Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Theses

The Dean’s Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Theses gives formal recognition to outstanding PhD and MPhil graduates whose theses have been independently assessed as outstanding by their external thesis examiners.

The award is based on examiners’ written feedback during the thesis examination, prior to the oral examination. To receive the Dean’s Award, both examiners must have rated the thesis as “well above expectations” for each of five thesis quality assessment categories:

The thesis demonstrated an original contribution to the generation and/or application of knowledge
The thesis engaged with the literature and the works of others
The thesis showed an advanced knowledge of research principles and methods relating to the applicable discipline
There is clear and discernible coherence in the presented research, its arguments, and conclusion
The thesis is convincingly written

2024 winners

Australian Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Karthik Balaji Shanmugasundaram	Advanced Micro and Nano Engineered Sensors for Post Translational Modification based Liquid Biopsy Analysis of Cancer

Faculty of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Rachael Claire Adams	Preclinical modelling of central nervous system complications and toxicities of cellular and immunotherapies for cancer treatment
Dr Pia Bradshaw	Understanding the healthcare experiences of autistic adults within Australian general practice
Dr Rabina Giri	Drugs from Bugs: Harnessing the host-microbe interactions that modulate the immune responses in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Dr Claire Mary Jeans	Lymphoedema following head and neck cancer treatment: Prevalence, risk factors, and functional impact on swallowing and quality of life
Dr Carly Renee Luke	Early detection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants at high chance of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes at 12 months corrected age
Dr Da Zou	Development of artificial mesenchymal stem cells for hepatocellular carcinoma drug delivery

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Sophie Shen	Multilineage differentiation from pluripotency reveals genetic regulators of cardiovascular physiology
Dr Thulasi Sritharan	Microbial Biodiscovery: Exploring the Natural Products of Australian microorganisms

Institute for Social Science Research

Name	Thesis title
Dr Anna Rosa Loeffler	The Significance of Nap Cessation for Children's Social-emotional Functioning

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation

Name	Thesis title
Dr Vheena Mohankumar	Biology and epidemiology of Botryosphaeria branch dieback and tree death in macadamia

Queensland Brain Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Matthew John Kenna	Distinct amygdala to prefrontal connectivity drives fear memory formation
Dr Ting Xiang Lim	Development of PET Radioligands targeting the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Glioblastoma
Dr Shanley Frieda Longfield	The Nanoscale Characterisation of Synaptic Vesicle Pools
Dr Benjamin Sean Matthews	Investigating the role of myristic acid in memory and learning
Dr Svetlina Svilenova Vasileva	The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Psychiatric Illness: From Prenatal Risk Factors to Treatment Resistance
Dr Xuan Ling Hilary Yong	Activity-dependent trafficking of NMDA receptors in mammalian central neurons

School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability

Name	Thesis title
Dr Taleta Louise Bailey	Beyond mineralisation: The role of soil organic matter in mediating nitrogen cycling dynamics in an Australian cotton soil

School of Business

Name	Thesis title
Dr Wenquan Li	Three Essays on Corporate Toxic Emissions

School of Chemical Engineering

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Xuemei Li	Metal-Organic Framework Crystal Glass Composites
Dr Mengying Xie	Understanding of the novel metabolic behaviour of nitrogen and metal-dependent anaerobic methane-oxidizing microorganisms

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Morgan Eliza Freney	The Structural and Antigenic Landscape of Emerging Encephalitic Flaviviruses
Dr Xin Lin	Drug discovery targeting branched chain amino acid biosynthesis

School of Civil Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Edwin Hidayat	Development of a risk management framework for enhancing tunnel safety operation
Mr Jian Jiang	Optimisation of timber selection in low-rise residential building wall frame construction

School of Communication and Arts

Name	Thesis title
Dr Gareth James Belling	Policy as Choreographic Act: How the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Shaped a National Dance Identity
Dr Simon Lewis Hall	What drives seasonal anthology television?: Death and renewal, iterative continuity, and aesthetic complexity
Dr Caitlin Mary West	Discursive Play: Performing Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
Mr Pierce John Frederick Wilcox	What we hear when we read: sound, ekphrasis and the novel

School of Dentistry

Name	Thesis title
Mr Richard Huynh	Barriers to Widespread Endodontic Practice Amongst General Dental Practitioners in Queensland, Australia

School of Economics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Ali Furkan Kalay	Essays in Administrative Data Methodologies
Dr Yi Zhang	Essays in Labor Economics

School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Junya Luo	Generic Condition Monitoring on Distribution Systems
Dr Graeme Carl Mattison	Integrating Wearable Devices into the Patient-Centred Digital Healthcare Environment
Dr Dilmi Nathasha Upendrini Naranpanawa	Towards Analysis of Contextual Melanoma Indicators and Identification of Total-Body Ugly Duckling Lesions with Deep Neural Networks

School of the Environment

Name	Thesis title
Dr Maximiliano Andres Alvarez Contreras	Understanding heterogeneous interregional migration trends in developed countries
Dr Zachary Dylan Amir	Megafauna losses and predatory interactions in tropical forests
Dr Rosabella Borsellino	Stuck people and sticky places: the shifting geography of moving and staying in Australian regions
Dr Avneet Kaur	The polygenic architecture of local adaptation in Senecio lautus
Dr Arief Rahman	Navigating Indonesia's Energy Landscape: Dynamics of Oil Dependency and Implications for the Decarbonization Pathways
Dr Merewalesi Waqavesi Yee	Centering local voices across planned relocations: case studies from Fiji

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Mansour Abdullah M Alshehri	Relationship Between Trunk Postural Control And Low Back Pain
Dr Lauren Anne Crumlish	The M.O.S.T-Project: Meaningful Outcomes for School-aged Children and Adolescents with Cognitive-Communication Disorders arising from Traumatic Brain Injuries
Dr Jacinta Rose Quartermaine	Participation Experiences of Young People with Cerebral Palsy

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Name	Thesis title
Miss Chara Grace Scroope	Cultivated Wisdom, Knowledge, and Discerning Insight: A Study of Jnana in the Samkhya Textual Tradition

School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr James David Woodforde	Before-School Physical Activity: A Comprehensive Examination of Outcomes, Behaviours, Correlates and Stakeholder Perspectives

School of Mathematics and Physics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Joshua Jesse Guanzon	Advancements in quantum information protocols using quantum optics
Dr Hao Chuien Hang	Hamilton decompositions and edge colourings of graph compositions
Dr Raymon Watson	Quantum thermodynamics of integrable and near-integrable atomic systems

School of Pharmacy

Name	Thesis title
Dr Yuxue Cao	Smart Silica nanoparticles for oral biologics delivery

School of Political Science and International Studies

Name	Thesis title
Dr Elizabeth Marx	Keynes, Keyserling, and the Intellectual Origins of the Employment Act 1946
Dr Helena Kathryn Kajlich	Racism in the Australian Health Justice System: Racial logics and the Coronial System

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Hannah Louise Biddell	Arousal Coherence: Feeling our way through uncertainty
Dr James Padraic Casey	No Sympathy for the Devil: Moral barriers to empathy for political opponents
Dr Tessa Ruth Clarkson	The Impact of Self and Reward on Cognitive Processes
Dr Mischel Luong	Spaces that Fit: Understanding the Dynamics, Perceptions, and Implications of Employees' Experiences of Workspace Compatibility
Dr Brienna Niamh Rutherford	Social Substances: The Online Landscape of Substance Use
Dr Deanna Marion Varley	Social and Affective Impacts of Adult Attachment Style on Sensitivity to Distress and the Experience of Compassion
Dr Zhou Yu	Rapid Visual Processing of Looming Emotional Faces

Sustainable Minerals Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Mussa Mapigano Lisso	Understanding and Modelling the Performance of a Semi-inverted Hydrocyclone

2023 winners

Australian Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Emtiaz Ahmed	Novel Nanotechnology Platforms for Cancer Diagnostics
Dr James Humphries	Understanding Immunogenicity in Nanomedicine
Dr Sathish Gangadharan Nadar	Development of Membrane-Based Purification Process for Monoclonal Antibodies
Dr Zhen Zhang	Precision Nano-Diagnostics for Dynamically Profiling Glioblastoma Multiforme and the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cancer

