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How to Apply
If you find a project that interests you, please contact the researcher directly via e-mail to introduce yourself, describe your degrees and experience and express your interest in the project.
For more information, visit the How to apply for HDR programs page.
Business
suitable for PHD PROJECTS
- Economic methodology: is economics a science? What are its philosophical foundations?
- Heterodox economic theories (Institutionalism, Post-Keynesianism, Marxism)
- The ethics of cost-benefit analysis
- Islamic economics and law
- Drivers and barriers to the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies by small to medium enterprises (SMEs)
- Innovative Strategies and collaboration models in the food supply chain
- Big Data analytics and AI for decision-making and business intelligence
- Internet of Things and managing sustainable operations/supply chains
- Smart Technologies and innovative business models
- Health services management: How to promote brilliant healthcare
- Technology-driven operations and supply chain resilience through innovation
- Diaspora philanthropy
- Human-robot interactions: What drives consumers to adopt the technology?
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Voice-Controlled Clinical Coding
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Internet of Things and Smart Environments: Technologies for Health, Disability, Dementia, and Aging Well
- Cybersecurity of Big Data and Massively Interconnected Systems
- Smart Traffic Control for the Era of Autonomous Driving
- Designing Robust Network Topologies Against Cyberattacks by Leveraging Complex Networks Theory
- Enhancing Answer Set Programming with Deep Learning
- Intelligent Photography Curation Using Deep Learning
- Challenges in the Transition from Cloud to Edge Computing
PHD PROJECTS
- Logical Foundation and Implementation of Strategic Reasoning
- Efficient Non-negative Sparse Models for Large Scale Spectral Data
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Also visit the school's updated list of Current and Future Research Projects.
Education
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Innovative and Alternative Learning Environments to Foster Engagement, Connectedness and Wellbeing
- Gender and Sexuality Diversities in Educational Spaces
- Equity, Social Inclusion and Education
SUITABLE FOR PHD
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Engineering, Design and Built Environment
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
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MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Ground Improvement using Chemical Stabilisation
- Soil-Structure interaction issues in Integral Abutment Bridges
- Nondestructive Damage Detection in SHM using Microwave and Millimeter Wave Scanning
- Developing a Liquid Waste Management Framework for Construction Projects
- Optimising Environmental Parameters of Houses using BIM and Digital Twin Technologies
- Bubbledeck System in Composite Steel-concrete Structures
- Ultra-Lightweight High Performance Concrete (ULHPC)
PHD PROJECTS
- A Blockchain Based Integrating Life Cycle Assessment Tool for Construction Projects
- Managing Construction Industry Knowledge Through Blockchain Technology
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Health Sciences
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Physical Activity Promotion in Western Sydney Early Learning Services: Investigating Early Learning Staff and Parent Practices and Perceptions
- Motivations of Animal Therapy Handlers
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Enablers and Barriers to Accessing and Implementing Bright Smiles Bright Futures Program in NSW Primary and Preschool Settings
- The Role of Oral Health Care Professionals in Preventing and Managing Obesity
- Healthy Smiles Healthy Kids Birth Cohort Study
PHD PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
More Projects
- "Teaching an old dog new tricks": Revamping Education for People with Chronic Respiratory Disease
- Supporting People from CALD Communities to Access Virtual Care
- Sports Stars: Developing Pathways for Children with Disabilities to Enter into and Sustain Participation in Community Sport
- Creativity, Movement, and Sport. Can they be friends?
- Culture Clash? An Investigation of the Constructions, Understandings and Experiences of Sexual and Reproductive Health from the Perspective of 1.5 Generation Migrants in Greater Western Sydney
- Foster Carers Digital Literacy
- Greater Western Sydney Workforce Project
- Nature-based Solutions for Health and Wellbeing
- Value for Whom?
