Current Higher Degree Research Projects
Projects listed in alphabetical order by student surname
| Student |
Thesis Title and Supervisory Panel |
| Faroque Amin | “Contemporary Methodological Transition in Islamic Revivalist Movement: An Analysis of the Societal Approaches” Supervisor: Jan A. Ali; Co-Supervisor: Adam Possamai |
| Tobias Andreasson | How are Changing Gender Relations and Gender Identity Affecting Male Refugees in Australia and How they are Informed about these Socio-Cultural Changes and Challenges. Supervisor: Natalie Bolzan; Co-Supervisor: Frances Gale |
| Tara Andrews | Research topic: What Does it Take to Practice Sustainable Design? Supervisor: Prof Peter Phibbs Co-Supervisor: Dr Louise Crabtree, A/Prof Jonathon Allen |
| Achmad Zainal Arifin | "Rationalisation of Pesantren: Mapping Pesantren Views on Responding the Rise of Salafi Dakwah Movements" Supervisor: Julia Howell; Co-Supervisor: Bryan Turner |
| Ashleigh Barbe-Winter | "Islamic Family Separation in the Australian Legal System" Supervisor: Adam Possamai; Co-Supervisors: Jan Ali; Selda Dagistanli |
| Clair Baker | Research Topic: Detecting High Stakes Deception Witnesses- Truth Vs Deception. Supervisor: Janette Perz; Co-Supervisors: David Mutton, Jeanna Sutton |
| Jenny Barton | Research Topic: Characteristics of inmates at risk of suicide and / or deliberate harm. Supervisor: Tanya Meade; Co-Supervisors: Steven Cumming, Anthony Samuel |
| Alex Baumann | Research Topic: The Third Way: Action Research-Based Evaluation in Public Housing. Supervisor: Rae Dufty; Co-Supervisor: Michael Darcy |
| Annette Bennett | Research Topic: Doing a man-sized job: Exploring Hegemonic femininity among blue-collared tradeswomen. Supervisor: Mary Louise Hawkins; Co-Supervisor: Jane Durie |
| Grant Bickerton | Research Topic: Engagement and Burnout from Occupational Stress: A Study of Religious Workers. Supervisor: Maureen Miner- Bridges; Co-Supervisor: Martin Dowson |
| Rosalind Bolitho | Research Topic: Factors Affecting the Resilience of Sudanese Adolescents in Western Sydney. Supervisor: Natalie Bolzan; Co-Supervisor: Roy Laube |
| Rosemary Bowman | Research Topic: Leonard Women Coming of Age: The Experiences of Rural Women. Supervisor: Debbie Horsfall; Co- Supervisor: Rosemary Jill |
| Linda Burnett | Research Topic: Thinking through mothering. Supervisor: Jane Ussher; Co-Supervisors: Valerie Walkerdine, Anna Gibbs |
Juni Chusjairi |
"Depicting 'the West' in the discourse on terrorism in Indonesian magazines" Supervisor: Steven Drakeley; Co-Supervisors: Hart Cohen; Milissa Deitz |
| James Collison | Research Topic: Limitations and Future Direction for Assessing Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Supervisor: Rocco Crino; Co-Supervisors: Jo Milne-Home |
| Terri Drage | "The National Sufi Council: Redefining the Islamic Republic of Pakistan through a discourse on Sufism after 9/11" Supervisor: Julia Howell; Co-Supervisors: Jan Ali; Emilian Kavalski |
| Lisa Fahey | Research Topic: Assessment and Intervention Models for Intensive Support Youth in and out of Home Care. Supervisor: Jo Milne-Home; Co-Supervisor: Nigel Bond |
| Sharon Fingland | Research topic: Social Inclusion: Innovation in the Renewal of Older Housing Estates in Western Sydney Supervisor: Prof Phillip O’Neill; Co-Supervisor: Prof Peter Phibbs |
| Jessica Fulcher | Research Topic: Affect Regulation in Deliberate Self Harm. Supervisor: Tanya Meade; Co-Supervisor: Agnes Petocz |
