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2024

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Ms Anne Virnes	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctor of Philosophy	Unveiling the crustal controls shaping komatiite-hosted Ni-sulfide mineralisation: Insights from the Agnew-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, Western Australia	2024
Mr Jon Sarmiento	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Agriculture and Environment	Prospects for inclusive value chains: Improving the participation of smallholder farmers in the tropical fruit industry in Mindanao, Philippines	2024
Tracy McRae	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical School	Support, Implement, Translate (SIT) with remote communities to build healthy skin knowledge together to see, treat, prevent skin infections in Aboriginal children living in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.	2024
Mr Craig Cumming	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Population and Global Health	Identifying the health needs and substance use-related risks after release from prison for people with a history of substance use: Informing targeted throughcare	2024
Ms Caroline Ingram	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Humanities	Women in the Court: An examination of women’s trials heard in the Court of Quarter Sessions and the Supreme Court of Western Australia, 1830 - 1890.	2024
Miss Kelly Irving	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Molecular Sciences	Characterisation of endogenous i-motif and G-quadruplex structures in human chromatin and their relationship with cancer-associated genomic landscapes	2024
Miss Jessica King	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Molecular Sciences	Transfection based single-cell sequencing to probe cellular states and spatial heterogeneity	2024
Mrs Jane Kirkham	Doctor of Philosophy	Graduate School of Education	Motivation factors associated with future mathematics course choice in Year 10 Western Australian students	2024
Mx August Mikucki	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biomedical Sciences	Microevolution and virulence in an outbreak of clonal complex 11 Neisseria meningitidis from Western Australia	2024
Mr Satyajit Sarkar	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Engineering	Inducing large elastic strains in thin films using NiTi shape memory alloy substrates	2024
Mr Li Qian Tay	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Psychological Science	(How) Should We Address Misinformation?	2024
Miss Emma-Jade Tuffley	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biological Sciences	Understanding and accounting for pot catchability of the spiny lobster, Panulirus cygnus, and implications for stock assessment	2024
Mr Lei Chen	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing	Vertex-primitive s-arc-transitive digraphs of almost simple groups	2024
Xi Chen	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biological Sciences	Understanding boron deficiency responses in pea through multi-omics analysis	2024
Mr Benjamin Stone	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing	Correlation functions of conserved currents in (super)conformal field theory	2024
Mr Jack Brett	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Psychological Science	An investigation into Empathy in Autistic and Non-autistic People: Improving empathy measurement and understanding the autistic empathy profile	2024
Ms Wijayanti Nurul Khotimah	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing	Advanced deep learning for hyperspectral data classification	2024
Miss Hoda Mohaghegh	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing	Monocular 3D face reconstruction	2024
Mrs Victoria Louise Wade	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Social Sciences	Environmental revolution and cultural resilience: the Holocene rock art record at Murujuga, Western Australia	2024
Ms Lucy Butler	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Psychological Science	Beyond the individual: Examining how characteristics of social media information environments impact susceptibility to misinformation and the effectiveness of misinformation interventions	2024
Mr Joshua Lake	Doctor of Philosophy	Business School	Exploring the nature and function of personal values using quantile regression techniques	2024
Miss Claudia Ong	Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Psychology - Research	School of Psychological Science	Adapting and Evaluating a Novel Parent-Mediated Intervention: Addressing Intolerance of Uncertainty in Young Children Diagnosed with Autism	2024

