Research Strengths Showcase Series

Showcasing our Research Excellence

This lecture series will provide an opportunity to showcase the research conducted within each of UOW’s Research Strengths, and introduce the researchers involved to the general campus and community.

 

2011 program

Date/Location	Speaker
Wednesday 23 March	Prof. Vera Mackie Institute for Social Transformation Research 'Researching Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region' >More
Wednesday 18 May	A/Prof. Clive Schofield Institute for Transnational and Maritime Security 'Girt by Uncertainty' >More
Wednesday 10 August	Professor Song-Ping Zhu, Dr Aidan Sims and Dr Natalie Thamwattana Institute for Mathematics and its Applications 'The Beauty and Power of Mathematics' >More
Wednesday 7 September	Prof. David Ayre Institute for Conservation Biology and Environmental Management   'Why Conserve Genetic Variation?'  >More
Wednesday 19 October	Prof. Sara Dolnicar, Prof Tim Coltman and other members of (IIBSoR) Institute for Innovation in Business and Social Research (IIBSoR) 'Not just another survey ... valid measurement in the social sciences'  >More
All lectures held during lunch  (12:30pm-1:30pm) Audio recordings of these lectures available on the CEDIR website

2010 program

 

Date/Location	Speaker
Wednesday 24 March	Prof. Peter Eklund (SMART) Title: The Gong Digital Bus Ecosystem >More
Wednesday 19 May	Clinical Prof. Jan Potter & Prof. Mark Wilson (IHMRI) Title: From the Test Tube to the Bedside >More
Wednesday 11 August	A/Prof. Peter Gibson (SMART) Title: Application of Agency and other Theories to Collaborative Supply Chain Relationships >More
Wednesday 8 September	Prof Xu-Feng Huang (IHMRI) Title: Brain to the mind and shape: Schizophrenia and obesity >More
Wednesday 20 October	Prof. Lesley Head (Australian Laureate Fellow) Title: Cultural Environmental Research: the Missing Link in Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability >More
All lectures held during lunch  (12:30pm-1:30pm) Audio recordings of these lectures available on the CEDIR website

 

2009 program

 

Date/Location	Speaker
Wednesday 4 March	Prof. Kathy Eagar Centre for Health Service Development "Fixing the Australian health system – can research help?"
Wednesday 8 April	Prof. David Steel Centre for Statistical & Survey Methodology "Statisticians: What are they up to?"
Wednesday 6 May	Prof. Nick Dixon Centre for Medical Bioscience "Fighting the Superbugs: An Approach to Development of New Antibiotics"
Wednesday 27 May	Dr Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase CAPSTRANS "Neoliberal Globalisation, women, work, and forced migrations: Towards an Ethnographic understanding of Indian Society"
If you missed any of the 2009 lectures - please view/hear our speaker's presentations

 

2008 program

 

Date/Location	Speaker
Wednesday 12 March	Leon Kane-Maguire Intelligent Polymer Research Institute “Sexy Intelligent Materials for the 21st Century”
Wednesday 16 April	Chris Cook Engineering Manufacturing "Engineering the Future through Manufacturing Research"
Wednesday 7 May	Anatoly Rozenfeld Centre for Medical Radiation Physics "Developing Cancer Radiation treatments for this millennium"
Wednesday 6 August	Farzad Safaei and Mehran Abolhasan "Recent advances in multimedia communications for virtual crowded spaces and for desert communities" Telecommunications and Information Technology Research Institute
Wednesday 10 September	Shixue Dou "Sustainable research excellence through postgraduate training at ISEM" Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials
Wednesday 15 October	Paul Keller "Stealth, Health and Wealth:Chemistry and Medical Research" Centre for Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology
If you missed any of the 2009 lectures - please view/hear our speaker's presentations

 

For further information please contact: Vicky Wallace at the Research Services Office or call (02) 4221 4126.