Faculty of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Keshia De Guzman	Evaluation of the economic factors and clinician drivers impacting telehealth uptake and sustainability in Australian general practice settings
Dr Claire Ellender	Increasing Adherence for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) Usage in Vulnerable Australian Populations with Sleep Apnoea
Dr Tatjana Ewais	Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Youth with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Depression: Understanding Mindfulness in the Context of Depression and Inflammation
Dr Rosemary Gilmore	A multi-centre, randomised waitlist-control trial investigating a parent assisted social skills group program for adolescents with brain injuries: The Friends Project
Dr Silver Heinsar	A Comprehensive Pre-Clinical Evaluation of Pulsatile Flow Veno-arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Dr Dilki Jayasinghe Arachchige	Statistical Modelling of the Natural History and Spatial Distribution of Naevi using 3D Total-Body Photography
Dr Kavindri Kulasinghe	ENACT (Environmental enrichment for infants, parenting with ACT): An Intervention for infants with an increased chance of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Dr Carrie-Anne Lewis	Micronutrient management and bariatric surgery: evaluation of clinical outcomes, patient experience, and an extended scope dietitian-led model of care
Dr Michael Schachtel	Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Extending to the Temporal Bone
Dr Samreen naz Shaikh	Unravelling the response and functional role of microglia in different inflammatory conditions
Dr Jackson Thorp	Embracing Complexity in Psychiatric Genetics: Investigating Heterogeneity and Pleiotropy in Depression and Major Psychiatric Disorders
Dr Karen Tuesley	Using large-scale data to explore the association between the use of chronic disease medical treatments and the risk of ovarian cancer

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Kimberley Biggs	Identification and Evaluation of Macrocyclic hASIC1a Inhibitors for Neuroprotective Applications
Dr Thai Duong Luong	DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL MODULAR ENCAPSULATION SYSTEM FOR TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation

Name	Thesis title
Dr Amy Mackenzie	Protecting wheat from rust diseases through transfer of genetic resistance from landraces
Dr Yujun Wan	The Analysis of Liver Glycogen Structure and its Implication in Various Diseases

School of Agriculture & Food Sustainability

Name	Thesis title
Dr Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun	Designing Sustainable Agrivoltaic Systems: Overcoming Barriers to Integrate Pasture Cropping and Livestock Grazing in Australian PV Farms

School of Architecture, Design & Planning

Name	Thesis title
Dr Maram Shaweesh	Making Home in the Suburb: An Architectural Analysis of Everyday Life in the Australian Lebanese House

School of Biological Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Lauren Kaye	The ecology of Macrozamia lucida L.A.S.Johnson cycads with special reference to the environmental requirements of the most sensitive life cycle transitions.

School of Business

Name	Thesis title
Dr Shunji Mei	Three Essays on Contracting and Compensation
Dr Archana Mishra	How and Why Senior Managers Think Differently About Wellbeing: Towards a Constructive-Developmental Theory
Dr Sabrina Wong	Food for thought: The role of taste marketing in service settings

School of Chemical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Thomas Buckley	Remediation of PFAS contaminated water by foam fractionation
Dr Zhetai Hu	Versatile uses of iron in the urban wastewater system
Dr Minjun Kim	Nanoarchitectured ZIF-8-derived Novel Porous Carbons for Energy Storage and Conversion Applications
Dr Jamin Wood	Production of liquid chemicals from C1 feedstocks using Eubacterium limosum

School of Chemistry & Molecular Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Joan Engelberts	Establishing Ianthella basta as a model species for sponge symbiosis research
Dr Samuel Kelava	Insights into the phylogeny and evolution of ticks from mitochondrial genome sequences (Illumina data)
Dr Nicholas See	A Synergistic Approach to L-Hexose Synthesis
Dr Miljan Stupar	Host-pathogen interactions in tuberculosis: Functional insights into a novel mycobacterial two-component system TcrXY

School of Civil Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Xiaocheng Liu	Processes Affecting the Formation and Dynamics of Salt Flats in Coastal Marshes
Dr Mutaz Mahmoud	Physical Modelling of Spalling Failure in Underground Structures
Dr Johannes Wiegerink	Development of a passive solution for mitigating sloshing in a floating rigid closed containment aquaculture tank in waves

School of Communication & Arts

Name	Thesis title
Ms Rosie Clarke	A-spec Reading Practices: Strategising Asexual Literary Criticism Through Young Adult Fiction

School of Dentistry

Name	Thesis title
Dr Tianqi Guo	Fabrication Optimization of Bioactive Nano-Engineered Titanium Dental Implants
Dr Thomas Hogerheyde	The effects of decontamination practices and diet on preformed paediatric crowns, and their biocompatibility in the oral cavity
Dr Sepanta Hosseinpourdougolsar	Mesoporous silica nanoparticle-based non-viral gene delivery systems for bone regeneration
Dr Anjana Jayasree	Nano-Engineered Titanium Dental Implants for Tailored Therapy and Bioactivity
Dr Vignesh Selvaprithiviraj	Injectable hydrogels for orodental reconstruction

School of Economics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Diego Jose Carrasco Novoa	Essays in Asymmetric Competition
Dr Kieu My Tran	Economics of Ageing, Health Outcomes and Workforce Planning

School of the Environment

Name	Thesis title
Dr Jordan Brook	Radar-based methods for quantifying hailfall across varied spatial scales in Australia
Dr Richard Corner	Life cycles, biodiversity, and diagnosis of pathogenic blood flukes (Trematoda: Schistosomatoidea) of marine turtles
Dr Yuanyuan Huang	Understanding Vertical Urban Development by Incorporating Housing Preference: The Case in Brisbane, Australia
Dr Marie Morin	Characterising the crown-of-thorns starfish secretome to identify factors for future biocontrol systems
Dr Samuel Robb	A systems approach modelling the interdependence between livelihoods, wildfire and biochar on degraded peatlands in Central Kalimantan
Dr Mohammad Main Uddin	Ecological succession and accumulation of blue carbon in mangrove plantations of the Bangladesh Delta

School of Education

Name	Thesis title
Ms Samantha Bolton	Activating self as a mechanism for teacher growth and development: a narrative study of coaching within the context of performative accountabilities
Dr Roberto Schurch Santana	Governing through Customisation: A Comparative Case Study of the PIAAC's intervention in education policy governance in Australia, Chile, and Singapore

School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Zhi Chen	Generalising to the Unseen - Zero-Shot Learning via Generative Modelling for Visual Recognition
Dr Ziyi Liu	A Study of Multi-Constraint Shortest Path Queries in Road Network
Dr Arash Moradi	Analysis and modelling of harmonics generated by multiple motor drive systems in distribution networks
Dr Anthony Stancombe	Biomedical Microwave Neuroimaging Transceiver Systems and Functional Sensing
Dr Kexuan Xin	A Study on Embedding-based Entity Alignment
Dr Junliang Yu	Enhancing Recommender Systems with Self-Supervised Learning

School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Chelsea Mobbs	Preterm infants and participation: Insights into conceptualisation, assessment, and intervention
Ms Shannon Scarff	Ecological assessment of cognition by the occupational therapist: The Multiple Errands Test in the Australian context
Dr Muath Shraim	Understanding chronic pain mechanisms: Towards methods to discriminate between pain categories
Dr Lisa Wright	The Use and Implementation of Sensory Modulation Approaches in Psychiatric Inpatient Units in an Australian Mental Health Service

School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry

Name	Thesis title
Ms Kyla Duffy	Cosmetics, Status, and Personal Identity: Examining Appearance in the Roman Imperial Period
Dr Henry James Meiring	Reading Morals: Charles Darwin and the Descent of Morality
Dr Peter Shaw	Morality by Design: Scientific Morality and Its Implications for Social Institutions
Dr Paige Donaghy	Uncertain Knowledge: False Conception and Molas in European Medicine, 1500-1800

School of Human Movement & Nutrition Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Jodie Koep	The implications of age and sex on cerebrovascular regulation across the adult lifespan

School of Languages & Cultures

Name	Thesis title
Dr Xuan Minh Ngo	A sociocultural analysis of teacher language assessment literacy (LAL) development: Stories from novice Vietnamese EFL teachers

School of Law

Name	Thesis title
Dr Jocelyn Bosse	The Role of the law in the circulation of the Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana)

School of Mathematics & Physics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Yannik Rist	Acceleration techniques for Combinatorial Benders Decomposition with Applications
Dr James Stanfield	Curvature Problems in Hermitian Geometry

School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Hayder Alrazen	Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Converting Lower Density Polyethylene Polymer to Blended Diesel Fuel
Dr Timothy Cullen	Optically based heat flux measurements in radiating expansion tunnel flows

School of Pharmacy

Name	Thesis title
Dr Taskeen Janjua Khan	Nanomedicine for Brain Cancer
Dr Bastian Schulze	Evaluation and Implementation of Methods to increase Comprehensiveness of Non-Target Analysis

School of Political Science & International Studies

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Anna Carlson	"Nothing's Changed, Everything's Different:" Colonial Surveillance and Liberal Reform in Queensland
Dr Amy McQuire	Disappearing Aboriginal Women: Speaking Back to Silences
Dr Jamal Nabulsi	Affective Resistance: Feeling through everyday Palestinian struggle

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Kristy Armitage	Beyond the naked mind: The nature and development of cognitive offloading in children
Dr Hilary Grimmer	When "Aha!" moments are wrong: A new paradigm for experimentally induced false insights
Dr Wasatee Holt	The (in)consequence of perceived control and integral affect for information processing style
Dr Hayley Kimball	Anxiety in Cystic Fibrosis: Insights and Intervention Feasibility for School-age Children and their Parents
Dr Carmen Lim	Emerging trends of cannabis vaping in the USA and Canada: Prevalence, correlates, and online presence

