Fagan

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Reading Michael Farrell's 'Family Trees' - Michael Farrell with Ivor Indyk and Kate Fagan
Join leading Australian poet Michael Farrell as he reads from his new Giramondo poetry collection, Family Trees (published April 2020), and discusses a bundle of potential readings and mis-readings that might constellate around the work. Readings from Family Trees will be followed by a critical discussion with publisher Ivor Indyk and poet Kate Fagan.
The poems in Family Trees operate according to a queer and inclusive logic, which binds humans, animals, objects, plants and concepts in familial relationships. Farrell’s poems construct ancestries and genealogies, modelling contact through affection, sharing, and attention – sometimes violent attention. They tell strange stories – tall tales from the country, rambling reminiscences, shaggy-dog stories – which speak of shifting realities and weird and wonderful things, like a coffin with legs that walked, an infertile rabbit that fosters a lamb, robots hunting in Kenya for the little white lion of Tokyo, an argumentative sock-puppet, and marsupial geese. The characters in these scenarios are quite at home. They think, gossip, sleep and work. Any phrase, detail or object can act like a hinge, sending these poems and their protagonists in a hundred directions. Anything can be a twig (or bud or leaf or fruit) on Farrell’s family trees.
"In the great tradition of queer Australian landscape poetics […] Farrell recombines Australian ecology, history, and mythology into glorious, and very funky, new forms.” – Judith Wright Calanthe Award citation
“Endless, rascally contortions. Read them boldly as an archaeologist […] but stay quietly aware that the texts are already affecting your cognitive frame, turning you into their accomplice in the renewing of language.” – Gwee Li Sui, Sydney Review of Books
Originally from Bombala, in NSW, MICHAEL FARRELL has lived in Melbourne since 1990. His fifth poetry book with Giramondo is Family Trees: the follow-up to I Love Poetry, which won the Queensland Literary Awards Judith Wright Calanthe Prize in 2018. Other book projects include the anthologies Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets, and Ashbery Mode, an Australian tribute to American poet John Ashbery. Michael has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, which has been revised and published as Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan). He has also worked with musicians, and has written lyrics for two songs available on streaming platforms: “Waste the Alphabet” by Dick Diver, and “On the Border” by Jimmy Hawk. https://giramondopublishing.com/product/family-trees/
IVOR INDYK is founding editor and publisher of HEAT magazine and the award-winning Giramondo book imprint, and Whitlam Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney. Important Australian authors published by him at Giramondo include Alexis Wright (winner of the Miles Franklin Award), Brian Castro, Gerald Murnane, Nicholas Jose, Judith Beveridge, Jennifer Maiden, Robert Gray, Gig Ryan, Beverley Farmer and Antigone Kefala; and amongst younger writers Lisa Gorton, Alice Melike Ülgezer, Tom Cho, Vanessa Berry, Luke Beesley and Kate Middleton. He has a particular interest in the development and publication of writers from the Western Sydney region, most recently Fiona Wright, Felicity Castagna, and Luke Carman. A critic, essayist and reviewer, he has written a monograph on David Malouf for Oxford University Press, and essays on many aspects of Australian literature, art, architecture and publishing.
KATE FAGAN is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre where she founded the Poetry and Poetics Project. She is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Western Sydney University and an award-winning poet and songwriter, whose most recent book First Light (Giramondo) was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Age Book of the Year Award. She is a former editor of How2, the eminent U.S.-based journal of contemporary poetry and poetics. Her album Diamond Wheel won the National Film and Sound Archive Award for Folk Recording and she supported Joan Baez on her 2013 tour of Australia/NZ.

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +1000
Aug 7

Intersect Online Training: Programming with Python
Intersect Online Training: Programming with Python

Training and skill upgrade

Intersect Online Training: Programming with Python
Why do this course? Python has deservedly become a popular language for scientific computing. It has all the friendly features and conveniences you'd expect of a modern programming language. And it boasts a rich set of libraries for working with data. We teach using Jupyter notebooks, which allow program code, results, visualisations and documentation to be blended seamlessly. Perfect for sharing insights with others while producing reproducible research. Join us for this live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation (software-carpentry.org). You'll learn: - Programming concepts and techniques - Basic syntax, control structures and data types in Python - How to import powerful libraries that support numerical analysis (NumPy) and visualisation (Matplotlib) - Approaches to debugging, testing and defensive programming - How to blend code, output and documentation with Jupyter notebooks

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:30:00 +1000
Aug 11

A showcase of Data Analysis in Python and R: A case study using COVID-19 data
A showcase of Data Analysis in Python and R: A case study using COVID-19 data.

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A showcase of Data Analysis in Python and R: A case study using COVID-19 data.
In all fields of research we are being confronted with a deluge of data; data that needs cleaning and transformation to be used in further analysis. This webinar demonstrates the effective use of programming tools for an initial analysis of COVID-19 datasets, with examples using both R and Python. Webinar Topics Cleaning up a dataset for analysis Using Jupyter lab for interactive analysis Making the most of the tidyverse (R) and pandas (python) Simple data visualisation using ggplot (R) and seaborn (python) Best practices for readable code This webinar is open to anyone (not just to Intersect member universities).

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:30:00 +1000
Aug 20

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? Are you drowning in research data? Do you want to know where you should be storing your data? Are you required to comply with funding body data management requirements, but don’t know how? 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. Combining slide-based background material, discussions, and case studies this workshop will equip participants with best practices for managing their valuable research data. You’ll learn about: - 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.

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:30:00 +1000
Aug 21

Intersect Online Training: Data Manipulation and Visualisation in Python
Intersect Online Training: Data Manipulation and Visualisation in Python

Training and skill upgrade

Intersect Online Training: Data Manipulation and Visualisation in Python
Why do this course? Python has deservedly become a popular language for scientific computing. It has all the friendly features and conveniences you'd expect of a modern programming language, and also a rich set of libraries for working with data. We teach using Jupyter notebooks, which allow program code, results, visualisations and documentation to be blended seamlessly. Join us for this live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation (http://www.datacarpentry.org/). You'll learn: - Data Manipulation using the Pandas library. - How to combine/merge data in Python. - Visualisation in Python using the Seaborn and the Matplotlib libraries. - How to blend code, output and documentation with Jupyter notebooks Prerequisites A good knowledge of the basic concepts and techniques in Python. Consider taking our Programming with Python course to come up to speed beforehand.

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:30:00 +1000

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