Current Candidate Profiles
School of Communication and Creative Industries Doctoral Candidates
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
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| Rafael de Lima | TBC |
| Tracie Edmonson | Mediatisation in the digital age: Transforming communication roles in professional sport in Australia |
| Tracy Sorensen | Crochet and Cancer, Craftivism and Climate Change |
| Daren Pope | The 19th century Romantic landscape, mid-twentieth century mythologizing and current regional arts practice. |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Sarah Hayton | Different sides of the same coin? Cyberbullying and the positive uses of social networking: examining perspectives from multiple cultural youth |
| 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 | Overseas Trained Teachers: Enablers and Constraints to Professional Practice and Social Integration into the Australian Education System |
| 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 |
| Emma Saxton | Music and Music Education are important in our lives: An investigation into the Values of a Regional Community. |
| Helen Stavrou | “Singing to success: The use of song as a motivational tool for promoting writing/creative writing in the EFL/ESL classroom-tertiary education.” |
| Natalie Thompson | Children's Perspectives of Literacy in and out of Classrooms in the 21st 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 |
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| Sharyn Anderson | Colour, Light and the Complexity of Modernity: The Life and Work of Dorothea Mackellar. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|
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Marijana Bacic
| Library portals: a study of undergraduate student uptake in Australia |
| Mary Coe | A sense-making approach to active e-book indexes |
| Wendy DeLuca | Ethics training in the Australian military |
| Paul Kloppenborg | Library support and the scholarly information behavior of Higher Education lecturers in TAFE: a constructivist grounded theory |
| Romany Manuell | The education and training role of Australian academic librarians |
| Bec Muir | Moving forward in library service provision for people with an invisible disability |
| Helen Reid | Learning on the job. How can academic library staff keep up to date with emerging technologies |
| Monique Shephard | Adolescent responses to depictions of mental health in Australian contemporary young adult fiction. |
| Derek Smith | Historical Bibliometrics and Citation Diffusion in the Pre-Twitter Universe |
| Arif Khan |
TBC |
School of Teacher Education Doctoral Candidates
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
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| Helen Blake | Enhancing intelligibility: Increasing participation of multilingual speakers |
| Brenda Bruce | Teachers documenting critical reflections: A Western Sydney primary school case study |
| Amanda Cooke | Towards a re-conceptualisation of risk-taking in early childhood education and care practices |
| 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 Friezer | How do infants interact in triads in long day care? |
| Graham Lupp | ‘Building Bathurst - The story of those who built Bathurst and Central NSW 1815-1915’ |
| Kathryn Hendy-Ekers | Linking the curriculum with museum experiences: 'Creating learning communities' between art galleries and the curriculum |
| Melissa Lew | Developing Young People's Health Literacy: A rural secondary school case study |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Weidong Zhang | TBA |
School of Theology Doctoral Candidates
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
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| John Brunton | Theology in Planning: an Integrated theological framework for the planning process. |
| Ryan Buesnel | The Deutsche Christen under Hitler: Die Botschaft Gottes and the Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life. |
| Isileli Jason Kioa | The Role of the Tongan National Conference in the Uniting Church in Australia |
| Kaye Colwell | Ordained Local Ministry: practice and best practice. |
| Brian McKinlay | Rowan William’s Theology of Conflict, Unity and Solidarity |
| Don Tamihere | "Ka kohia atu au ki tōku iwi": A Māori reading of Genesis 49:1 – 50:14 |
Centre for Islamic Studies & Civilisation
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
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| Sarkhan Gasimov | The influence of al-Ghazali's works on Abraham bin Maimonides regarding God, universe and human soul through his mysticism. |
| Leila Khaled | How effective is ISRE (Muslim scripture) in making better Muslims and better citizens? |
