Welcome to new Graduate Research candidates joining us and congratulations to our current and graduating candidates on your achievements!
(Please note that this is based on reporting up to and including the 9th August. Candidate achievements recorded after that will appear in the next month’s GR News)
If you have news about awards, grants, publications or other achievements please let us know so we can share it.
New candidates
Faculty of Arts and Education
Barbara Allen.
Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences
Nicholas Beames, Michael Sommer, Sonja Taylor.
Faculty of Science and Health
Michelle Apps, Jake Ball, Lauren Crofts, Asher Dixon, Jayne Lawrence, Brendan Tai-Roche, Annalyss Thompson, Lisa Wood.
Thesis submitted for examination
Faculty of Arts and Education
Mohammad Alamgir Hossain School of Education
Thesis Title: Developing primary school students’ 21st-century skills (critical thinking and problem-solving, creativity, communication, and collaboration) through STEM education
Goutam Roy School of Education
Thesis Title: Developing scientific literacy among children in early years (4-5 years) in Australia
Xinzi Zhang School of Education
Thesis Title: Exploring the Perspectives and Experiences of Older Chinese Australian Women on Piano Learning Activities
Che Baker School of Social Work and Arts
Thesis Title: Screen Spill: An Australian Independent Filmmaker’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jacqueline McNamara School of Social Work and Arts
Thesis Title: A Feminist Approach for Exploring and Transforming the Professional Identity of Women Social Workers in Australia
Susan Penn-Turrall School of Social Work and Arts
Thesis Title: Social Work and the Far-Right – Why it matters to the Safety of Women: Perspectives from Australia and the United States of America.
Alarna Vrieling School of Social Work and Arts
Thesis Title: Adult Children of Australian Vietnam Veterans: A Silent Generation with a Story to Tell
Keith Hamilton School of Theology
Thesis Title: The integration of worship, witness and service and ordained ministry leadership in parish mission in the Uniting Church in Australia
Omar Mohamed Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation
Thesis Title: Evolution of Political Islam: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences
Sophia Montgomery School of Business
Thesis Title: The Nature of Systemic Corruption: Exploring Human-Technology Co-Evolution Through Two Australian Case Studies
Dristi Datta School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering
Thesis Title: Learning-Based Soil Property Estimation using Remote Sensing Data Focusing on Spectral Complexity, Noise and Vegetation Interference
Rabin Dulal School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering
Thesis Title: Deep Learning for Cattle Identification Using Muzzle Patterns
Ershadul Haque School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering
Thesis Title: Efficient image representation and compression for quantum computing by exploiting correlations within qubits and connections
Katrina Andrews School of Psychology
Thesis Title: The Things we Keep: The Social Construction of Hoarding
Simon Cox Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security
Thesis Title: Predicting the Occurrence and Distribution of Rural Fires in South Australia
Paul Day Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security
Thesis Title: Rhetoric over risk: Examining the effects of Australia’s approach to counterterrorism policy and the consequences for regional stability 1995–2020
Faculty of Science and Health
Dyanah Joy Amorio School of Agricultural, Environmental & Veterinary Sciences
Thesis Title: Interactions of grapevine trunk disease pathogens involved in Botryosphaeria dieback and Petri disease
Isara Vongluanngam School of Agricultural, Environmental & Veterinary Sciences
Thesis Title: Impact of light on oxidative and reductive aging of wine
Josephine Bampoe School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences
Thesis Title: Development of a culturally responsive Ghanaian English speech and language assessment tool
Grant Brechney School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences
Thesis Title: The Effects of Weight-Cutting on Exercise Performance, in combat Sports Athletes
Kate Greenaway School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences
Thesis Title: The Experiences of Physiotherapists and Clients Using and Receiving Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
Justin Ellem School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences
Thesis Title: Development of an effective phenotypic screening method for the identification of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in Gram-Negative bacilli.
Annie Fardell Hartley School of Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences
Thesis Title: The use of social Media Platforms to Communicate Suicidality by Young People and the Implications in Rural and Remote New South Wales.
Sulaiman Mandoh School of Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences
Thesis Title: The psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Australian-based West Africans who survived the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic: A descriptive cross-sectional study
Candidates approved to graduate
Faculty of Arts and Education
Nick Gahan School of Social Work and Arts
Principal Supervisor: Prof Wendy Lyn Bowles
Co-Supervisor: Aspro Heather Ruth Boetto
Thesis Title: Sirens to silence: Examining the experiences of firefighters transitioning into and living in retirement.
Bing Au School of Theology
Principal Supervisor: Dr Jeffrey Aernie
Co-Supervisor: Dr David Neville
Thesis Title: Ecclesial and Divine Judgment in 1 Corinthians 5:1–6:11: A Comparative-Exegetical Study in Light of Roman Legal Contexts