Current Higher Degree Research Projects

Andrew Agius

How do the Spiritual Understand Spirituality? - A Conceptual Analysis

Oishee Alam

Racialising Religious Identity: Race in the Lives of White Converts to Islam

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

Malini Balamayuran

Reconstruction of Post Tsunami and Post War in Sri Lanka

Elisha  Barrett

Understanding factors that affect learning outcomes of Aboriginal Students in remote and urban Contexts

Jenny Barton

Characteristics of inmates at risk of suicide and/or deliberate self harm

Bronwyn Bate

Coal Seam Gas Mining: Risk Analysis within Local Communities in Australia

Alex Baumann

Making Our Neighbourhood Work: Exploring a New Perspective in Public Housing

Annette Bennett

Doing a man-sized job: Exploring Hegemonic femininity among blue-collared tradeswomen.

Gordon Bijen

Housing Estate of Mind: Exploring the Impact of Public Housing Renewal upon Community Life

Rosalind Bolitho

Factors Affecting the Resilience of Sudanese Adolescents in Western Sydney

Rosemary Bowman

Women Coming of Age: The Experiences of Rural Women

Robert Brockman

Does Flexibility in the Implementation of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Daily Life Predict Well-Being Above and Beyond Specific Strategy Selection?

Rosemary Cassidy

Crime: Health and Social Effects on University Students

James Collison

Limitations and Future Direction for Assessing Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

James Duguid

Relational Frame Theory and Perspective Taking

Lisa Fahey

Assessment and Intervention Models for Intensive Support Youth in Out of Home Care

Loch Forsyth

Emotional Regulation and Adolescent Psychological Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study

Ashlee Gore

Beyond Provocation: Gender, Violence and Culpability in Western Sydney

Christopher Hansen

Replicating and Extending the Perruchet Paradigm

Corinne Harvey

In what ways does the creation of fictional narratives work as therapeutic acts for both the author and the reader.

James Herbert

Self-Evaluation and Organisational Evaluation in Government and Non-Government Service Providers.

Miriam Hynes

When the 'Other' others another 'Other'. Racism Between Immigrant Minority Groups Residing in Greater Western Sydney: an Intergenerational Comparison

Marc Inberg

The Function of Fixations in Grasping Objects under Different Luminance Conditions

Anita Jahid

Impact of Climate Change on Women in Bangladesh: Can They Survive?

Caroline Joyce

Examining Patients and Health Professionals? Perspectives on the Benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs

Alanna Kamp

Sojourning Wives: Feminising Chinese Migrant Experience in White Australia

Ashwini Kanitkar

Women's Empowerment Through Participation

Lauren Kenworthy

Residents' Voice: Community, Place, Advantage and Disadvantage

Chris Krogh

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'.

Adrian Zygmunt Lania

Dramatherapy and Its Influence on the Socialisation of Emotionally Disturbed Children

Shane Latimer

Measurement of Deliberate Self Harm Behaviours:Rasch Analysis

Dominic Lees

The Development of a Reward Expectation Model for Risky Decision Making

Kate Linklater

Policing Multiculturalism: Is a Softer Approach Required?

Annetta Mallon

Australian Art Therapy - An Inquiry into our Professional Identity after Two Decades of Practice and an Exploration into Areas of Future Possibility

Alex MacFarlane

Psychological type and pathways to self-transformation and health

Yulia Maleta

The Advocacy, Agency and Competence of Women Activists Participating in the Australian Environmental Movement

Ryan McMullan

The Ups and Downs of Embodied Cognition  in Social Comparison

Richard  Meagher

Use of a Concrete Model to Teach CBT Techniques to Anxious Children.

Nicole Moore

Understanding Contemporary Indigenous Policy Development: A Case Study of Aboriginal Housing Policy in NSW

Kelly Moylan

Human Rights and Global Policing in an Australian Context

Kerrie Noonan

Story Telling at End of Life: An Exploration of Community Building

Catherine O'Gorman

Conceptual Metaphor and Spatial Representations of Time: The Role of Emotion

Rob Osborne

What Else Works? Education, Therapeutic Programmes and Creative Work in the NSW Prison System

Daniel Piepers

Facial Processing in a more Naturalistic Context: What Impact does the use of Dynamic Facial Stimuli have on Holistic Processing?

