Each issue we welcome new Graduate Research candidates and acknowledge the achievements of our current students.
Welcome to the following new candidates.
We wish them every success as they begin their research journey and look forward to hearing about their research and achievements along the way.
Faculty of Arts and Education
Suzanne Garrett
Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Science
Gideon Gouws
Thomas Kazan
Faculty of Science and Health
Keira Brown
Georgia Kennedy
Hakizimana Protais
Stella Lee
Kristina Maximous
Chloe Betts
Approved to Graduate
Congratulations to the following candidates who have recently been approved to graduate and to their supervisors who have supported them on their journey.
Faculty of Arts and Education
Dilini Ilaya Kuttige Don School of Information and Communication Studies
Principal Supervisor: Aspro Hamid R. Reza Jamali Mahmuei Co-Supervisor: Mary Carrol and Prof Philip HIder
Thesis Title: Commencing undergraduate students’ prior understanding of academic libraries in Sri Lanka: A grounded theory approach.
Faculty of Science and Health
Bikshapathi Jagga School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences
Principal Supervisor: Prof Jade Forwood Co-Supervisors: Prof Shane Raidal and Yogesh Khandokar
Thesis Title: Structural and Mechanistic Basis for Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of Sox Transcription Factors
Nisa Perera School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences
Principal Supervisor: Prof Geoff Gurr Co-Supervisors: Dr Paul Weston, Prof Leslie Weston, Aspro Russ Barrow
Thesis Title: Behavioural and electrophysiological responses of dung beetles to livestock dung volatilomes and constituent compounds
Mary McQuillan School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences
Principal Supervisor: Prof Bruce Allworth Co-Supervisors: Prof Marta Hernandez-Jover
Thesis Title: Investigating the occurrence and causes of ewe mortality during the peri-parturient period for commercial non-Merino flocks.
Gulbali Research Institute
Thomas Keogh
Principal Supervisor: Dr Shawn McGrath Co-Supervisors: Prof Bruce Allworth and Dr Victor Oddy
Thesis Title: Investigating the constraints on lamb growth in intensive feeding systems.
Dwi Atminarso
Principal Supervisor: Prof Lee Baumgartner Co-Supervisors: Dr Jen Bond, Dr Meaghan Duncan, Prof Robyn Watts
Thesis Title: The Impact of Perjaya dam on fisheries biodiversity and livelihoods in the Komering river, Indonesia
Please note this is based on reporting up to and including the 9th of this month. Candidate achievements recorded after that will appear in the next month’s GRNews
Publications, Achievements and Awards
Congratulations to Diane Cass who recently received a Mito Foundation Advocacy Award in relation to her doctoral research into families with multiple members diagnosed with a chronic or life-limiting illness. Diane attended an awards ceremony in Sydney where she was presented with the award by Dr Doug Lingard AM and his wife, Margie Lingard. Diane is now in the data-collection stage of her research and is keen to make a difference.
Please let us know if you have some good news or achievements to share. If you have recently had an article published or other success, we would love to hear about it!