Events

Upcoming events at Western Sydney University are listed below.

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• Aug 5
  ICS Seminar Series

  Culture as logistics: Infrastructure, power and China.

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  Culture as logistics: Infrastructure, power and China.

  In our next seminar on 5th August at 11:30am, Professor Anthony Fung, will present on ‘Culture as logistics: Infrastructure, power and China’. The seminar will take place via Zoom, all welcome. To receive the Zoom meeting ID and password, please RSVP to e.blight@westernsydney.edu.au by 5:00pm Wednesday 4th August and the Zoom details will be sent to you Thursday morning before the seminar. For full seminar details, please visit: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/ics_seminar_series

  Thu, 05 Aug 2021 11:30:00 +1000
• Aug 12
  NICM HRI Symposium 2021: Medicinal Cannabis

  This online symposium will showcase current Australian research, and discuss regulatory developments and education regarding medicinal cannabis.

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  This symposium is open to researchers, academics, students and industry with an interest in the evolving medicinal cannabis research space.
  This online symposium will showcase current Australian research, and discuss regulatory developments and education regarding medicinal cannabis.

  Registrations are now open - book your virtual seat today. Join NICM Health Research Institute for our 3rd Medicinal Cannabis Research, Regulation and Education Symposium on Thursday 12 August 2021. Featuring leading speakers from government, research, academia, and industry, this programme is designed to showcase current Australian research and provide insights into regulatory development and education regarding medicinal cannabis. For more information and to register, please visit https://nicm.edu.au/news/events WHEN: Thursday, 12 August 2021 TIME: 9.30am-4.30pm AEST WHERE: Virtual via Zoom COST: $99 (registration), $59 (registration for student) – registrations close 5pm AEST, 4 August 2021. This symposium is open to researchers, academics, students and industry with an interest in the evolving medicinal cannabis research space. If you have any questions about this virtual symposium, please contact us at nicm@westernsydney.edu.au

  Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:36:00 +1000
• Aug 13
  Intersect Online Training: Surveying with Qualtrics

  Intersect Online Training: Surveying with Qualtrics.

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  Intersect Online Training: Surveying with Qualtrics.

  About this event 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.

  Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:30:00 +1000
• Aug 13
  Writing & Society Research Centre Seminar Series

  Beyond Artistic Borders And Into The Future: Cross-artform collaboration and its potential to foster new audiences and innovative practices for writer.

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  All welcome!
  Beyond Artistic Borders And Into The Future: Cross-artform collaboration and its potential to foster new audiences and innovative practices for writer.

  Beyond Artistic Borders And Into The Future: Cross-artform collaboration and its potential to foster new audiences and innovative practices for writers and storytellers with Felicity Castagna, Marian Abboud, Sheila Ngoc Pham, & Emma Saunders In artistic disciplines such as the visual and performing arts collaborations between artists working in different modes are commonplace, unlike the field of writing where the general attitude towards collaboration is much more conservative and practitioners have traditionally chosen to stick to their own discipline. The competition for audience and the increasingly limited funding and platforms in the current climate of crisis for the arts means that writers need to be looking at artistic partners and new contexts for making work. This seminar will put forward the argument that collaboration opens up a whole new territory, where artists are challenged and inspired to find new societal contexts to present their art and engage with new audiences in new spaces. Being curious about the work of others and working collaboratively is a powerful tool for writers and artists who want to make powerful art. In this seminar Dr Felicity Castagna will be in conversation with some of the most dynamic and interesting multi-disciplinary artists working across the fields of writing, dance, documentary-making, sound installation and science. Cross-artform collaboration happens in an unpredictable way. It challenges our experience of making art and shifts our focus away from our individual skills, to our capacity to engage in creative dialogue within a new territory. This seminar will explore this new territory by asking the questions: How can we understand each other’s artistic work? How do we communicate to be able to work together? What skills from our individual fields can be supportive to this collaboration? How do we rethink how we work in environments where the emphasis is often on presenting process and exploration rather than working to a predesignated result from the start? How do we create new settings to present such work and build on existing and new audiences?

  Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:00:00 +1000
• Aug 18
  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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  Western Sydney University researchers
  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 - an informal, drop-in, Q&A session. If you have any questions about any aspect of your research project, plans, or implementation then Research Hour is the place for you. We have a range of experts on hand from across the University to discuss any queries you might have, help you problem solve, or point you to resources and services that could be of benefit to you as you carry out your research. Incorporating ‘Hacky Hour’: swap notes, get help, learn techniques in programming and data science, code, digital tools, HPC etc. Providing 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). No question is too big or too small – we want to hear from you, and to make sure you have all the support you need to carry out your research successfully. Research Hour is open to Researchers from any discipline and at any level of their career… everyone is welcome. This is a participatory discussion session, not a presentation – come along prepared to engage!

  Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +1000
• Aug 18
  Hepatitis B Workshop

  Increase Hep B literacy

  Information sessions
  Increase Hep B literacy

  Hepatitis B is a major public health issue in China and an estimated 90 million Chinese are living with chronic hep B, accounting for 1/3 of the world total cases. Hepatitis B is also prevalent in Australian Chinese community, currently 220,000 and the number is increasing.

  Unfortunately, people with chronic hep B are often asymptomatic so many of them don’t know that they have the infection. This is the most scaring part as chronic hep B can progress into advanced liver diseases like cirrhosis and liver cancer without showing obvious symptoms.

  We hope to increase hep B health literacy so that our community can take proactive actions. We also invited someone who is living with hep B to talk about her own personal story.

  The event will be delivered in Chinese Mandarin. If you or someone you know might be interested in hep B information, please register and pass it on.

  please register your attendance by contacting Shan Tao.

  Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:00:00 +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
• Aug 20
  Intersect Online Training: Introduction to Research Data Management at Western Sydney: Online

  Intersect Online Training: Introduction to Research Data Management at Western Sydney University: Online.

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  Intersect Online Training: Introduction to Research Data Management at Western Sydney University: Online.

  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, Western Sydney University’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, 20 Aug 2021 09:30:00 +1000
• Aug 24
  Intersect Online Training: Getting started with NVivo

  Intersect Online Training: Getting started with NVivo.

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  Intersect Online Training: Getting started with NVivo.

  About this event

  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.

  Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:30:00 +1000
• Aug 26
  Book Launch and Discussion: The Mother Wound.

  Book Launch and Discussion: The Mother Wound.

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  Book Launch and Discussion: The Mother Wound.

  In The Mother Wound, Amani writes with power, fury and grace on how we inherit violence and trauma, but also strength, resilience and joy. She writes from the intersection of her experiences as a victim of crime, a lawyer, an Arab-Australian, a woman, daughter and a mother. Poetically combining memoir, social commentary and legal analysis, this is a powerful story of female resilience and motherhood you won’t easily forget.

  Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +1000
• Sep 15
  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; Online Events
  Western Sydney University researchers
  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 - an informal, drop-in, Q&A session. If you have any questions about any aspect of your research project, plans, or implementation then Research Hour is the place for you. We have a range of experts on hand from across the University to discuss any queries you might have, help you problem solve, or point you to resources and services that could be of benefit to you as you carry out your research. Incorporating ‘Hacky Hour’: swap notes, get help, learn techniques in programming and data science, code, digital tools, HPC etc. Providing 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). No question is too big or too small – we want to hear from you, and to make sure you have all the support you need to carry out your research successfully. Research Hour is open to Researchers from any discipline and at any level of their career… everyone is welcome. This is a participatory discussion session, not a presentation – come along prepared to engage!

  Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +1000
• Oct 20
  Research Hour

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

  Information sessions; Online Events
  Western Sydney University researchers
  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 - an informal, drop-in, Q&A session. If you have any questions about any aspect of your research project, plans, or implementation then Research Hour is the place for you. We have a range of experts on hand from across the University to discuss any queries you might have, help you problem solve, or point you to resources and services that could be of benefit to you as you carry out your research. Incorporating ‘Hacky Hour’: swap notes, get help, learn techniques in programming and data science, code, digital tools, HPC etc. Providing 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). No question is too big or too small – we want to hear from you, and to make sure you have all the support you need to carry out your research successfully. Research Hour is open to Researchers from any discipline and at any level of their career… everyone is welcome. This is a participatory discussion session, not a presentation – come along prepared to engage!

  Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +1100
• Nov 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; Online Events
  Western Sydney University researchers
  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 - an informal, drop-in, Q&A session. If you have any questions about any aspect of your research project, plans, or implementation then Research Hour is the place for you. We have a range of experts on hand from across the University to discuss any queries you might have, help you problem solve, or point you to resources and services that could be of benefit to you as you carry out your research. Incorporating ‘Hacky Hour’: swap notes, get help, learn techniques in programming and data science, code, digital tools, HPC etc. Providing 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). No question is too big or too small – we want to hear from you, and to make sure you have all the support you need to carry out your research successfully. Research Hour is open to Researchers from any discipline and at any level of their career… everyone is welcome. This is a participatory discussion session, not a presentation – come along prepared to engage!

  Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +1100