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

Emma Barnard

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

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

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.

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

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

Alice Kim

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

Farnaz Shahimi

The Childhood Resilience and Sense of Identity among Afghans with a 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 climate-related disaster risk reduction in the Pacific

Meghan Lee

‘the little things’: strategies for holistic, everyday wellbeing with young people from recent migrant and refugee backgrounds in rural Victoria

Rana Islamiah Zahroh

Caesarean birth in Indonesia: understanding inequalities, inefficiencies, and intentionalities

Jackson Newberry-Dupé

Child and adolescent mental health presentations to Australian and New Zealand emergency departments: emerging challenges and innovations in a global pandemic

Ludmila Fleitas Alfonzo

Mental health of young carers

Jennifer Ervin

Gender Inequality in Australia: The double burden of unpaid labour and employment precarity on the mental health of Australian women

Sintayehu Abebe

Sexual violence against female victims in Ethiopia: health services’ response to the mental health effects

Inoke Veamatahau

The role of Christian faith communities in promoting health in the Western suburbs of Melbourne.

Claire Sullivan

Legal responses to family violence: experiences of refugee and migrant women in Victoria