| Anthony George | Research Topic: Relations between Students’ Attachments and Attribution and Schooling and Life Outcomes. Supervisor: Maureen Miner; Co-Supervisor: Martin Dowson |
| Guy Gillor | Research Topic: Health Care, Indigenous Communities and the Settler State. Supervisor: John MacDonald; Co-Supervisor: Michael Houlbrook |
| Michael Grosvenor | Research topic: Understanding Sustainability in an Urban Context Supervisor: Prof Phillip O’Neill; Co-Supervisor: Prof Donald McNeill, Dr Louise Crabtree |
| Christopher Hansen | Research Topic: Replicating and Extending the Perruchet Paradigm. Supervisor: Gabrielle Weidemann; Co-Supervisors: Rebecca Pinkus, Michael Tyler |
| Corinne Harvey | Research Topic: In what ways does the creation of fictional narratives work as therapeutic acts for both the author and the reader. Supervisor: Sheridan Linnell; Co- Supervisor: Alison Uhlmann |
| James Herbert | Research Topic: Self-Evaluation and Organisational Evaluation in Government and Non-Government Service Providers. Supervisor: Natalie Bolzan; Co-Supervisor: Michael Houlbrook |
| Elizabeth Hoad | Research Topic: A Realist Approach to the Human Existential Predicament and Death Anxiety. Supervisor: Agnes Petocz; Co-Supervisors: Martin Daly, Glenn Newbery |
| Marc Inberg | Research Topic: The Function of Fixations in Grasping Objects under Different Luminance Conditions. Supervisor: Tamara Watson; Co-Supervisors: John Cass, Anna My Wyatt |
| Esme Jaaniste | Research Topic: Improving the Quality of Life of People with Dementia Through Drama therapy. Supervisor: Sheridan Linnell |
| Ian Forest Jones | "A Two-Wheeled Gospel: Religious conversion among lifestyle bikers and their clubs" Supervisor: Adam Possamai; Co-Supervisor: Selda Dagistanli |
| Caroline Joyce | Research Topic: Examining Patients and Health Professionals? Perspectives on the benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs. Supervisor: Kathryn Nicholson Perry; Co-Supervisors: Ian Wilson |
| Lauren Kadwell | Research Topic: Talking about Sex: Deconstructing Nurse/ Patient Interactions about Sexuality and Intimacy in the Context of Palliative Cancer Care. Supervisor: Emilee Gilbert; Co-Supervisors: Jane Ussher |
| Alanna Kamp | Research Topic: Sojourning Wives: Feminising Chinese Migrant Experience in White Australia. Supervisor: Kevin Mark Dunn; Co-Supervisor: Jack Barbalet |
| Ashwini Kanitkar | Research Topic: The Impact of Privileging Women's Own Empowerment Goals on Self Help Group (SHG) Impact Evaluation Studies in India. Supervisor: Mary Louise Hawkins |
| Lauren Kenworthy | Research Topic: Residents' Voice: Community, Place, Advantage and Disadvantage. Supervisor: Michael Bernard Darcy |
| Marlee King | Research Topic: Evaluation of the Efficacy and Mechanisms of a Couple-based Intervention for Premenstrual Syndrome. Supervisor: Jane Ussher; Co-Supervisor: Caroline Smith |
| Ian Knowd | Research Topic: An investigation of failure mechanisms in tourism planning for regional communities. Supervisor: Russell Staiff |
| Christopher Krogh | Research Topic: How Child Protection Systems Promote Particular Views of the Parents in Whose Life they Intervene, and how these views Impact on Self-stories of these 'clients'. Supervisor: Debbie Horsfall |
| Adrian Lania | Research Topic: Drama therapy and Its Influence on the Socialisation of Emotionally Disturbed Children. Supervisor: Sheridan Linnell; Co- Supervisor: Shameran Slewa-Younan |
| Shane Latimer | Research Topic: Measurement of Deliberate Self Harm Behaviours: Rasch Analysis. Supervisor: Tanya Meade; Co-Supervisors: Chris Lennings, Allan Tennant |
