Meet some of our doctoral candidates
The work done by doctoral candidates in the Faculty of Arts and Education is diverse, spanning the research areas of the schools that make up the Faculty. Use the links below to read about our candidates.
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School of Communication and Creative Industries Doctoral Candidates
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| Tracie Edmonson | Mediatisation in the digital age: Transforming communication roles in professional sport in Australia |
| Tracy Sorensen | Crochet and Cancer, Craftivism and Climate Change |
| Lucia Würsch | Transactional Analysis in Organisations: A Case Study exploration of Berne's theory with a focus on Communication |
School of Education Doctoral Candidates
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| Alexandra Blitz-Raith | The Development of a Multimodal and Semiotic Analytical Framework for Educational Apps |
| Jessamy Davies | Pedagogies of educational transitions: Continuity and change as children start school in rural areas |
| Letitia Galloway | How does the Australian curriculum history enable or constrain rural primary teachers' professional practice? |
| Stephanie Garoni | Accomplishing transition: Investigating talk practices as students move between primary and secondary school |
| Lincoln Gill | Pre-service teacher use and non-use of ICTs for learning and teaching on professional placement: Investigating pedagogical decisions and defining practice |
| Lyn Hay | Using Web 2.0 technologies to support student learning through the guided inquiry process |
| Sarah Hayton | Different sides of the same coin? Cyberbullying and the positive uses of social networking: examining perspectives from multiple cultural youth |
| Carmen Huser | Children's perspectives of play |
| Rachael Jefferson-Buchanan | An examination of the relationship between philosophy, pedagogy and practice in UK Education: focusing on specific epochs in physical education. |
| Mark Lee | Academics beliefs and practices in the use of 3D immersive visual worlds for learning and teaching |
| Gibson Matimba | TBA |
| Leonie McIntosh | Gaagu-ma-rra Gurray: Aboriginal children, families and communities starting school |
| Steve Murphy | Practices contributing to school STEM success in rural Victorian secondary schools |
| James Purkis | A study of the interrelationship between school and out-of-school uses of digital technology for collaboration by Australian secondary school students using activity theory |
| Susanne Rogers | Establishing family-educator partnerships as children liing in complex circumstances make the transition to school |
| Natalie Thompson | Children's Perspectives of Literacy in and out of Classrooms in the 21st Century |
| George Variyan | Teacher Agency in Neoliberal Spaces: The Elite Private School Teacher in the Twenty-First Century |
| Anne Whisken | Informed learning practices and experience in a secondary school blended learning environment |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences Doctoral Candidates
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| Heather Boetto | An ecologically centred approach in social work: Towards transformative change |
| Sharon Crossett | Making boys disappear: maternal abandonment, heroic girlhood and emasculation in young adult dystopian fiction |
| Karen Pinder Klemenchic | Identifying positive strategies and potential barriers to successful academic transition of Indigenous University students. |
| James Rogerson | Walker Percy in the Age of the Crisis of Man |
| Monique Shephard | Adolescent responses to depictions of mental health in Australian contemporary young adult fiction. |
| Monica Short | The Anglican Church of Australia engaging with people in rural, regional and remote Australia |
| Jennifer Watkins | Rural Rites: Women's Experience of Funerals and Remembrance on Lower Eyre Peninsula in the post 1960s era |
School of Information Studies Doctoral Candidates
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| Barry Archibald | Inspection and Accountability in Colonial/State Government Schools: 1852-2011/12 |
| Marijana Bacic | Library portals: a study of undergraduate student uptake in Australia |
| Mary Coe | TBA |
| Wendy DeLuca | Ethics training in the Australian military |
| Jenny Fafeita | Becoming a chef: A grounded theory of apprentice chefs' information literacy practices |
| Joanne Huckel | Assisting secondary classroom teachers' management of student behaviours: Effective behavioural management policy and managerial support |
