HDR Candidates

Adam Conway

Topic: 'Neurobehavioural profile of autism spectrum disorder and binge eating disorder'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Phillipa Hay

Co-supervisor – Dr Brooke Donnelly

Adaora Ezekwem-Obi

Topic: 'Upholding the Right to Cultural Connection for Children in Out-of-Home Care'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Rebekah Grace

Co-supervisor – Associate Professor Stacy Blythe

Aidan Wood

Topic: 'Optimising Youth Mental Health Services to Improve Mental Health Outcomes and Reduce Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours in Western Sydney'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page

Co-supervisors – Dr Sandro Martins Sperandei, Associate Professor Arianne Reis

Amanda Gilmore

Topic: 'Assessing Toward Zero Initiatives from customer and staff perspectives'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Sandro Martins Sperandei

Co-supervisor – Associate Professor Arianne Reis

Anna Spencer

Topic: 'Understanding the experiences and needs of the NSW AOD LLE workforce and stakeholders relative to state policy and infrastructure'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Elizabeth Conroy

Co-supervisor – Dr Natalie Morrison

Annelise Gluer

Topic: 'Widening Access to the Medical and Health Professions'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Wendy Hu

Co-supervisor – Professor Lise Mogensen

Basim Shamaon

Topic: 'Examining the role of English proficiency in determining refugee mental health outcomes in the settlement process'

Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Shameran Younan

Co-supervisor – Associate Professor Ilse Blignault

Bradley Burns

Topic: 'Supporting Aboriginal Children in Out-of-home Care'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Rebekah Grace

Co-supervisors – Dr Gabrielle Drake, Dr Scott Avery, Dr Dianne Jackson (adjunct)

Christine Crispin

Topic: 'An exploration of factors influencing homeschooling trends, school disengagement, and related academic and social outcomes in NSW'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Rebekah Grace

Co-supervisors – Associate Professor Roman Marchant (University of Technology Sydney), Dr Susan Collings, Dr Cris Townley

Coralie Properjohn

Topic: 'An exploration of teachers' subjective experiences of teaching the "difficult knowledge" inherent in Stolen Generations pedagogy'

Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Rebekah Grace

Co-supervisors – Dr Corrinne Sullivan, Dr Kevin Lowe

Danet Chapman

Primary Supervisor – Professor Rebekah Grace

Co-supervisors – Dr Susan Collings, Professor Ann Dadich and Dr Matias Quiroz (UTS)

Emmanuel Musoni

Topic: 'Accessing farmland: challenges and possibilities of regional settlement of humanitarian migrants'

Primary Supervisor – Distinguished Professor Andre Renzaho

Farjana Islam Aovi

Topic: 'Prenatal Drug Exposures (PDE) and the Development of ADHD in Children & Adolescents: A Population-Based Study of Educational Outcomes in New South Wales, Australia'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page

Co-supervisor – Dr Sadia Hossain

Gavin Prowse

Topic: 'An Examination of Outcome Trajectories for Public Mental Health Inpatient Participants of a Brief Transdiagnostic Group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Intervention for Serious Mental Illness'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Lise Mogensen

Co-supervisor – Dr Elizabeth Conroy

Gayani Munasinghe

Topic: 'Using primary health care data to improve patient outcomes'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Sandro Martins Sperandei

Co-supervisors – Professor Andrew Page, Dr Sithum Munasinghe

Ghada Alsultany

Topic: 'Design and Delivery of an Integrated Intervention to Maintain Treatment Outcomes During Transition from Tertiary Obesity Treatment to Community Care'

Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Kate McBride

Co-supervisors – Associate Professor Freya MacMillan, Associate Professor Milan Piya, Dr Kathryn Williams

Ghalia Abu Mohsen

Topic area: 'Digital screening and digital support tools in heavy menstrual bleeding'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Kylie Steel

Co-supervisors – Prof Robert Gorkin, Dr M Talat Uppal (external), Dr Farnaz Sabet (external)

Ghulam Muhammad Umar

Topic: 'A whole of systems approach to e-cigarette uses and vaping behaviours in South Western Sydney'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page

Co-supervisors – Professor Roderick McClure, Dr Yi Guo

Hir Jani

Topic: 'Pelvic floor disorders among women who have experienced sexual violence'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Elizabeth Conroy

Co-supervisor – Professor Andrew Page

Joshua Schiller

Topic: 'Exploring common fussy eating behaviours, patterns and experiences in children under 9 years of age'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Catharine Fleming

Co-supervisors – Dr Caroline Mills, Associate Professor Gabriella Heruc

Kathy Karatasas

Topic: 'Keeping CALD Children in Care Culturally Connected: Exploring what it takes to keep children from diverse cultural backgrounds connected to their culture?'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Rebekah Grace

Kim Slender

Topic: 'Holocaust Trauma Transmission in Families: A Single Family Case Study'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Natalie Morrison

Co-supervisors – Dr Elizabeth Conroy, Dr Anna Denejkina

Kyar Wilkey

Topic: 'A mixed method investigation into Health clinicians’ attitudes and beliefs about the cultural responsiveness of Motivational Interviewing as an intervention for use with Indigenous communities.'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Aunty Kerrie Doyle

Co-supervisors – Dr Rashid Flewellen and Dr Elizabeth Conroy

Phuong Dung Nguyen (Kylie)

Topic area: 'Early-onset cancer in Australia'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page

Co-supervisors – Associate Professor Kate McBride, Dr Sithum Munasinghe

Lili Yuen

Topic: 'Ethnic differences in women with gestational diabetes mellitus'

Primary Supervisor – Professor David Simmons

Co-supervisors – Professor Jeff Flack, Associate Professor Vincent Wong

Mi Jin Kim

Topic: 'How is the expertise of early childhood educators recognised among families and educators?'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Rebekah Grace