School of Social Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Madeleine Belfrage	Abortion accompaniment, autonomy, and assemblages of globalising reproductive governance: Experiences of grassroots feminist activists in Mexico
Dr Charles Le Moyne	A multiproxy study of dietary flexibility and wild plant use by early food producers in Upper Nubia
Dr Monique Lynn	Through Amber-coloured glasses: Perceptions of child abduction alerts in Canada
Dr Stephanie Raymond	Melanotanning: A Sociological investigation of user experiences of the injectable tanning peptide (melanotan) in the context of identity, health and risk

School of Veterinary Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Gervais Habarugira	West Nile virus disease in Australian farmed saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus): infection and disease dynamics, development of novel diagnostics and control strategies

Sustainable Minerals Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Maggie-Anne Harvey	Unravelling the Secrets of Selenium Hyperaccumulation in Neptunia amplexicaulis and Coelospermum decipiens
Dr Lachlan Robertson	Improving biogeochemical properties and pioneer plant growth in alkaline iron ore tailings undergoing soil formation

2022 winners

Australian Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Munkhjargal Bat-Erdene	Two-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials: Synthesis and Applications
Dr Sung-Po Chen	Synthesis of Well-defined Thermoresponsive Polymer Nanostuctures

Faculty of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Conor Bloxham	A bitter taste in your heart: the role of T2Rs in cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology
Dr Adrian Campos Gonzalez	Understanding psychiatric disease: From aetiology to outcomes and treatment response
Dr Carla Cuni-Lopez	Novel 3D in vitro microglia-like cell models to improve clinical translation in neurodegenerative diseases
Dr Kamrul Islam	Microbiological evaluation of piperacillin/tazobactam versus meropenem against extended-spectrum ?-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli
Dr Malcolm Lim	Development of theranostic nanomedicines for breast cancer brain metastases
Dr Jessica Turner	Identification of the at risk fetus and reducing the risk of intrapartum fetal compromise and other adverse perinatal outcomes
Dr Chloe Yap	Multi-omics data offer systemic insights into autism

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Shaodong Guo	Discovery and characterisation of two orally active insecticidal spider-venom peptides and elucidation of the molecular basis of their oral activity
Dr Thao Ho	Structure-function of atypical a-conotoxins and analogues at nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation

Name	Thesis title
Dr Selina Fyfe	Characterising the potential of the green plum (Buchanania obovata) as a native Australian fruit
Dr Ritesh Gyanchandaji Jain	Topical application of RNA interference to manage insect pests
Dr Kandeeparoopan Prasannath	Etiology of flower blight complex in macadamia
Dr Jane Ray	Biology and Epidemiology of Banana Blood Disease

Queensland Brain Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Igor Bonacossa Pereira	The epidermis shields axons from movement-induced damage
Dr Angela Renton	Neurofeedback Investigations of Perceptual Processes
Dr Vanessa Schendel	Centipede venom: Modulation, functional neuro-anatomy and evolutionary origin of the venom gland
Dr Rinie Bajracharya	Tau-specific immunotherapeutic strategies for the treatment of tauopathies

School of Agriculture & Food Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Oluwamayokun Fadeyi	Impact of finance on technology adoption: The case of smallholder maize farmers in Nigeria
Dr Celine Mens	Molecular mechanisms in nitrate dependent regulation of nodulation
Dr Khanh Kim Thi Phan	Application of nanobubbles in food processing

School of Biological Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Jorgo Ristevski	New insights into the taxonomic diversity and evolution of crocodylians from the Cenozoic Era of Australia
Dr Huifang Yuan	Investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying the life cycle transition of the marine sponge Amphimedon queenslandica: Insights from the Fox gene family
Dr Nicholas Hammerman	Decadal to millennial temporal dynamics of high-latitude coral communities
Dr Nur Arafeh Dalmau	Impacts of marine heatwaves to kelp forests and climate-smart conservation

School of Chemical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Pengbo Ding	Understanding Roles of Commonly Prescribed Antidepressants in the Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance
Dr Hesamoddin Rabiee	Hollow Fibre Gas-diffusion Electrodes for Efficient Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction
Dr Yulu Wang	Understanding and Application of Methane-supported Microbial Selenate and Perchlorate Reduction Processes

School of Chemistry & Molecular Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Gabriel Foley	Methods for ancestral sequence reconstruction of large and complex protein families

School of Civil Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Gangodawilage Dabarera	Early-age Cracking in Concrete Structures: Mechanisms and Control
Dr Songtao Ji	Failure of the Hard Roof and the Impact on Coal Burst Occurrence
Dr Peter Wilson	A computational impact analysis approach leveraging non-conforming spatial, temporal and methodological discretisations

School of Communication & Arts

Name	Thesis title
Dr Shastra Deo	The Exclusion Zone: Poetry as Doing/Being
Dr Bonnie Evans	Evoking Embodied Experience: Contemporary Feminisms and Gendered Violence in Horror and True Crime Film and Television
Dr Karl Ricker	Twenty-First-Century Australian Literature and Middlebrow Culture

School of Earth & Environmental Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Allan Gomes	High-resolution 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of volcanic rocks from the Parana Igneous Province, Brazil: implications for extrusion rates and magmatic emplacement processes
Dr Yongjing Mao	Predicting long-term shoreline response to sea-level rise on continental and global scales with data-driven models
Dr Palihawadana Arachchige Perera	Radiolarians during the Ordovician

School of Economics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Hong Ngoc Nguyen	Demand Uncertainty and Efficiency in the Provision of Public Services
Dr Junqian Li	Three Essays on Industrial Organisation

School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry

Name	Thesis title
Dr Nathan Pickels	Encouraging Education: Biesta, Heidegger, Irigaray, and the educational relationship

School of Human Movement & Nutrition Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Ross Smith	The role of the foot and its muscles during non-steady state locomotion

School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Umer Akram	Energy Storage Systems for Frequency Stability in Modern Power Systems
Ms Jiasheng Duan	An exploration into the correlation between users' intentions and candidates for query- and non-query-based retrieval
Dr Amir Ganjavi	Electromagnetic Interference Analysis and Modelling in Motor Drive Systems
Dr Yang Li	Neural Attentive Recommender Systems
Dr Lei You	Power System Operational Planning Considering Transmission-side Flexibility and Improved Optimization Method
Dr Shijie Zhang	Secure Recommender Systems
Dr Solmaz Abdi	Learner Models for Learnersourced Adaptive Educational Systems

School of Law

Name	Thesis title
Dr Tad Brown	Intellectual Property and Peanuts in the United States, 1896-1955

School of Mathematics & Physics

Name	Thesis title
Mr Nicholas Bridger	Arithmetic geometry of character stacks and their E-polynomials
Dr Steven Simmons	Hydrodynamics of ultra-cold quantum gases

School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Alexander Ward	AFTBODY DESIGN OF WINGED-CONE DERIVED HYPERSONIC VEHICLES
Dr Shiyang Liu	Deformation Behaviors of Zn and Zn-Mg Alloys during Plastic Deformation

School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work

Name	Thesis title
Dr Amanda Harley	Recognition, Escalation, and Management of Paediatric Sepsis in the Emergency Department

School of Pharmacy

Name	Thesis title
Dr Fahad Ahmed	Assessment of analgesic consumption and the burden of treated pain in Australia using wastewater-based epidemiology
Dr Christie Gallen	Fate and trends of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals associated with consumer products in the Australian waste streams
Dr John Ndayishimiye	Advanced Formulation Technologies for Oral Delivery of Antimicrobial Agents
Dr Qiuda Zheng	An assessment of alcohol and tobacco consumption by wastewater-based epidemiology

School of Political Science & International Studies

Name	Thesis Title
Dr Rajni Gamage	`Nation as Village': Historicising the Authoritarian Populist Regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Asmita Manchha	Deeply discrediting: The stigma of working in aged care
Dr Samuel Robson	The relationship between visual expertise and learned attention
Dr Blake Saurels	The perceptual and neural consequences of different types of prediction

Sustainable Minerals Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Maggie-Anne Harvey	Unravelling the Secrets of Selenium Hyperaccumulation in Neptunia amplexicaulis and Coelospermum decipiens
Dr Lachlan Robertson	Improving biogeochemical properties and pioneer plant growth in alkaline iron ore tailings undergoing soil formation

2021 winners

Faculty of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Saurabh Bandhavkar	Identifying Novel Regulators of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis.
Dr Hanumanth Srikanth Cheruvu	Modeling approaches to predict human skin absorption of drugs and other chemicals
Dr Xiang Li	Investigating the Immunopharmacology of the Complement C5a Receptors, C5aR1 and C5aR2
Dr Soumyalekshmi Sukumaran Nair	Identification of therapeutic targets to regulate insulin sensitivity: Potential role of placental exosomes
Dr Shinichiro Sakata	Technology biases in colonoscopy and three dimensional versus two dimensional laparoscopy
Dr Sioe Fei Soon	Effector and Memory CD4+ T Cell Development during Experimental Blood-stage Malaria

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Choi Yi Li	Engineering serine protease inhibitors using cyclic peptides and sequence-defined libraries
Dr Samantha Nixon	Arthropod venoms in antiparasitic drug discovery: isolation and biological characterisation of venom-derived anthelmintic compounds
Dr Fabian Rehm	Enzymes that make-or-break peptide bonds in cyclotide biosynthesis
Dr Jiahui Tng	Towards Design and Synthesis of Novel HDAC Inhibitors

School of Agriculture & Food Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Zhengzheng Zou	Physico-chemical, Biological and Nutritional Properties of Australian Camel Milk and Its Powder
Dr Andrew Johnston	Probing cancer epigenetics with highly multiplexed PCR and targeted resequencing
Dr Jianping Liu	Novel Cu-LDH-based nanomedicine for combination cancer therapy

School of Biological Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Laurie Mitchell	Colour Vision in Anemonefishes (Amphiprioninae): Molecular Evolution and Behavioural Significance of Seeing in the Ultraviolet
Dr Rhys Parry	Endosymbionts and viromes: interplays between Wolbachia pipientis and the virome of Aedes mosquitoes
Dr Isaac Towers	Testing the processes required for coexistence mediated by spatially varying environments
Dr Steven Wilson	Factors shaping the conservation of the critically endangered Javan Rhinoceros

School of Business

Name	Thesis title
Dr Shijun Guo	Essays on corporate behavior and media reporting
Dr Natalie Smith	Reducing transformation friction: The role of organisational leadership in transformational project outcomes

School of Chemical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Yang Chen	The selective flotation of molybdenite in seawater
Dr Siyu Cheng	Fundamental Studies on Pyrometallurgical Processing with a Focus on Iron Making Systems
Dr Paul Duncan Hywel-Evans	Abandonment of economically depleted coal seam gas wells with bentonite.
Dr Quang Loi	Fundamental study of physical adsorption and wetting phenomena on homogeneous and heterogeneous solids
Dr Zhiyao Wang	Innovative nitrogen conversion to enhance wastewater and sludge management
Dr Mohit Chhabra	Synthesis of novel inhibitors of heparan sulfate-binding proteins

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Ruadhan Magee	Investigating the evolution of an active volcano: petrology and geochemistry of historic eruptive products at Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)
Dr Chunyue Niu	Canopy Reflectance Modelling for Mapping Coastal Wetland Vegetation of South East Queensland, Australia
Dr Leslie Roberson	Reducing fishing impacts on species of conservation concern at multiple scales
Dr Michelle Ward	Planning for Australian threatened species' recovery

School of Education

Name	Thesis title
Dr Dewi Andriani	The journey of Indonesian female students in Australia: An autoethnography

School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry

Name	Thesis title
Dr Andrea Josipovic	How Did Child Sexual Offending by Women Come to Be an Unthinkable Crime? A Critical Genealogy
Dr Michael Vincent	A Sympathetic Critique of Gaus's The Order of Public Reason

School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr David Hendry	Theory of Parallel Coupled Resonators and its application in designing Compact Multi-Mode Filters and Antennas
Dr Shanshan Shan	Correction of Magnetic Resonance Image Distortion due to Gradient Nonlinearity in the Australian MRI-Linac System
Dr Abdulrahman Shueai Mohsen Al-qadami	Wearable Electromagnetic Head Imaging System
Dr Qinyong Wang	Lightweight and Secure Deep Learning-based Mobile Recommender Systems
Dr Ziwei Wang	Multimedia Content Analytics with Modality Transition
Dr Mengxuan Zhang	Efficient Shortest Path Query Processing in Dynamic Road Networks

School of Languages & Cultures

Name	Thesis title
Dr Mitchell Browne	A Grammatical Description of Warlmanpa, a Ngumpin-Yapa Language Spoken around Tennant Creek (Northern Territory)
Dr Jayden Macklin-Cordes	Phonotactics in historical linguistics: Quantitative interrogation of a novel data source
Dr Ruihua Yin	The Sonority Sequencing Principle: A Large-scale Cross-linguistic Investigation of Phonotactics

School of Mathematics & Physics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Stefan Forstner	Probing Quantum Macroscopicity with Cavity Optomechanics
Dr Kaumudibikash Goswami	Applications of higher-order quantum maps
Dr Atul Shukla	Organic Light Emitting Devices: Towards Electrically Pumped Laser

School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Nagasivamuni Balasubramani	Grain refinement mechanisms during ultrasonic solidification of metals
Dr Shuiquan Huang	Water-based hybrid nanosuspensions for abrasive machining of brittle solids
Dr Craig Stewart	Rapid Dynamic Ventilation Modelling for Improving Health and Safety in Underground Mining

School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work

Name	Thesis title
Dr Carmel Fleming	Implementing and Evaluating Family Inclusive Practice in Adult Eating Disorders

School of Pharmacy

Name	Thesis title
Dr Aun Raza	Advanced Oral Antibiotic Formulations

School of Political Science & International Studies

Name	Thesis title
Dr Maxwell Brierty	`Impossible to detain them without chains': Interrogating Colonialism in Histories of Aboriginal people's Restraint in Australia

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Alicia Carter	Compassion Focused Therapy for Body Weight Shame
Dr Polly Fong	A Social Identity Approach to Neighbourhood Health and Wellbeing
Dr April Hoang	The Efficacy of Triple P Plus Compassion in Promoting Co-parenting Relationship Between Parents and Grandparents in Vietnam

School of Veterinary Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Erdal Irac	Transcriptome signature of canine osteosarcoma and role of cytokines in the neoplastic growth

2020 winners

Faculty of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Gregory Quaife-Ryan	Transcriptional regulation of mammalian heart regeneration
Dr Mona Ghazi Alharbi	New Strategies for Identification of Therapeutic Target of Ovarian Cancer
Dr Nina Lazarevic	Statistical methods for analysing the health effects of prenatal exposure to mixtures of correlated endocrine-disrupting chemicals
Dr Philip Mosley	Impulsivity and Caregiver Burden after Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
Dr Sherman Shu-Yan Leung	The role of receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) in the development of type 1 diabetes
Dr Dongshan Zhu	Reproductive ageing in women and cardiovascular disease
Dr Ayesha Shah	Characterization of the Human Duodenal Microbiome in Health and Disease

Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Jing Wang	Engineering Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Strategies for Liquid Biopsy Analyses: A Step Towards Precision Medicine in Cancer Management
Dr Mostafa Masud	Nanoarchitectured Point-of-Care Detection System for Clinically Relevant Biomarkers

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Andrew White	Engineering of Cyclic Disulfide-Rich Peptides for Applications in Drug Design
Dr Lin Grimm	Characterisation of key transcription factors governing lymphatic vascular development

Institute for Social Science Research

Name	Thesis title
Dr Rose-Marie Stambe	Becoming 'unemployed': Mapping and (re)constituting subjectivity within jobactive

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Name	Thesis title
Dr Saleha Akter	Assessing the safe use of Terminalia ferdinandiana for dietary purposes
Dr Katrina Hodgson-Kratky	Analysis of biomass traits in sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids)

Queensland Brain Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Cooper Alan Smout	Great Expectations: The Neural Mechanisms of Prediction and Attention in Visual Awareness
Dr Susan Travis	On the Relationship between Visual Attention and Perceptual Awareness
Dr Laura Morcom	Cellular and genetic regulation of interhemispheric fissure remodelling and corpus callosum formation
Dr Deniz Ertekin	The effects of diet on sleep and visual selective attention in Drosophila melanogaster
Dr Paul Marshall	Dynamic DNA structure states and memory

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Susan Brumpton Thompson	Diaporthe species associated with sunflower and other broad-acre crops and weeds in eastern Australia
Dr Yiping Zou	Development of diagnostic technologies for point-of-need applications
Dr Mengbai Zhang	Functional analysis of genes involved in the regulation of nodulation

School of Biological Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Justin Cappadonna	Feeding ecology of green mirids: polyphagy and spatio-temporal dynamics across arid and agricultural environments
Dr Andreas Jannel	Standing on the feet of giants: Insights into the biomechanics and evolution of the sauropod hind foot and its implications for sauropod biology

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Stacey Reanna Bartlett	Hydrophobic amino acid-based vaccine delivery systems to induce cellular and humoral immunity

School of Civil Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Ms Thi Minh Thuy Nguyen	Seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers: combined effects of salinity and temperature
Dr Luis Contreras Bohorquez	Bayesian methods to treat geotechnical uncertainty in risk based design of open pit slopes
Dr Partha Narayan Mishra	Soft Soil Characterisation and Improvement for Reclaimed Land Application

