The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence recognises up to 12 Doctoral theses a year that have been of particularly high standard. The HDR Student Research Impact Prize is to recognise the quality and impact of research.
Congratulations to all recipients! The Office of Graduate Research will be hosting a ceremony to celebrate the success in May 2022.
Vice-Chancellors Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
Julie Brose
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
“The intentional pursuit of everyday life while dying: A longitudinal exploration of occupational engagement for working aged adults living with advanced cancer”
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Tazrina Chowdhury
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
“Pain into Power, Wound into Wisdom: Exploring Women’s Experience of Wellbeing in the Cyclone Shelters of Bangladesh”
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Michael de Ruyter
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
“The Fighting Dhow: Early Modern Vernacular Watercraft and Organised Maritime Violence in the Persian Gulf”
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Bonnie Derne
College of Science and Engineering
“Parasite and gut-microbiota dynamics in the experimental translocation of an endangered lizard”
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Terefe Fuge
College of Medicine and Public Health
“HIV care continuum in prison: initiation, adherence and outcomes of antiretroviral therapy amongst prisoners in South Ethiopia”
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Diana Fusco
College of Science and Engineering
“The impacts of environmental change on late Quaternary fossil fauna at Cathedral Cave, Eastern Australia”
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Libby Hammond
College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
“A trans-Tasman relational model for academics integrating Indigenous knowledges and perspectives into whitestream social work education”
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Sandra Mortimer
College of Medicine and Public Health
“Examining health care practices for young children with complex feeding difficulties and their families: What’s the problem represented to be?”
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Temitope Olasunkanmi-Alimi
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
“African Migrant Women Working in the Australian Aged Care Sector”
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Ayub Qassim
College of Medicine and Public Health
“Glaucoma risk stratification using novel genetic and clinical risk factors”
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Sophie Rapagna
College of Science and Engineering
“Examining tibial cartilage morphology, subchondral bone microarchitecture and in vivo joint loading indices in knee osteoarthritis”
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David Waterford
College of Business, Government and Law
“Politicians as Policymakers: The Interaction of Ideology, Interests, Information and Institutions in an Australian State”
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HDR Student Research Impact Prize
Paul Heitmann
College of Medicine and Public Health
“Colonic and Anorectal Function in Defaecation and Continence”
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Piyamas Kanokwongnuwut
College of Science and Engineering
“Detection of latent DNA”
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