Entries for 2026

One of the prizes awarded for the Graduate Research Poster Competition is the Popular vote prize. That’s where you come in. View the entries below and let us know your favourite by registering and casting your vote. The entry with the most votes wins $50.

Voting closes Wednesday 2 September 2026 at 5 pm AEST.

View the entries for 2026

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Entry #1

Rethinking the Origins of Health Economics: Medical Economics in Interwar America
Alex Holmes-Maritiu
Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Entry #2

Arts-based critical reflection with early years educators
Amelia Murphy
School of Education

Entry #3

The Hidden Leadership of Rural Occupational Therapists
Amy Oman
La Trobe Rural Health School

Entry #4

Assessing Growth and Energy Requirements of Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome
Anela Halilagic
School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport

Entry #5

Nurse Academics Embracing Collaborative Learning in Nursing Education
Quratulain (Annie) Damani
School of Nursing and Midwifery

Entry #6

Targeting GPX8 enhances the efficacy of chemotherapy and radiation in Colorectal cancer
Biswadeep Sen
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute

Entry #7

War Trophies
Claire Kearns
Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy

Entry #8

Engaging with First Nations communities in health research as a non-Indigenous researcher
James Rule
School of Psychology & Public Health

Entry #9

Referral Patterns and Health Outcomes Associated with Physiotherapy on a Regional Australian Medical Ward
Jane McCaig
La Trobe Rural Health School

Entry #10

Implementing Interprofessional and Multidisciplinary Health Student Clinics: Views of Clinical Educators in Australia and New Zealand
Janine Prestes Vargas

Entry #11

Readiness for Collective Musicking: Social and Emotional Learning in Primary School Classroom Music
Katie Hull-Brown
School of Education

Entry #12

Shifting Shorelines: A Geoarchaeological Perspective on the Late Pleistocene Jordan Valley
Natasha Nagle
School of HuSS

Entry #13

COVID 19: Decoding the mechanisms of neurotoxicity and inflammation
Rachel Webb
Agriculture, Biological Sciences and Environment

Entry #14

Australian Local Government Responses to Public Homelessness
Rochelle Jupp
La Trobe Law School

Entry #15

Tobacco smoking prevalence among migrants and non-migrants with Type 2 diabetes: A systematic review
Salma Warsame
Department of Public Health

Entry #16

The rating says PG - What does the screen say?
Samatha Pararath Salim
School of Psychology and Public Health

Entry #17

Complex periodontal biofilms comprising Fusobacterium polymorphum, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia and Tannerella forsythia, and their disruption by the Fusobacterium bacteriophage FNU1
Siti Saleha Binte Mohamed Yakob Adil
La Trobe Rural Health School

Entry #18

Fusobacterium polymorphum induced proliferation and migration of oral squamous cell carcinoma cells and attenuation of these effects
Syeda Areeba Rehan
La Trobe Rural Health School

Entry #19

Investigating Minor Phytocannabinoids using Kinetic Signalling Assays
Tasmin Turner-Thomas
ARC Research Hub for Protected Cropping

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