Current PhD Candidates

Crystal Zhao

“It’s my health, it’s my choice, and I know best!” How general practitioners (GPs) make decisions when a patient wants tests or treatments that the GPs perceive as medically unnecessary

Alister Thorpe

Decolonising ethics? Acritical analysis of researchers intended ethical research practices and the role of Indigenous communities in ensuring ethical research

Ratih Eka Pertiwi

The role and place of alcohol consumption amongst young people in Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia

Kate Brady

What's helpful and unhelpful when recovering from a disaster?

Katitza Marinkovic

What are child co-researchers' perspectives when scaling up Participatory Action Research?

Emma Barnard

How do adolescent girls and young women understand and make decisions about female genital cosmetic surgery?

Caroline GG Ong

How is Moral Distress Experienced by Community Specialist Palliative Care Health Professionals?

Shane Harrison

Humanitarian responses to the protection needs of adolescent boys in emergencies: an ethnographic case study of the Rohingya crisis response in Bangladesh

Liz Gill-Aitkinson

How do women with disabilities in the Philippines understand and practice participatory research?

Alex Devine

The life circumstances of job seekers with psychosocial disability and their engagement with government funded Disability Employment Services

Zoe Aitken

How do demographic and socioeconomic characteristics influence the effect of disability acquisition on mental health? An analysis of effect measure modification and mediation.

Dana Young

“Peering into the black box”: Understanding the contextual factors that generate social capital and promote health and wellbeing for refugee and migrant young people through sports participation

Melissa Willoughby

Preventing violence-related deaths among individuals exposed to the criminal justice system

Caitlin Douglass

Exploring alcohol and other drug use among migrant communities in Victoria

Mervat El Ali

Is sharing 'Caring'? - Nurses experiences with disclosing medical information to children.

Hala Nasr

Women-only safe spaces as a response to gender-based violence: experiences, limitations and possibilities for refugee women

Jacqui Parncutt

Who cares? The lives and trajectories of Australian carers with disability

Marissa Shields

Exploring the mental health impacts of school to work employment transitions among young people with disabilities

Anna Scovelle

Gender equality in Australia: An exploration of the impact on sleep and health

Yamna Taouk

The influence of psychosocial work stressors on health and mortality: A longitudinal study of working Australians

Lauren Krnjacki

Violence against people with disabilities

Jessica Franks

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on young Victorian adults’ social media use and experience.

Sidharth Vemuri

Advance care planning for children with severe neurodisability: viewing prognostic uncertainty as an opportunity rather than barrier

Heather Ploeger

The significance of the child’s voice in child death inquiries

Helen Henderson

Beliefs, understanding and access to male family planning methods in Timor-Leste

Sarah Khaw

Community-based doulas’ and health care providers’ perspectives and experiences working together to support migrant women in maternity settings

Alice Kim

Exploring the experience of workplace learning in genomic medicine in Victoria, Australia

Farnaz Shahimi

Resilience and sense of identity among Afghan and Iranian children with refugee background: A social-ecological perspective

Robyn Clark

A study of how paediatric social workers sustain their bereavement practice in an acute hospital setting.

Maree Maxfield

A good life: Identifying the subjective wellbeing needs of adults with a disorder of the corpus callosum

Naomi Katz

Mismatches between parents and clinicians of children with serious illness: What are we missing?

Nabreesa Murphy

Youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and disaster risk reduction in the Pacific