Events: community
Wellbeing: Nam Baldwin - effective exercise and movement module 4
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
This module addresses what you can be doing to alleviate these challenges, boost your energy levels and why you want to instill new habits – now. We will share evidence-based and results-driven, exercise principles designed to improve the health and fitness of your heart, lungs, bodies and brain for a longer, happier, quality of life. Tuesday 14 October, 12–1.30 pm. Online. Register.
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Taming your inner critic with Clare Bowditch
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
Clare Bowditch joins Bupa to share candid, heartfelt stories and to invite us to reflect on the question of what it might mean to live a ‘well-lived’ life. Wednesday 15 October, 12.30–1.30 pm. Online. Register.
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My re-awakening: how the label of neurodivergent has helped me.
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Location: LG28 lecture theatre, Lower Napier building, North Terrace campus
The Neurodiversity Project invites invites you to listen to our four panel speakers who will be discussing their journeys. Specifically, how our speakers learnt about their neurodivergence and the potential positive impacts this had on their mental health. Thursday 16 October, 2–4 pm. LG28 lecture theatre, Lower Napier building, North Terrace campus. Register.
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Healthy Development Adelaide Oration
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Location: Napier 102 lecture theatre, first floor, Napier building, North Terrace campus
Have we got it wrong? The public health approach and child protection presented by Professor Leah Bromfield who will discuss the application – and misapplication – of the public health approach, and practical ways forward to realise the intent of a transformed approach to child protection. Thursday 16 October, 6–8 pm. 102 lecture theatre, Napier building, North Terrace campus. Register.
Sports week and VC Cup
- Date: Mon, 20 - Fri, 24 Oct 2025
- Location: North Terrace campus
Sports Week and the Vice-Chancellor's Cup returns for 2025 with a variety of sports and activities to get involved in. Compete for bragging rights across a week of different sports, looking to become the winner of the Sports Week shield, culminating in the 17th annual Vice Chancellor's Cup 800m relay and being awarded the VC Cup trophy. Monday 20 to Friday 24 October. North Terrace campus. Register.
Road to Belém | Living La Vida BoCA: Border Carbon Adjustments and Rules-Based Trade.
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
- Location: Online
With COP30 fast approaching, border-carbon adjustments are shifting from proposal to practice, reframing the balance between decarbonisation ambition and an open, rules-based trading system. This session stress-tests an Australian BoCA concept across economic, legal and diplomatic dimensions: how leakage risks are defined; how product-carbon data are measured, verified and disclosed; and how non-discrimination, proportionality and transparency can be maintained. Monday 20 October, 10.30 am to 12 pm. Online. Register.
Julia Gillard Public Lecture 2025
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025, 9:30 am - 11:15 am
- Location: Bonython Hall, North Terrace campus
Former Prime Minister of Australia the Hon Julia Gillard AC will facilitate an informed conversation on how the rapidly changing geopolitical environment and rise of disinformation is impacting Australia, our foreign policy, development assistance and our universities, and how these factors might be leveraged for better outcomes. Thursday 23 October, 9.30–11.15 am. Bonython Hall, North Terrace campus. Register.
Road to Belém | Powering the Shift: Australia and Southeast Asia's Energy Trade
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Location: Online
As COP30 in Belém shifts the agenda from pledges to delivery, this session explores how Australia’s renewable-export ambition could align with Southeast Asia’s accelerating—yet uneven—decarbonisation to shape a practical low-carbon corridor. Wednesday 29 October, 11 am to 12.30 pm. Online. Register.
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Mastering difficult conversations
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025, 9:30 am - 11:30 am
- Location: 102 lecture theatre, Napier building, North Terrace campus and online
Engaging in difficult conversations is a necessary skill in any workplace. This course teaches participants how to approach and navigate challenging discussions with co-workers, supervisors and stakeholders, ensuring clear and constructive communication. Monday 3 November, 9.30–11.30 am. 102 lecture theatre, Napier building, North Terrace campus and online. Register.
Nam Baldwin - mindful eating
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
In this module, we will share the most important universal nutritional principles and guidelines that support a healthy body and high-performance state of mind. You will discover enlightening ways to improve your food choices and be inspired by epic client transformation stories that demonstrate what is possible when we eat more mindfully. Wednesday 11 November, 12–1.30 pm. Online. Register.