2023

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Juan Pablo Posada Aparicio	Doctor of Philosophy	Business School	Essays on the political economy of the Colombian conflict	2023
Dr Jian Zhao	Doctor of Philosophy	Graduate School of Education	Key predictive factors in the mental health of Chinese university students studying at home and abroad	2023
Dr Wavne Winsome Rikkers	Doctor of Philosophy	Graduate School of Education	Fighting the fires within - breaking down the barriers to mental health help-seeking among emergency services personnel experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress	2023
Dr Cayla Ann Bellagarda	Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Neuropsychology - Research	School of Psychological Science	Temporal integration of visual mirror symmetry: Psychophysics, modelling and haemodynamics	2023
Dr Katherine Margaret Audsley	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biomedical Sciences	Novel strategies to improve cancer immunotherapy	2023
Ms Asja Angela Kroeger	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Molecular Sciences	Catalysis in carbon flatland and beyond - A computational investigation into the catalytic effect of graphene and cyclophanes on inversion processes	2023
Dr Aline Gibson Vega	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biological Sciences	Genetic characterisation and behavioural ecology of the western grasswren (Amytornis textilis textilis)	2023
Dr Janis Marc Nolde	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical School	Data science and cardiovascular risk	2023
Dr Jacob Marsh	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biological Sciences	Local haplotyping software development and integrated bioinformatics analysis uncovering impacts of domestication on legume genomes	2023
Dr Giulia Marchetti	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Social Sciences	Becoming adults elsewhere. The recent migration of young Italians to Australia	2023
Dr Michael Hall	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Molecular Sciences	Synthesis and reactivity of carbon-rich metallacumulene complexes	2023
Dr Malindi Gammon	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biological Sciences	Characterising climate change vulnerability at flatback turtle nesting sites in the Pilbara region of Western Australia	2023
Miss Pin-Pin Chan	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Social Sciences	The 'Zero' modern boy? Contesting the meaning of modern masculinity in early Twentieth-century Japan	2023
Dr Emily Camins	Doctor of Philosophy	Law School	Casting an international legal safety net: A complementary approach to address the harm to victims of armed conflict	2023
Dr Chris Arnold	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Humanities	Zero Day	2023
Miss Amy Ribet	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biomedical Sciences	Elucidating the contribution of osteoclast lysosomal proteins in skeletal homeostasis	2023
Mr Angus McKenzie	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Engineering	Exploring chemical adsorption to interfaces as a preventative to blockage developments within multiphase flow systems	2023
Dr Qidi Ying	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical School	Metabolic, vascular and therapeutic aspects of lipoprotein (a)	2023
Miss Danielle Marie Fynn	Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Neuropsychology - Research	School of Psychological Science	Alexithymia in adults with acquired brain injury: Characterisation, measurement and relationship with emotional outcomes	2023
Ms Jessica Michelle Bikaun	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Molecular Sciences	Towards a beehive breathalyser: Identification of volatile biomarkers for the costly honey bee disease American foulbrood	2023
Dr Jessica Moretti	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biological Sciences	Multi-model approach shows novel and diverse effects of low-intensity repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on brain cells and behaviour	2023
Dr Sonia Colette Sappl	Master of Philosophy	Graduate School of Education	Equating tests across grades in large-scale assessments: A study of two alternate methods in conjunction with methodological innovations	2023
Mr Yingchao Li	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Engineering	A multiscale study of the structure, transformation, and mechanical behaviour of the NiTiB19' martensite	2023
Dr Hani Ibrahim M Boukhamsim	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Earth Sciences	Palynoflora from the Barremian-Cenomanian Biyadh and Wasia formations of Saudi Arabia: Insights into the early cretaceous paleovegetation and early radiation of flowering plants	2023
Dr Yun Young Vanessa Cho	Doctor of Philosophy	Dental School	Understanding children's attention to common dental presentations through eye-tracking	2023
Ms Monica Furaste Danilevicz	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biological Sciences	Application of deep learning to leverage high-throughput phenotyping for crop breeding	2023
Mr Daniel Neal Hutchings	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing	Superspin projection operators and off-shell higher-spin supermultiplets on Minkowski and anti-de Sitter superspace	2023
Ms Fahimeh Mofrad	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Design	Understanding the roles of green spaces for the sustainable development of Canberra, the National Capital of Australia	2023
Dr Yunxiao Zhang	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Molecular Sciences	Nanostructure and potential-dependent lubricity of iconic liquid	2023
Ms Farah Samih (Moh'd Badawi) Alkhatib	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Engineering	Patient-specific computational biomechanical analysis of abdominal aortic aneurysm	2023
Ms Menna Gower	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Population and Global Health	Gender and cultural differences in violent offenders: An examination of risk assessment results in Western Australian prisoners	2023
Mr Nicholas Brody Lawler	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Molecular Sciences	Exogenous cell stimulation: A versatile approach to programming gene expression	2023
Mrs Erin Michelle Royer	Doctor of Musical Arts	Conservatorium of Music	Inner reflections: The effects of over-sized saxophone pad resonators on timbre, resonance, and playability	2023
Miss Maike Stentenbach	Doctor of Philosophy	School of Biomedical Sciences	Targeting mitochondrial dysfunction in cardiovascular disease and cancer	2023
Miss Huynh Khanh Linh	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical School	The investigation of single molecule sequencing to characterise HLA genes for clinical use in allogeneic transplantation	2023

