Research Projects
The pediatric bladder can be influenced by various poorly understood factors, despite ongoing efforts by international organizations, such as the...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
Future healthcare providers treat a wide variety of patients who vary in gender, skin tone, body habitus, socio-economic status etc. Despite this,...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
This multi-disciplinary research program explores stakeholders' perspectives about using N-of-1 trials and other single-case designs in...
Supervisor: Dr Suzanne McDonald
Polysaccharide capsule is a critical virulence factor in many bacteria, including the priority drug-resistant pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. The...
Supervisor: Dr Francesca Short
The gastric carcinogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori has a unique ability to withstand high acidity of the stomach by buffering its periplasm at pH...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Fatigue and tiredness after stroke is a commonly reported symptom, although early after stroke people often struggle to understand the term when...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
Female fertility and offspring health are critically dependent on the maintenance of an adequate supply of high quality oocytes. Little is known...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Stringer
Breastfeeding, the biological norm of feeding babies, provides numerous health benefits to babies. Infant-formula-feeding is thought to be inferior...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
The COVID19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of older individuals to suffer more severe disease outcomes from infectious respiratory...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
Objective:
To explore the effects of multiple anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) sessions on the right primary somatosensory...
Supervisor: Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
Objective:
To explore the effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on corticospinal excitability and the balance between cortical...
Supervisor: Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
This project aims to investigate the role that allied health professionals play in enhancing patient care within general practice settings. Allied...
Supervisor: Dr Kimberley Norman
In this PhD you will explore the sociological, political, environmental and cultural influences on birthing peoples relationship with their body...
Supervisor: Dr Christie Bennett
This project involves a systematic scoping review of literature related to the involvement of families in research co-design following the death of a...
Supervisor: Sid Vemuri
There is a proposed link between cardiovascular disease and dementia. This may be an important public health message to amplify to increase risk...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran
Background: Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), formed via the processing of foods, are a major constituent of our modern convenience diet....
Supervisor: Professor Melinda Coughlan
Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) is a disorder with a growing incidence and hidden clinical burden of disease. At present, there are relatively few...
Supervisor: Dr Shayanti Mukherjee
Endometriosis often starts in adolescence, yet adolescents’ symptoms are often misunderstood and diagnosis is difficult. A general practitioner (GP)...
Supervisor: Dr Sharinne Crawford
Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD) are two closely related chronic diseases with a high prevalence worldwide. Both diseases share...
Supervisor: Yung-Chih Chen VMD, PhD
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are characterised by ineffective erythropoiesis, which suppresses the production of hepcidin in the liver, leading to...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas