School of Human Sciences postgraduate profiles

School of Human Science

Current postgraduates

  • Alexander, Caroline - Musculoskeletal properties in children with cerebral palsy: The impact of Botulinum Toxin type A
  • Alsharif, Alla - Children dental health at WA
  • Anthony, David - Mental toughness development in Australian Football players
  • Baashar, Ahmaed - The Anatomical Relationship between Cochlear Nucleus Neurons and Collaterals of the Olivocochlear Pathway
  • Badenhorst , Claire - Nutritional strategies to regulate iron metabolism
  • Barry, Kristin - Limbic-auditory interactions in tinnitus
  • Bates, Natarsha - HumanThrush Entanglements
  • Byrne, Sean - Above real time training and ACL injury prevention in evasive sidestepping
  • Cook, Alison - Measurement of very slow basilar membrane movements in vivo and outer hair cell auto-regulation
  • Duvnjak-Zaknich , Daniel - Optimising heat acclimation and maintaining it in team sport athletes
  • Edmonds , David - Knee taping for osteoarthritis
  • Edwards, Peter - Post-operative rehabilitation following rotator cuff injury
  • Foo, Stacy - Gaze Behaviours and Visual Perception in Parkinson’s disease
  • Goods, Paul - Altitude Training in Football.
  • Haynes , Andrew - The Effect of Acute Exercise and Exercise Training on Platelet Function
  • Hiscock, Daniel - Workloads, neuromuscular fatigue, injury and performance in elite Australian football players
  • Hong Law, Kwok (Brian) - Cognitive Inoculation on New Mothers' Health Behaviours
  • Howle, Timothy - Self-Presentation Motives in Group-Based Physical Activity
  • Koh , Kirsten Pei Shan - Psychophysiological Examination of Sport Injury
  • Lam, Jenny - he effect of inflammatory mediators in skeletal muscle function and regeneration
  • Lovett, Sarah - Combined immunomodulation and mesenchymal precursor cell transplantation following spinal cord injury
  • Maitland , Clover - The Influence of the Home Physical Environment on Children’s Sedentary Behaviour
  • Masih, Tasmiah - The Effects of Stress and Relaxation on the Mind and Body
  • Matthews, Jaya - Socioecology of eastern chimpanzees in Rwanda
  • McDonald, Kirsty - At What Cost? Discovering Energetic and Stability Optimality Criteria in Human Locomotion
  • Mirville, Melanie - The causes and consequences of intergroup interactions in mountain gorillas
  • Nicholas, Joanna - Pole dancing as a form of physical activity in Australia
  • Ong, MJ - Cycling to prevent the recurrance of gestational diabetes mellitus
  • Polglaze, Ted - Understanding the energy cost of team sport activity
  • Redhead, Karen - Sleep and Childbirth
  • Reynolds , Jess - Imitation & Motor Imagery in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: Investigation of Mirror Neuron Function
  • Rossi, Marcel - The development and validation of a 3D subject-specific anthropometric model through merging DXA and 3D scans for musculoskeletal modelling.
  • Sorensen, Tash - Normalising circadian rhythms to improve preterm infant outcomes
  • Spencer, Phoebe - Ecological variation and child growth in rural Timor-Leste
  • Tongpob, Yutthapong - Placental Vasculature
  • Ward, Brodie - Identifying visual search patterns and information extraction involved in fundamental movement skills
  • Wells , Denny - Current and Potential Upper Limb Modelling Techniques
  • Wheeler, Michael - Effects of exercise and sedentary behavior on cognitive and metabolic function
  • Willis, Claire - The Participate Project

