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
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
Data research to improve refugee health.
This program of work will examine multiple annual waves from the ‘Building a New Life in Australia’...
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Enticott
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
Frailty is a state of heightened vulnerability and susceptibility to physiologic stressors that increases with age. It has shown increasing utility...
Supervisor: Professor Joanne Ryan
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