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Higher Degrees by Research Supervisions

The School currently has a number of students undertaking research as part of the Doctor of Philosophy or Masters by Research studies. For more information, please view the list below.

If you are interested in Postgraduate studies and would like to view a list of projects currently open to new research students, please visit the School Graduate Research Services web page. If you would like to view Postgraduate courses available, please visit the Future Students Postgraduate web page.

Name - Alberta Adji
Principal Supervisor - Dr Ffion Murphy
Thesis title - The divided self: The longing (novel) and complicated relations in Indonesia (exegesis)

Name - Nehad Alhadi
Principal Supervisor - Professor Paul Arthur
Thesis title Oman’s Creative industries

Name - Amanda Allerding
Principal Supervisor - Dr Nicola Kaye

Name - Steven Baitz
Principal Supervisor - Dr Nicola Kaye
Thesis title - Towards an Embodied Photographic Practice

Name - Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
Principal Supervisor - Dr Ffion Murphy
Thesis title - The Commonwealth of Amnesia": Uncovering Forgotten Stories of the Pre and Post-WWI and WWII Croatian and Yugoslav Immigrant Experience through Erasure Poetry"

Name - Patricia Amorim Da Silva
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Lyndall Adams
Thesis title - Using digital photographic technology to explore the limits of cultural identity

Name - Tiffany Hastie
Principal Supervisor - Dr Donna Mazza
Thesis Title - Only Their Voices: Decentring the human in nonhuman fiction

Name - Jordan Hogan
Principal Supervisor - Dr Kay Hearn
Thesis title - Return Serve: The Dialogical relationship in Australian and Chinese media coverage on Australia-China relations

Name - Sebnem Karali
Principal Supervisor - Professor Paul Arthur
Thesis title - Post-catastrophe Armenian-American drama and the post-civil rights movement

Name - Linda Martin
Principal Supervisor - Dr Ffion Murphy
Thesis title - The story of Fremantle Press: Promoting pluralism in writing business history through the use of creative nonfiction

Name - Amanda Moffat
Principal Supervisor - Dr Donna Mazza
Thesis title - The Wound Model, a novel & Under sterile conditions: The depiction of surgery in contemporary fiction.

Name - Marziya Mohammedali
Principal Supervisor - Professor Panizza Allmark
Thesis title - ‘The deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard’: A reflection on identity, photography and protest.

Name - Karleah Olsen
Principal Supervisor - Dr Donna Mazza
Thesis title - Castles of sand, and saltwater shackles: Abjection, liminal space, and entrapment within the Australian coastal gothic landscape

Name - Frances Orchard
Principal Supervisor - Professor Paul Arthur
Thesis title - Finding freedom: Representations of liberation in the cultural and political production of Nitty Scott, Immortal Technique and Tygapaw since 2016

Name - Bradley Phelps Nisbet
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Cathy Henkel
Thesis title - Training in Specialist Skillsets to Address Evolving Media and Entertainment Industry Needs

Name - Rachel Pietracatella
Principal Supervisor - Catherine Archer
Thesis title - GambleAware and DrinkAware: The delivery of responsibility communication by risk-industry social aspects public relations organisations

Name - Amna Saeed
Principal Supervisor - Professor Paul Arthur
Thesis title - Merging the Personal and the Political: Trauma, Terror and Memory in the Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

Name - Nurul Sari
Principal Supervisor - Professor Panizza Allmark
Thesis title - The Command Center, the Smart City, and smart community engagement: A critical Public Relations analysis in the ICT risk communication in two Smart Cities in East Java, Indonesia

Name - Randa Siksek
Principal Supervisor - Professor Mark McMahon
Thesis title - The Effect of Digitally Supported Schema-Complexity in Middle School Problem-Solving

Name - Haiying Sun
Co-Principal Supervisor - Professor Paul Arthur
Thesis title - The Image of China in Australian Newspapers: From 1972 to the Present

Name – Sugiyanto
Principal Supervisor - Professor Paul Arthur
Thesis title - Connecting two neighbours through film festivals: The case for Australian and Indonesia

Name - Jane Whelan
Principal Supervisor - Dr Paul Uhlmann

Name - Giselle Woodley
Principal Supervisor – Professor Lelia Green
Thesis title - Born into Porn: Youth use of pornography as a source of sexual information. Perspectives of pornography and Sexual Education by young people

Name - Jing Zhou
Principal Supervisor - Dr Jo Jung
Thesis title - Improving motivation to support physical activity through fitness app in China: A co-design approach

Name - Jane Ziemons
Principal Supervisor - Dr Nicola Kaye
Thesis title - A phenomenological investigation into the elevation of everyday: An embodied engagement through cloth and the quotidian moment

