Global Utilities

School of Public Health

Higher Degree Research Students/Alumni

Here are some of the school's recently successful doctoral students:

Dr Jane Addis

Thesis title: Myths of partner choice

Prue Bagley
Thesis topic: Public Health Infrastructure
Dr Belinda Garth

Thesis title: The development of a grounded theory on the management of disability in the paediatric-disability setting.
Profile/Thesis Abstract

Dr Lindsay Carey

Thesis title: Pastoral Care & Bioethics: The Role of Australian and New Zealand Health Care Chaplains

Dr Virginia Dickson-Swift

Thesis title: Methodological issues in sensitive research.
Staff profile

Dr Zhiping (Justin) Gong

Thesis title: Developing a DRG Classification System for Acute Hospital Inpatients in China.
Profile/Thesis Abstract

Thesis online

Dr Michael Groome

Thesis title: An Exploration of the Moral Development of Nursing Students
Profile/Thesis Abstract

Dr Liz Hanna

Thesis topic: Environmental health and primary health care: Towards a new workforce model.
thesis online

Dr Chyrisse Heine

Thesis topic: Communication and Psychosocial Profiles of Older Adults with Sensory Loss. Cherisse is a Speech Pathologist and Audiologist.
Profile

Dr Heather Hill

Thesis topic: Taking the talk, but not walking the walk: Barriers to person-centred care in dementia.
Profile/Thesis Abstract

thesis online (masters)
thesis online (PhD)

Dr Sophie Hill

Thesis topic: The surgical patient: A sociological analysis of the experience of carotid endarterectomy surgery.
Staff profile

Dr Louise Keogh

Thesis topic: Women's use of the 'morning after pill': Reckless or reflective?

Dr Amanda Kenny

Thesis topic: Issues in rural hospital care.
Staff profile

Dr Chaojie (George) Liu

Thesis title: Training Needs for Community Health Services in Urban China: A Pilot Study in Chengdu.
Staff profile
thesis online

Dr Fran McInerney

Thesis topic: Thoroughly Modern Death? A Sociological Analysis of Popular Australian Press Responses to Requested Death.
Staff profile

 
Dr Samantha McLeod

Thesis topic: Psychological Predictors of Injury Risk and Rehabilitation in Elite Basketball Players.

Kevin Messer
Thesis topic: A student centred couselling/educational model of support/ interventions to assist funded integration students
Dr Monika Merkes

Thesis topic: A longer working life for Australian women of the baby boom generation: Women's voices and the social policy implications of an ageing female workforce.
thesis online

Dr Lindsay Paul

Thesis topic: Caring for dying parents: An existential phenomenological approach.
profile

Dr Redwan Rahman

Thesis topic: The State, Private Sector Healthcare and regulation in Bangladesh.
Completed 2006
Profile

Helen Rawson
Thesis topic: The sexual and reproductive health of Asian teenage girls living in Australia
Dr Araya Sripairoj

Thesis topic: Drug and Therapeutics Committee (DTC) performance indicators in Thai hospitals: Developing, evaluating and sustaining.
Profile/Thesis Abstract

 
Dr Shari Siegloff

Thesis topic: The lived experience of family caregivers: An analysis of mental health policy and mental health care within the Australian rural context.

Dr Pauline Stanton

Thesis title: Changing Employment Relationships in Victorian Public Hospitals.
Staff profile

Dr Lyn Talbot

Thesis topic: Personal & Community Factors in Social Capital.
Staff profile

Dr Vicki Tsianakas

Thesis topic: Women and reproduction: Perceptions and experiences of Afghan women.
Profile/Thesis Abstract

Dr Rosemary Watts

Thesis topic: Discharge Planning in Critical Care.
Profile/Thesis Abstract

Dr Sharon Willcox

Thesis topic: Effectiveness of Australian Private Health Insurance Regulation.
Profile/Thesis Abstract

Dr Zhang Yan

Thesis topic: How to improve the rational antibiotic use of surgeons?
Profile

Dr Hui Yang

Thesis topic: Priorities and Strategies for the Development of National Health Information Systems in China.
Profile/Thesis Abstract

thesis online

Dr Hongwen Zhao

Thesis topic: Governing the Health Market: Towards an effective regulatory Strategies in China.
Profile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Last Updated: 11 June, 2009