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.
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| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| 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? |
| Carol Mroue | Psychological Trauma of domestic violence and an Islamic perspective on healing: A case study of Australian Muslim women |
| Ahmed Ikramullah | The Global Issue of Moonsighting; Sighting vs Calculation, A critical Evaluation |
| David Drennan | Beyond Flexibility in Fatwas: Engaging Power, Progress, and Modernity in Islamic Thought |
| Emre Celik | American Perspectives of Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet Movement |
| Nasreen Hanifi | TBC |
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| David Simpson | The gifted child's transition to Primary school |
| George Scorgie | The Changing Space of International Education: Investigating a Chinese-International School in Mainland China |
| 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 |
| Phil Roberts | Rethinking Place in Rural Education |
| Letitia Galloway | How does the Australian Curriculum:History Enable or Constrain Rural Primary Teachers' Professional Practice? |
| Lincoln Gill | Pre-service teacher use and non-use of ICTs for learning and teaching on professional placement: Investigating pedagogical decisions and defining practice |
| Emma Saxton | Music and Music Education are important in our lives: An investigation into the Values of a Regional Community |
| Melissa Lew | TBC |
| Amanda Cooke | Towards a re-conceptualisation of risk-taking in early childhood education and care practices. |
| Alexandra Blitz-Raith | The Development of a Multimodal and Semiotic Analytical Framework for Educational Apps |
| Nicole McGill | 'Wait' lifting: Active waiting for services for children with speech and language difficulties |
| Belinda Friezer | How do infants interact in triads in long day care? |
| Anna Cronin | The speech, participation and well-being of toddlers with cleft palate |
| 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 |
| Jenny Dwyer | Children’s universal right to play, learn and express opinions: A cross cultural study of the cultural construction of STEM |
| Maslathif Dwi Purnomo | The Power of Language on the Political Event in Indonesia: A Multimodal Analysis of President Jokowi’s Speeches |
| Richard Skiba | TBC |
| Belinda Downey | Staying in the early childhood education workforce: Balancing struggle and hope |
| Eileen Clark | TBC |
| Marie Ireland | TBC |
| Kate Margetson | Supporting English-speaking professionals to work with bilingual Vietnamese-English-speaking children |
| Jenny Dwyer | Children’s mathematical graphics in play |
| Brenda Bruce | Teachers documenting critical reflections: A Western Sydney primary school case study |
| Richard Carroll | Why is the High School IT “Crowd” becoming an empty room? |
| Goutam Roy | Development of Scientific Literacy in Play-based Settings in Early Years in Australia |
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| Wendy De Luca | Preparing the Ethical Soldier: Ethics training for beginning professionals within the Australian Army |
| Romany Manuell | The education and training role of Australian academic librarians |
| Rebecca Muir | Moving forward in library service provision for people with an invisible disability |
| Monique Shephard | Adolescent responses to depictions of mental health in Australian contemporary young adult fiction |
| Mary Coe | A sense-making approach to active e-book indexes |
| Arif Khan | An investigation of practicum supervision in library and information science |
| Kate Rowe | Digital literacy within the community, and the role of libraries and other organisations |
| Krystal Gagen-Spriggs | Teacher librarians as influencers of reading cultures in secondary schools. |
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Watkins | Rural Rites: Women's Experience of Funerals and and Remembrance on Lower Eyre Peninsula in the post 1960s era |
| Sharon Crossett | Making boys disappear: maternal abandonment, heroic girlhood and emasculation in young adult dystopian fiction |
| Karen Pinder Klemenchic | ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER STUDENTS’ SUCCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: the role of relational factors |
| Monica Short | The Anglican Church of Australia engaging with people in rural, regional and remote Australia |
| James Rogerson | Walker Percy in the Age of the Crisis of Man |
| Graham Lupp | Building Bathurst - The story of those who built Bathurst and Central NSW 1815-1915 |
| Sharyn Anderson | Colour, Light and the Complexity of Modernity: The Life and Work of Dorothea Mackellar |
| Nushrat Azam | Silence of the Mirror: Gender Performance and Multiple Identities of Female Characters belonging to South Asian backgrounds |
| Candidate | Research Topic/Title |
|---|---|
| John Brunton | Theology in Planning: an Integrated theological framework for the planning process |
| 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 |
| Don Tamihere | "Ka kohia atu au ki tōku iwi": A Māori reading of Genesis 49:1 – 50:14 |
| Matt Anslow | The Prophetic Vocation of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: A Narrative and Socio-Historical Study |
| 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 |
| Ensar Cutahija | Mystical Approach to the Qur’anic Story of Prophet Isa (Jesus) through the Exegesis Ruh al Bayan by Ismail Haqqi Bursawi |
| Mir Sadeq Ansari | The role of 'aql in matn (content) criticism in the works of Abu Ja'far Tahawi |
| Mark Layson | The lived experience of loyalty and betrayal: Implications for multidisciplinary responses to Moral Injury in emergency workers |
| Ryan Buesnel | TBC |
| Andrew Clark-Howard | Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christology and Theological Method in Contemporary Conversation |
| Matthew Grubits | TBC |
| Sally Mordike | The experience of homefulness: Exploring the depth of meaning of home for older people living with dementia |
| Simon Russell-Brown | The Significance of ‘Science’ in the Theological Method of T. F. Torrance |
| Sarah Kinstead | TBC |
| Kaye Colwell | Where the rubber hits the dirt track: Ordained Local Ministry in the parish. |
| Rebecca Hilton | Australian Baptist women and identity: home and away: from 1882 to 1945 |