A selection of our current Higher Degree Research students and their projects are listed here:
Jordan Akhurst
Does Yes mean Yes: How do Australian university residential college students understand and practice sexual consent?
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Kelsey Adams
Rape acknowledgement as a multidimensional, temporally sensitive process.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Irena Bukhshtaber
AI in recruitment and looking at bias and discrimination as well as the technology in practice in Australia using the Australian ethical framework.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Amy Couper
Understanding Perceptions of Human-wildlife Conflict and Policy Responses: An Examination of the Western Australian Shark Hazard Mitigation Drum Line Program 2013-2014.
Principal Supervisor
Stephen Edward de Weger
Reporting clergy sexual misconduct against adults to Roman Catholic church authorities: An analysis of survivor perspectives.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Jamie-Lee Emmanuel
Secondary victimisation in cases of clergy perpetrated child sexual abuse in Australia.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Alicia Feldman
Environmental Equifinality: (Re)examining predictors of specific responsible environmental behaviours in Australian recreational fishing environments.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Melissa Giles
Re-working narratives: How professional writers make sense of and adapt to vision-related reading difficulties
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Gisella Lopes Gomes Pinto Ferreira
Preventing Teenage Intimate Partner Violence: Advocate Perceptions of Education Programs in the Global South.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Ingrid Casandra Valladares Gonzalez
Youth and Peacebuilding: The Role of Youth-led Social Movements in Latin America.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Elianor Gerrard
Beyond boom, bust and coal dust: Understanding community actor’s experience of and participation in the (just) transition of their region.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Annissa Hansen
Information and Communication Technology in Aged Care: How is it shaping the workplace environment?
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Emma Hussey
The performances of paedophile hunters both online and offline.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Rebecca Keane
Negotiating with Terrorists: A critical analysis of hostage negotiation methodologies within policing sieges.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Maria Hameed Khan
Analysing Media Framing of Women in Contemporary Australian Business Leadership.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Michael King
Pathways and Partnerships: A study of private policing economic crime in Australia.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Johanna Kingsman
What is the impact of rites of passage programs in secondary schools on adolescent males’ transition to adulthood?
Principal Supervisor
Khurram Malik
Authorised push payment (APP) fraud and open banking in Australia.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Freya McLachlan
Predicting Intimate Partner Homicide: Key risk factors and the heterogeneity of male offenders.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Matthew Morgan
Policing Vulnerability: An examination of police responses to persons with mental illness.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Shalini Nataraj-Hansen
Discourses of the Fraud Justice Network in Australia: How victims and offenders of romance and investment scams are perceived.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Judith A Newton
Facebook Activism and the Fight against Forced Labour: Slacktivism, Clicktivism and Offline Participation.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Megan Parker
The characterisation of youth who sexually offend by judicial decision makers.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Rebecca Pollard
Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Defence Force Families
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
María Victoria Puyol
Women’s movements, State, and Violence against Women: The emergence and transformation of Women’s Police Stations in Argentina, 1988-2018
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Emma Rees
Exploring the experiences of children and young people subjected to child sexual exploitation in Queensland.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Linda Renouf
Aboriginal Young People in Care: How are traditional connections to culture and Country maintained for Aboriginal young people in Care?
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Rahul Sinha Roy
Victimisation Experiences of Male Same-sex Digital Dating Platform Users in India: An Exploratory Study.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Diogenes Eli Casas Samper
The Relationship between Climate Change and National Security.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Sahana Sarkar
Women’s Experiences and Responses to Cyber-Violence in India & Australia.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisors
Tiffany Sutherland
Missing Persons Cases in the Australian Media: A Descriptive Analysis of Coverage and Representations.
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
External Supervisor: Dr Dean Biron
Amos Tay
Examining the Impact of Learning Technologies on Social Justice in Higher Education
Principal Supervisor
Associate Supervisor
Ashley Watson
Filicide and Child Abuse: An Australian Study.