- The Same But Not Quite... Biosimilars Awareness in Australia
- Australian Rural Training Hubs
- Dispensing Dentist
- Avoidable Emergency Department Presentation and Hospitalisation for Individuals Living with Disability
- Ethical Courage and Resilience: Caring and Leading in Complex Healthcare Environments
- Rehabilitation to Promote Daily Functioning in People with Brain Cancer
- Changing Lives for Children and Families in Foster Care
- Health Promotion through Sport Coaching: An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Coach Mentoring Project
- The Relationship Between Different Types of Physical Activity and Mental Health
- Motivation, Physical Activity, and Embarrassment in School Physical Education
- Modification of gait biomechanics improves patients with hip osteoarthritis
- The Effect of Smoking and Alcohol Intake on Breastfeeding Outcomes in Australian Women
Medicine
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Using Human Stem Cell Technology to Discover Causes and Treatments of Human Age-related Diseases
- Gut Feeling of Class 3 Obesity and Weight Loss
- Understanding a Bug's Life in the Fat Land
PHD PROJECTS
- Design and Delivery of an Integrated Community Care Model to Transition Adults with Class 3 Obesity from Tertiary Metabolic Services
- Interventions to Reduce Psychological Distress and Eating Disorders in People with Class 3 Obesity
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
More Projects
- MALAT1 Long-non-coding(lnc) RNA in Prediction of Islet Transplantation Outcomes
- Molecular Crosstalk in Immunomodulation by MicroRNAs
- Developing a Crystal Ball for Predicting Diabetes Progression (The PREDICT T1D Study Group: Plasma RNA Evaluation and Diagnosis in Children Progressing to Type 1 Diabetes)
- Using Human Stem Cell Technology to Discover Causes and Treatments of Human Age-related Diseases
- New Research Strategies for Preclinical Research into Amyotrophic-Lateral-Sclerosis
- New Therapeutic Avenues for Dementia
- New Treatments for Drug Addiction Behaviour
- Gene-environment Interactions in Schizophrenia
Nursing and Midwifery
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Early Interventions for Smoking Cessation in Hospitalised Adults
- Defining and Determining High Value COPD Interventions
- Educationally Driven Respiratory Self-management
SUITABLE FOR PHD
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Science
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Graft-Antenna for Nerve Stimulation and Regeneration
- Impact of Microwave-induced Currents on Cells
- Photodynamic Treatment of Nail Fungal Infections
- Simulating Magnetic Resonance Experiments using Symbolic Algebra
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Multi-frequency Study of Neighbouring Magellanic Clouds
- Milky Way Spiral Arms and Mass Extinctions
- Saving our Soils: Carbon Sinks and Closed Loops
- Saving Australia's Native Plants from an Invasive Fungal Parasite using Metabolomics
PHD PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
More Projects
- Investigating Genetic Variants Associated with Childhood Epilepsy
- Avian Ecology and Conservation
- Targetting chloroplasts to improve salt tolerance in wheat
- Improving salt tolerance by optimising solute balance within chloroplasts
- Deciphering trichome function in tomato
- Understanding the Mechanistic Role of New Human DNA Repair Proteins - Novel Avenues to Treat Cancer
- Characterisation of viral proteins to manage future pandemics
- Searching for pulsating neutron stars with the world largest telescopes
- Revealing the nature of Fast Radio Burst with the Parkes telescope
- Immobilised Reagent Assisted Flow Chemistry
- Detection of skeletal remains using Alternate Light Sources (ALS)
- Characterisation of skeletal remins using field portable analytical methods
- Design and development of molecular ‘switches’ for the targeted and ‘on-demand’ delivery of drugs and MRI contrast agents
- Development of a mass spectrometry-based method for the early detection of atherosclerosis
- Investigating the invasiveness of an internationally important pest species, the small hive beetle
- Small but Mighty – Investigating the role of peptide hormones that control the growth and yield of crops
- Cannabinoid signalling in the kidney
- The distribution and function of intragenic regulatory elements
- An Innovative Wireless Device for Nerve Stimulation and Regeneration
- Photodynamic Treatment of Fungal Nail Infections with Nanoparticles
- Mechanobiology of stimulated cells using the atomic force microscope
- Elucidating the effects of light stimulation in stem cell-derived retinal organoids
- Metallo-supramolecular Materials (including Nano Materials): Molecular Recognition, Catalysis, Optical and/or Magnetic Properties
- Metallo-supramolecular Materials in Biological Applications: DNA Binding, Drug Delivery and MRI Contrast Agent
- An independent audit of food and beverage items containing probiotics and/or prebiotics in major Australian supermarkets
- Exploring the impacts of prolonged drought on flower quality in crops and Australian native flowering plants.
- Neural Circuits of Habitual Behaviour
- Microbial Interactions
- Student’s experiences and expectations in Clinical Pharmacology (NATS 2008) at WSU
- Oncology/supportive care services in the public versus private health care sectors
- Treatment of inflammation-induced muscle loss
- Fast MRI
- Investigation and analysis of MRI biomarkers to improve clinical diagnosis
- 1 Million Turtles Citizen Science and Conservation Project
- Vulnerability of Australian bats to White-nose Syndrome – a catastrophic Fungal Disease
- Improving conservation management outcomes for flying-foxes (Pteropus spp.)
- The acoustic ecology and conservation of the endangered rufous scrub-bird
- Proton exchange based molecular imaging by MRI
- Inhibiting the Reproductive Cycle of SARS-CoV-2 Virus by Binding of Novel Drugs
- Simulating the Effect of Radiation Damping on WaterControl NMR Experiments
- Metabolomic Study of Dealcoholised Wines
- Proton Exchange Based Molecular Imaging by MRI
- Metallo-supramolecular Materials (including Nano Materials): Molecular Recognition, Catalysis, Optical and/or Magnetic Properties
- Metallo-supramolecular Materials in Biological Applications: DNA Binding, Drug Delivery and MRI Contrast Agent
- Determining the Outcomes of Host-pathogen Interactions
- Microbial Biofilms, Examining the Complex Relationships Between Microbes
- Development of a Mass Spectrometry-based Method for the Early Detection of Atherosclerosis
- Noisy Neighbours: Do Native Birds Call Less When Invasive Birds Are Calling?
- Optimising NMR Diffusion Measurements
- A Cancer Biomarker Discovery and Translation Pipeline from High-field MRI
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Plants
- Investigating Azeotropic Mixtures with NMR Diffusometry and Relaxomtery
- Wombats
- Harnessing the Power of Defensive Microbes and Discovering New Antibiotic Drugs for Medicine or Fungicides for Agriculture
- Proton Exchange Based Molecular Imaging by MRI
Social Sciences
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Disability and Pornography
PHD PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Culture and Society | ICS
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Anthropocene Extinction and the Ethics of Conservation by Technoscience
PHD PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Environmental Sciences | HIE
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Assessing the Conservation Status of Australia's Invertebrates
- Australian Alpine Conservation - How Will Species Cope Without Snow?
- Talking Trees and their Response to Carbon Dioxide (EucFACE)
- How will Climate Warming Affect the Growth and Physiology of Coffee and Tea Plants?
- Discovery of Genetic Mechanisms and Chemical Photoswitches that Regulate Micronutrient Levels in Plants
- Touching Plants to Prime Resistance to Insect Herbivory and Adaptation to Stress
PHD PROJECTS
- Feast or Famine: How Australian Plants Stay Productive Under Different Levels of Soil Phosphorus
- Pushing the Envelope: Does Range Size Limit Eucalypt Tolerance to Warming?
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Integrative and Complementary Medicine | NICM
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Supporting People with Dementia in the Community: A Multicultural Perspective
- Exploring the Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Exercise in Ageing and Cognitive Decline
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Explore Novel Anti-neuroinflammatory Phytochemical(s) in Attenuation of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Multi-compound Therapy Development Against Acute Inflammation in Infectious Diseases
- Can Natural Bioactives Enhance the Efficacy of Standard Chemotherapy?
PHD PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Brain, Behaviour and Development | MARCS
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Decoding the Neural Basis of Object Perception
- Unsupervised Learning for Event-based Cameras
PHD PROJECTS
- Research on Conversation by Young and Older Adults
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Translational Health | THRI
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Determinants of consumers’ trust and use of food labels among Libyan migrants in Australia
- Impact of Impact of oral health conditions on the quality of life of preschool children and their families
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- Avoidable Emergency Department Presentation and Hospitalisation for Individuals Living with Disability
- Embedding dementia education and brain healthy lifestyles in primary school education
- Evaluating a Training Program for Aged Care Staff
- Gene-environment interactions in schizophrenia
- Greater Western Sydney Workforce Project
- Healthy Smiles Healthy Kids Birth Cohort Study (multiple new and existing project opportunities)
- Identifying and delivering effecting public health campaigns targeting dementia risk in middle-aged adults
- Nature-based Solutions for Health and Wellbeing
- New therapeutic targets for dementia
- Patterns, determinants and barriers for physical activity participation among disadvantaged populations
- The Epidemiology of Maternal and Child Health in Low and Middle Income Countries
- The human right to leisure for people imprisoned
- Therapeutic properties of cannabidiol for drug use problems
- Validating psychometric tools to measure dementia risk in culturally and linguistically diverse populations
- Value for whom?
PHD PROJECTS
- Application of artificial intelligence in sports science and sports medicine
- Infant Feeding and the Risk of Overweight in Young Children
- Breastfeeding Practices and Oral Health in Australian Preschool Children
- Diabetes and Oral Health (DiabOH): Validation of the Periodontal Risk Assessment Tool (PRISK)
- Music, Colour and Mental Health in Young People
- Normalising oral health in alcohol and other drug recovery (NormAD)
- Quality Equity and Systems Transformation in Primary Health Care (QUEST PHC) - Developing patient-reported measures for Australian general practice
- Success stories in reconciling homosexuality and religiosity
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
Graduate Research School
MASTER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Impact of Parental Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Deployment to Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan on Adult Children in Military Families
MASTER OF RESEARCH / PHD PROJECTS
- N/A - Visit our find a supervisor page for further advice.
PHD PROJECTS
- Prevalence study: Impact of parental deployment vs non-deployment in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) on the wellbeing of adult children in defence families
For detailed descriptions and contact details for these projects, please download the project list.
How to Apply
For more information, visit the How to apply for HDR programs page.
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