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Mar 8

International Women's Day
You are invited to attend the International Women's Day event.

academic events; Online Events

All welcome

You are invited to attend the International Women's Day event.
You are invited to the annual International Women’s Day event on Monday 8 March, from 1.00 to 2.30pm.
This year’s event will bring together a panel of experts from across the University to reflect on the 2020 experience and discuss the gender equity lessons and opportunities we are now presented with, both in higher education and across our broader community.
This event is available for online attendance.
The University’s annual International Women’s Day celebration provides an opportunity for staff to come together to recognise the achievements of women in our community and to promote the sharing of ideas in our continued journey towards gender equality.
For more information or to view the full program visit the University’s International Women's Day webpage or RSVP by Thursday 4 March.

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:00:00 +1100
Mar 9

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

Training and skill upgrade
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 survey using the Qualtrics online platform and import a pre-built survey
- Configure the survey using a range of design feature to improve user experience
- Decide which distribution channel is right for your needs
- Analyse and interpret response data using the Qualtrics platform
- Exporting response data in various formats for using in other applications
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:30:00 +1100
Mar 11

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, 11 Mar 2021 09:30:00 +1100
Mar 12

Writing & Society Research Seminar Series
Lorraine Sim on 'Happy Modernisms'

academic events; Conferences and seminars

All welcome

Lorraine Sim on 'Happy Modernisms'
Can modernism be happy? As we witness a popular, political and scholarly ‘turn’ towards happiness and well-being in recent decades, modernist studies has remained largely silent on the subject. In spite of the many revisionary approaches that have transformed the field in the past twenty years, modernism continues to be aligned with negativity and troubled feelings. This seminar investigates possible reasons as to why the field has occluded happiness from its critical narratives, and some of its implications. Through discussing a range of engagements with happy feelings in modernist literature and visual cultures, I argue that this is an important historical and cultural moment for modernist studies – and literary studies more broadly – to take happiness and positive affect seriously.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:00:00 +1100
Mar 17

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, 17 Mar 2021 13:00:00 +1100
Mar 19

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 to:
- 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, 19 Mar 2021 09:30:00 +1100
Apr 1

NICM HRI Webinar: Blending tradition and science in public health
Join NICM HRI and guest seminar speaker Professor Jon Wardle, as he discusses the integration of traditional knowledge and science in public health.

academic events; Conferences and seminars; Online Events

Researchers, academics, clinicians, professional staff, students, and anyone interested in the integration of traditional and scientific perspectives in public health

Join NICM HRI and guest seminar speaker Professor Jon Wardle, as he discusses the integration of traditional knowledge and science in public health.
NICM Health Research Institute presents Professor Jon Wardle, Director of the National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Southern Cross University.
Join guest seminar speaker, Professor Jon Wardle, as he discusses 'Blending tradition and science in public health'.
Abstract
Evidence-based principles guiding health policy increasingly rely on both scientific methods and longstanding traditions of use. The Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care – updating the Alma-Ata Declaration as the new guiding document for global primary health – supports the active expansion of traditional health practices in meeting global health priorities, requiring health researchers to integrate traditional and scientific perspectives in a critical, rigorous way. This presentation examines the increasing recognition of traditional knowledge in global health, discusses opportunities and challenges this poses for research, and presents a research program attempting to bridge traditional and scientific perspectives to improve health.

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +1100
Apr 20

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.

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:30:00 +1000
Apr 21

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, 21 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +1000
Apr 23

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

Training and skill upgrade; Online Events

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 to: 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, 23 Apr 2021 09:30:00 +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.

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, 19 May 2021 13:00:00 +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

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