| Dominic Lees | Research Topic: The Development of a Reward Expectation Model for Risky Decision Making. Supervisor: Agnes Petocz; Co-Supervisors: Glenn Newbery, Nida Denson |
| Allan Lotifizadeh | Research Topic: Investigation into the Significance of Socio-economic and Domestic Violence Factors for Increasing the Mental and Physical Pain and Distress during Pregnancy, Labour and Puerperium. Supervisor: Jane Ussher; Co-Supervisor: David Mahna |
| Annetta Luspinner | Research Topic: Australian Art Therapy - An Inquiry into our Professional Identity after Two Decades of Practice and an Exploration into Areas of Future Possibility. Supervisor: Sheridan Linnell; Co- Supervisor: Debbie Horsfall |
| Farjana Mahbuba | “Muslim Women’s Gender Perceptions in Urban Bangladesh” Supervisor: Adam Possamai; Co-Supervisor: Jan Ali |
| Yulia Maleta | Research Topic: The advocacy agency and competence of women activists participating in the Australian Environmental Movement. Supervisor: Mary Hawkins; Co- Supervisor: Rosemary Leonard |
| Jan Marie | Research Topic: The Experience of Couples Communicating about Sex and Intimacy After a Diagnosis of Cancer. Supervisor: Jane Ussher; Co-Supervisors: Emilee Gilbert, Ian Wilson, Sue Carrick |
| Alex McFarlane | Research Topic: Psychological type and pathways to self- transformation and health. Supervisor: Glenn Newbery; Co-Supervisors: Agnes Petocz, Jane Ussher |
| Lorraine McGlashan | Research Topic: How are communities mobilized during rapid demographic change?. Supervisor: Rosemary Jill Leonard; Co- Supervisor: Janet Lilian Mason |
| John McGuire | "With us or Against us?" Hegemony and Ideology within American Comic Books 2001-2007" Supervisor: Adam Possamai: Co-Supervisors: Drew Cottle; Michael Kennedy |
| Toni McLean | Research Topic: The Response of Counsellors in Private Practice to Clients Presenting with a History of Intimate Partner Violence: An Exploratory Study. Supervisor: Jane Ussher; Co-Supervisors: Debra Jackson |
| Ahmad Muttaqin | "Hybrid Spirituality and Religious Efficacy of Yogyakarta Spiritual Center" Supervisor: Julia Howell; Co-Supevisor: Bryan Turner |
| Jacqueline Nelson | Research Topic: Local Languages of Anti-Racism. Supervisor: Kevin Mark Dunn; Co-Supervisor: Hurriyet Babacan |
| Martin Nichols | Research topic: Infrastructure Costs Associated with Forms of Urban Development Supervisor: Prof Peter Phibbs; Co-Supervisor: Prof Phillip O’Neill |
| Alan Nixon | "The Rise of the New Atheism" Supervisor: Adam Possamai; Co-Supervisor: Bryan Turner |
| Kerrie Noonan | Research Topic: Story Telling at End of Life: An Exploration of Community Building. Supervisor: Debbie Horsfall; Co- Supervisor: Rosemary Leonard |
| Tayanah O’Donnell (nee Caldarella) |
Research topic: Sea Level Rises: Appropriate Responses to Planning and Development Supervisor: Prof Peter Phibbs; Co-Supervisor: Prof Donald McNeill, Dr Louise Crabtree |
| Chloe Parton | Research Topic: Women's Experiences of Sexual Embodiment in the Context of Cancer. Supervisor: Janette Perz; Co-Supervisors: Jane Ussher, Emilee Gilbert, Ian Wilson |
| Nantira Pookhao | Research Topic: Understanding the 'Green' Concepts and Segmentation of Tourism: A Case Study of Thailand. Supervisor: Poll Thee; Co- Supervisors: Russell Robyn, Staiff Bushell |
| Clare Power | Research Topic: The Great Turning: community response to planetary crisis. Supervisor: Deborah Ann Horsfall; Co-Supervisor: Rosemary Leonard |
| Alimatul Qibtiyah | "Feminist Identity and Conceptualisation of Gender Issues by Gender Muslim Studies Elites" Supervisor: Julia Howell; Co-Supervisor: Mary Hawkins |
