Each month we welcome our new Graduate Research candidates and celebrate the achievements of our current students.
(Please note that 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)
Welcome to 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
Jessica Maris, Susan Houghton, Jason Dehlyia and Amy Debretton-Gordon
Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences
Sair Buckle, Mitchell Duncan, Geoffrey Bowering, Lauren McKinnon and Richard Raftis
Faculty of Science and Health
Lakshmi Gopinath, Sarah Baker, Usman Yousaf, Ella Bradshaw-Wiley, Trixie Kemp, Sarah Amr and Ellen Quinn
Thesis submitted
Congratulations to the following candidates who have recently submitted their thesis.
Faculty of Arts and Education
Sheree Moore School of Education
Thesis Title: Family and Domestic Violence in Australian Rural Emergency Departments: A critical analysis of institutional discourses and narratives
Margaret McBride School of Education
Thesis Title: Investigating the practice architectures of grammar pedagogy across the primary years.
John Barnaby School of Social Work and Arts
Thesis Title: Towards a dynamic approach to assisting individuals struggling with obsessionality and compulsivity
Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioral Sciences
John Goddard School of Business
Thesis Title: Business practices that improve owner-manager and business performance, implemented through a community of practice and action learning network in regional New South Wales
Muhammad Rana School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering
Thesis Title: A Lightweight Block Cipher Algorithm to secure Smart City Resource-constrained IoT Devices.
Fariha Afsana School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering
Thesis Title: Efficient Video and Point Cloud Compression through Common Information Exploitation
Gibson Matimba School of Psychology
Thesis Title: Overseas Trained Teachers: Enablers and Constraints to Professional Practice and Social Integration into the Australian Education System
Faculty of Science and Health
Ashley Brabon School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences
Thesis Title: Influence on interfragmentary compression, reduction and stability of simulated equine lateral condylar fracture
Stella Antony School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences
Thesis Title: Epidemiology and management of Botryosphaeria dieback in walnut orchards in Australia
Melissa Wales School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences
Thesis Title: A study of social norms and soil management
Sadichchha Neupane Adhikari School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences
Thesis Title: Improving smallholder coffee farmer’s production and export potential in Nepal.
Jillian Bell School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences
Thesis Title: Characterising the Equine Faecal Microbiota in Health in Disease
Mikayla Hoad School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences
Thesis Title: Mechanisms of capsid protein nuclear import across divergent adeno-associated virus serotypes
Borkwei Ed Nignpense School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences
Thesis Title: The role of cereal polyphenols in gastrointestinal health and inflammation
Allister Clarke School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences
Thesis Title: Deciphering Head Rice Yield: Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Rice Milling Quality Predictions in Australia
Gulbali Research Institute
Joachim Bretzel
Thesis Title: Screening water diversions to support freshwater fish conservation in the Murray-Darling Basin
Lauren Stoot
Thesis Title: Movement and population connectivity of blue salmon catfish Neoarius graeffei in the Clarence River: implications for river development
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
Marie Ireland School of Education
Principal Supervisor: Prof Sharynne McLeod Co-Supervisors: Dr Sarah Verdon and Dr Kate Crowe
Thesis Title: Evaluation and eligibility of students with communication disorders in public schools in the United States
Fiona Collins School of Education
Principal Supervisor: Aspro Angela Fenton Co-Supervisor: Aspro Amy MacDonald
Thesis Title: Recognising, communicating and building on: Exploring strengths in mathematics in Kindergarten.
Stan Grant School of Theology
Principal Supervisor: Geoffrey Broughton Co-Supervisor: Dr Michael Gladwin
Thesis Title: Yindyamarra as theology: How a Wiradjuri Way of Being Leads us to a Deeper Peace and Justice in Jesus Christ
Faculty of Science and Health
Xiaojin Liao School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering
Principal Supervisor: Aspro Xiaodi Huang Co-Supervisor: Prof Lihong Zheng
Thesis Title: A Federated Learning Framework and System for Land Mapping with Deep Learning and Visualisation
Faculty of Science and Health
Camilla Donnelly School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences
Principal Supervisor: Prof Jade Forward Co-Supervisors: Prof Shane Raidal and Dr Justin Roby
Thesis Title: Structural analysis of protein-protein interactions involved in pathogenesis and viral replication of Lyssaviruses and Henipaviruses
Milad Ghafoori School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences
Principal Supervisor: Prof Jade Forwood Co-Supervisors: Prof Shane Raidal and Dr Daniel Luque
Thesis Title: Understanding the Structural Basis for Human and Viral Nuclear Localisation Signal Domains with Importins and RNA