Higher Degree Research
We want you to pursue your own research interests, under the expert supervision of our academic staff. If you would like to get your PhD or Masters degree with us, we suggest you first check your eligibility, find a supervisor and then begin your application.
Current Higher Degree Research Students
Gender, sexuality and diversity studies
Student name | Thesis title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
Ison, Jessica | Queering Speciesism: A critical analysis of heteronormative human supremacy | Carolyn D'Cruz |
Kanjere, Anastasia | Fantasies and Forgiveness: Popular culture, whiteness, and the racial gaze-as-power | Toula Nicolacopoulos |
Lobb, Andrea | The Affects of Injustice: Critical Readings of Emotion in Psychoanalysis and Feminist Social Theory | Miriam Bankovsky |
Redd, Curtis | Queer representation and identity formation in Australian tabloid media | Carolyn D'Cruz |
Tarpey-Brown, Francis | Cracking the present - calling for a different future | Carolyn D'Cruz |
Zwickl, Savannah Ursula | Coping Strategies and Gender Identity Formation in Individuals Who Self-Identify as Non-Binary or Gender Queer. | Carolyn D'Cruz |
International development
Student name | Thesis title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
Bond, Glenn | Title forthcoming | Chris Roche |
Finlayson, Caitlin | Doing Development Differently: Movement' Transformation and Non-Linearity in INGOS. | Chris Roche |
Josephson, Kimberlee Beth | From Social Movement to Social Enterprise: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of the Application and Marketing of Fair Trade | Michael O'Keefe |
International relations
Student name | Thesis title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
Bloom, Mark | American Foreign Policy toward South Korea under the Carter Administration | Nick Bisley |
Cabot, Adam | Russian Regional Nuclear Deterrence and 'First Use' as a Component of Hybrid Warfare. | Robert Horvath |
Cosma, Alexandru | Critically Assess the Relationship between American Hegemony and World Order and/or Disorder in the Post-Cold War International System | Michael O'Keefe |
Douglas, Kieran | Evolving Australia's Strategic Security: Strategic Culture and Geopolitics | Michael O'Keefe |
Gorgi, Mohamed Nejib | Lack of consensus as an obstacle to real democratization in North Africa. | Jasmine Westendorf |
Heinrichs, Joshua | Power Transition Theory | Nick Bisley |
Hewett, Andrew | Middle Power Diplomacy | Nick Bisley |
Ibrahim, Heba | Systemic Discrimination in Employment: A Study of Critical Race Theory and Australian Employment Policy | Toula Nicolacopoulos |
McLaren, Rebecca | Collective action for social change: The role of international organisations | Chris Roche |
Safiriyu, Ibrahim Ayotomiwa | Peacebuilding and ethno-nationalism: Disaggregating grassroot peace initiatives in post-war Cote D'ivoire | Westendorf |
Seedeen, Rashad | The Chaos of Hegemonic Decline and the Stability of a New Cosmopolitan Order | Daniel Bray |
Strojek, Karen | The politics of inheritance taxation in Australia: past, present and future. | Nicholas Barry |
Trinh, Christopher | Kemalism and Cosmopolitan Islam in Turkish Foreign Policy | Adrian Jones |
White, Martin | Factors that have influenced Australian Department of Defence fuel provision since World War Two | Michael O'Keefe |
Philosophy
Student name | Thesis title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
Lopez, Daniel | Georg Lukac's Philosophy of Praxis | Vassilacopoulos |
Fabiny, Robert | Naturalising conceptual disputes in Meta Ethics | Yuri Cath |
Ely, Julia | Nietzsche and the politics of the last men | Yuri Cath |
Plotzza, Tiffany | Why is ethics such a fundamental question of human existence and what is it that makes ethical interaction possible? | George Vassilacopoulos |
Hamza, Adeel | Heidegger and Derrida: On the vulgar concept of time | George Vassilacopoulos |
Cousens, Christopher | Practices of discrimination in a language game and the phenomenon of appropriation | Toula Nicolacopoulos |
Silvertree, Terri | Mixed Race identity between China and Australia | Carolyn D'Cruz |
Politics
Student name | Thesis title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
Adonteng-Kissi, Obed | Parental Perceptions of Human Rights and Child Labour: A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Ghana | Nicholas Barry |
Ahumada, Pablo Emiliano | A critically reconstructed Marxian theory of capital and money | Nicholas Barry |
Arya, Eshan | Indian Students Migration to Australia | Gwenda Tavan |
Atkinson, Michael | Intercultural dialogue in Multicultural Australia | Gwenda Tavan |
Blythe, Julie | Indigenous Tibetan Forms of Conflict Transformation | James Leibold |
Civitella, Mark John | Who voted for monitory democracy? | Nicholas Barry |
Damiano, Adela | Lost codices of sacred union | Dirk Tomsa |
Garang, Kuol | Ethnic conflict and rural development: How can rural development mitigate ethnic conflict in South Sudan? | Jasmine Westendorf |
Hansen, Mia Tarp | Civil society and media in Kazakhstan: Navigating state control mechanisms and repression | Robert Horvath |
Harsono, Dwi | A Monarchy without a Kingdom: Yogyakarta's Exceptional System of Government | Dirk Tomsa |
Houseman, Sarah | New governance models for organisations in a post-carbon, environmentally sustainable society | Benjamin Habib |
Kalow, Sonja | The influence of gender stereotypes on the public perception of Australian politicians | Gwenda Tavan |
Macfarlane, Kirsty | The Ideal of Equality of Opportunity and Education Policy | Nicholas Barry |
Mundy, Christopher | Chinese hegemony and social media | James Leibold |
Pugh, Judith | Images of a Nation: The Big Picture Federal Politicians and the Visual Arts in Australia | Gwenda Tavan |
Ralston, Matthew | A prioritarian approach to Australian climate change policy | Nicholas Barry |
Rice, Brigid | Enhancing adviser effectiveness: Understanding what makes an effective adviser and how effective advisers can contribute to sustainable institutional strengthening in developing countries. | Chris Roche |
Shi, Wei | Reconstructing Confucianism and Confucian Values: Chinese media and official discourse (2006-2016) | John Makeham |
Vale, James | 'Things of the spirit' meets 'socialist nonsense': Tensions in the Victorian Liberal Party of the 1970s regarding social reform | Gwenda Tavan |