Events

Upcoming events at Western Sydney University are listed below.

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Feb 4

Chinese Lunar New Year Art Exhibition - Precious Treasures 宝∙藏
Willoughby City Council Lunar New Year Art Exhibition, produced by Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture.

Exhibitions and performances

Students, staff and communities

Willoughby City Council Lunar New Year Art Exhibition, produced by Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture.
Precious Treasures is a collaboration between Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture and Willoughby City Council in celebrating 2021 Lunar New Year. This art exhibition, curated by the renowned artist Guan Wei, features a fantastic combination of established and emerging Chinese Australian artists, and showcases a diverse range of artworks using different mediums, from paintings and installations, to sculptures and videos. The artists included in the exhibition are Amy Fu, Guan Wei, Jason D. Phu, Justin Qian, Louise Zhang and Xifa Yang. You are invited to discover and enjoy the treasures created by these artists. Exhibition Details Date: 4-28 February 2021 Venue: Incinerator Art Space, 2 Small Street, Willoughby NSW 2068 Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday (10am-4pm).

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +1100
Feb 25

EdFest 2021
EdFest is Western Sydney University’s annual teaching careers expo for students studying a Masters of teaching.

Online Events

Current students studying Master of teaching

EdFest is Western Sydney University’s annual teaching careers expo for students studying a Masters of teaching.
EdFest is Western Sydney University’s annual teaching careers expo. This event is one of our most popular Careers fairs and attracts a large number of students. It also forms a part of the compulsory graduate education course commencement program, and covers Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, Special Education and International teaching opportunities. Students will explore how to kick start their career, and will have the opportunity to network with a wide range of employer and teaching agencies. The Department of Education, Catholic Education office, Independent Schools, and local and international education agencies will be available for consultation on the day.

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:00:00 +1100
Mar 4

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator Grants Information Session
This information session is for researchers looking to submit/re-submit an application for the NHMRC Investigator Grant scheme at the EL levels.

Information sessions

This information session is for researchers looking to submit/re-submit an application for the NHMRC Investigator Grant scheme at the EL levels. Hosted by the WSU Health & Medicine Cluster and THRI, this information session is for researchers looking to submit/re-submit an application for the NHMRC Investigator Grant scheme at the Emerging Leadership levels. Guest presenters will discuss assessment and give advice based on personal experience on of the 2020 Investigator Grant round. Research Services will cover timelines and processes, as well as other additional advice for applicants.

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:00:00 +1100
Mar 5

Women Transforming the Built Environment Breakfast - Hybrid
Western Sydney University's annual Women Transforming the Built Event is back in 2021 as a hybrid online and in person industry event.

Online Events

Western Sydney University's annual Women Transforming the Built Event is back in 2021 as a hybrid online and in person industry event.
The School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment would like to invite you to the annual Women Transforming the Built Environment Breakfast Event 2021. This year's event will be a hybrid event with options to attend and network in person and well as join us online via Zoom. As we approach International Women’s Day, join us as we bring together alumni, staff and industry professionals to celebrate the stories of our up and coming women in the built environment. The breakfast will open with keynote presentations, followed by a panel of our best and brightest Alumni and students.
Keynote Presentations
Joanne Carmichael – Principal, ARUP
Jo-Ann Kellock – CEO, Design Institute of Australia Panel Facilitator
David Borger, Western Sydney Director, Sydney Business Chamber
Panellists
* Navodana Rodrigo, Centre for Smart Modern Construction PhD Student
* Maryann Aziz – Architecture Student
* Brittany Wells – Construction Management Student
* Karen McKerlie – Industrial Design Graduate Alumni Tilt
We look forward to sharing and discussing the successes of Women in the Built Environment, education and opportunities and industry expertise with you all. Please register via the Eventbrite page below.

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +1100
Mar 5

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:
- 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, 05 Mar 2021 09:30:00 +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 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 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
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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