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Mr Alan Levett	Development of ferruginous duricrusts (canga) in tropical iron ore systems
Mr Nicholas McCarthy	Bushfire Thunderstorms: Radar Analysis of Fire-Driven Convection in Australia
Dr Annah Piggott-McKellar	Assessing the effectiveness of planned adaptation in rural Pacific Island communities: case studies from Fiji and Kiribati
Dr Christian Forstner	Effects of engineered nanomaterials on soil microbial diversity
Dr Christopher O'Bryan	The exposure and contribution of predators and scavengers to humans

School of Education

Name	Thesis title
Dr Belinda Barnett	Becoming a mother and mattering in early 21st century Australia: An exploration of women's perinatal transitions and equity in wellbeing
Dr Stevie-Jae Hepburn	Integrated wellbeing for teachers: A mixed-methods study investigating attention awareness, perceived stress and subjective wellbeing and a complementary intervention for pre-service and early career teachers.
Dr Mohammed Alqarni	Informal EFL Learning in Saudi Arabia and the Role of the Internet: An Ecological Perspective

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Barbara Messing	An examination of functional outcomes following head and neck cancer and enhancing new pathways of care
Dr Michelle Cottrell	Telerehabilitation in the management of chronic musculoskeletal conditions: an implementation science approach

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Name	Thesis title
Dr Riccardo Carli	The Creativity of Virtue: Nietzsche's Ethical and Aesthetic Reflections on the Existential Tension between Singularity and Multiplicity

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Mr Hongxu Chen	Graph Representation Learning with Attribute Information

School of Mathematics and Physics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Samuel Hinton	Deciphering dark energy: The adventures of Steve, Barry, and Pippin.

School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Raza Moshwan	High-performance SnTe-based Thermoelectric Materials via Synergistically Band and Nanostructure Engineering
Mr Qiang Sun	Understanding of InAs nanostructure growth by molecular beam epitaxy

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Karri Neldner	The development and evolution of tool innovation in human children (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): a cross-cultural and comparative investigation

School of Social Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Romy Listo	Energy for empowerment: The role of energy in women's organising and empowerment in urban and peri-urban South Africa

School of Veterinary Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Robert Barigye	A study of viral tissue tropism and cytokine expression in bovine ephemral fever
Dr Simon Stokes	Studies on the pathogenesis of insulin-induced laminitis in horses

UQ Business School

Name	Thesis title
Dr Mark Bremhorst	Three Essays on Digital Representation and Decision Making: Theory-driven Study, Data-driven Study, and Integration

2019 winners

Faculty of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Johanna Lynch	Sense of Safety: a whole person approach to distress in primary care.
Dr Caroline Jade Gee	The impact of looking 'different': Exploration of the appearance-related psychosocial support and care needs of paediatric patients with visible differences
Dr Aleena Meagan Wojcieszek	Care in pregnancies after stillbirth: generating evidence to inform clinical practice
Dr Jessica McMaster	Mechanisms of action of the duodenal-jejunal bypass sleeve
Dr Robert Ellis	Kidney Function following Surgical Management of Kidney Cancer
Dr Simone Anne Minnie	Restoring myeloma-immune equilibrium by stem cell transplantation
Dr Caroline Terranova	Understanding and influencing modifiable risk factors among women following treatment for breast cancer
Dr Vikas Goyal	Advancing the knowledge, understanding and management of respiratory exacerbations of bronchiectasis in children.
Dr Yulong Aaron Gao	Group 1 Innate Lymphoid Cells in Cancer
Dr Jonu Pradhan	Mechanisms of neuronal death in Motor Neuron Disease.
Dr Heinz Hammerlindl	Characterizing therapy induced adaptive phenotypic plasticity leading to acquired drug resistance in cancer

Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Yannan Yang	Development of a Mesoporous Silica Based Nanosystem for Safe and Efficient Therapeutic Delivery
Dr Bei Li	Rational Design of Novel Sensitive Layered Double Hydroxide-Based Nanoplatforms for Efficacious Cancer Theranostics
Dr Yilun Wu	Developing lipid-coated calcium carbonate/phosphate hybrid nanoparticles as a gene/drug co-delivery platform for combined cancer therapy

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Timothy Stephens	Polarella genomics: understanding the evolutionary transition to algal symbiosis and cold adaptation
Dr Yang Wu	The genetic regulatory mechanisms underpinning complex trait variation in humans

Institute for Social Science Research

Name

Thesis title

Dr Peter Sheldon Rankin

Bridging the theory to evidence gap: a systematic review and analysis of individual x environment models of child development

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Name	Thesis title
Dr Amjad Iqbal	Dietary manipulation of nutrient-specific appetites and feed particle size for improved growth uniformity in broilers
Dr Samir Alahmad	Accelerating the development of durum wheat adapted to drought and crown rot conditions

Queensland Brain Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Jessica Jean McFadyen	Shortcuts for Fear in Hierarchical Visual Systems
Dr Lee Fletcher	Dendritic integration in principal neurons of the primary visual cortex

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Frederick Blamey	Physiology of sensitivity and tolerance of crop plants to high manganese availability in the root environment
Dr La Toya Jamieson	Improving wildlife detection dog team selection and training
Dr Ali Ahsan Bajwa	Invasion Biology, Interference and Management of Parthenium Weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) in Agro-ecosystems
Dr Pramesh Kumar Dhungana	Effect of fat globule size on functionality and stability of dairy emulsions
Dr Bhaskar Mani Adhikari	Effect of Gas Bubbles on Crystallisation of Dairy Systems
Dr Sylvester Bin Mantihal	3D food printing: Assessing the printability of dark chocolate

School of Biological Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Penelope Mills	Systematics, evolution and cryptic species of the Australian gall-inducing scale insect Apiomorpha (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae), with a focus on the Apiomorpha nookara and Apiomorpha hilli species groups
Dr Jasmine Lee	Conserving Antarctic biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Dr Storm Blas Martin	A new subfamily classification hypothesis for the largest family of trematodes, the Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925
Dr Iva Popovic	Evolutionary pathways to invasive success: Thermal adaptation, hybridisation and parallel evolution in a marine global invader
Dr Daniel Colgan Huston	Taxonomic, phylogenetic and life-cycle studies of digenetic trematodes utilizing herbivorous marine fishes as definitive hosts
Dr Nicolas Robin Evensen	Bottlenecks of coral recruitment on degraded reefs

School of Chemical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Gloria Milena Monsalve Bravo	Engineering models of gas permeation in mixed-matrix membranes
Dr Linzhou Zhuang	Defect Engineering of Nonprecious Metal Based Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Bertrand Francois-Xavier Caron	Improving Automated Force Field Parametrisation for Molecular Simulation: A Graph Approach

School of Civil Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Peter Ware	Interaction and growth of low frequency and high frequency wind waves
Dr Mitchell Baum	Dense Jet Behaviour in Dynamic Receiving Environments

School of Communication and Arts

Name	Thesis title
Dr Sarah Holland-Batt	The Gurney: Poetry, Ekphrasis and the Abject Image
Dr Elliott Logan	The Presence of Performance and the Stakes of Serial Drama: Accrual, Transience, Companionship
Mr Timothy Walsh	An Aetiology of Racism: Gordon Bennett's Archive and Affective Conceptualism
Mr Graham Akhurst	Borderland: The Indigenous Exerpience of Australian Literary Institutions
Mr Jacob Warren	Towards A Nuclear Aesthetics: Maralinga and the Art of Jonathan Kumintjara Brown and Yhonnie Scarce
Dr Yuwan Malakar	Social constructs of energy poverty and the resulting capability deprivations in rural India

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Kendall Jones	Improving Marine Conservation Planning in a Time of Global Change
Dr Zhe Ren	Quantifying 39Ar recoil and the diffusivity of argon in hypogene and supergene alunites and jarosites

School of Education

Name	Thesis title
Dr Mohammad Rahman	Transforming Bangladeshi higher education through the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project: An investigation of problem representations.
Dr Rino Wiseman Adhikary	Globalization, governance and 'Teach for Bangladesh': Understanding Social Enterprises in education policy

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Liam Robert Maclachlan	The psychological features and somatosensory characteristics of patellofemoral pain

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Name	Thesis title
Dr Adrian Moore	Ethics and Aesthetics of Non-duality: Responses to Nihilism from Nietzsche to Camus

School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Kylie Matthews	Refeeding syndrome in acute care: Is there a dietetics role?
Dr Jenna-Lee Taylor	The feasibility, safety, adherence, and efficacy of high intensity interval training in rehabilitation for coronary heart disease.