2022

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Nayyer Aafaq	Doctor of Philosophy	Physics, Mathematics and Computing	Deep Learning for natural language description of videos	2022
Dr Matt Stephen Hepburn	Doctor of Philosophy	Engineering	The development of optical coherence elastography for applications in mechanobiology	2022
Dr Samuel Colin Bennett	Doctor of Philosophy	Biomedical Sciences	Gene mining the collaborarive cross of novel molecular determinants of dento-skeletal homeostasis and disease	2022
Dr Bhedita Jaya Seewoo	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	In-vivo MRI study of the effects of low-intensity rTMS on brain activity, chemistry, and structure in rats	2022
Dr Jennifer Lee Currenti	Doctor of Philosophy	Human Sciences	Effect of viral adaptation and TCR usage on natural and vaccine-induced cellular immunity	2022
Dr Robin Mark Hare	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	Sexual selection on females in a species with dynamic sex roles	2022
Dr Michael Egan Ponds	Doctor of Philosophy	Physics, Mathematics and Computing	Models for (super) conformal higher-spin fields on curved backgrounds	2022
Dr Albert Pessarrodona Silvester	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	Turf algae as emergent drives of ecological function in shallow reefs	2022
Dr Gursimran Kaur Dhamrait	Doctor of Philosophy	Population and Global Health	Preconception to pre-primary: Examining the predictors and profiles of early childhood development and school readiness	2022
Dr Suzanne Srdarov	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	Between the sheets: Contemporary blockbuster gothic romance fiction and its critical contexts	2022
Dr Andrew Michael Mashingaidze	Doctor of Philosophy	Social Sciences	Party-to-Party diplomacy: The implications for governance in Zimbabwe of China's changing political engagement in Africa	2022
Dr Amy Christine Prosser	Doctor of Philosophy	Human Sciences/Medical School	The fate of tissue-resident lymphocytes and the immune response after solid organ transplantation	2022
Dr Kim Louise Feddema	Doctor of Philosophy	Business School	Understanding the role of online communities in wildlife trade	2022
Dr Cathryn McKenzie	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Science	Understanding the moderating role of cognitive reserve in Alzheimer's disease using a residual approach	2022

2021

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Olivia Johnston	Doctor of Philosophy	Education	Students' reconciling with their teachers' expectations of them - A grounded theory	2021
Dr Hsueh-En Stacey Hong	Doctor of Philosophy	Biomedical Sciences	Clostridium difficile ribotype 251 strains in Australia	2021
Dr Marie-Anne Elisabeth Burckhardt	Doctor of Philosophy	Paediatrics and Child Health	Improving patient care in young people with Type 1 Diabetes using advances in technology	2021
Dr Emma Lucy Haynes	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical	"Weaving a mat we can all sit on?": Understanding the experience of living with rheumatic heart disease at the intersection of biomedical and aboriginal worldviews	2021
Dr Douglas Macfarlane	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Sciences	Reducing consumer demand for ineffective health remedies: Using psychology to counter pseudoscience and the illegal wildlife trade	2021
Dr Naeha Sharif	Doctor of Philosophy	Computer, Science and Software Engineering	Natural language description of images	2021
Dr Jennifer Anne Middleton	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	Unravelling ecosystem function in anthropized streams: Implications for rehabilitation	2021
Dr Khidhir Alhameedi	Doctor of Philosophy	Molecular Sciences	Development and applications of a chemical bond theory: Crystallography, mass spectra, and nanomaterials-based clean energy storage	2021
Dr Indra Roux	Doctor of Philosophy	Molecular Sciences	Development of synthetic biology tools for accelerating fungal natural product discovery	2021
Dr Sanjeevan Muruganandan	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical	Optimising care of individuals with malignant pleural effusion	2021
Mr Mohammad Amir Asim Khan Jalwana	Doctor of Philosophy	Physics, Mathematics and Computing	Leveraging internal gradients to understand deep visual models	2021
Dr Kaitlyn Danielle Turbett	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Sciences	The role of serial dependence of facial identity in face recognition	2021
Dr Hannah Joy Thomas	Doctor of Philosophy	Human Sciences	Cerebrovascular responses to exercise training in humans	2021
Dr Umair Zulfiqar	Doctor of Philosophy	Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering	H2 near-optimal projection methods for finite-horizon model order reduction	2021
Dr Cameron Laurence Mathison Gilchrist	Doctor of Philosophy	Molecular Sciences	Bioinformatics software applications for the analysis of secondary metabolism in microbial genomes	2021
Dr Charlie McLeod	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical	Improving the methodology for PAtient-centred trails in cystic fibrosis (IMPACT-CF)	2021
Dr Sudharsan Thiruvengadam	Doctor of Philosophy	Engineering	A Unified mathematical and theoretical framework for intelligent reassembling robotics	2021

