Discover more about our HDR students and their research projects:
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Shalini Nataraj-Hansen
Blaming victims of online romance and investment frauds: An analysis of two theoretical perspectives Online romance and investment fraud are growing crimes in Australia by volume and funds lost but are known to attract high levels of victim blame, commonly perceived as stupid, gullible, and undeserving of justice. ‘The Fraud...
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Kelsey Adams
Understanding the Rape Acknowledgment Process: A Follow-Up Study Many rape survivors do not refer to their experience as ‘rape’. This PhD project focused on the processes by which survivors come to understand and label unwanted or non-consensual sexual experiences, termed ‘rape acknowledgment’ in the literature. Drawing on interviews with rape survivors...
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Rene Cornish
Social Media Misconduct Dismissals in South Africa: Forms of Hate Speech in First Instance Employment Decisions This thesis is located in the law and society tradition and used content analysis techniques to examine 400 first instance social media misconduct dismissal decisions as ‘social records’ rather than doctrinal statements of black-letter law....
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Risini Ilangasingha
The Social Construction of Spaces of Spas and the Identity of the Masseuse in Sri Lanka By adopting the socially produced notion of space of Henri Lefebvre and the relational view of space advocated by Doreen Massey as the theoretical lenses, my thesis explores the intersection of the social construction...
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Dr Matthew Morgan
Police responses to persons with mental illness in crisis This research is a qualitative study of police policy, training, and practice regarding the provision of ‘fair and just’ police responses to persons with mental illness in crisis (PWMI). This research suggests that police policy guidelines and training practices may not...
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Agapetos Fa'aleava
Two Worlds, One Tattoo: Untold stories of non-Indigenous Samoan women and Samoan Fa’afafine with the malu My creative practice-led research utilises Pasefika framework and filmaking to explore untold stories of non-Indigenous Samoan women and fa’afafine (third gender) who wear the traditional Samoan tatau for women called malu. An entanglement of cultural...
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Dr Bridget Weir
Child sexual abuse and the Australian Roman Catholic Church: Using techniques of neutralisation to examine institutional responses to clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse My thesis uses the theoretical framework of techniques of neutralisation to explore how the Roman Catholic Church as an institution responds to cases of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse,...