Name - Cheryl Botello
Principal Supervisor - Dr Natalie Gately
Thesis title - Punishment or respite? - women's voices - an insider's perspective of women's imprisonment in Western Australia

Name - Laura Anne Milosavljevic
Principal Supervisor
-  Dr Natalie Gately
Thesis title -
“Public Perceptions of Child Sex Offenders” Master of Criminal Justice by Research

Name - Isabella Branson
Principal Supervisor - Professor Craig Speelman
Thesis title - Developing Mock-Crime Scenarios in Virtual Reality to Enhance Participant Performance for Research in Investigative Interviewing Techniques

Name - Tiffany Carpenter
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Pamela Henry
Thesis title - Multiculturalism in juries: A case for the consideration of cultural values in juror decision making

Name - Ian Clayton-Smith
Principal Supervisor - Dr Eyal Gringart

Name - Louis Fang
Principal Supervisor - Professor Joanne Dickson

Name - Alan Fraser
Principal Supervisor - Professor Craig Speelman
Thesis title - The Experience of Social Interaction in Virtual Reality: The Roles of Behavioural Realism, Graphical Realism, and Virtual Location

Name - Turah Loudon
Principal Supervisor - Professor Julie Ann Pooley
Thesis title - Reconstructing YOU": Grounded theory research into the experiences of Australian defence force ex-serving members transitioning to civilian life"

Name - Janelle Mort
Principal Supervisor - Dr Eyal Gringart
Thesis title - Honouring Aboriginal Elders’ wisdom regarding community service provision in WA

Name - Tanya Read
Principal Supervisor - Professor Alfred Allan
Thesis title - The relative weight given to psychology's ethical principles by the public and psychologists

Name - Bethwyn Rowe
Principal Supervisor - Dr Ken Robinson
Thesis title - Mums Without Maternal Support - Rethinking 'Motherlessness' in Mothering

Name - Haseeba Shouket
Principal Supervisor - Dr Eyal Gringart
Thesis title - From Perceived Affliction to Realized Opportunity: Evaluation and Transformation of the Experience of Hemodialysis in Pakistan

Name - Aimee-Rose Wrightson-Hester
Principal Supervisor - Professor Alfred Allan
Thesis title - Young Australian nightlife attendees as active bystanders to reduce unacceptable sexual behaviour: A multimodal project

Name: Sheridan Adams
Principle Supervisor - Associate Professor Vicki Banham
Thesis title: It’s just the way it is: A single case study of silence in Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)

Name - Georgina Akers
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Vicki Banham

Name - Catherine Batterham-Baker
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Trudi Cooper

Name - Hajara Bentum
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Vicki Banham
Thesis title - Grandparent Kinship Care in Ghana: Family Violence and Ecosystem Support in Diverse Family Structure

Name - Brett Dias
Principal Supervisor - Dr Eyal Gringart

Name - Jenine Giles
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Vicki Banham
Thesis title - Deconstructing notions of motherhood and fatherhood: An exploration of same-sex couples' experiences and construction of their parenting roles

Name - Bronwyn Harman
Principal Supervisor - Dr Eyal Gringart
Thesis title - The life experiences and satisfaction of the childfree in Australia

Name - Charisse Hay
Principal Supervisor - Dr Elizabeth Reid Boyd
Thesis title - Professional perspectives on parental alienation and intimate partner violence in Western Australia: Balancing parental rights with children’s safety.

Name - Andrea Highman
Principal Supervisor - Dr Elizabeth Reid Boyd
Thesis title - The practitioners’ experience of program evaluation

Name - Safia Iftikhar
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Vicki Banham
Thesis Title - Experiences, Discourse and Practices of Patriarchy before and after a change in Cultural field:  A case study of Pakistani Muslim married Women in Perth, Australia

Name: Joanne Kostopoulos
Principle Supervisor -  Associate Professor Vicki Banham

Name - Qiang Li
Principal Supervisor - Dr Jamal Barnes
Thesis title - Fathers of Nation: Masculinity Construction of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the Ebola Outbreak and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Name - Darlene Ndasi
Principal Supervisor - Dr Kwadwo Adusei-Asante
Thesis title - Sexual knowledge and sexuality of Kenyan men: Exploratory sequential mixed methods study

Name - Omid Rezaei
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Vicki Banham
Thesis title - Comprehensive analysis of integration experiences of Afghan immigrants in Australia: Their challenges and policy implications

Name: Kinley Rinchen
Principle Supervisor Associate Professor Vicki Banham
Thesis titleThe effects of COVID-19 in Bhutan: Retrospect and prospect for people, progress and prosperity.

Name - Stesa Skaria
Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Trudi Cooper

Name - Kylie Wrigley
Principal Supervisor - Dr Naomi Godden
Thesis title - Community Organising for Climate Justice Transitions: A Feminist Participatory Action Research Collaboration in Western Australia

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