In recognition of an outstanding thesis, Board Members nominate the thesis for an Honourable Mention in the Board of the Graduate Research School Dean's List.
PhD theses that are awarded the prize are automatically shortlisted for the Robert Street Prize - a prize awarded for the most outstanding contribution to its field in a given year.
| Student Name | Higher Degree Course | Research Area | Thesis Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Juan Pablo Posada Aparicio | Doctor of Philosophy | Business School | Essays on the political economy of the Colombian conflict | 2023 |
| Dr Jian Zhao | Doctor of Philosophy | Graduate School of Education | Key predictive factors in the mental health of Chinese university students studying at home and abroad | 2023 |
| Dr Wavne Winsome Rikkers | Doctor of Philosophy | Graduate School of Education | Fighting the fires within - breaking down the barriers to mental health help-seeking among emergency services personnel experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress | 2023 |
| Dr Cayla Ann Bellagarda | Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Neuropsychology - Research | School of Psychological Science | Temporal integration of visual mirror symmetry: Psychophysics, modelling and haemodynamics | 2023 |
| Dr Katherine Margaret Audsley | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biomedical Sciences | Novel strategies to improve cancer immunotherapy | 2023 |
| Ms Asja Angela Kroeger | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Molecular Sciences | Catalysis in carbon flatland and beyond - A computational investigation into the catalytic effect of graphene and cyclophanes on inversion processes | 2023 |
| Dr Aline Gibson Vega | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biological Sciences | Genetic characterisation and behavioural ecology of the western grasswren (Amytornis textilis textilis) | 2023 |
| Dr Janis Marc Nolde | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical School | Data science and cardiovascular risk | 2023 |
| Dr Jacob Marsh | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biological Sciences | Local haplotyping software development and integrated bioinformatics analysis uncovering impacts of domestication on legume genomes | 2023 |
| Dr Giulia Marchetti | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Social Sciences | Becoming adults elsewhere. The recent migration of young Italians to Australia | 2023 |
| Dr Michael Hall | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Molecular Sciences | Synthesis and reactivity of carbon-rich metallacumulene complexes | 2023 |
| Dr Malindi Gammon | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biological Sciences | Characterising climate change vulnerability at flatback turtle nesting sites in the Pilbara region of Western Australia | 2023 |
| Miss Pin-Pin Chan | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Social Sciences | The 'Zero' modern boy? Contesting the meaning of modern masculinity in early Twentieth-century Japan | 2023 |
| Dr Emily Camins | Doctor of Philosophy | Law School | Casting an international legal safety net: A complementary approach to address the harm to victims of armed conflict | 2023 |
| Dr Chris Arnold | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Humanities | Zero Day | 2023 |
| Miss Amy Ribet | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biomedical Sciences | Elucidating the contribution of osteoclast lysosomal proteins in skeletal homeostasis | 2023 |
| Mr Angus McKenzie | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Engineering | Exploring chemical adsorption to interfaces as a preventative to blockage developments within multiphase flow systems | 2023 |
| Dr Qidi Ying | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical School | Metabolic, vascular and therapeutic aspects of lipoprotein (a) | 2023 |
| Miss Danielle Marie Fynn | Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Neuropsychology - Research | School of Psychological Science | Alexithymia in adults with acquired brain injury: Characterisation, measurement and relationship with emotional outcomes | 2023 |
| Ms Jessica Michelle Bikaun | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Molecular Sciences | Towards a beehive breathalyser: Identification of volatile biomarkers for the costly honey bee disease American foulbrood | 2023 |
| Dr Jessica Moretti | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biological Sciences | Multi-model approach shows novel and diverse effects of low-intensity repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on brain cells and behaviour | 2023 |
| Dr Sonia Colette Sappl | Master of Philosophy | Graduate School of Education | Equating tests across grades in large-scale assessments: A study of two alternate methods in conjunction with methodological innovations | 2023 |
| Mr Yingchao Li | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Engineering | A multiscale study of the structure, transformation, and mechanical behaviour of the NiTiB19' martensite | 2023 |
| Dr Hani Ibrahim M Boukhamsim | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Earth Sciences | Palynoflora from the Barremian-Cenomanian Biyadh and Wasia formations of Saudi Arabia: Insights into the early cretaceous paleovegetation and early radiation of flowering plants | 2023 |
| Dr Yun Young Vanessa Cho | Doctor of Philosophy | Dental School | Understanding children's attention to common dental presentations through eye-tracking | 2023 |
