Meet some of our doctoral students
The work done by doctoral students in the Faculty of Education is diverse, spanning the research areas of the four schools that make up the Faculty. Use the links below to read about our students.
School of Human Movement Studies Doctoral Students
| Student | Research Topic/Title |
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| Lindy Cavanagh | Young people’s knowledge and attitudes towards help seeking for mental health problems: the efficacy of a preventative intervention on rural and remote young people’s attitudes towards seeking help. |
| Ee Von Chia | The Effect of Age and Training on Fatigue, Pacing, and Thermoregulation |
| Cheyne Donges | Acute and chronic effects of differing exercise modes on mechanisms associated with skeletal muscle glucose uptake, and the relationship with NF-kB-mediated cytokine activity |
| Peter Fowler | The effects of domestic and international travel on physiological, perceptual, performance and recovery responses, and interventions to attenuate these effects |
| Danielle Girard | A Comparison Of The Physiological, Neuromuscular And Perceptual Manifestations And Acute Recovery Responses During Different Exercise Fatigue Tasks Between Disease-Free Breast Cancer Survivors With Post Cancer Fatigue And Healthy Matched Persons |
| Angela Hennessey | Implementing PDHPE into practice: An ethnographic case study on primary teachers' experiences |
| Tegan Kastelein | The effects of cigarette smoking and exercise on cerebral and cardiovascular responses, oxidative stress and systemic inflammation; the influence of smoking status and age. |
| Monique King | The effects of cold water immersion on recovery following high-intensity exercise in extreme conditions (heat and body collisions) |
| Markus Kluseman | Evaluation and Development of Physical Preparation Programs in Elite Junior Basketball Players |
| Amy Mendham | The acute and chronic effects of aerobic and modified football training on glucose control, systemic inflammation and mitochondrial functioning within Aboriginal Australian and Caucasian populations |
| Maria Nibali | Modulation of warm-up practices and the influence of post-activation potentiation on performance enhancement |
| Katrina Onus | Anticipating fatigue and avoiding cellular catastrophe during exercise and heat stress. |
| Darren Powell | Blurring the boundaries: Corporations, marketing and primary schools in the fight against childhood obesity |
| Melissa Skein | Sleep deprivation, muscle mass recruitment, and alterations in core temperature in the heat: Factors affecting pacing strategies in team sports. |
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School of Education Doctoral Students
| Student | Research Topic/Title |
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Kathleen Clayton (RIPPLE Supported) |
Critical praxis in higher education pedagogy |
| The social construction of sustainable development through informal education: Communities of Practice | |
| Identity, belonging and possibility: Perceptions of school climate during transition and the early years of school for Aboriginal children and their parents in an urban community | |
| Working together through the complexites of the cultural interface | |
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Jane Greenlees (RIPPLE Supported) |
Looking beyond the answer: The code-breaking world of mathematics assessment |
| Intersetting communication and the transition to school | |
| Early childhood sustained home visiting: Outcomes at transition to school | |
| The gifted child's transition to primary school | |
| An exploration of the informal professional learning practices experienced by beginning teachers in rural secondary schools | |
| The social accomplishment of digital literacies in early childhood |
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School of Teacher Education Doctoral Students
| Student | Research Topic/Title |
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| Jacqui Barr | "I'm not like most other kids" - Sibling experiences of disability and implications for education |
| Hopeful lines of flight: opening up possibilities for (re)imagining and enacting knowledge in the early years of primary school | |
| Policy decision making in early childhood education |
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| Primary Science Teacher Education from Pre-service to In-service: Does the Real Converge with the Ideal? | |
| Multilingual Children with Hearing Loss: Communication, Language, Choices and Outcomes | |
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Tamara Cumming (RIPPLE Supported) |
Investigating how early childhood educators in Australia negotiate discursive tensions in their professional practice |
| The Cinderella Profession? How are gender constructions influencing early childhood education and care practitioners view of their role as educators within their profession? | |
| Listening to Infants: An Existential Phenomenological Investigation of the Living Experiences of Embodied Infants in Family Day Care using Mosaic Methods | |
| Catherine Flores | How induction addresses the task of helping beginning teachers to develop their pedagogy: A Chilean case study |
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Steven Gibbs (RIPPLE Supported) |
Space and Policy in the Professional Practice Fields of Education, Health and Policing |
| Identifying factors that bridge the research to practice gap in inclusive education: An analysis of ten research to practice case studies | |
| Tracking students' university transitions, career development and professional choices in single and double degree Bachelor of Nursing Programs | |
| Suzanne Hopf | An analysis of speech sound acquisition patterns and phonological awareness skills in simultaneous and sequential learners of Fiji English |
| Living the Label: Youth work, young people, being 'at risk' and rural community based projects | |
| Constructions of quality within Australian Early Childhood Education and Care policy between 1972 and 2009 | |
| "Learning to Love the World": Place, Regeneration and Environmental Education | |
| How creativity is conceptualised in the management of public health, and the impact of this. | |
| Phil Roberts | Rethinking Place in Rural Education |
| Educators' perceptions about infants' capabilities: how they intermingle with practice and the whole experience of infants themselves. | |
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Tina Stratigos (RIPPLE Supported) |
A rhizomatic exploration of the lives of infants as members of groups in family day care settings |
| Educators' perceptions about infants' capabilities: how they intermingle with practice and the whole experience of infants themselves.Sar | |
| Providing equitable and quality services for multilingual children with speech sound disorders in a linguistically diverse context | |
| Self-organisation in course design: A theory-based approach to course development in inclusive education |
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School of Information Studies Doctoral Students
| Student | Research Topic/Title |
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| Terry Asla |
The social construction of sustainable development through informal education: Communities of Practice |
| Marijana Bacic |
Library portals: a study of undergraduate student uptake in Australia |
| Julia Bale |
An investigation into the information-seeking preferences of secondary school teachers |
| Jenny Fafeita |
Becoming a chef: A grounded theory of apprentice chefs' information literacy practices |
| Lily Gao |
A study of offshore international students' use of Australian university libraries' online resources and services |
| Lyn Hay |
Using Web 2.0 technologies to support student learning through the guided inquiry process |
| Paul Kloppenborg | Moving on to better things?: Higher education, library support and the building of scholarly capacity in TAFE |
| Suzanne Lipu |
Information literacy: The social agenda - A feminist exploration of information literacy, personal empowerment and internationalisation |
| Damian Lodge |
Organisational Culture: its management and impact on change in Australian academic libraries |
| Rakunathan Narayanan |
An investigation into citation practices of students of sociology |
| Jacob Wallis |
The Australian web domain as public sphere |
| Rebekah Willson |
Information in transition: Examining information behaviour of university faculty as they transition in academe |