Spring into Spring Issue!
Hi postgrads!
Oh my goodness, it’s September! (This is a truly terrifying prospect for
me.)
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So, what’s happening around the PSA corridor this month? Most
excitingly, as part of our responsibilities to help you with career development, we’re running a
seminar series entitled “The Employable Postgraduate: How to prepare for your
future career during your candidature”.
More detail are below, but please please please look carefully at the
information and RSVP to me. Your support for these kind of events ensures that
they continue!
Also, the committee would like to create
a set of FAQs on the website, and we want to know what your questions were
when you started. There is a poll on the Facebook page, with some initial
suggestions, or you can add your own – I’d be so appreciative if you would! http://www.facebook.com/uwapsa
We’re planning to hold a Family Picnic
on Saturday the 6th of
October (daytime)! We’ll be inviting you to bring partners, spouses,
children, parents, friends – whoever you consider family! What I need to know
is – who would you like to bring and
what would you like us to do? We’re locking
in a BBQ, but I’m also hoping to provide some entertainment and want to make
sure it is age appropriate! Please let me know! If there will be sufficient
children, I’m thinking face painting and balloon
animals. So please give me the excuse to get some balloon animals, because
I love those things!
Now you’ve probably noticed Guild
elections taking place and I encourage you to participate in this process.
I know many postgrads feel disenfranchised by the Guild as an institution, but
I believe that this can only be overcome by us becoming more involved in the process.
So ask them questions, hold them accountable, and vote! Additionally, we will
be holding elections for our committee
and representatives at the AGM in October. Start thinking about the committee
positions, and how you might contribute – I’m happy to meet with you and answer
any questions you might have!
Important dates for you to block out in your calendar (more info to
come!):
AGM: Friday the 26th
of October
Cocktail Party: Friday the 2nd
of November
Finally – Connect is on Thursday the 6th of September at 5pm!!
I’ll see you soon, you fabulous amazing people!
Best,
Aisling
Notices
The Employable
Postgraduate: How to prepare for your future career during your candidature:
Postgraduate students
are highly skilled individuals, so why is it that they often feel least
prepared to enter the workforce? This seminar series will uncover helpful
strategies to will help you prepare for your post-study career before you complete. Postgraduate students are intellectual
entrepreneurs - creative, motivated individuals who are expert at solving
problems. Discover how to actively seek out opportunities in a range of
different work environments - including academia. Learn how to identify your
strengths, market your skillset to non-academic employers, navigate hidden job
markets, optimise your online presence and how networking can give you a
competitive advantage.
The PSA is offering three professional and personal development seminars,
you can attend as many or as few as you want, but the idea behind them is to
help you market your postgraduate degree to employers. There will be nibbles
and tea/coffee provided!
Seminar 1: “Know thyself
better”: Identify your Strengths and Skills,
Tuesday 25th September 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Tuesday 25th September 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Seminar 2: “Get out there!”:
Promoting yourself and your research online, Wednesday 26th of September 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Seminar 3: “Don’t just sit
there!”: Strategies to proactively seek career opportunities,
Thursday 27th of September 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Thursday 27th of September 5.30pm to 7.30pm
EDUCATION FORUM: All
postgraduate students from The University of Western Australia are invited to
present their education-related research at the next Fogarty Foundation
Postgraduate Forum to be held in the afternoon of Tuesday 20 November 2012 at
the Graduate School of Education. For further information about the forum, please
see www.education.uwa.edu.au/research/forum/ or
contact Eileen Slater20980524@student.uwa.edu.au
Halal Food and Food Labelling: Halal food
is now available in the Guild Village, Reid & Hackett Cafes - we carry a
selection of freshly prepared meat, chicken & vegetarian meals which will
be changing daily! Each cafe now also has a microwave designated for the
heating of Halal food only.
Also, at the last Guild Council, the decision
was undertaken to clearly label potential allergens in hot food. I’m pretty
happy, but it’ll take some time to come through.
Like science AND communication? You should totally check out the
Science Communication Seminars, Fridays, 4.00pm at the UWA Centre for Learning
Technology. No RSVP required, snacks and drinks available – email Sophia
Bickford at 20228745@student.uwa.edu.au to
join the mailing list!
Alumni! You should totally join up to the UWA Alumni
Facebook page, so you can keep in touch with your alma mater! https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-University-of-Western-Australia-Alumni/137692883038024
MUPSA Conference:
Multidisciplinary
Conference 2012
The Third Multidisciplinary
Conference from the Murdoch University Postgraduate Student Association (MUPSA)
is coming up in September. This is a chance for Murdoch Postgraduate
students to showcase their research across multiple disciplines!
Where: Economics, Commerce and Law (ECL) Lecture Theatres 2 and 3,
Murdoch University South Street Campus
When: Thursday 27th September. Opens at 8:30am outside
ECL2 for a 9:05am opening address
Cost: FREE TO
ATTEND!
To register: complete the
registration form at http://mupsa-conference.murdoch.edu.au before 17thSeptember
Email mupsa@the-guild.com.au for
any queries
Trove: UWA’s Online Creative Arts Journal – get your work published!
Submissions accepted all year, deadline for 3.2 is Monday 28th of
September. More details? Sure can! www.trove.arts.uwa.edu.au
How about that local sports team?
