Current HDR Candidates
Universal Human Rights: The Charter of Medina and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Supervisors: Jan Ali, Linda Briskman
Multiliteracy Skills of Australian Higher Degree Research Students: Challenges and Solutions
Supervisors: Ping Yang, Adrian Hale
When Fact Becomes Fiction and Fiction Becomes Fact: A Post Modernist Study of Selected Graphic Memoirs.
Supervisors: Dimitris Vardoulakis, Anthony Uhlmann
An analysis of the jihad discourse in the Australian newspapers
Supervisors: Jan Ali, Margarite Poulos
Insomnia: The Affordance of Media Theory and Hybrid Media in Visualising a Sleep Disorder
Supervisor: Greg Hughes
The McMillan Diaries and “Grief, Trauma and Letting go in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves”
Supervisors: Anthony Uhlmann, Chris Conti
Billy Tonkin
Excavating the Holocaust: Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
Supervisor: Alison Downham Moore
Christian Laki
Contemporary Popular Music Composition for the Symphony Orchestra
Supervisors: Bruce Crossman, Andrew Milne, John Encarnacao
Claire Deak
Perceptions and conceptions of Francesca Caccini (1587–1645) & Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677): Sensing the past through contemporary composition practice.
Supervisor: Clare Maclean
Dalia Badawi
Intercultural Communication Competence: Investigating Culture-Specific Translation Performance of Arabic Students.
Supervisor: Ping Yang
Dawne Fahey
Visualising Empathy: An alchemist in the Landscape
Supervisors: Hart Cohen, Rachel Morley
Eagle Thespian Ryanzke
An Exploration of Embodied Becoming Through Powerlifting
Supervisors: Alex Ling, Chris Fleming
Faisal Sayani
The Past Disregarded: Recovering the political history of Pakistan with documentary prose (working title)
Supervisor: Ben Etherington, Tegan Daylight
Farz Edraki
Who gets to tell whose stories? Testimonial narrative approaches to fiction
Supervisors: Felicity Castagna, Anne Jamison
Gloria Tabi
A Critical Investigation into the Role of Race in Research And organisational Actions on Workplace Racism in Australia.
Supervisor: Alana Lentin
Hannan Lewsley
The Novel as an Ecological Actor: A Reparative Poetics
Supervisors: Lorraine Sim, Anthony Uhlmann
Huong Ho
The Acquisition of Lexical Mapping in Vietnamese L2 and English L2
Supervisors: Chong Han, Satomi Kawaguchi, Bruno Di Biase
Ian Tasker
The Constitutional Debates Effect on Australian Colonial Astronomy (1912-1941)
Supervisors: Brett Bowden, Alison Downham Moore
Jake Goetz
The Ecological Anti-Epic: Unsettling Environmental Myth-Conceptions Through Contemporary Longform Ecopoetics
Supervisors: Kate Fagan, Helen Koukoutsis
Jane Chanell
Diachronic morphology in noun-noun words in Mandarin Chinese
Supervisors: Robert Mailhammer, Rachel Hendery
John Cusbert
Constrained writing using formal logic: A novel based on Goedel's incompleteness theorems
Supervisors: Anthony Uhlmann, Chris Fleming
Josh Mostafa
Storyworld Orality: Europe Before Writing in Fictional Narrative
Supervisors: Ben Etherington, Kate Fagan, Sara Knox
Judith Jonker
“If nothing else it was colonial”. The 1854 Sydney Exhibition of natural and industrial resources held at the Australian Museum
Supervisors: Bridget Brooklyn, Carol Liston
Julie Vulcan
Touching Dark: Multi-Species Worlds and Relational Matters of the Dark
Supervisors: Chris Fleming, Milissa Deitz, Anna Gibbs
Kithmini Ranaweera
Orientalism Re-imagined: Revisiting the US ‘othering’ of Modern Peripheral Regional Orders through President Obama’s Pivot to Asia-Pacific policy
Supervisors: Brett Bowden, Karen Entwistle
Kian Aspinall
Fascism and the Re-Articulation of the Human: Racial Capitalism and the Anti-Fascism of Twentieth Century Black Radicals
Supervisors: Alana Lentin, Ben Etherington
Lene Majgaard Jeffrey
Exploring integrative self-awareness processes: A voice and meditation approach to wellbeing
Supervisors: Alison Short, Alex Norman
Lilik Istiqomah
Engaging Indonesian English language education students in translating academic texts through Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools: Translation as a multimodal task
Supervisors: Ping Yang, Hiromi Muranaka
Louise Fanning
"How Do I Look?": #MeToo and the Representation of the Cinematic Woman's Inner Life-Themes of Myth and Power
Supervisors: Alison Downham Moore, Alex Ling
Luca Alexander Simonian
Classical utilitarianism, Theory X, and Parfit’s population problems
