Research Projects
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
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
The Functional Annotation of Tumor Variants of Unknown Significance (VUS) using CRISPR project aims to elucidate the functional significance of...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Sun
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer globally. It has defined premalignant stages and progresses through Intestinal Metaplasia (IM)...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
Diversity is one of the most highly evaluated value in our workplace to maximize its performance. Diversity in neural cells (neurons) may be...
Supervisor: Dr Tatsuo Sato
Optimal clinical outcomes in emergency care are driven by rapid application of evidence informed clinical pathways. This is paramount in cardiac and...
Supervisor: Professor Karen Smith
In recent years, the landscape of education has been profoundly influenced by technological advancements and innovative teaching methodologies. One...
Supervisor: Dr Md Nazmul Karim
Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer-related death, with a five year overall survival of 33...
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Ooi
Climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of disasters (e.g., bushfires, floods, heatwaves), disproportionately affecting migrant and...
Supervisor: Revathi N. Krishna
Generating mouse models of clonal hematopoiesis to study the potential of apsirin to prevent cancers
Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), defined as the presence of blood cancer-associated mutations with a variant allele frequency...
Supervisor: Professor David Curtis
Anti-mullerian Hormone (AMH) or Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) is fundamentally known for its crucial activities in gonadal development during...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Walton