Graduated students

  • (Crewe) Bayne, Helen - Lumbo-sacral loading in junior fast bowlers
  • Alsaweed, Mohammed Abdullah - Characterisation of miRNAs
  • Alshihri, Amin - Forensic Odontology: Testing the accuracy of dental age estimation on a sample of Western Saudi Arabian children and adolescents using three methods
  • Ansell, Thomas - Collapsibility of the Human Upper Airway; Relationships between Sleep, Sedation, anaesthesia and Head Posture
  • Banting, Lauren - Implicit and Explicit Exercise Motivation
  • Bester, Christofer - Focused auditory attention and tone detection in noise
  • Blomster, Linda - Innate immune responses during neuronal death and regeneration
  • Brewer , Cameron - Sodium Phosphate Supplementation
  • Burns, Belinda - Family life: A comparative study of behavioural development and family social dynamics in captive gibbons
  • Carter, Howard - Vascular adaptation in humans
  • Chai, Ruth - Denervation in Sarcopenia
  • Crisp, Nicole - Exercise for Fat Loss in Overfat Boys
  • Crouch, Domenic - The influence of learning styles on the effectiveness of pre-performance thoughts in golf putting: An examination of learning and performance outcomes
  • Dawson, Rebekah - Morphological correlates of pentapedal locomotion in kangaroos and wallabies (Family: Macropodidae)
  • Donnelly, Jon - Upper body biomechanics and knee loading
  • Dooley, Helen - Kloss gibbon behaviour
  • Dunne, James - Changes in Knee Loading with Prolonged Running
  • Etemad, Samar - Effects of Lead on Human Microglia and Neuronal Precrusor Cells In Vitro
  • Furzer, Bonnie - ‘Thriving’ Lifestyle Intervention Study
  • Gibson, Kostantoula - An investigation of the functional effect of physiotherapy and spasticity management of the arm using botulinum neurotoxin type A in children with CP.
  • Grisbrook, Tiffany - Botox as a treatment for pain following burn injury.
  • Halse , Rhiannon - Exercise in the Management of GDM
  • Hardt, Julie - Injury Prevention and Management in Competitive Swimming
  • Hisham, Salina - Malaysian Standards for Forensic Age Estimation
  • Ho, Dominic - Multifunctional conducting nanmomaterials for regeneration in a spinal cord injury model
  • Houghton, Laurence - Prolonged cricket batting innings
  • Jones, Megan - Placental oxidative stress and inflammation in the rat: beneficial effects of dietary omega-3 fatty acids
  • Joyce, Ashlee - The effects of a home-based exercise programme during treatment on physiological and psychosocial outcomes in patients with lymphoma.
  • Karisnan, Kanakeswary - Influence of the in utero environment on diaphragm structure and function
  • Koh, Su-Ann - Oxidative stress as a mediator of the relationship between age and semen quality: implications for fertility outcomes in the human male
  • Lee, Marcus - Three-Dimensional Stereoscopic Stimulus for Assessing Risk of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
  • Longbottom, Jay-Lee - Perfectionism and Motivational Antecedents in Exercise
  • Luqman Bin Abdul Aziz, Muhammad - Neuromodulation of the posterior subthalamic area influences upper limb function in Parkinson's disease
  • Main, Luana - Overtraining in endurance sports
  • Middleton, Kane - Ball Release Velocity
  • Milne, Fritha - Life history, reproductive strategy and Endometrial cancer
  • Mohd Zamin, Rasheeda - The role of inflammatory factors in peripheral arterial disease
  • Muralidharan, Padmapriya - Identifying the site/s of modification on human L-type calcium channel protein isoforms during oxidative stress
  • Nayeem, Sarmah - Wnt signalling and its regulation in placentation and implantation
  • Olaithe, Michelle - A Study of Severity Indices and Mechanisms of Neurocognitive Damage in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
  • Pitcher, Christian - Imaging muscle in children with cerebral palsy.
  • Rechichi, Claire - Athletic performance and the oral contraceptive
  • Shannon, Damian - Effect of Fatigue on Muscle Mechanics: An Insight into Muscle Strain Injury
  • Simpson, Laila - The genetic epidemiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Hypopnea Syndrome (OSAHS) in Western Australians
  • Stearne, Sarah - The Role of the Foot in Running
  • Tan, Pearl - The Effects of ROS on IGF-1 Signaling: Implication in Age Related Skeletal Muscle Wasting
  • Terrill, Jessica - The role of oxidative stress in Muscular Dystrophies
  • Thienot, Emilie - Mindfulness in Sport
  • Wharfe, Michaela - Maternal adaptation to pregnancy: Changes in circadian expression during mouse gestation
  • Whiteside, David - The effects of physical maturity and equipment on kinematic performance in the elite female tennis serve.
  • Wilks, Tenelle - The role of ephrin-A in the developing visual system
  • Williams, Sian - Strength Training for Children with Cerebral Palsy receiving Botulinum Toxin
  • Yates, Nathaneal - Physiological Biomarkers in Schizophrenia
  • Zulkafli, Intan - Effects of high fat and high omega-3 diets on the outcomes of foetal programming with glucocorticoids excess and the implication on circadian rhythm