Fun games, volleyball, sausage sizzle, cupcakes - a great family day out and a good cause! We (Rotary of Crawley and African Students Union, UWA) are organizing what promises to be a lovely action packed day of sports, fun games, food and music to raise funds for science education and youth leadership at two schools in Malawi, Africa.
DATE: Saturday, 6th October
TIME: 10:30am for 11am game start. Finish at 3pm.
VENUE: Riley Oval, UWA Campus, Crawley - near University Club on Hackett Drive.
REGISTRATION: Advance registration required for volleyball teams- www.trybooking.com/BUDA $100 per team (minimum 6 players).
BENEFICIARIES: Mzuzu Academy and Nkhomboli Community Day Secondary School
FACEBOOK: Volleyball and Fun games for Malawi Schools
Fun games, volleyball, sausage sizzle, cupcakes - a great family day out and a good cause! We (Rotary of Crawley and African Students Union, UWA) are organizing what promises to be a lovely action packed day of sports, fun games, food and music to raise funds for science education and youth leadership at two schools in Malawi, Africa.
DATE: Saturday, 6th October
TIME: 10:30am for 11am game start. Finish at 3pm.
VENUE: Riley Oval, UWA Campus, Crawley - near University Club on Hackett Drive.
REGISTRATION: Advance registration required for volleyball teams- www.trybooking.com/BUDA $100 per team (minimum 6 players).
BENEFICIARIES: Mzuzu Academy and Nkhomboli Community Day Secondary School
FACEBOOK: Volleyball and Fun games for Malawi Schools
Idea-ful? The Day of Ideas is sponsored by
the IAS, and focuses on important themes.
Manning Clark House is running a special public lecture “Night of 100
Objects - Creating histories through Objects” by Dr Jeremy Hill, Head of
Research, The British Museum. The lecture is on the 8th of
November 2012, from 6.00pm-7.00pm, at the WA Museum, costing $30.
The IAS’s 2012 Day of Ideas lecture series will focus on the theme:
“Objects/History/Humanity: Museums in Contemporary Society”. It will take place
on the 9thof November 2012, from 9.30am –5.00pm, in Banquet Hall
South, University Club, UWA, costing $75/$70 (concession). The day is followed
by sundowner until 6.00pm.
More info and registration: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/conf/2012-doi
Institute of Advanced Studies Lectures and Masterclasses
11 Sept: 4.00pm, “Communicating
With Sugars”, Anne Dell, MCS Lecture Room
Bayliss Building (G.33), (Public Lecture)
13 Sept: 6.00pm, “Discovery
of the Higgs boson - not the end but a new beginning”, Ian McArthur, Social
Sciences LT, (Public Lecture)
14 Sept: 10am,“Mass
Spectrometry and Glycobiology: Defining the sugar recognition code”, Anne Dell,
Old Senate Room, (Masterclass)
18 Sept:
2.00pm, A Conversation with The Right Honourable Sir Kenneth Keith, Master
Seminar Room 338-G30, Law School UWA, (Masterclass) – RSVP to shelley.jackson@uwa.edu.au
6.00pm, Judging at home and abroad - some reflections, The Right Honourable
Sir Kenneth Keith, Theatre Auditorium, University Club, (Public Lecture)
19 Sept: 10.00am, A Conversation
with Susan Maushart, Old Senate Room, (Masterclass)
27 Sept: 6.00pm, 10 Things I
Hate about America: Reflections of a Bi-Hemisexual, Susan Maushart, Social
Sciences LT, (Public Lecture)
Registration and questions should be directed to the IAS: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/about
Conferences!
A three-day International Greening Education Event will be held from
10th to 12th of October, 2012 in Karlsruhe, Germany. This event will bring
together academia, policy makers, representatives of government and
international development agencies, senior members of academic institutions,
school administrators and teachers, sustainable development practitioners,
environmental management professionals and other stakeholders from around the
world. For further information, please see the event details. http://www.etechgermany.com/IGEE2012.pdf
2012 International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental
Engineering (ICSEEE 2012). 29-31 December 2012, Guangzhou, China. Full papers
due by October 31. Proceedings to be published in Applied Mechanics and
Materials See: WWW.ICSEEE.ORG
The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Materials and
Manufacturing Processes (ICAMMP 2012). 22-23 December, 2012, Beihai, China.
Paper submission due September 20.
All accepted papers will be
published by Advanced Materials Research Journal. See: www.icammp.org
Spaces and Flows: Third International Conference on Urban and Extraurban
Studies. 11-12 October 2012, Detroit, USA. Call for Papers is 20 September.
Full details of the conference, including online proposal submission form, at http://SpacesandFlows.com/Conference-2012/
.
Thirteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in
Organizations. 13-14 June 2013, Vancouver, Canada. Currently calling for
submissions to International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change
Management. See: http://ontheorganization.com/the-conference
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Wednesday to be included!
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Aisling Blackmore
President, UWA Postgraduate Students' Association
psa.guild.uwa.edu.au
Email: psa@guild.uwa.edu.au
Phone: 6488 3194
President, UWA Postgraduate Students' Association
psa.guild.uwa.edu.au
Email: psa@guild.uwa.edu.au
Phone: 6488 3194
Twitter:@ACBlackmore
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