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

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Douglas Belton

Reworlding the “Real World”: Community-led Interventions in Food and Human Settlement System Innovation - PhD

Supervisor: Stephen Healey

Nicole Campbell

Behind the Latte Line - Exploring socio-spatial polarisation within Western Sydney - PhD

Supervisors: Louise Crabtree-Hayes and Emma Power

Bhavya Chitranshi

The Cusp of Postcapitalist and Feminist Praxis: In Adivasi Contexts - PhD

Supervisors: Katherine Gibson and Stephen Healy

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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

Rahmatul Furqan

Digital Advocacy and Self Persona: The Rise of Young Microcelebrity with Disabilities in Indonesia

Supervisors: Gerard Goggin and Benjamin Hanckel

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Raymond Gibson

Management Cultures and Aboriginal Organisations - DCR

Supervisors: Karen Soldatic and Louise Crabtree

Martyna Gliniecka

Making health with peers. A dialogical analysis of discussions on teenagers’ subreddits - PhD

Supervisors: Philippa Collin, Amanda Third, and Teresa Swist

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Therese Hall

Older women’s struggle for support when facing homelessness – PHD

Supervisor: Emma Power, Emma Mitchell and Jenna Condie

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Mohammad Hanafi

Religious Values in Civic Engagement in Indonesian Higher Education - PhD

Supervisors: Greg Noble and Megan Watkins

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

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Contact: Z.Horn@Westernsydney.edu.au

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

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Christiane Keys-Statham

Down by the River: Embedding the Museum

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

Young PRC-born Migrants’ Civic Engagement in Sydney: (Re)construction and Negotiation of National Identifications

Supervisor: Megan Watkins, Greg Noble, and Benjamin Hanckel

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Sally Macarthur

Cultures of Work, Gender and Marginality: Civility within Institutional Music Settings

Supervisors: Deborah Stevenson, Susanne Gannon

Anisah Madden

The Micropolitics of Transforming Global Food Governance: Food Sovereignty Movements in the UN Committee on World Food Security - PhD

Supervisors: Katherine Gibson, Stephen Healy, Gerda Roelvink

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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

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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

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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

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

Nathan Reynolds

The Creation of Sustainable Communities in Western Sydney Master Planned Developments: A New Institutionalist Perspective - PhD

Supervisors: Louise Crabtree-Hayes and Emma Power

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

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

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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

Yan Wang

How does intergenerational relationship sharp youth mobility and transitions to adulthood - PhD

Supervisors: Shanthi Robertson, Ann Dadich, and Youqing Fan

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Alex Wharton

Supporting Family-based Media Literacy in Regional New South Wales: Challenges and Opportunities - PhD

Supervisors: Dr Tanya Notley and Dr Aimee Hourigan

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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

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