Current Postgraduate Research Topics
Australian Indigenous Studies
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Main Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Wedrowicz, Elise | Indigenous Sentencing Courts in Latrobe Valley | Andrew Gunstone |
| McGinn, Ian | Outcomes of Commonwealth Aboriginal Policy in the Northern Territory: 1911-1939. | Andrew Gunstone |
| Velardi, Andrea | What were the goals of the NT intervention and were these goals successful | Andrew Gunstone |
Communications
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Main Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Barker, Richie | Intelligent agents and creative process | Paul Atkinson |
| Brear, Philippa | Making waves? A rhetorical analysis of Australian asbestos activist | Sue Yell |
| Bullock, Eileen Lorraine | Constructing a communicative community through the language of popular fiction | Sue Yell |
| Hayman, Lisa Danielle | An analysis if representation in post 9/11 Hollywood Combat film | Simon Cooper |
| Hopper, Meghan | The gendered campaign: women, policy and process in Australian political journalism 1901-2010 | Sue Yell |
| Sutherland, Karen | Is the message getting through? Production, distribution and consumption of global emails in the contemporary university context | Simon Cooper |
Community Welfare and Counselling
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Main Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Jones, Theresa | The relationship between the practice and management of traditional medicine in the development of an 'eco-healing' model of socially and environmentally sustainable development | Debra Manning |
| Kader, Mohammad Abdul | Community participlation: prospect and problem in Bangladesh | Chris Laming |
| Sengupta, Monimalika | At risk: Chittagong Hill Tracts Women's bodies and culture | Chris Laming |
History/Politics
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Main Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Dreher, Bronwyn | Is this the policy to close the gap in indigenous health outcomes? Examining the prospects of improving the health of indigenous people in Victoria through the council of Australian governments closing the gap in indigenous disadvantage agenda | Beth Edmondson |
| Hardy, Matt | Collaboration and crisis: Wikipedia as a resource in Middle East studies | Beth Edmondson |
| Sangale, Shibu | Building the promise: Kenyan democracy and the power of the executive in the constitution, post 2007 | Beth Edmondson |
| Strating, Rebecca | Sovereignty, Justice and the Modern State Order: Formative Sites of Identity | Beth Edmondson |
Psychological Studies
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Main Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Castanon, Cecilia Stephanie | The effect various media types have on an adults self esteem and body image | Mark Symmons |
| Defoe, Alexander | Clinical perspectives on Out of Body experiences (OBEs) | George Van Doorn |
| Howell, Jacqui | The horizontal-vertical illusion in vision, haptics and audition | Mark Symmons |
| McFarlane, Ruth | Psychological correlates of meme compliance and meme resistance | George Van Doorn |
Sociology
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Main Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Choi, Kwan | Participatory factors of citizen patrols in voluntary police crime preventation | Harry Ballis |
| Chowdhury, Saber | Effectiveness of democracy protection institutions in Bangladesh: A study on the Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh | Harry Ballis |
| Earl, Peter | Contested illness, social experience and recovery: a sociological analysis of long duration Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | Harry Ballis |
| Manning, Andrew | The Impact of Electronic Gaming Machines in Victoria since their introduction in 1992 from the perspective of such issues being framed as a concern for Public Health | Harry Ballis |
| Dent, Faith | Fabric-ating place story: an experimental approach to imprinting landscape and land culture | Michelle Duffy |
| Merlino, Dean | Soundlines: Naming and Navigating the Aural Soundscape | Michelle Duffy |
| Potts, Miriam | How does my relationship to place evolve through the creative process of printmaking | Michelle Duffy |
| Savant-Mohit, Radhika | Human geography | Michelle Duffy |
| Sikder, Md Jalal Uddin | Remittances, Migrant Households and Social Resilience: A Case Study of Bangladesh | Harry Ballis |
| Chilianis, Melanie | Days of our lives; exploring relations between subjectivity, discourse and materiality in a technology rich creativity sonic practice | Michelle Duffy |
| Hlabisa, Sibongiseni | Customary land administration institutions and the land reform process in the post-apartheid South africa, KwaZulu-Natal province | Michelle Duffy |