| Roz Robertson | Research Topic: Authorship in Crime. Supervisor: Jeanna Sutton; Co-Supervisor: David Mutton |
| Christopher Roffey | Research Topic: Accountability in corporate/ community relationships: Developing a common language through participatory research. Supervisor: Debra Keenahan; Co- Supervisor: Maria Varua |
| Jeeva Sajan | Research topic: The Impact of Perceived Urban Density upon the Sustainability of Cities Supervisor: Prof Peter Phibbs; Co-Supervisor: Dr Louise Crabtree |
| Zareen Shahid | Research Topic: Environmental Planning and Management in Punjab Pakistan in the Face of Extreme Population Pressure and Consequences of Climate Change. Supervisor: Awais Latif Piracha; Co- Supervisor: Emma Power |
| Fiona Slattery | Research Topic: Care giving experiences of everyday imagining. Supervisor: Emma Power; Co- Supervisor: Rosemary Jill Leonard |
| Anca Stanculescu | Research Topic: Youth Conduct Orders: A Comparative Analysis of Regulative Social Control of Antisocial Behaviour between England and New South Wales. Supervisor: Craig Anthony Osmond ; Co- Supervisor: Greg Martin |
| Godo Tjahjono | "Religiosity and luxury goods purchases among young Muslims in Indonesia: a case study of the relationship between religion and consumer behaviour" Supervisor: Steven Drakeley; Co-Supervisors: Jan Ali; Nicole Stegemann |
| Steven Trankle | Research Topic: End of Life Decisions and Practices: The Experiences of Doctors in Australia. Supervisor: Janette Perz; Co- Supervisors: Emilee Gilbert, John Haw |
| Brigid Trenerry | Research Topic: Building Inclusive Organisations: Moving From Evidence To Practice. Supervisor: Kevin Mark Dunn; Co- Supervisor: Yin Paradies |
| Robert Urquhart | Research Topic: Theorising Patterns of Children's Friendships within a Culturally Diverse School Setting. Supervisor: Natalie Bolzan; Co-Supervisor: Elizabeth Watson |
| Leon van Der Linde | Research Topic: Exploring a Synthesis of Drive and Relational Theory in Psychoanalysis- Theoretical Implications. Supervisor: Agnes Petocz; Co-Supervisor: Nigel Mackay |
| Firdaus Wajdi | "Turkish Naqsabandis as Sponsors of New Style Pesantren: A Case Study of the United Islamic Cultural Center of Indonesia (UICCI)" Supervisor: Julia Howell; Co-Supervisor: Mary Hawkins |
| Deborah Wilmore | Research Topic: Negotiating Egalitarian Values and the Division of Unpaid Domestic Labour in Australian Households. Supervisor: Mary Louise Hawkins; Co-Supervisor: Alphia Possamai-Inesedy |
| Kit Ping (Josephine) Wong | Research Topic: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Art Making and Therapeutic Relationship Within a Semi-Structural Approach Art Therapy with Traumatized Children. Supervisor: Sheridan Linnell; Co-Supervisor: Hugh Crago |
Currently under examination
| Christine Cole | Research Topic: The white stolen generation and its meaning for women’s citizenship in Australia. Supervisor: Mary Louise Hawkins; Co-Supervisor: Stephen Janes |
| Sarah Mitchell | Research Topic: Androgyny and Psychological Health: A Cross- Disciplinary Odyssey. Supervisor: Jane Ussher; Co-Supervisor: Agnes Petocz |
| Geir-Henning Presterudstuen | Research Topic: How are the traditional masculine performances transformed and appropriated in modern Fijian context? Supervisor: Debbie Horsfall; Co-Supervisor: Mary Hawkins |
| Dallas Rogers | Research Topic: Community Participation and Ownership in Community Renewal. Supervisor: Michael Bernard Darcy; Co-Supervisor: Peter Phibbs |