| Ms Monica Furaste Danilevicz | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biological Sciences | Application of deep learning to leverage high-throughput phenotyping for crop breeding | 2023 |
| Mr Daniel Neal Hutchings | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing | Superspin projection operators and off-shell higher-spin supermultiplets on Minkowski and anti-de Sitter superspace | 2023 |
| Ms Fahimeh Mofrad | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Design | Understanding the roles of green spaces for the sustainable development of Canberra, the National Capital of Australia | 2023 |
| Dr Yunxiao Zhang | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Molecular Sciences | Nanostructure and potential-dependent lubricity of iconic liquid | 2023 |
| Ms Farah Samih (Moh'd Badawi) Alkhatib | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Engineering | Patient-specific computational biomechanical analysis of abdominal aortic aneurysm | 2023 |
| Ms Menna Gower | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Population and Global Health | Gender and cultural differences in violent offenders: An examination of risk assessment results in Western Australian prisoners | 2023 |
| Mr Nicholas Brody Lawler | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Molecular Sciences | Exogenous cell stimulation: A versatile approach to programming gene expression | 2023 |
| Mrs Erin Michelle Royer | Doctor of Musical Arts | Conservatorium of Music | Inner reflections: The effects of over-sized saxophone pad resonators on timbre, resonance, and playability | 2023 |
| Miss Maike Stentenbach | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biomedical Sciences | Targeting mitochondrial dysfunction in cardiovascular disease and cancer | 2023 |
| Miss Huynh Khanh Linh | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical School | The investigation of single molecule sequencing to characterise HLA genes for clinical use in allogeneic transplantation | 2023 |
| Student Name | Higher Degree Course | Research Area | Thesis Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Karl Grob | Doctor of Philosophy | Sport Science, Exercise and Health | Surgical exposure of the hip joint and femur with a special emphasis on the architecture and function of the quadriceps muscle group and femoral blood supply | 2017 |
| Dr Andrew Chubb | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Sciences | Chinese Popular Nationalism and PRC Policy in the South China Sea | 2017 |
| Dr Benjamin Sacks | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | 'Purely of their own manufacture': the adoption and appropriation of cricket in Samoa, C. 1879-1939 | 2017 |
| Dr Louise Delane | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Science | Disentangling general and selective contributions to poor executive functioning in children born very preterm: A dual-task approach | 2017 |
| Dr Dianne Lyn Wolfer | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | 'The Shark Caller' and 'The Dog with Seven Names' and 'Crafting Animal Characters in Fiction for Young Readers' | 2017 |
| Dr Mohamed R. Abdalla Estai | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Sciences | 'Photographic caries assessment by different members of the dental team: A mobile teledentistry model' | 2017 |
| Dr Briony Swire-Thompson | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Science | The role of memory and ideological biases in the correction of misinformation | 2017 |
| Dr Gaylene Somerville | Doctor of Philosophy | Agriculture and Environment | The influences of spatial structure and stacking weed control tactics on predictions of herbicide resistance evolution | 2017 |
| Dr Philip Wijesinghe | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering | Improving the accuracy, resolution and contrast of optical coherence elastography toward cellular scale imaging of mechanical properties | 2017 |
| Mr Michael Swaddle | Master of Philosophy | Physics and Astrophysics | SubRiemannian geodesics and cubics for efficient quantum circuits | 2017 |
| Dr Luke Strickland | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Science | The race to remember: A computational model of event-based prospective memory | 2017 |
| Dr Stephen Andrews | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics and Astrophysics | Measuring and modelling the cosmic spectral energy distribution | 2017 |
| Dr Timothy Rosenow | Doctor of Philosophy | Paediatrics and Child Health | Quantitative analysis of chest computed tomography in early cystic fibrosis lung disease | 2017 |
| Student Name | Higher Degree Course | Research Area | Thesis Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Daniel Creedon | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Effects of electron spin resonance in a cryogenic sapphire whispering gallery mode maser | 2012 |
| Mr Rhys Povey | Master of Science | Physics | Microwave cavity hidden sector photons | 2012 |
| Dr Martina-Sara Mueller-Zaugg | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | Re-creating the past: the accuracy of re-created Roman houses and villas in northwestern Europe and the justifications for their creation | 2012 |
| Dr Andrea Nathan | Doctor of Philosophy | Population Health | Active living in retirement village residents: exploring built and social environmental correlates using mixed methods | 2012 |
| Dr Keith Godfrey | Doctor of Philosophy | Business | Can pairs trading act like arbitrage to enforce the law of one price? | 2012 |
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