Supervisors: John Hadley, Chris Fleming
Mahasta Zare
The cross-cultural adaptation experiences of Persian speakers in Australian context
Supervisors: Mustapha Taibi, Robert Mailhammer
Mai Abualsamh
Pragmatic Transfer in Advice-Giving as a Speech Act of Saudi Students in Australia
Supervisors: Ping Yang, Mustapha Taibi
Margot Dunphy
Admired and Despised: Women in the Outside. A study of western women working in the cultural fringe industries in Tokyo during the Bubble and beyond
Supervisors: Rachel Bentley, Alison Gill
Michael Ward
Australia for the Australians: A Study of the Bulletin and Australian Nationalism in the Twentieth Century
Supervisors: Bridget Brooklyn, Margarite Poulos
Misty McPhail
Being There, Online: Co-Creating Digital Festivity at Online Writers’ Festivals
Supervisors: Rachel Morley, Ned Rossiter, Ivor Indyk
Qiang Guo
A Study of Bilingual Development of a Mandarin and English Bilingual Preschool Child from China to Australia
Supervisors: Ruying Qi, Dacheng Zhu
Quyen Tran
Social Media in English Language Teaching in Higher Education in Vietnam
Supervisors: Ping Yang, Roger Dawkins
Ramona Kennedy
Impacts of Immersive Cross-cultural experience on Personal Transformation: An auto-ethnographic Approach to Writing Creative Non-fiction
Supervisors: Hart Cohen, Rachel Morley
Ranran Liu
Early Years’ Exposure to Mandarin Vocabulary Learning Through Play: The Case Study in Australia
Supervisors: Ruying Qi, Dacheng Zhao
Rebekah Ward
Angus & Robertson and Mass Reviewing: Promotional Strategies, Cultural Authority, and Australian Publishing, 1895-1949
Supervisors: Simon Burrows, Ivor Indyk, Anne Jamison
Rhiannon Hall
Finding a Voice: poetry, narrative, and authentic character voicing in the young adult verse novel
Supervisors: Felicity Castagna, Kate Fagan
Robert Pastorelli
The Ethics of Enjoyment as a Normative Theory and its Implications for Metaethics
Supervisors: Alex Ling, Diego Bubbio
Sarah Bacaller
Seeking freedom and trust: Hegelian selfhood in tensile relation with the absolute
Supervisors: Diego Bubbio, Dennis Schmidt
Shashiprabha Senanayake
Use of national security for legitimation by democratically elected leaders with authoritarian inclinations
Supervisors: Diane Colman, Brett Bowden, Liwan Liyanage
Shufang Zhang
Exploring Co-performers' Communications in a Newly-Formed Piano Duo
Supervisors: Diana Blom, Peter Keller
Solomon Wakeling
Dream worlds and nightmare realms: focalising dream fictions with child and adult characters
Supervisors: Helen Basides, Dianne Dickenson
Sophia Barnes
The Second Life: Mourning and Memory in Post-Soviet Russia
Supervisors: Chris Conti, Lorraine Sim, Gail Jones
Stephen Ridgeway
Through Aboriginal Eyes: The Emergence of Aboriginal Cinema
Supervisors: Hart Cohen, Rachel Morley
Suri Matondkar
Tongue: Re-orientalism, shame and the Indian non-native speaking experience
Supervisors: Tegan Daylight, Ben Etherington
Umi Pujiyanti
Identity negotiation in Javanese folk songs and their English translations
Supervisors: Uldis Ozolins, Jing Han,
Thilakshi Mallawa Arachchi
Supporting Refugee and Asylum-seeking Women’s Social Media (civic) Literacy in Australia
Supervisors: Simon Burrows, Loshini Naidoo, Tanya Notley
Thomas Costigan
The emergence of Untied States Dollar as Worlds Reserve Currency
Supervisors: Peter Mauch, Brett Bowden, Steven Drakely
Victoria Brookman
Ecological Crisis-Bound Mothering in Contemporary Literature
Supervisors: Milissa Deitz, Lorraine Sim, James Gourley
Wuyungaowa
Investigating Chinese Translation of Australian Children’s Fiction in China
Supervisors: Jing Han, Dianne Dickenson
Xiaorong Yang
Language and Power in Political Discourse --A Pragmatic Analysis on the Regular Press Conferences of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China
Supervisors: Xiangdong Liu, Chong Han
Xuemei Shao
The Development of Critical Thinking in a Chinese English Sequential Bilingual Child: A Case Study
Supervisors: Ruying Qi, Peter Mauch
Yan Xiong
Chinese art exhibitions in Australia: navigating Australian social and political change.
Supervisors: Hart Cohen, David Cubby
Yvonne Edgren
A Loved Child Has Many Names: Jenny Erpenbeck's Poetics of Anamnesis
Supervisors: Sara Knox, Gail Jones, Chris Conti
Zolt Salontai
Destrukturing Christian Theology: Setting forth a Heideggerian and Gadamer re-envisioning of Jesus Christ as a Work of Art
Supervisors: Milad Milani, Dennis Schmidt