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Licheng Wang	Impacts of Large-Scale PV Integration on Power Distribution Systems and Investigation of Possible Solutions

School of Mathematics and Physics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Margaryta Sheliakina	Bioelectronic Materials and Devices: An All-solid-state Eumelanin Based Organic Electrochemical Transistor

School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr James Mead	Adhesion characterisation of micro- and nanoscale systems
Mr Sri Teja Mereddy	Effect Of Alloy Composition On The Microstructure Of Titanium Alloys Produced By Wire & Arc Additive Manufacturing
Dr Tianhang Bai	Integrated Geomechanical, Geohydraulic and Geological (3G) Study of Coal Fines Generation and Migration
Dr Augusto Fontan Moura	Investigation of supersonic turbulent combustion in a Mach 10 scramjet engine
Dr Yubiao Sun	Numerical and Experimental Study on Spray Cooling System Design for Cooling Performance Enhancement of Natural Draft Dry Cooling Towers
Dr Han Gao	Understanding the Growth of III-V Semiconductor Nanowires with Component Addition in Metal-organic Chemical Vapor Deposition

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Adam Bulley	The role of prospective cognition in human decision-making: proximate and ultimate perspectives
Dr Sarah Bentley	Learning from a Social Identity Perspective

School of Social Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Suzanne Reich	Beyond the criminal record: An examination of how and why redeemability beliefs and desistance signals matter for employers' willingness to hire a job applicant with a criminal record
Dr Yan Lam Lo	A comparative multilevel analysis of ecology of child physical abuse and neglect in Chinese and Australian communities in Brisbane

2018 winners

Faculty of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Sarah Sheridan	Assessing vaccine effectiveness of publicly funded vaccination programs in Queensland
Dr Stephanie Miller	Examining the GABA_A receptor alpha-subunits in the neonatal pig brain: Changes across development and the effect of seizures after hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury.
Dr Joshua Li	Regulation and function of Drosophila Dscam2 alternative splicing
Dr Cornel Mirciov	Studies on the Regulation of Hepcidin
Dr Ao Wen Zhuang	Novel role of AGE-R1/OST48 in the metabolome and proteome promoting ER stress in the kidney and liver
Dr June Joseph	FEEDING AN INFANT IN A FOREIGN LAND: THE EXPERIENCES OF REFUGEE MOTHERS FROM VIETNAM AND MYANMAR
Dr Lili Wang	NAT1 and cancer cell metabolism
Dr Patrick Harris	Defining an evidence-based approach for the optimal management of gram-negative infections in the era of emerging antimicrobial resistance
Dr Jodi Caple	Elliptical Fourier analysis of lateral skull profiles as a tool to aid skeletal identification

Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Maisheng Koo	Advancing Gene Fusion Detection towards Personalized Cancer Nanodiagnostics
Dr Weiyu Chen	Application of clay nanoparticles as efficient adjuvant in vaccine against pathogenic diarrheagenic E. Coli

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Nicholas Condon	Characterisation of Dorsal Ruffles in Activated Macrophages
Dr Ivy Kim Ni Chiang	The role of SOX7 transcription factor in early blood vessel development

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Name	Thesis title
Dr Thi Nga Tran	Biology and epidemiology of citrus black spot (Phyllosticta citricarpa) in Australia
Dr Adnan Riaz	Unlocking new sources of adult plant resistance to wheat leaf rust
Dr Rewati Bhattarai	Effect of Food Structure on Macronutrients Digestion and Fermentation Kinetics
Dr Eric Dinglasan	New tools and sources of genetic resistance to breed yellow spot resistant wheat

Queensland Brain Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Lachlan Strike	Examining the impact of genetic variation on the structure and function of the human brain
Dr Brendan Bicknell	Noise and sensitivity in cell signalling
Dr Adekunle Bademosi	Control of neurotransmission by diffusional properties of a presynaptic plasma membrane protein - syntaxin1A

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Lara-Simone Pretorius	Investigation of virus-induced defence modulations during plant-virus interactions.
Dr Liana Williams	Critical reflections on 'going to scale' in agricultural research for development: Case studies from Southeast Asia.
Dr Quang Nguyen	Clonal propagation of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) for elite seedling production and germplasm exchange

School of Biological Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Russell Yong	The richness, evolutionary expansion and life-cycle biology of Indo-Pacific blood flukes (Aporocotylidae) infecting the Tetraodontiformes
Dr Tries Razak	The effect of temperature variability and life-history strategy in coral response to long-term increase in sea surface temperature
Dr Caitlin Danielle Kuempel	Evaluating trade-offs between quantitative and qualitative protected area objectives

School of Chemical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Huihuang Chen	Perovskite Catalysts for Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) in Wastewater Treatment

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Caitlin Singleton	Microbial community structural and metabolic dynamics in thawing permafrost
Dr Andrew Turner	Investigation of metal stress response and regulation in Group A Streptococcus
Dr Mario Daniel Garcia Solis	Structure, mechanism and inhibition of plant and fungal acetohydroxyacid synthases

School of Civil Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Xinqian Leng	A Study of Turbulence: the Unsteady Propagation of Bores and Surges
Dr Helong Wu	Nonlinear Behaviour and Imperfection Sensitivity of Functionally Graded Nanocomposite Structures
Dr Da Chen	Static and Dynamic Analysis of Functionally Graded Porous Structures

School of Communication and Arts

Name	Thesis title
Dr James Halford	Horizontal Vertigo: Essays on Australia and Latin America
Dr Amber Gwynne	Gaps, traps, and golden threads: The text-reader encounter in self-help for depression
Dr Sally Contenta	The Canadian Journalist and Making Meaning in a Multiculturalism Discursive Environment: A Case Study in the Inclusion and Exclusion of Sources in the Construction of Immigration News

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Anthony Kimpton	The Sociability of Urban Greenspace: An Exploration of How Public Parks and Private Backyards Influence the Social Sustainability of Urban Communities
Dr Emily Field	Unlocking the Kimberley's past: The applicability of organic spring deposits for reconstructing late Quaternary climatic and environmental change
Dr Sarah Kachovich	Capturing initial skeletal growth in Paleozoic radiolarians

School of Education

Name	Thesis title
Dr Theresa Ashford	Digital Ethics in 1:1 Classrooms
Dr Sandra Rennie	Firing the will, forging the way: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students creating their stories around the university table

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Wolbert van den Hoorn	Evaluation of the Dynamical Structures of Postural Control: New Insights into Motor Adaptation in Ageing and Pain
Dr Catherine Margaret Sinclair	Adaptive functioning of children and adolescents with persistent pain: associations with sensory modulation and attachment

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Name	Thesis title
Ms Emma Black	After Misology: Speculations on Kant, Heidegger, and Deleuze.

School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Leigh Sperka	The impact of the outsourcing of Health and Physical Education on curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment
Dr Jayishni Maharaj	The mechanical function of the subtalar joint and tibialis posterior muscle during walking

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Lydia Byrne	Semantic scaffolding: the co-construction of visualization meaning through reader experience

School of Languages and Cultures

Name	Thesis title
Mr Thomas Ennever	Nominal and pronominal morphology of Ngardi: A Ngumpin-Yapa language of Western Australia

School of Mathematics and Physics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Patrick Laub	Computational methods for sums of random variables
Dr Samuel Nolan	Non-Classical States in Ultra-Cold Atoms for Robust, High Precision Metrology
Dr Christina Giarmatzi	Rethinking causality in quantum mechanics
Dr Md. Fazlul Hoque	Superintegrable systems, polynomial algebra structures and exact derivations of spectra
Dr Nicolas Mauranyapin	Biosensing at the quantum noise limit

School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Xiaoxiao Li	Numerical and Experimental Study of Small Natural Draft Dry Cooling Tower for Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plant

School of Music

Name	Thesis title
Dr Vicky Abad	Music Early Learning Programs: Parental beliefs, aspirations and participation

School of Political Science and International Studies

Name	Thesis title
Dr Nicholas Taylor	The Problem of Nuclear Harm: An Ethical Ecology

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Megan Smith	An Interpersonal Approach to the Causes and Consequences of Motivated Reasoning
Dr Michelle Hall	Behavioural and Neural Consequences of Incidental Learning in Human Vision
Dr Yuan Cao	Effect of mood on neural processes underlying the perception of others' pain

School of Social Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Joanna Besley	Other People's Pain: trauma and testimony in Australian museums
Dr Tingting Liu	Digital Romance in Precarious Times: Online Dating Cultures of Chinese Rural Migrant Labourers

School of Veterinary Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Jennifer Allen	Fine-scale song exchange in two neighbouring populations of humpback whales

2017 winners

Faculty of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Sameera Hussain	The World We Want, leaving no-one behind: did the Go4Health project represent the voices of marginalised communities into the post-2015 global health discourse?
Dr Melissa Ilsley	Investigating the Molecular Pathogenesis of Inherited Childhood Anaemia
Dr Ann Kingsbury-Humphreys	Women's mental health following the birth of a child: a life course approach
Dr Anna-Liisa Sutt	Towards an improved understanding of the effect of a speaking valve on lung volumes and communication in the critically ill tracheostomised patient
Dr Therese Vu	Maintenance of blood stem cells and the development of haematological malignancies
Dr Arabella Young	Targeting immunosuppressive adenosine to promote an immune response against cancer
Dr Martin Wolley	Clinical and Physiological Aspects of Salt Sensitive Hypertension
Dr Rui Li	The Role of the C5a Receptor, C5aR2, in Neurodegenerative Disease

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Kerstin Christine Zoidl	The Relationship between Patched and Sox9 in Regulating Skin Stem Cells, Wound Response and Skin Tumorigenesis
Dr Sungmin Baek	Characterisation of novel molecular mechanisms of lymphatic vascular development

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Name	Thesis title
Mr Hongyan Li	Understanding the texture of cooked rice from the molecular, instrumental and sensory levels
Dr Louisamarie Parkinson	Investigating soilborne nectriaceous fungi impacting avocado tree establishment in Australia
Dr Peterson Weru Wambugu	Genomic characterization of African cultivated and wild Oryza species

Queensland Brain Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Morgane Valerie Martine Nouvian	Molecular and neural mechanisms underlying the olfactory modulation of aggression in honeybees
Dr Yajie Sun	Anatomy and Physiology of the Central Extended Amygdala

Sustainable Minerals Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Cornelius Vos	The effect of mineral grain textures at particle surfaces on flotation response
Dr Ceit Wilson	Steering Social Impact Outcomes in Extractive Resource Regions: A Comparative Case Study of Private Meta-governance in Australia and the United States

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Minh Ho	Studies of the Encapsulation and Release of Carbon Dioxide from Amorphous and Crystalline Alpha-Cyclodextrin Powders and Its Application in Food Systems
Mr Eugene Diatloff	Genome wide analysis and allele mining of diverse sorghum genes involved in nitrogen use efficiency
Dr Tao Hua	Potential for Use of Constructed Wetland Technology to Treat Drainage from Seawater Neutralized Bauxite Residue Mud Storage Areas

School of Biological Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Ami Amir Abdul Nasir	How does environmental Manganese affect the health and performance of Northern Quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) on Groote Eylandt?
Dr Federico Gaiti	Origin and evolution of the metazoan non-coding regulatory genome: Insights from the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica
Dr Shunsuke Sogabe	The Biology of Choanocytes and Choanocyte Chambers and their Role in the Sponge Stem Cell System

School of Chemical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Chen Cai	Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Nitrate-, Fe(III)- and Mn(IV)-dependent Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane
Dr Xueming Chen	Understanding and Modeling the Microbial Interactions in a Novel Nitrogen Removal Process
Dr Grace Dolan	Bio-tribology of Plant Cell Walls: Measuring the interactive forces between cell wall components
Dr Dongxia Feng	Effect of contact angle and contact angle hysteresis on the stability and detachment of floating particles
Dr Shilo Mahoney	The Effect of Water Occlusion on Gas Production in Coal

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Qianqian Lin	Opto-electronics of Perovskite Solar Cells and Photodetectors
Dr Timothy Zerk	Understanding the Mechanisms of Transition Metal Catalysed Redox Reactions

School of Communication and Arts

Name	Thesis title
Dr Andrei Baltakmens	Displaced Pieces: The Equivocation of the Real and the Imaginary in Literary Fantasy
Dr Faisal Al Shehhi	The Role of the English Language in Oman English Foreign Radio Station 90.4FM in Broadcasting Local Content across Oman

School of Earth and Environmental Science

Name	Thesis title
Mr Yupeng Jiang	Numerical Simulation of Acoustic Stimulation for Enhancing Coal Seam Gas Reservoir Permeability
Dr Payal Bal	Effective monitoring for biodiversity conservation

School of Economics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Geoffrey Jones	General Belief Theory: A Proposal for a General Structure Theory of Socio-Economic Behaviour

School of Education

Name	Thesis title
Dr Lamphoune Luangxay	Literacy, change, and globalisation: literacy practices in a rural Lao village

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Kulveer Bagraith	Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health to describe the clinical assessment and measurement of outcomes in patients with Chronic Low Back Pain
Dr Xiaoqi Chen	Impact of a workplace-based ergonomic and exercise intervention for the reduction of neck pain and disability in office workers

School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Teresa Brown	Optimising nutrition support in patients with head and neck cancer
Dr Dean Mayfield	Muscle-tendon interaction: implications for contractile speed and force development

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Junhao Gan	High Performance Density-Based Clustering on Massive Data
Dr Alex Pagnozzi	Automated injury segmentation to assist in the treatment of children with cerebral palsy
Dr Weiqing Wang	Point of Interests Recommendation in Location-Based Social Networks
Dr Nahid - Al - Masood	Security Assessment due to Increased Wind Generation in a Complex Power Grid
Dr He Zhu	Multi-functional and Tunable Microwave Devices and Sub-systems for Wideband Applications

School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Steven Lewis	Hypervelocity Shock Layer Emission Spectroscopy with High Temperature Ablating Models
Dr Jeffrey Venezuela	The Influence of Hydrogen on MS980, MS1180, MS1300 and MS1500 Martensitic Advanced High Strength Steels Used for Automotive Applications
Dr Chen Zhou	Understanding the Growth of III-V Nanowires Incorporated with In by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

School of Pharmacy

Name	Thesis title
Dr Munim Mannan	The overweight/obesity - depression links over the life course

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Evren Etel	Associations between Peer Cooperation and Mind Understanding among Preschoolers: The effects of Play Context and Culture

School of Social Science

Name	Thesis title
Dr Matthew Harris	Archaeomalocological methods, forager decision-making, and intertidal ecosystems: Two millennia of mollusc exploitation on a remote Pacific atoll
Dr Ariana Lambrides	Sustained prehistoric exploitation of a Marshall Islands fishery: ichthyoarchaeological approaches, marine resource use, and human-environment interactions on Ebon Atoll
Mr Antoine Joel Muller	The role of experimental knapping in empirically testing key themes in the evolution of lithic technology: reduction intensity, efficiency and behavioural complexity
Dr Michelle Sydes	The Immigration-Crime Myth: Exploring the Impact of Immigration on Neighbourhood Violence

UQ Business School

Name	Thesis title
Dr Zheyao Pan	Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing

2016 winners

Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Amanda Pearce	Development of a Hyperbranched Polymer Theranostic for Prostate Cancer
Miss Yue Wang	Designed synthesis of large pore mesoporous silica nanoparticles as nano-carriers for bio-applications
Dr Yangyang Wen	Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Supercapacitors

Faculty of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Holly Erskine	The global epidemiology and burden of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder
Dr Sahar Keshvari	Molecular characterisation of the adiponectin receptors, AdipoR1 and AdipoR2
Dr Zhixuan Loh	The role of interferon regulatory factor 3 and 7 in virus-induced bronchiolitis and the onset of asthma.
Dr Jazlyn Read	Familial melanoma risk genes in Queensland
Dr Kiran Shekar	Sick Patients, Starved Circuits and Sticky Drugs: Understanding pharmacokinetics during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to optimise drug dosing and improve patient outcomes
Dr Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria	Bioactive compounds from Australian Blacklip Abalone (Haliotis rubra) processing waste

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Nikita Abraham	Investigating nAChR structure and function using AChBP and alpha-conotoxins
Dr Zhenling Cui	Exploiting redundancy of the genetic code for site-selective unnatural amino acids incorporation in vitro
Dr Pabasara Kalansuriya	Microbial Chemical Diversity: Strategies to Stimulate Microbial Secondary Metabolite Potential
Dr Zhuo Shang	Unveiling the Chemical Diversity of Marine Intertidal Fungal Communities
Dr Kathleen Yin	A Pharmacological and Transcriptomic approach to exploring Novel Pain Targets

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Name	Thesis title
Dr Eddie Ti Tjih Tan	Food Safety Risk Assessment of Indospicine in Australian Camel Meat

Queensland Brain Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Huyen Nguyen	Mathematical Modelling of Axon Guidance in Chemical Gradients

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Yasir Obaidoon	A Critical Evaluation of the Effects of Plant Essential Oil Formulations against Silverleaf Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, B Biotype (Gennadius) and its Natural Enemies.
Dr Paul Visendi Muhindira	A novel approach for the assembly of complex genomic DNA cloned into bacterial artificial chromosome vectors: Assembly and analysis of Triticum aestivum chromosome arm 7DS
Dr Pradeep Ruperao	Analysis of the Chickpea genome using next generation sequencing data

School of Biological Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Candice Heath	Evolution of Streptococcus iniae after vaccination and molecular underpinnings of capsular antigenicity

School of Chemical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Frauke Kracke	Understanding extracellular electron transfer of industrial microorganisms and optimization for production applications
Dr Mengran Li	Development of Cathode Materials for Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Dr Yonghong Zeng	Fundamental Study of Absorption and Desorption Process in Porous Materials with Functional groups

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Katherine Ormerod	Moving targets: Microevolution of pathogenic species within the laboratory and the human host

School of Communication and Arts

Name	Thesis title
Miss Xanthe Ashburner	The Common Life: A. R. Ammons and Pastoral
Dr Tamara Plush	We've raised their voice. Is anyone listening? Participatory video practitioners and valued citizen voice in international development contexts
Dr Steven Sam	Mobile Phones and the Margins: An Ethnographic Study in Post-conflict Sierra Leone
Dr Emily Yu Zong	Unlearning Othering: Asian Australian and Asian American Women's Fiction

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Uri Shaanan	Formation of the New England Oroclines: Insights from Permian Sedimentary Basins in Eastern Australia
Dr Shaun Strong	Resolution Enhancement in Shallow 3D-PS Seismic Reflection

School of Economics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Cameron Murray	When reciprocity becomes back-scratching: An economic inquiry

School of Education

Name	Thesis title
Dr Khalaf Al'Abri	Higher education policy architecture and policy-making in the Sultanate of Oman: Towards a critical understanding
Dr Anne Bennison	Teacher identity as an embedder-of-numeracy: identifying ways to support teachers to promote numeracy learning across the curriculum
Dr Angelique Howell	Exploring children's experiences of NAPLAN: Beyond the cacophony of adult debate
Dr Van Nguyen	Global language policy borrowing and individual agency in Vietnamese higher education

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Nicole Grant	Assisting parents of children with autism to make intervention decisions by improving their health literacy about evidence
Ms Jane Hughes	An Investigation of the Use of Simulated Patients in Audiology Student Education
Dr Susan Peters	Factors influencing return-to-work following upper extremity surgery
Dr Tracy Roxbury	Neurophysiological Markers of Language Recovery in Subacute Stroke
Dr Sarah Wallace	Improving Research Outcome Measurement in Aphasia (ROMA): Development of a Core Outcome Set

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Name	Thesis title
Dr Renee England	Emotion in Agency : The Problematic Influence of the Split Self and a Spinozist Corrective

School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Tristan Coulter	Understanding Mental Toughness In Sport: An Integrated Examination Of The Interdependency Between The Person And Context

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Yi Cui	Investigation of data centric diagnostic techniques for transformer condition assessment
Dr Hina Khan	Scalable Diversification for Data Exploration Platforms
Dr Ahmed Mobashsher	Wideband Microwave Imaging System for Brain Injury Diagnosis

School of Languages and Cultures

Name	Thesis title
Dr Iffat Jahan	Medium of instruction and the discourses of "Self" and "Other" in print and social media in Bangladesh
Dr Sarah Woodland	Gender and the family in contemporary Chinese-language film remakes

School of Mathematics and Physics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Martin Ringbauer	Exploring Quantum Foundations with Single Photons

School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Mr Stephen Gwynn-Jones	Thermal Bending of Top Submerged Lances in Pyrometallurgical Furnaces
Dr Min Hong	Development of high-performance bismuth telluride-based thermoelectric nanomaterials through structure manipulating and band engineering
Dr Johannes Reiner	A Computational Investigation of Failure Modes in Hybrid Titanium Composite Laminates

School of Music

Name	Thesis title
Mr Samuel Mitchell	Benjamin Britten's Winter Words, Lyrics and Ballads of Thomas Hardy, Op. 52, For High Voice and Piano: An Analytically Informed Interpretation.

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Melany Christofidis	Resolving contentious hospital observation chart design decisions using a behavioural experimental approach
Dr Ying Wai Ho	Forensically Relevant Applications of Genome-Wide Association Studies
Dr Chris Little	Mindfulness at Work
Dr John Pickering	Innovation, Engagement, and the Evaluation of a Parenting Intervention for Improving Sibling Relationships
Dr Rachel Searston	The Emergence of Expertise with Novel Objects
Dr Katherine Storrs	Norms are not the norm: Testing theories of sensory encoding using visual aftereffects
Dr Michael Thai	From opposition to alliance: Asian Westerners' drive to fit in to a White society
Dr Maryam Ziaei	The Emotional Ageing Brain: Cognitive Mechanisms and Neural Networks

UQ Business School

Name	Thesis title
Dr Dorian von Freyhold	On Being Open and Perceiving Novelty

2015 winners

Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Name	Thesis title
Dr Ramanathan Pudhukode Vaidyanathan	Nanoshearing: A Microfluidic Approach for Isolation and Enumeration of Cancer Biomarkers

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Name	Thesis title
Dr Anupma Choudhary	The Hidden MicroRNA Biology of Mammals

Institute for Social Science Research

Name	Thesis title
Dr Arturo Jr Martinez	A Longitudinal Approach to Measuring Income Mobility among Filipino Households

Queensland Alliance For Agriculture and Food Innovation

Name	Thesis title
Dr Karishma Mody	Development of Nanoparticle based Vaccine Delivery Systems

Queensland Brain Institute

Name	Thesis title
Dr Andrew Martin	Characterizing Copy Number Variants in Schizophrenia: A Clinical, Neuropsychological, and Neuroimaging Study
Dr Hanne Thoen	Colour Vision in Mantis Shrimps: Understanding one of the most Complex Visual Systems in the World

School of Architecture

Name	Thesis title
Dr Gillian Matthewson	Dimensions of Gender: Women's Careers in the Australian Architecture Profession

School of Biomedical Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Davd Fann	The Role of Inflammasomes in Ischemic Stroke: From Pathophysiology to Treatments
Dr Faith Brennan	The Role of Complement Anaphylatoxin Receptors in Experimental Spinal Cord Injury

School of Chemical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Inka Vanwonterghem	Microbial Community Dynamics, Function and Interactions in Anaerobic Digestion
Dr Yen Chua	Hybrid Organic-inorganic Molecular Templated Membranes for Water Desalination

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Rebecca Rockett	Characterising the Pathogenesis and Biology of Newly Described Human Polyomaviruses
Dr Tzu-Yu Liu	Self-assembling and Self-adjuvanting Polymer-peptide Conjugates as Therapeutic Vaccines Against Cervical Cancer
Dr Mohamed Haroon	Molecular Characterisation of Microbial Communities Involved in Nitrate-driven Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane

School of Communication and Arts

Name	Thesis title
Dr Chari Larsson	Didi-Huberman's Ghosts
Dr Rowena Grant-Frost	Close Observations: Film Style and Interpretation in Surveillance Cinema
Dr Nicholas Lord	The Labyrinth and the Lacuna: Towards a Spatial Poetics of Metafiction
Dr Stephen Crofts	Australian Press Constructions of the 2002 Bali Bombing: Differing Imaginings of the Nation and its Place in the World

School of Education

Name	Thesis title
Dr David Bright	Becoming-teacher: A Partial and Experimental Account of Western Native English-speaking Teachers in Vietnamese International Schools

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Name	Thesis title
Dr Sreedevi Aithal	Wideband Absorbance Measures in Neonates and Young Infants
Dr Luke Heales	Towards an Understanding of Motor System Impairments in Individuals with Unilateral Lateral Epicondylalgia

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Han Su	Quality-Aware Trajectory Processing Using Significant Locations

School of Mathematics and Physics

Name	Thesis title
Dr Hien Nguyen	Finite Mixture Models for Regression Problems
Dr Robert Lewis-Swan	Ultracold Atoms for Foundational Tests of Quantum Mechanics
Dr Gilbert Macbeth	Improving the Utility of Genetic Markers in Fish Populations
Dr Ardalan Armin	Electro-Optics of Organic Solar Cells and Photodiodes

School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering

Name	Thesis title
Dr Abdullah Mohammed S Alkhedhair	Modelling and Experimental Study of Spray Cooling Systems for Inlet Air Pre-Cooling in Natural Draft Dry Cooling Towers
Dr Zhi Zhang	Investigation of Structural Characteristics of III-V Semiconductor Nanowires Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

School of Medicine

Name	Thesis title
Dr Mark Bettington	A Clinicopathological and Molecular Categorisation of Serrated Colorectal Polyps
Dr Xiaowen Liang	Biodistribution of Newly Developed Water-dispersible CdTe/CdS Quantum Dots for In Vivo Imaging
Dr Megan Rossi	Uraemic Toxins & Synbiotics: A Novel Therapy for Chronic Kidney Disease
Dr Janattul Ain Jamal	Beta-lactam Antibiotic Pharmacokinetics During Continuous Venovenous Haemofiltration in Critically Ill Patients: Continuous Infusion versus Intermittent Bolus Administration
Dr Julie Guylaine Burel	Molecular Profiling of Cellular Immune Responses to Plasmodium Spp. Blood-stage Infection in Humans Using Systems Immunology

School of Political Science and International Studies

Name	Thesis title
Dr Nilanjana Premaratna	Theatre for Peacebuilding: The Role of Arts in Conflict Transformation in South Asia

School of Psychology

Name	Thesis title
Dr James Retell	Attentional Control: The Role of Task-expectations in Determining Attentional Selection
Dr Anthony Lee	Sexual Selection and the Role of Variation in Women's Mate Preference for Masculine Traits
Dr Claire Naughtin	The Neural Substrates of Object Individuation
Dr Fransisca Sidjaja	Assessment and Diagnosis of Autism in Developing Countries: The Indonesian Adaptation of Autism Detection in Early Childhood (ADEC)

School of Public Health

Name	Thesis title
Dr Caroline Salom	Comorbid Alcohol and Mental Health Disorders: A Longitudinal Analysis of Development to Young Adulthood