| Paul Kloppenborg | Library support and the scholarly information behavior of Higher Education lecturers in TAFE: a constructivist grounded theory |
| Caroline Love | Making Decisions on Water Trading: What are Irrigators' Views? |
| Romany Manuell | TBA |
| Bec Muir | TBA |
| Rakunathan Narayanan | An investigation into citation practices of students of sociology |
| Helen Reid | Learning on the job. How can academic library staff keep up to date with emerging technologies |
School of Teacher Education Doctoral Candidates
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| Mark Adler | TBA |
| Narmin Ali | TBA |
| Bulent Avci | Critical Mathematics Education in the Neoliberal era |
| Helen Blake | Enhancing intelligibility: Increasing participation of multilingual speakers |
| Mark Brown | Real-Time Compositional Tools for the Dance Classroom |
| Brenda Bruce | TBA |
| Amanda Cooke | Risky Play in Early Childhood |
| Anna Cronin | The speech, participation and well-being of toddlers with cleft palate |
| James Deehan | An exploration of the factors impacting primary teachers' science teaching efficacy beliefs and science teaching practices as they transition from university into their teaching careers. |
| Belinda Downey | The Cinderella Profession? How are gender constructions influencing early childhood education and care practitioners view of their role as educators within their profession? |
| Belinda Friezer | How do infants interact in triads in long day care? |
| Kathryn Hendy-Ekers | Linking the curriculum with museum experiences: 'Creating learning communities' between art galleries and the curriculum |
| Suzanne Hopf | Supporting Fijian children's speech, language, and literacy |
| Jebunnesa Jeba | Digital transition of English academic writing: A multimodal investigation |
| Melissa Lew | TBA |
| Helen Logan | Constructions of quality within Australian Early Childhood Education and Care policy between 1972 and 2009 |
| Balvinder Mahinder Singh | Whose culture, whose capital?: An investigation of the provision of education to humanitarian entrants in rural Australia |
| Sarah Masso | Speech sounds, phonological processing and pre-literacy: A psycholinguistic perspective |
| Peta Mathieu | Multilingual Children in Their First Year of Schooling: What are Their English Language Experiences |
| Nicole McGill | 'Wait' lifting: Active waiting for services for children with speech and language difficulties |
| Anne McLeod | Juncture: An enabling framework for professionalism from Early Childhood to School education |
| Maureen Moore | Mindset and mathematics in an all-girls secondary school |
| Louise Ohashi | Developing Foreign Language Skills Online: An Investigation of the Independent Learning Practices of Female University Students in Japan |
| Ben Thi Pham | Children's acquisition of consonants, vowels, and tones in Northern Viet Nam |
| John Playford | Perceived Effectiveness of Correctional Education Programs as Seen Through the Lens of Three Stakeholder Groups: Aboriginal Students, Teachers, and Family/Caregivers and Elders |
| Phil Roberts | Rethinking Place in Rural Education |
| Nick Ruddell | Decolonising school science education: The Sky Stories Project, towards a framework for contemporary school science |
| Emma Saxton | TBA |
| George Scorgie | The Changing Space of International Education: Investigating a Chinese-International School in Mainland China |
| David Simpson | TBA |
| Myra Singh | Identity and success in higher education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students |
| Valerie Tillett | TBA |
| Brad Wright | What is a SunSmart School? Measuring the perceptions of the school community to provide a representation of the SunSmart Program |
| Weidong Zhang | TBA |
School of Theology Doctoral Candidates
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| Matt Anslow | The Prophetic Vocation of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: A Narrative and Socio-Historical Study |
| John Brunton | Theology in Planning: an Integrated theological framework for the planning process. |
| Isileli Jason Kioa | The Role of the Tongan National Conference in the Uniting Church in Australia |
| Brian McKinlay | Unity and Conflict on Rowan Williams's Theology of Church |
| Don Tamihere | "Ka kohia atu au ki tōku iwi": A Māori reading of Genesis 49:1 – 50:14 |
| Rev Mark Thomas | Adelaide Anglicans and the Gospels: towards a transformative Gospel literacy |
| Leonie Westenberg | When she calls for help: Domestic violence in Cristian families, and the response of the church in the Australian context |