Alumni and guests are invited to join the Oxford University Society of Western Australia and the Cambridge University Society of Western Australia, for their annual Oxbridge dinner with guest speaker Professor Lyn Beazley AO - Opening the eyes of young Western Australians to their opportunities in Oxford, Cambridge, and beyond.

"My years at Oxford were lifechanging.  I was the first in my family to go to university, and my basis for choosing Somerville was that it had a bus stop conveniently outside the front gate!  And in the end, my time in Oxford did so much to foster my lifelong fascination with science, and all the good it can do in the world.

Now, chairing WA's PRISM alliance, I am just delighted to help pay this forward, to new generations.  We are encouraging the state's most capable students towards all manner of prestigious scholarships - from Rhodes to Fulbright to the Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship.  Supporting our talented young people at such a pivotal moment in their life journey can bring such dividends for us all."

Speaker Biography - Professor Lyn Beazley AO 

Lyn first studied at Oxford and Edinburgh and is enjoying a distinguished career in science.  She was WA's Chief Scientist from 2006 to 2013, and her achievements are as diverse as:

- Setting up a nationwide hotline for laboratory technicians in schools
- Establishing Dolphin Watch
- One of the teams who secured WA as co-host of the Square Kilometre Array of radio-telescopes
- And having a new species of Rottnest sponge named after her - Manihinea Lynbeazleyae