Scholarship Projects
Two PhD Scholarships in Translational Health Research are available for the topics below.
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Adolescent mental health
| Primary Supervisor | Topic/project | Disciplinary focus | Methodological approach | Community partners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Conroy | The role of peer workers and mentors in improving outcomes for young people with sub-acute and severe mental health problems (opens in a new window) | Psychology, medicine or other health-related discipline | Qualitative, mixed methods | Parramatta Mission |
| Deb Mitchison | Elucidating risk factors for the development of disordered eating and development of a pilot early intervention program (opens in a new window) | Psychology, medicine or other health-related discipline | Epidemiology, biostatistics | |
| Andrew Page | Adolescent mental health - exploring trajectories through stepped care (opens in a new window) | Any | Epidemiology, data analytics or mixed methods | Parramatta Mission |
Complex trauma
| Primary Supervisor | Topic/project | Disciplinary focus | Methodological approach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Conroy | Managing chronic pain conditions in women with experiences of complex trauma (opens in a new window) | Physiotherapy, occupational therapy or similar | Mixed methods |
Health care systems and data analytics
| Primary Supervisor | Topic/project | Disciplinary focus | Methodological approach | Community partners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Dadich | How to promote brilliant healthcare for complex issues (opens in a new window) | Humanities, management, social science or health-related discipline | Participatory Action Research | St George Hospital, Sydney Children's Hospital Network |
| Carolyn Ee | Evaluation of Australia's first academic integrative healthcare centre (opens in a new window) | |||
| Liwan Liyanage | Spatio-temporal interpolation methods for data integration: Application on studying environmental effects on asthma, diabetes and cataracts (opens in a new window) | Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Statistics | Data analytics | |
| Haider Mannan | Modelling Chronic Heart Disease (CHD) mortality in Australia by geography, Indigenousness and SES groups (opens in a new window) | Epidemiology, statistics, quantitative social sciences | Biostatistics, data analytics | |
Health professionals' education
| Primary Supervisor | Topic/project | Disciplinary focus | Methodological approach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy Hu | Place identity and belonging: medical and health practitioners in underserved areas (opens in a new window) | Education, psychology, sociology, geography, medicine & other health related disciplines | Design Based Research |
Infant and child health and wellbeing
| Primary Supervisor | Topic/project | Disciplinary focus | Methodological approach | Community partners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amit Arora | Early infant feeding and health outcomes in later life - a birth outcome study (opens in a new window) | Health-related discipline | Epidemiology, biostatistics | SLHD, SWSLHD, NSW Health |
| Cathy Kaplun | Enhancing young children's guided learning, health and nutrition, and wellbeing through creation of a school-based playful learning garden (opens in a new window) | Any | Participatory Action Research | Parramatta City Council, Toongabbie East Public School, Community Centre |
| Gillian Murphy | Supporting children with parental death: Narratives of emergency, acute and primary care workers (opens in a new window) | Any | Qualitative | |
Obesity and health care outcomes
| Primary Supervisor | Topic/project | Disciplinary focus | Methodological approach | Community partners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evan Atlantis | Decision aid for clinical obesity services (DACOS): the DACOS pilot study (opens in a new window) | Any | Epidemiology, data analytics | National Association of Clinical Obesity Services |
| Kate McBride | Bigger Health (opens in a new window) | Population health | Mixed methods / Epidemiology / Qualitative | South Western Sydney Primary Health Network |
Reproductive health among CALD women
| Primary Supervisor | Topic/project | Disciplinary focus | Methodological approach | Community partners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Amour | Menstrual health literacy and self-care practices in culturally and linguistically diverse women (opens in a new window) | Any | Qualitative, mixed methods | Community Migrant Resource Centre |
| Alex Hawkey | Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women’s experiences of contraception use for fertility control (opens in a new window) | Psychology, sociology, social sciences, public health, and other health-related disciplines | Qualitative | |
| Alex Hawkey | Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Women's experience of endometriosis (opens in a new window) | Psychology, sociology, social sciences, public health, and other health-related disciplines | Qualitative | Endometriosis Australia |
Spirituality and wellbeing
| Primary Supervisor | Topic/project | Disciplinary focus | Methodological approach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brahm Marjadi | Reconciling homosexuality and Christianity: A qualitative study on lived experiences (opens in a new window) | Any | Qualitative |