Research Projects
I am open to discussing projects relevant to fathers' adjustment to parenting, mental health, relationships with partners and infants and...
Supervisor: Karen Wynter
If you are interested in research on the features of, management of and prognosis of chronic disease, including impact of risk factors, please get in...
Supervisor: Professor Sophia Zoungas
Clinical practise around the management of nutrition for extremely preterm infants may vary across NICUs. This may include the use of probiotic...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Extracellular vesicles are nanoparticles that contain bioactive cargo and provide crucial information about the donor cell's identity and...
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
Monochorionic twin pregnancies are at significantly higher risks of pregnancy complications when compared to dichorionic twin pregnancies or...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Lorber Rolnik
Society urgently needs new therapeutic strategies to tackle multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. Current serious bacterial pathogens...
Supervisor: Dr Julien Tailhades
People affected by chronic conditions (for example, cancer, musculoskeletal conditions) experience high levels of personal financial burden, for...
Supervisor: Dr Danielle Berkovic
The cEEG and Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience are investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
This PhD – 'Finding their voices: Using poetic expression to narrate survivor stories of intimate partner violence (IPV) in regional Australia...
Supervisor: Dr Julie Willems
The human brain is distinct from those of other species in terms of size, organisation, and connectivity, which are important properties that are...
Supervisor: Dr James Pang
Floods can have direct and indirect health risks. However the health impacts of floods have not been totally understood. This project aims to assess...
Supervisor: Professor Yuming Guo
This project aims to explore disordered eating and body image disturbance, with the goal of exploring underlying trigger stimuli. The basic premise...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Thomas
This project aims to explore disordered eating and body image disturbance, with the goal of exploring underlying trigger stimuli. The basic premise...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Thomas
New psychoactive substances (NPS) are illicit compounds which are often based on structural modifications of traditional illicit substances but with...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jennifer Schumann
The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM) is Australia’s largest multi-disciplinary centre for forensic medical and scientific services....
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jennifer Schumann
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). are an urgent call for action adopted by all United Nations’ member nations in 2015 to achieve peace and...
Supervisor: Professor Claire Palermo
This research program aims to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and fidelity of a co-designed FRAIL-Scale to inform preventive strategies for...
Supervisor: Dr Ching Shan (Angela) Wan
The Hippo/YAP signalling pathway is frequently dysregulated (~80%) in breast cancer. Yet, efforts aimed at targeting this pathway for therapeutic...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary research team that is changing the face of autoimmune disease management, making ground-...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Jones
The healthy ageing process is associated with widespread changes in the integrity of the brain. These changes include alterations in the structural,...
Supervisor: Dr Sharna Jamadar