2020

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr John Andrew Forrest	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	Pelagic ecology and solutions for a troubled ocean	2020
Dr Victoria Camilieri-Asch	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	Neurobiological indicators of olfactory sensitivity in a cartilaginous and a bony fish	2020
Dr Jane Patricia Valentine	Doctor of Philosophy	Medicine	The evaluation of the long-term motor outcome of children and youth with Cerebral Palsy treated with Botulinum toxin type A within a comprehensive spasticity management services	2020
Dr Hai Long Vo	Doctor of Philosophy	Business	Exchange rates, prices and consumption	2020
Dr Nicole Bezemer	Doctor of Philosophy	Agriculture and Environment	Sex on the rocks: Genetic structure, pollen dispersal and mating patterns in Eucalyptus Caesia	2020
Dr Jordan Ross Lavers	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	Schwesterstimme: Gender, emotion and kinship in the correspondence of the von Gunderrode Sisters	2020
Dr Karen Paiva Henrique	Doctor of Philosophy	Agriculture and Environment	Contested ground: Examining the contours of flood adaptation along Sao Paulo's Tiete River	2020
Dr Jemma Rose Collova	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Sciences	Are first impressions of children's faces functional?	2020
Dr Wissam Chiha	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	Identifying and manipulating molecular changes following neurotrauma in the visual system	2020
Dr Paul David Macintyre	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	The vegetation patterns of the kwongan vegetation of South-West Western Australia	2020
Dr Anna Cresswell	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	Exploring resilience to disturbances in coral reef ecosystems, with case studies from Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia	2020
Dr Ashton Jay Roberts	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Sciences	The influence of social hierarchies on non-spatial attention in typically developed adults and adults with autistic-like traits	2020
Dr Jessica Hutomo	Doctor of Philosophy	Physics	Off-shell higher-spin gauge supermultiplets and conserved supercurrents	2020
Dr India Ella Dilkes-Hall	Doctor of Philosophy	Social Sciences	47,000 years of Aboriginal plant use and monsoon rainforest connections in the Kimberley, northwest Australia	2020
Dr Bianca Jane Thorup	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Sciences	A new approach to understanding perceptual expertise and other-race effects in face perception	2020
Dr Sharynne Hamilton	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical	Yarning, hearing, understanding, knowing: A qualitative study of the experiences of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder assessment and diagnosis for justice-involved youth and their care networks	2020
Dr Mary Binsu Abraham	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical	The prevention of hypoglycaemia with sensor-augmented pump therapy in Type 1 diabetes	2020
Ms Megan Theres Barbetti	Master	Music	Reviving the ghost: A method for baroque improvisation modelled through Telemann's twelve fantasias for flute without bass (1727-1728)	2020
Dr Michael Liam Kelly	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	An investigation into sleep in sharks: Behavioural and electrohpysiological approaches	2020
Dr Juliana Pille Arnold	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	Modulating effects of the surrounding landscape matrix on plant-pollinator networks within remnant habitat	2020
Dr Alannah Kelli Anique McKay	Doctor of Philosophy	Human Sciences	The effect of dietary manipulation on iron metabolism and the immune system in elite athletes	2020
Dr Uzair Nadeem	Doctor of Philosophy	Computer Science and Software Engineering	Model learning for structured predictions from complementary data sources	2020

2019

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Wendy Helena Reynen	Doctor of Philosophy	Social Sciences	Rockshelters and human mobility during the last glacial maximum in the Pilbara uplands, north-western Australia	2019
Dr Fiamma Riviera	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	Patterns and drivers of kwongan vegetation restored after mining: A multifaceted approach	2019
Dr Lisa Stinson	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical School	The not-so-sterile womb: New data to challenge an old dogma	2019
Mr Joshua Joannes Bon	Master of Philosophy	Mathematics and Statistics	Stochastic nets and Bayesian regularisation from constraints	2019
Dr Kara Perks	Doctor of Philosophy	Mathematics and Statistics	Understanding the molecular and physiological consequences of dysregulated mitochondrial gene expression using mouse models of mitochondrial dysfunction	2019
Dr Rachael Marie Zemek	Doctor of Philosophy	Biomedical Science	To respond or not to respond? Exploring and exploiting dynamic mechanisms underlying cancer immunotherapy	2019
Dr Jinyi Chen	Doctor of Philosophy	Agriculture and Environment	Resistance mechanisms to dinitroaniline herbicides in annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum Gaudin)	2019
Dr Mary-Anne Lowe	Doctor of Philosophy	Agriculture and Environment	Soil water repellency and its limitations on water infiltration	2019
Dr Andrew William Milne	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	Nietzsche, mysticism and the god who isn't one	2019
Mr David Monllao Olive	Master of Philosophy	Computer Science and Software Engineering	Automatic classification of students in online courses using machine learning technique	2019
Dr Michael John Wheeler	Doctor of Philosophy	Human Sciences	Understanding the combined effects of exercise and sedentary behaviour on cognitive, metabolic and vascular function in older adults	2019
Mr Kenyon Wei Yaw Ng	Master of Philosophy	Mathematics and Statistics	Shape constrained regression for nonparametric longitudinal and flexible parametric modelling	2019
Dr Belinda Coral Martin	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	The seagrass root microbiome: Micro-scale solutions for macro-scale resolutions	2019
Dr Jessica Anne Kretzmann	Doctor of Philosophy	Molecular Sciences	Developing non-viral polymeric agents to deliver genome engineering technology for breast cancers	2019

2018

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Felix Mackenzie-Rae	Doctor of Philosophy	Molecular Sciences	Investigation into the atmospheric degradation of alpha-phellandrene: A computational, experimental and modelling study	2018
Dr Louisa Lobigs	Doctor of Philosophy	Human Sciences	The development of a new model to measure plasma-, red cell-and blood volume and its applications in refining the Athlete Biological Passport and improving volume management in hospitals	2018
Mr Kyle Rosa	Master of Philosophy	Mathematics and Statistics	Structure, covers, and bounds of semiprimitive groups	2018
Mr Rowan Lymbery	Master of Philosophy	Human Sciences	Sperm Competition and gamete interactions in a marine broadcast spawner	2018
Dr Robert Green	Doctor of Philosophy	Human Sciences	Critical factors of global shape processing in human vision	2018
Dr Khan Robert Langton Collins	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Science	Life-sustaining factors on the causal pathway to suicide: Experimental and longitudinal evidence for a mindfulness-grounded model of suicide resilience	2018
Dr Clifford Scott Stagoll	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	Creating one's self: The prescriptive ethical pragmatism of William James	2018
Dr Oyekoya Taiwo Ayonrinde	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical School	The epidemiology and significance of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in adolescents	2018
Dr Krishneil Anand Singh	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Science	The removal of information from working memory: An executive updating process	2018
Dr Quihong Ke	Doctor of Philosophy	Computer Science and Software Engineering	Deep learning for action recognition and prediction	2018
Dr Abraham Neelankal John	Doctor of Philosophy	Medical School	Study of endocrine markers involved in dedifferentiation and identification of compounds that can preserve the function or redifferentiate pancreatic β-cells in type 2 diabetes	2018
Dr Kim Eaton	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Science	Self-stigma in parents of children with a mental health disorder	2018
Dr Olof Henrik Mikael Grenholm	Doctor of Philosophy	Earth Sciences	The geodynamic evolution of a Paleoproterozoic orogenic system - a local to global perspective on the ca. 2.27-1.96 Ga Birimian Orogen in the Baoule Mossi domain of West Africa	2018
Mr Saul Freedman	Master of Philosophy	Mathematics and Statistics	p-groups related to exceptional groups of Lie type	2018
Dr Victorien Paumard	Doctor of Philosophy	Earth Sciences	Shelf-margin architecture, sediment partitioning and shallow-to deep-water reservoir distribution in the Barrow Group (Northern Carnarvon Basin, North West Shelf, Australia): Insights from quantitative 3D seismic stratigraphy	2018
Dr Jacob Berson	Doctor of Philosophy	Biological Sciences	The role of sexual selection in the evolution of insect cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs)	2018
Dr Azim Zahir	Doctor of Philosophy	Social Sciences	Reformist Islam and the rise of a political third model in the Maldives: Elite discourses and societal viewpoints	2018

2017

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Karl Grob	Doctor of Philosophy	Sport Science, Exercise and Health	Surgical exposure of the hip joint and femur with a special emphasis on the architecture and function of the quadriceps muscle group and femoral blood supply	2017
Dr Andrew Chubb	Doctor of Philosophy	Social Sciences	Chinese Popular Nationalism and PRC Policy in the South China Sea	2017
Dr Benjamin Sacks	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	'Purely of their own manufacture': the adoption and appropriation of cricket in Samoa, C. 1879-1939	2017
Dr Louise Delane	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Science	Disentangling general and selective contributions to poor executive functioning in children born very preterm: A dual-task approach	2017
Dr Dianne Lyn Wolfer	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	'The Shark Caller' and 'The Dog with Seven Names' and 'Crafting Animal Characters in Fiction for Young Readers'	2017
Dr Mohamed R. Abdalla Estai	Doctor of Philosophy	Human Sciences	'Photographic caries assessment by different members of the dental team: A mobile teledentistry model'	2017
Dr Briony Swire-Thompson	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Science	The role of memory and ideological biases in the correction of misinformation	2017
Dr Gaylene Somerville	Doctor of Philosophy	Agriculture and Environment	The influences of spatial structure and stacking weed control tactics on predictions of herbicide resistance evolution	2017
Dr Philip Wijesinghe	Doctor of Philosophy	Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering	Improving the accuracy, resolution and contrast of optical coherence elastography toward cellular scale imaging of mechanical properties	2017
Mr Michael Swaddle	Master of Philosophy	Physics and Astrophysics	SubRiemannian geodesics and cubics for efficient quantum circuits	2017
Dr Luke Strickland	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychological Science	The race to remember: A computational model of event-based prospective memory	2017
Dr Stephen Andrews	Doctor of Philosophy	Physics and Astrophysics	Measuring and modelling the cosmic spectral energy distribution	2017
Dr Timothy Rosenow	Doctor of Philosophy	Paediatrics and Child Health	Quantitative analysis of chest computed tomography in early cystic fibrosis lung disease	2017

2016

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Clint Bracknell	Doctor of Philosophy	Music	Natj Waalanginy (What Singing?): Nyungar song from the South-West of Western Australia	2016
Dr Natalie Rosser	Doctor of Philosophy	Animal Biology	Alternative breeding times and evolutionary pathways in corals in north Western Australia	2016
Dr Salman Khan	Doctor of Philosophy	Computer Science and Software Engineering	Feature Learning Structured Prediction for Scene Understanding	2016
Dr Graham Zemunik	Doctor of Philosophy	Plant Biology	The response of plant community diversity and nutrient-acquisition strategies to long-term ecosystem development in nutrient-impoverished landscapes	2016
Dr Alexander Tang	Doctor of Philosophy	Animal Biology	Characterisation of low-intensity repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation induced neuroplasticity in rodent and experimental models	2016
Dr Maxim Esin	Doctor of Philosophy	Mechanical and Chemical Engineering	Fracture pattern formation and wave propagation in particulate materials with rotational degrees of freedom	2016

2015

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Ellen Paynter	Doctor of Philosophy	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Cellular energetics of long-term survival and storage in honeybee sperm	2015
Dr Sharon Perrella	Doctor of Philosophy	Chemistry and Biochemistry	The effect of different types of nutrition on the gastrointestinal response of the preterm infant	2015
Dr Moses Laman	Doctor of Philosophy	Medicine and Pharmacology	The treatment of malaria in Papua New Guinean children	2015
Dr Munawar Hayat	Doctor of Philosophy	Computer Science and Software Engineering	Learning techniques for multi-modal facial analysis	2015
Dr John Dunlop	Doctor of Philosophy	Geology	Sedimentology and evidence for early Archaeen life in the North Pole Chert-Barite unit, East Pilbara, Western Australia	2015
Dr Anders Winkel	Doctor of Philosophy	Plant Biology	Leaf gas films: The ecological and eco-physiological effect of leaf gas films on completely submerged plants	2015
Dr Jason Collins	Doctor of Philosophy	Business	Essays on human evolution and economic growth	2015

2014

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Sajni Gudka	Doctor of Philosophy	Pharmacy	Pharmacy-based Chlamydia Screening	2014
Dr Loretta Scolaro	Doctor of Philosophy	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Optical coherence tomography for "optical biopsy" of axillary lymph nodes involved in breast cancer metastasis	2014
Dr Xianjue Chen	Doctor of Philosophy	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Top-down fabrication of novel two-dimensional materials and their decoration with noble metals	2014
Dr Chris Owen	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	'Weather hot, flies troublesome...' Police in the Kimberley district of Western Australia 1882 - 1901	2014
Dr James Smith	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	Water as medieval intellectual entity: Case studies in twelfth-century western monasticism	2014
Dr Michelle Marneweck	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychology	Perception of facial expressions of emotion in Parkinson's disease	2014
Dr Gar-Wing Truong	Doctor of Philosophy	Physics	Quantitative atomic gas spectroscopy for the determination of the Boltzmann Constant and Primary Thermometry	2014
Dr Benjamin Grafton	Doctor of Philosophy	Psychology	Always look on the bright side of life: The attentional basis of positive emotional disposition	2014
Dr Gerrit Haas	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	Ficto/critical strategies: Subverting textual practices of meaning, other, and self-formation	2014
Dr Marc Sim	Doctor of Philosophy	Sport Science, Exercise and Health	Effect of exercise on inflammation, hepcidin regulation and iron metabolism	2014
Dr Kyra Clarke	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	Getting messy: Exploring intimate pedagogical moments in film and television	2014
Dr Kerry King	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	A lesser species of homicide - Manslaughter, negligent and dangerous driving causing death: the prosecution of drivers in Western Australia, 1946 - 2011	2014
Dr Rishi Kotecha	Doctor of Philosophy	Paediatrics and Child Health	Rare childhood tumours: clinical challenges and genetic alterations	2014
Dr Emma Nicoletti	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	Reading literature in the Anthropocene: Ecosophy and ecologically-orientated ethics of Jeff Noon's Nymphomation and Pollen	2014

2013

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Joseph Novak	Doctor of Philosophy	Physics	Superform formulations for off-shell supermultiplets with gauged central charge in N = 2 supergravity	2013
Dr Sally Brinkman	Doctor of Philosophy	Paediatrics and Child Health	The validation and use of population measure of early childhood development in Australia; the Australian Early Development Index	2013
Dr Foteini Hassiotou	Doctor of Philosophy	Chemistry and Biochemistry	The cellular hierarchy of human breastmilk: Novel insights into breastmilk stem cells	2013
Dr Simon Tyler	Doctor of Philosophy	Physics	Studies of low-energy effective actions in supersymmetric field theories	2013
Dr Xiangling Fang	Doctor of Philosophy	Plant Biology	Characterization and management of soil-born pathogens on strawberry and resistance mechanisms against Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. fragariae	2013
Dr Tracy Kinsella	Doctor of Philosophy	Social Sciences	Dead Reckoning. The criminal parvenu: narratives of transgression and upward mobility	2013
Dr Angela Spence	Doctor of Philosophy	Sport Science, Exercise and Health	Comparative impacts of endurance and resistance exercise on the cariovascular system in humans: A prospective randomised 6-month intervention	2013
Dr Brendan Florio	Doctor of Philosophy	Mathematics and Statistics	The generation and interaction of convection modes in a box of a saturated porous medium	2013
Ms Georgina Statham	Master of Philosophy	Humanities	Causes as deviations from actual standards: a perspective of account causation	2013

2012

Student Name	Higher Degree Course	Research Area	Thesis Title	Year
Dr Daniel Creedon	Doctor of Philosophy	Physics	Effects of electron spin resonance in a cryogenic sapphire whispering gallery mode maser	2012
Mr Rhys Povey	Master of Science	Physics	Microwave cavity hidden sector photons	2012
Dr Martina-Sara Mueller-Zaugg	Doctor of Philosophy	Humanities	Re-creating the past: the accuracy of re-created Roman houses and villas in northwestern Europe and the justifications for their creation	2012
Dr Andrea Nathan	Doctor of Philosophy	Population Health	Active living in retirement village residents: exploring built and social environmental correlates using mixed methods	2012
Dr Keith Godfrey	Doctor of Philosophy	Business	Can pairs trading act like arbitrage to enforce the law of one price?	2012