Current HDR Students

	Nick Agafonoff Do brands teach us things? An Ethnomethodology of Successful Versus Unsuccessful Brand Pedagogies - PhD Supervisors: Megan Watkins and Gay Hawkins
	Vanicka Arora Post-Disaster (Re) Construction of Cultural Heritage: Negotiating Value, Authenticity and Acceptable Change in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal - PhD Supervisor: Hayley Saul, Emma Waterton and Denis Byrne Profile (opens in a new window) Contact Vanicka Arora
	Emillie Baganz Cities, Creative Production and Innovation: Home working Mothers in the Cultural and Creative Industries: Navigating Motherhood and work in a Precarious, Neo-liberal economy. Supervisors: Deborah Stevenson, Kyle Budge
	Helen Barcham Beyond the 'Docile Subject': Women's Entanglements with Therapy Culture as Ethical Self-Making - PhD Supervisors: Tanya Notley and Penny Rossiter
	Utsab Bhattarai Resilience Building: A Study of Livelihood Management Practices of the Sherpa People in the Khumbu (Everest) Region, Nepal - (Submitted) Supervisors: Hayley Saul, Emma Waterton and Felicity Picken Profile (opens in a new window)
	Christopher Cheng Australian Migrant Heritage in South China: The Legacy of Diaspora-Funded Schools in Twentieth-Century Zhongshan (Submitted) - PhD Supervisors: Denis Byrne, Ien Ang, and Jocelyn Chey Profile (opens in a new window) Contact Christopher Cheng
	Bhavya Chitranshi The Cusp of Postcapitalist and Feminist Praxis: In Adivasi Contexts - PhD Supervisors: Katherine Gibson and Stephen Healy Profile (opens in a new window)
	Georgia Coe Understanding and Promoting the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Diverse Peoples as Experienced through Digital Spaces - PhD Supervisors: Karen Soldatic, Corrinne Sullivan, Linda Briskman
	Amelia Duong Young Women in Hip Hop - MRes Supervisor: George Morgan
	Xuegang Fan Alternative Food Networks in China: New Peasantry and Reproduction of Alternative Agricultural Space - PhD Supervisors: Katherine Gibson and Stephen Healy
	Kecia Fong Challenging Conservation: Negotiating Space, History, and Culture - PhD Supervisors: Donald McNeill, Emma Waterton and Deborah Stevenson
	Caroline Gasteen Understanding, Evaluating and Critiquing Contemporary Digitisation Practices of Australian Museums- PhD Supervisors: Fiona Cameron and Liam Magee
	Raymond Gibson Management Cultures and Aboriginal Organisations - DCR Supervisors: Karen Soldatic and Louise Crabtree
	Justin Gaudry Panpsychism and Social Theory - MRes Supervisor: Stephen Healy
	Martyna Gliniecka Conversational Aspects of User-based and Institution-based Digital Health-related Networking Spaces for Adolescents - PhD Supervisors: Philippa Collin, Amanda Third, and Teresa Swist
	Therese Hall Shadow Care infrastructures: sustaining life in the post-welfare city? Supervisor: Emma Power
	Mohammad Hanafi Religious Values in Civic Engagement in Indonesian Higher Education - PhD Supervisors: Greg Noble and Megan Watkins
	Thi Thu Ha Hoang The Korean Wave in Vietnam: Social Media-Based Fandom, Affect and Cultural Globalisation (submitted) Supervisors: Ien Ang, David Rowe and Anna Cristina Pertierra Contact: hoanghamt@gmail.com
	Hupfeld Hoerder Bridging the Gap Between the Supply Chain and the Trans-national Fijian Fashion Market - PhD Supervisor: Heather Horst
	Zoë Elena Horn Emergent Architectures of Automation: Logistical Power and the rise of `New Retail? Supervisors: Ned Rossiter, Brett Neilson Profile: Google Scholar (opens in a new window) Contact: Z.Horn@Westernsydney.edu.au
	Clinton Johnson Complicating Nation? Examining Federally Funded Touring Exhibition in an Assemblage Framework (Submitted) - PhD Supervisors: Deborah Stevenson and Emma Waterton
	Nirmal Joy Kerala Migrants & Caste in Australia: Narratives of employment seeking and belonging. Supervisors: George Morgan and Malini Sur
	Madelaine-Marie Judd Manifestations of cultural competency in Australian higher education institutions: Strategic vision versus enacted strategy Supervisors: Megan Watkins, James Arvanitakis and Shelley Kinash LinkedIn
	Christiane Keys-Statham Public Art and the Museum: Connecting the Powerhouse to Parramatta - PhD Supervisors: Malini Sur, Deborah Stevenson, Zelmarie Cantillon
	Marina Khan Technological Spaces and Network Governance: Transformations in the Australian Migration Industry - PhD Supervisors: Shanthi Robertson and Tanya Notley
	Rakesh Kumar Individual Capitalism: Digital Side-projects Entrepreneurships and Platform Capitalism – PhD Supervisors: Liam Magee and Shanthi Robertson
	Boya Li Mainland Chinese International (MCI) students daily civic engagement in Sydney suburbs in relation to their national identity (re)construction and negotiation Supervisor: Megan Watkins, Greg Noble, and Sukhmani Khorana
	Amrita Limbu Everyday Social Protection of Transnational Families: Nepali Migration to Australia and Qatar – (Submitted) Supervisors: Shanthi Robertson and Brett Neilson
	Sally Macarthur Cultures of Work, Gender and Marginality: Civility within Institutional Music Settings Supervisors: Deborah Stevenson, Susanne Gannon
	Anisah Madden Nourishing Deep Pluralism: How Community Food Sector Practices Build Rituals of Care and Connection Across Difference - PhD Supervisors: Katherine Gibson, Stephen Healy, Gerda Roelvink Profile (opens in a new window)
	Philippa Mansor The Cultural Practice of Astrology: a Case Study of Contemporary Traditional Practice - PhD (submitted) Supervisors: Brett Neilson, Elaine Lally and Zoe Sofoulis
	Linda Marsden The Self, Selfies and the Performance of Health Identities by Young People - PhD Supervisors: Amanda Third, Tony Rossi, Nicky Taylor Contact Linda Marsden LinkedIn profile (opens in a new window)
	Dan Musil 'Co-operating for a Just Transition' – Subjects of Economy, Low-Carbon Transition and the Earthworker Cooperative - PhD Supervisors: Katherine Gibson and Stephen Healy Contact Dan Musil
	Kate Naidu Embodying intercultural capacities: An examination of the pedagogic functions of in-country education (Submitted) - PhD Supervisors: Greg Noble and Megan Watkins
	Sarah Nectoux Mobility Capital and the Sensory City: Exploring the impacts of embedded autonomous technologies on migrants with physical disabilities in marginalised areas of Sydney and Paris - PhD Supervisors: Karen Soldatic, and Liam Magee
	Robert Nugent Space and the Cinema of Planetary Regard; Modalities of filmmaking in the time of the Anthropocene - DCA Supervisors: Juan Salazar and Hart Cohen
	Lisa Portolan How has online dating changed the way relationships are instigated, developed and navigated? - PhD Supervisors: Amanda Third and Philippa Collin
	Cali Prince Unmasking the 4th Space: collaborative creativity between artists, people with their communities and institutions.- Doctorate of Cultural Research (DCR) (Submitted) Supervisors: Philippa Collin, James Arvanitakis, and Louise Crabtree Academia profile (opens in a new window)
	Billy Pringle Is the Political 'Moment' of 'Brexit' and the Election of Donald Trump to the Office of US President Reshaping Australian Political Discourse, Particularly Discourses of Neoliberalism? Supervisors: Gregory Noble and Brett Neilson
	Eleanor Robson Contemporary approaches to sustainability governance by Australian local governments: Planetary health in the Blue Mountains. Supervisor: Juan Salazar, Louise Crabtree, Tayanah O'Donnell
	Gina Rocafort Gatarin Moving in Managed Chaos: Social Movements Changing Manila's Transport System - PhD Supervisors: Paul James and Anna Cristina Pertierra
	Md Sabbir Sharif A critical look at the housing career of Australian immigrants’ entry to homeownership - PhD Supervisors: Louise Crabtree and Neil Perry Contact Md Sabbir Sharif
	Francesca Sidoti Young Adults and the Disclosure of Choice - PhD Supervisors: George Morgan and Greg Noble
	Jori Snels Gazing Ahead: China’s Imagined Futures in Digital Art Supervisors: Ned Rossiter and Josh Wodak Profile (opens in a new window)
	David Spillman Exploring Collaborative Competence - DCR (submitted) Supervisors: Bob Hodge and Louise Crabtree
	Ian Steep An Inquiry Into the Lived Experiences of Nepalese Students Studying at Australian Third Party Providers of Higher Education Using Bourdieu's Theory of Practice - PhD Supervisors: Megan Watkins and Tania Ferfolja
	Karen Sy de Jesus Quo Vadis, Chinese Diaspora? Cultural Identities in the Transnational Social Field - PhD Supervisors: Ien Ang and Shanthi Robertson
	Skye Tasker 'Who - or what - are experts of young people's data journeys? Exploring the power relations and curation of mHealth applicants' - PhD Supervisors: Philipa Collin and Teresa Swist
	Slamet Thohari Survival of the Weak - Woman with Disabilities in Javanese Society: A Case of Lendah, Kulonprogo - PhD Supervisor: Karen Soldatic, and Denis Byrne
	Alejandra Villanueva Shaping Up Bodies: An Ethnography of Masculinities and Physical Training in Sydney - PhD Supervisors: Greg Noble and George Morgan
	Yan Wang How does intergenerational relationship sharp youth mobility and transitions to adulthood - PhD Supervisors: Shanthi Robertson, Ann Dadich, and Youqing Fan Profile (opens in a new window)
	Michelle Whitmore Imagineering a world with less plastic waste: A Disney case study Supervisors: Felicity Picken, Denis Byrne, and Emma Waterton
	Vanessa Whittington Moved to care for Country? Visitors, landscape, affect and the role of heritage interpretation - PhD Supervisors: Emma Waterton and Denis Byrne Profile (opens in a new window) Contact Vanessa Whittington
	Jessica XU Tertiary Schooling for Families of Chinese migrant background in Australia - PhD Supervisors: Megan Watkin
	Yinghua Yu How do ‘New Chinese’ Professional Women Negotiate Their Workplace Identities and Work/Life Balance in Sydney? - PhD Supervisors: Greg Noble, Sheree Gregory and Liam Magee Profile (opens in a new window) Contact Yinghua Yu