RHD Candidate Web Pages
All RHD candidates in the School have the option of having a web page created for them that outlines their contact details, thesis topic, research interests and outcomes to date. RHD candidate pages are updated annually. To have a web page established, please contact the School Web Manager.
Current RHD Candidates
To be directed to a RHD Candidate's website, click on their name either in the below list or on the left hand side menu.
Classics
Phoebe Garrett (PhD) Biographers and Historians on the Family Background of the Twelve Caesars
Reuben Ramsey (PhD) Proleptic Construction in the Prometheus Bound
English
Emma Joel (PhD) Eatdirtzian Geosophy: A study of cognitive geography and narrative
Sarah Minslow (PhD) Making Sense of Nonsense: A New Perspective on Children's Literature
Julie Mundy-Taylor (PhD) Traditional storytelling versus augmented storytelling: current debates in the field
David Murray (PhD) Words for the Heat of Deeds
Film, Media and Cultural Studies
Joyleen Christensen (PhD) Where in the world is Andy Lau? Putting the 'popular' back into studies of Hong Kong popular entertainment
History
Emma Hamilton (PhD) Exploring Gender and History in the Western Film Genre
Ann Hardy (MPhil) James Fletcher Hospital Heritage Precinct
Jan McLeod (PhD) Transformation, Technology and the Tropics: An examination of the Papuan Campaign through the lens of the Field Ambulance
Troy Saxby (PhD) America's Problem Child: The Activist Life of Pauli Murray
Lucy Shule (PhD) Beyond the Cold War: Challenges to Tanzanian Foreign Policy and Conflict Resolution in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Ken Thornton (PhD) 52 Years in Power: A History of the Electricity Commission of New South Wales / Pacific Power 1950 - 2002
Linguistics
Nasser Alasmari (PhD) Effects of Acculturation factor on Saudi Arabian English Language Learners: A Contextual Comparison Study
Fakieh Alrabai (PhD) The Use of Motivational Strategies in the Saudi EFL Classroom
Salih Jamaan Alzahrani (PhD) Topics in the Grammar of Zahrani Spoken Arabic
Stephen Logan (PhD) Documentation and Description of Ririo - a Highly Endangered Northwest Solomonic Language
John Olstad (PhD) Topics in a Grammar of Nehan
Emily Ayieta Ondondo (PhD) The Phonology and Morphology of Kisa: An Optimality Theoretic Account
Ellen Smith (PhD) Documenting Papapana: a highly endangered Northwest Solomonic language
Lana Takau (PhD) A grammar of Matanvat (Nese)
Philosophy
Matthew Girdler (PhD) Truth vs Happiness - The conflict of the sentient animal
Sociology/Anthropology
Dominiek Coates (PhD) Identity transitions and new religious movements: a symbolic interactionist
exploration of life histories of former members
Mitchell Hobbs (PhD) Paper Cuts: Newspapers, the Iraq War and the Politics of Rupert Murdoch
Lena Rodriguez (PhD) The social construction of obesity and implications for health and well-being in the Maori and Pacific Island community in Australia
Godlif Sianipar (PhD) Christian-Muslim Relationships in Medan and the ‘Dalihan na Tolu’ – A Social Capital Study of Bataknese Traditional Values and Their Effect on Interfaith Relationships
Asha Lal Tamang (PhD) Experiences of Civil Conflict in Nepal
Social Work
Vicki Cowling (PhD) Support for children and families living with a family member with mental illness
Speech Pathology
Val Adams (PhD) Evaluating the effects of tongue strength exercises in people with swallowing difficulties
Samar Al-amawi (PhD) Assessment of Aphasia in Arabic speakers
Jo Steel (PhD) Speech Pathology assessment of cognitive-communication during post-traumatic amnesia
Rachael Unicomb (PhD) Stuttering and speech sound disorders
Theology & Religious Studies
Dennis Carroll (PhD) The contribution of Hans Urs Von Balthasar to Catholic moral theology and its ecumenical implications
Zachariah Duke (PhD) In what ways does the Roman Catholic Church in Australia, seek to accommodate and nurture the faith, moral and spiritual development for individuals with intellectual disabilities?
Ashley John Moyse (PhD) The art of living: Ontological freedom, creaturely limitation, and moral liberation for biomedical science and practice after Karl Barth’s theological anthropology