PhD Research
Current Doctoral Candidates
Jacqueline Amos |
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| Topic | Parallel parent child narrative / parent and child therapy: a theoretical exploration of a process using the parent child relationship to treat severe behavioural problems in 3 -12 year olds. |
Amy Baker |
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Ass Prof Nicholas Procter |
| Topic | Ethical Considerations in the Recovery from Mental Illness: Exploring, reflecting upon and responding to losses resulting from mental illness through a participatory action research approach. |
Monica Broniecki |
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| Topic | Risk factors for back, neck and shoulder musculoskeletal injuries, claims and cost of claims in ambulance officers. |
Sandra Campbell |
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Professor Roby McDermott |
| Topic | Intergenerational risk for chronic disease in a cohort of Indigenous infants in North Queensland. |
Mei-Man Maggie Chen |
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| Topic | An investigation of birth options in Taiwanese women who have had one caesarean birth with a live baby. |
Marc Dallman |
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| Topic | To establish best practice for the identification and subsequent management of patients presenting to an acute medical ward with an episode of acute delirium. |
Kim Dalziel |
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| Topic | Use of secondary data to inform health economic modelling: issues beyond standard checklists and guidelines. |
Helen de Anstiss |
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Dr Tahereh Ziaian |
| Topic | Young refugees with mental health needs: an exploratory study of help-seeking. |
Shona Dove |
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Professor Eimear Muir-Cochrane |
| Topic | Partnering choice: A critical ethnography of continuity of care midwifery in South Australia. |
Ritva Eronen |
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| Topic | Determining an evidence-based maternal and child health nursing model which is responsive to the needs of families with children from birth to six months of age in the ACT. |
David Foley |
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| Topic | A triangulated study describing the care of intellectually disabled people in an emergency department. |
Andrew Gardner |
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| Topic | A constructivist grounded theory inquiry into how mental health clinicians negotiate 'the' professional boundary and preserve 'the' therapeutic relationship. |
Odette Gibson |
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| Topic | Evaluating performance of primary health care models in Far North Queensland in managing people with chronic disease. |
Anna Gregory |
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Professor Leonie Segal |
| Topic | Factors affecting quality of health care for older people living at home with chronic conditions and complex care needs. |
Penny Kearney |
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| Topic | An exploration of transition in the family context following stroke. |
Ola Kutah |
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| Topic | A critical analysis of the construction of health literacy by paediatric and child and youth health RNs. |
Kim Milde |
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| Topic | Philosophical hermeneutic interpretation of learning in rehabilitation. |
Louis Msema |
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| Topic | Ascertaining STI knowledge and sexual behaviour of Adelaide African refugee men for culturally competent prevention. |
Kevin O'Shaughnessy |
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| Topic | Evaluating the effectiveness of small nurse led support groups both in the decision making process after diagnosis with prostate cancer, in the medium to long term. |
Christine Palmer |
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Professor Eimear Muir-Cochrane |
| Topic | Nursing practice in an acute psychiatric inpatient unit: A critical ethnography. |
Desrae Parker |
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Dr Marie Heartfield |
| Topic | An exploration of the influence of Sexual Health and Relationships Training on the role of Disability Workers in SA. |
Craig Phillips |
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Professor Adrian Esterman |
| Topic | Pre-registration paid employment choice and impact on graduate nurse transition. |
Heidi Silverston |
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Professor Leonie Segal |
| Topic | Leadership development and healthy workplaces. |
Sandra Ullrich |
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| Topic | Investigating nutritional care in nursing practice within acute and residential aged care: Connections between structure, process and outcomes using an action research approach. |
Ava Deborah Walsh |
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Professor Jan Pincombe |
| Topic | Walsh Breastfeeding policies and practices in Australian maternity hospitals – a comparative study into the level of implementation of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. |
Diane Wright |
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| Topic | Exploring the midwife role in the confidence building of pregnant women during antenatal care events: social models and environmental realities. An ethnographic exploration into the nature of the mother-midwife relationship during antenatal care events. |
Past Doctoral Candidates
Awarded in 2009
| Marry Harris | |
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| Topic | A hermeneutic investigation into breastfeeding and bonding from the perspective of women who are survivors of abuse. |
Edith Reddin |
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Professor Jan Pincombe |
| Topic | GRABS Graduates midwives and breastfeeding support: What factors influence the development of their practice. |
Awarded in 2008
| Lois McKellar | |
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Professor Jan Pincombe |
| Topic | PREPARE: Parents Reflection on Education Postpartum: An action research enquiry |
Awarded in 2007
| Robyn Clark | |
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Prof Simon Stewart |
| Topic | Chronic heart failure beyond city limits: an analysis of the distribution, management and information technology solutions for people with chronic heart failure in rural and remote Australia. |
| Dorothy Keally | |
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Associate Professor Eimear Muir-Cochrane |
| Topic | 'I can't find a pulse but that's okay': nursing in context, a systemic functional linguistic examination of nursing practice. |
Marlene Wiese |
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| Topic | Becoming accepted’: the complementary medicine practitioner's response to the uptake and practice of traditional complementary medicine and its therapies by the mainstream health care sector. |
Awarded in 2006
| Mark Loughlead | |
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Speaking from experience: the work of consumer and carer advocates in educating mental health professionals. |
Mandy Stanley |
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Older people's understandings and perceptions of well-being: a grounded theory |
Awarded in 2005
| Margaret Kennedy | |
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Packaging nursing as politically potent: a critical reflexive cultural studies approach to nursing informatics |
Matthew Leach |
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The clinical efficacy and feasibility of Horsechestnut Seed Extract in the treatment of venous leg ulceration. |
Merrilyn Paech |
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The vision-learning debate: screening of adolescents’ vision by Registered Nurses. |
Linda Sweet |
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Parents’ experiences of breastfeeding a very low birth weight preterm infant from birth to twelve months of age. |
Awarded in 2004
| Jennifer Fereday | |
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The role of performance feedback in the self-assessment of nursing practice |