Co-Supervisors – Dr Elisabeth Duursma, Associate Professor Christine Johnston

Dr Mithilesh Dronavalli

Topic: 'Evaluating Primary Mental Health-Care Interventions in Areas of Social Disadvantage'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page

Co-Supervisor – Dr Sandro Martins Sperandei

Mohammad Monirul Haque

Topic: 'Economics of Hyperglycaemia in Pregnancy'

Primary Supervisor – Distinguished Professor David Simmons

Co-Supervisors – Associate Professor Kathy Tannous, Dr Milan Piya

Ngozika Esther Ezinne

Topic: 'Tharawal Holistic Indigenist Metabolic Clinic: A replicability and adaptability study to improve metabolic health in Aboriginal clients of an Aboriginal Medical Service'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Aunty Kerrie Doyle

Co-Supervisors – Associate Professor Kingsley Agho, Dr Levi Osuagwu

Nilab Hamidi

Topic: 'An exploration of experiences and perceptions of infertility amongst Afghan women living in Australia'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Alexandra Hawkey

Co-Supervisors – Dr Rosalie Power, Professor Jane Ussher

Priyanka Bhat

Topic: 'Digital and AI Health Literacy on Vaping Among Young People'

Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Amit Arora

Co-Supervisors – Dr Daniel Waller, Dr Lauren Gardner

Qingqing Li

Topic: 'From Competition to Retirement: Predictors and Trajectories of Eating Disorder Symptoms in Athletes'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Phillipa Hay

Co-supervisors – Associate Professor Emma George and Dr Scott Fatt (UTS)

Rahat Akbar

Topic: 'Trajectories of health, wellbeing and service use among young people following a presentation indicating risk of subsequent suicidal behaviour'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page

Co-supervisor – Dr Sithum Munasinghe, Dr Ash Padhi (WSLHD)

Rick Varma

Topic: 'GP shared care and referral pathways in populations attending publicly funded sexual health and Blood Borne Virus services'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Penny Abbott

Co-supervisor – Dr Elizabeth Conroy

Rojina Raked

Topic: 'Implementing Safe Nutrition Messaging in Australian Schools: A Pilot Intervention'

Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Gabriella Heruc

Co-supervisors – Dr Lyza Norton, Dr Catharine Fleming, Dr Sarah Kennedy

Samia Michail

Topic: 'Child Voice Mechanisms for Children at Risk in NSW'

Primary Supervisor - Dr Rebekah Grace

Co-supervisors - Dr Kelly-Anne Baird, Dr Tobia Fattore

Sandra Sonego

Topic: 'Navigating to equity: Building and growing effective cancer navigation programs for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia’

Primary Supervisor - Associate Professor Kate McBride

Co-supervisors - Associate Professor Carolyn Ee, Professor Wei Chua

Sarah Hirst

Topic: 'Exploring Severe and Complicated Obesity: Lived Experiences and Impacts in the Context of Multidisciplinary Care Models'

Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Kate McBride

Co-supervisor – Associate Professor Milan Piya

Shahana Ferdousi

Topic: 'Evaluation of GP Practice Indicators and Real Time Visualisation for Chronic Disease Outcomes'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Andrew Page

Co-supervisor – Associate Professor Kate McBride

Simone Nash

Topic: 'Equity and developmental screening during the first 2000 days of life: An investigation of social and health literacy related determinants'

Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Amit Arora

Co-supervisors – Professor Valsamma Eapen (UNSW), Dr James John (UNSW), Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari (UNSW), Dr Caroline Mills

Sisira Dharmaratne

Topic: 'Place, Social Accountability and Professional Identity Formation'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Wendy hu

Co-supervisors – Dr Asela Olupeliyawa, Professor Stephen Tobin

Tagrid Yassine

Topic: 'Impacts of place-based knowing on curriculum and student experiences'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Wendy Hu

Co-supervisors – Associate Professor Monica Moran, Professor Dawn Forman, Dr Yann Guisard

Tamima Rahman

Topic: 'Co-creation and community: Developing a validated scale with refugee and migrant students in Western Sydney'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Susan Collings

Co-supervisor – Dr Daniel Waller

Tiffany Allen

Topic: 'Can assessing and intervening to improve a primary caregiver’s attachment security through attachment-focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) improve outcomes in psychological interventions (individual, dyadic, or group) intended to reduce mental health symptoms in children 0-12 years of age?'

Primary Supervisor – Dr Natalie Morrison

Co-supervisor – Associate Professor Shameran Younan

Timothy Low-wah

Topic: 'Understanding the Dietary and Lifestyle Behaviours That Impact Diabetes Risk Factors in Pasifika Children and Adolescents to Develop a Family-based Intervention in Sydney, Australia'

Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Kate McBride

Co-supervisors – Associate Professor Freya MacMillan, Distinguished Professor David Simmons, Dr Jason Wu

Wei-May Su

Topic: 'Identifying and engaging with people who use abuse and violence who present in Australian general practice'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Penny Abbott

Co-supervisors – Dr Elizabeth Conroy, Professor Kelsey Hegarty (University of Melbourne)

Yiting Duan

Topic: 'Reliable Risk Predictive Model for Chronic Conditions Using Health Care Data Based on Data Quality Evaluating Mechanism and Machine Learning Algorithms'

Primary Supervisor – Associate Professor Yi Guo

Co-supervisors – Dr Sandro Martins Sperandei, Professor Andrew Page

Yive Yang

Topic: 'What is the added value of a dietitian in the treatment of eating disorders?'

Primary Supervisor – Professor Phillipa Hay

Co-supervisor – Dr Janet Conti