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The award recognises academic citizenship, as evidenced through positive influences on colleagues, university processes, students, and the wider community.  Award Categories: Visit the UWAASA website for further information and to make your nomination: https://uwaasa.org.au/the-philippa-maddern-award.  Please direct any enquiries regarding the Philippa Maddern Award to: uwaasa@uwa.edu.au Nominations must be received by 5:00pm AWST on Friday 3 April 2026.  Download the call for […]

Dear UWAASA members, To celebrate the shutdown, your UWAASA committee thought it might be a good time to send out a bit of a newsletter with some commentary on the latest UWA news, and some good wishes for the holiday season! In this newsletter: 1. Nin Kirkham elected as academic staff representative to Senate!  Having put forward

To those who never knew Alan Robson the number and depth of feeling in the tributes made within and outside the University might seem a surprise, but he was a Vice-Chancellor and before that a Deputy Vice-Chancellor like no other. His legacies to the University are too numerous to recount but they include the creation

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON OCTOBER 12 2023 AT 12.30PM IN THE ACORN ROOM, ABOVE THE GUILD SHOPS, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Download a copy of the minutes.

Well, another academic year comes to a semi-close. Semi-close because we all know that many are preparing deferred exams, and others for the inevitable supplemental exams. Of course, some are working on end-of-year reporting and/or on new research grants… Oh well, just forget the comment about any “close.” A quick look back over the year

On August 16th, UWAASA sponsored a forum on the question of University mergers in WA  as a potential outcome of the WA State’s University Sector Review.  The forum included WA Chief Scientist, Prof. Peter Klinken, UWA Professor Ray da Silva Rosa and current UWA DVC(Research) Prof Anna Nowak. The viewpoints varied, there was discussion of

The Philippa Maddern Award 2023 has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and will now be held either late 2023 or in 2024.

 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON OCTOBER 13TH 2022 AT 12.30PM IN THE ACORN ROOM, ABOVE THE GUILD SHOPS,  UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA  PRESENT:   D Judge (Vice-President and Chair), and members including E Brink, S Dobbs, S Maloney, M Rizzi, B Montgomery, C Bourgault du Coudray, V Hayes, J Van Gent, D Spagnoli,

We certainly can’t claim that newsletters from UWA ASA are frequent, but we hope that they are at least worth reading when they arrive. This newsletter was hard to write, and went through a few drafts. As the ‘voice of academics’ at UWA we want to voice hope and optimism, not least because — as

On 14th October, our association held its Annual General Meeting. The meeting was particularly well attended, which is perhaps not surprising, given the rapid turnover of material for discussion in recent months. Indeed, the speed of events has been such that our capacity to keep pace through the circulation of newsletters to our members has