Current Candidate Profiles
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Jenny Fafeita | Becoming a chef: A grounded theory of apprentice chefs' information literacy practices |
| 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 | 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 |
|---|---|
| Mark Adler | TBA |
| 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 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? |
| 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 |
| Jebunnesa Jeba | Digital transition of English academic writing: A multimodal investigation |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |