Research Projects
There is a requirement for paediatric surgical specific models and simulators to be used in a laparoscopic bench trainer for the acquisition of...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
Validation of a 3D printed and moulded high fidelity and realism simulator for paediatric laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Vasoactive medications (vasopressors and inotropes) are used widely in cardiac surgery perioperatively. Evidence for their use is limited. This...
Supervisor: Dr Tim Coulson
This project involves curriculum-level approaches within university medical programs and other programs and analysing the student outcomes.
Supervisor: Professor Basia Diug
Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are now ubiquitous in the environment and have been detected in human blood, organs, and tissues. Despite growing...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
Volumetric analysis of Meckel’s cave and the foramen ovale- its relationship to outcomes of balloon compression
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
This is a rapidly emerging field with the recent legislative changes in Victoria (and now Western Australia). There is a need to better understand...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
A new frontier in biomedical research will involve watching individual proteins work in real time, in living organs. Traditionally, researchers have...
Supervisor: Professor Kieran Harvey
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) affects 1-5% of otherwise healthy children and high rates of children with certain medical comorbidities such as Down...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Gillian Nixon
Plasma cells produce antibodies making them important for protection from infectious diseases. However, sometimes antibody responses go awry and...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Natural Killer (NK) cells are innate immune cells which play an important role in eliminating malignant and virally-infected cells but emerging...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
The development of reliable, accurate, non-invasive methodologies for continuous, long-term seizure monitoring is a critical part of the precision...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
This PhD project will have access to cohort data being collected that investigates women’s experiences of weight stigma in maternity care, a range of...
Supervisor: Dr Briony Hill (Glidden)
This project seeks to understand stakeholder views of interconception care resource and tool needs through interviews with key stakeholders in...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon James
This project seeks to explore what Australian and international guidelines support women's interconception care. Reducing adverse outcomes on...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon James
This qualitative study will involve in-depth interviews and/or focus groups with providers such as general practitioners, nurses, midwives, social...
Supervisor: Susan Saldanha
In 2021, 2022, and again in 2024, Royal Commissions, and in NSW and Qld, inquiries, were scathing of the behaviour and performance of Crown Resorts...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Charles Livingstone
Nearly everybody in Australia has a general practitioner (GP).
Australia's 30,000 GPs are critical to health care in the nation. Their...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
What is a patients quality of life following brain tumour treatment (prospective)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith