External seminars

The following are seminars/workshops/events occuring outside the Faculty of Education and Social Work. Content for this page has been extracted from organisers' respective websites or from emails.

Queries regarding any of the following events should be directed to the event organisers.

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Seminar Series

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) provides information and undertakes research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The seminar series for Semester 2, 2009, is designed to communicate the work of the AIATSIS research program and the Institute’s Collections and Family History Unit.

Seminars are held:

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Queries:

Mondays
12.30-2pm
Mabo room, AIATSIS Building, Action Peninsula, Canberra

Not necessary

Cressida Fforde (cressida.fforde@aiastsis.gov.au or 02 6261 4221)

Click here for seminar titles for the semester.

Also coming up with AIATSIS:

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Perspectives on Urban Life: Connections and Reconnections

29 September - 1 October 2009
The Mannning Clark Centre, Australian National University, Canberra

Queries:

EARLY BIRD
REGISTRATION:

conference2009@aiatsis.gov.au

Learning Centre Workshops

The Learning Centre assists students to develop the generic skills necessary for learning and communicating knowledge and ideas at an academic level. The Centre runs useful workshops for developing postgraduate research skills.

Workshops for August and September are:

Preparing a thesis proposal
Critical writing at postgraduate level
Writing a literature review

Click here for the Aug/Sep timetable. Enrolment for these workshops open Monday 3 August.

The Learning Centre’s Gradfest Postgraduate Program for semester 2 is on from 2-27 November. Put this in your diary as during this period, there will be back to back workshops all specifically designed for the needs of postgraduate students.

The Learning Centre’s workshops come highly recommended by other research students and are free of charge.

Menzies Centre for Health Policy Seminar Series

The Menzies Centre for Health Policy promotes and informs public debate on health policy to assist Australia in establishing health care priorities. In doing so, it offers a major event program consisting of evening seminars, conferences and public lectures.

Their next seminar will be on:

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Michael Ward Symposium on 'Resilience and health'.

Dr Brian Walker, Chair of the (International) Resilience Alliance, and Director, Australia 21
and other speakers from the Australia 21 Project

Wednesday, 12 August 2009
5.30pm (Refreshments will be served from 5 pm)
Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney (Map reference K5 on http://www.facilities.usyd.edu.au/maps/docs/guide_campdarl_a4map.pdf)

by Wednesday, 5 August to mchp@med.usyd.edu.au

Click here for full details.

On Wednesday 19 August 2009, the Emerging Health Policy Research Conference will be held at the University of Sydney. Click here for full details.