Nantira Pookhao

Understanding the 'Green' Concepts and Segmentation of Tourism: A Case Study of Thailand

Clare Power

The Great Turning: community response to planetary crisis

Bharat Rai

Longing for Livelihoods: Self-Reliance through Micro Enterprises for People with Disabilities in Nepal

Rozalinda Robertson

Authorship in Crime

Ineke Romeyn

Pathways of Child Poly-Victimisation: A Study of Repeat Victimisation of Female Children Reported to NSW Police for Child Abuse Matters

Adam Salifu

Farmer-Based Organisation of Smallholder Agriculture in Ghana

Ian Shearer

Indigenous Cultural and Language Mechanisms Assisting Health Workers in Remote Communities in Reducing the Level of Indigenous Persons within the Criminal Justice System through the Promotion of Good Health Practices

Fiona Slattery

Relating Social Representations and Social Practices of Caring: The Case of Caring for Companion Dogs

Anca Stanculescu

Youth Conduct Orders: A Comparative Analysis of Regulative Social Control of Antisocial Behaviour Between England and New South Wales

Murray Thompson

The Universal Demand for Immortality (The Code of Everything Inside Creation and Destruction)

Ann Thornton

The Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Current Occupational and Rehabilitation Service Provision

Brigid Trenerry

Building Inclusive Organisations: Moving From Evidence To Practice

Annette Tzavaras

The Lure of the East

Husnia Underabi

To be an Australian Muslim

Leon van der Linde

Exploring a Synthesis of Drive and Relational Theory in Psychoanalysis - Theoretical Implications

Deborah Wilmore

Negotiating Egalitarian Values and the Division of Unpaid Domestic Labour in Australian Households

Kit Ping Wong

An Exploration of the Relationship Between Art Making and Therapeutic Relationship Within a Semi-Structural Approach Art Therapy with Traumatised Children

Serap Yilmaz

Is the Australian Public's Awareness of the Skilled Migration Program Commensurate with the Efforts by Government, Policy Makers and Public Interest Groups?

Huma Zafar

Women's Empowerment Projects in Pakistan

Alan Nixon

The Rise of the New Atheism

Ashleigh Barbe-Winter

Islamic Family Separation in the Australian Legal System

Atun Wardatun

Gender Relations in Tuan Gurus Families in Lombok West Nusatenggara

Farjana Mahbuba

Women in Islam: The Second Gender?

Faroque Amin

Contemporary Methodological Transition in Islamic Revivalist Movements: An Analysis of the Societal Approaches

Firdaus Wajdi

Peace Suffism: A Contribution of Indonesian Sufism on Peace Education

Godo Tjahjono

Religiosity and Luxury Goods Purchases Among Young Muslims in Indonesia:  A Case Study of the Relationship between Religion and Consumer Behaviour

Ian Knowd

An Investigation of Failure Mechanisms in Tourism Planning for Regional Communities

Ian Forest-Jones

Identifying the Influence and Effect of Christian Motorcycle Clubs on the Culture of Patched Motorcycle Clubs

John McGuire

"With us or Against us?" Hegemony and Ideology within American Comic Books 2001-2007

Juni Chusjairi

Framing Terrorism in Indonesia: A Case Study of Islamic Magazines in Indonesia

Lisa Worthington

Gender Progressive Islam: Social Implications in the United
States and Malaysia

Michael Grosvenor

Understanding Sustainability in an Urban Context

Sharon Fingland

Social Inclusion: Innovation in the Renewal of Older Housing Estates in Western Sydney.

Tara Andrews

What Does it Take to Practice Sustainable Design?

Terri Drage

Tasawwuf in Pakistan: The Effects of State Policy both Internally and on Pakistan's Perceived Global Integrity

Vlad Iouchkov

The Hero with a Thousand Graces: a Sociological Examination of Real-Life Superhero Metamorphoses

Emily Burns

New Religious Movements in Australia and the Home Birth Experience

Rian Wiramihardja

Islamic Statehood in Indonesia

Giovanna Volpe

Ethics, Environment and Islam

Sarah Evans

Developing Emotional Resilience in Preschool and Primary Aged Children

Kamel Taoum

 Consuming Master-Planned Estates in Australia: The Political,
Social and Economic Factors that Underpin the Rise in Popularity
of Master Planned Estates in Australia

Zareen Shahid

Climate Change Awareness and Adaptation by Local Planning in Punjab, Pakistan

Achmad Arifin

The Rationalisation of Pesantren World: Traditional Muslims in Responding Religious Fundamentals in Indonesia