This project focuses on 14 Pixie O’Harris paintings from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s art collection in need of conservation and restoration. Each painting ‘becomes the patient’ and undergoes examination, diagnosis and treatment. The art conservator will demonstrate how to make swabs, remove varnish layers and ‘operate’ to replace paint losses in a simulated environment….
Topic: Health and Medical
Diego’s Foraging Guide
Learn all about wild edible plants growing in your backyard. In this 15 minute video, foraging expert Diego Bonetto demonstrates how to identify some of the common edible plants that grow in backyards and parks in the local Liverpool area, and explains some of their uses. Diego Bonetto is an artist, forager and wild food…
The Reception, Quality and Evaluation of Scientific Evidence in Australian Courts
What are the differences between scientific evidence and legal proof—and how do we navigate different types of evidence in Australian courts? You are invited to join an online symposium held in collaboration between the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Law. Join a panel of experts from scientific and legal fields, chaired by The Hon Justice Virginia…
Pandemic in Parramatta: Historical reflections
Join us for an online exhibition reflecting upon the City of Parramatta’s responses to two pandemics, one hundred years apart. By exploring archival Council correspondence files relating to the pneumonic influenza, or “Spanish ‘Flu”, pandemic of 1919 we are able to discover and reflect upon the historic civic responses to issues affecting us today including public hygiene, quarantine,…
Canberra Women of Science and Art (Teen focused webinar)
Meet a diverse group of amazing Canberran women working in or inspired by science, tech, engineering, art and maths (STEAM). These interesting people are anything but ‘boring scientists’ or ‘wacky artists’. Their career paths have not been straight lines. Some of them didn’t do well in subjects at school (and that’s been fine). They have…
Canberra Women of Science and Art (Family focused webinar)
Meet a diverse group of amazing Canberran women working in or inspired by science, tech, engineering, art and maths (STEAM). These interesting people are anything but ‘boring scientists’ or ‘wacky artists’. They have written books; invented a robot; created new technology to tell ancient, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories; taught children how to investigate and…
MIFF TALKS | Stories from The Leadership: Women in STEM (2020)
An in-depth conversation featuring three of the remarkable scientists featured in Australian documentary The Leadership (Samantha Grover, Fern Hames and Songqiao Yao) about their experiences on the 2016 Homeward Bound voyage, and a discussion of their groundbreaking work in the STEM field. Moderated by Natasha Mitchell (ABC Radio National’s Science Friction). Presented in partnership with…
Virtual Inspire in 5
Now you can connect in and hear from a range of incredible women working in STEM careers from the comfort of your own lounge room. Best of all? It’s free and open to all high school students, their families & teachers in Western Australia. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a scientist?…
Careers that Started in Science
Discover where a career in science can take you with The University of Queensland’s free webinar series on 18 – 20 August. Graduates from STEM fields are among the most in-demand globally. What do you need to know about the jobs in this fast-growing sector and how can you gain the skills to do them? Talk…
Exercising for Brain Health Talk & Group Fitness Class
Research shows using your muscles helps your mind and people who exercise regularly demonstrate better ageing performance.At Club Active we are focussed on Changing The Way We Age, so we want to discuss how every brain changes with age, and mental function changes along with it. Mental decline is common, and it’s one of the…