Current research students
Recent MA and PhD completions
| Name | Topic | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| David Adjartey (2019) | 'The Effects of Community Resettlement on Socio-Cultural Behaviour: The Case of Bui Dam Resettlement Project in Ghana' | PhD |
| Obed Adonteng-Kissi (2019) | 'Assessment of Parents' Level of Knowledge on Children's Rights: The Case of Suhum in Ghana' | PhD |
| Leila Alkassab (2019) | 'The Political Ecology of Environmental Degradation and the Global reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (RDD+) Programme' | PhD |
| Tim Andrews (2017) | 'Everyday Life at the Crossroads of Modernity: Intersections in the thought of Henri Lefebvre, Cornelius Castoriadis and Agnes Heller' | PhD |
| Akuch Anyieth (2020) | ‘Masculinity and the Negotiation of Domestic Violence in Melbourne's South Sudanese-Australian community’ | MA |
| Alexia Cameron (2017) | 'Capitalising on the Moment: The Economics of Affect in 'Hip' Melbourne Caf's and Bars' | PhD |
| Stephen Cuttriss (2020) | ‘Music at the Peripheries: Tango Siglo XXI and the Revival of the Orquesta Tipic' | PhD |
| Alonso Casanueva Baptista (2019) | ‘From Individuals to Citizens: Towards a Radical Education Imaginary in American Modernity. A Castoriadean reading of three American radical education theorists and practitioners in the Twentieth Century: Dewey, Illich, and Freire’ | PhD |
| Fang Cao (2017) | 'Elderly care, Family Relations and Social Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-2015' | PhD |
| Elizabeth Chapman (2017) | 'The Community Garden as a Microcosm' | PhD |
| Rebecca Clark (2019) | '"Where I Feel Most Comfortable in the World": Searching Utopia for Home’ | PhD |
| Tracy De Cotta (2017) | 'There ae No Vagabonds Here: Public Spaces and Publicness in an Aspiring World City: A Study of Three Public Leisure Spaces in Colombo, Sri Lanka' | PhD |
| Aidan Craney (2019) | 'Youth Livelihood and Development in Pacific Islands' | PhD |
| Kirsty Forsdike (2018) | '"It Keeps Me Sane": An Ethnographic Study of a Women's Field Hockey Club through the Lens of Social Capital' | PhD |
| Charon Freebody (2019) | ‘Making a Difference: The Creative Visions of Tracey Moffatt and Rachel Perkins’ | PhD |
| Abay Gebrekidan (2019) | 'Experiences of Identity and Belonging Among African Australians in Melbourne' | PhD |
| Andrew Gilbert (2017) | 'The Crisis Paradigm : The concept of "Crisis" and its Limits in Lukacs, Koselleck, Arendt and Habermas' | PhD |
| Matthew Hart (2017) | ‘On the Edges of Intimacy and Sociality: Young People's NSFW Tumblr Selfies’ | PhD |
| Timothy Hamilton (2018) | ‘White Nation, Black Land: How Indigenous Claims to Land Challenge Australian National Identity’ | PhD |
| Johanna Higgs (2018) | 'Now I m a Guerrilla The Child Combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)' | PhD |
| Melissa Kennedy (2018) | 'Reconceptualising the Creative Economy: Possibilities in Place in Rural Victoria' | PhD |
| Rachel Loney-Howes (2017) | 'Being Heard, Being Seen, Being Believed: The Politics of Recognition in Online Anti-rape Activism' | PhD |
| Bahar Manouchehri (2019) | 'Child-Friendly Cities Indicators in Developing Countries: Definition of New Indicators with Emphasis on Participation of Children' | PhD |
| Catherine Papadopoullos (2020) | ‘Recasting Transgression in Modernity: Prohibition, Pleasure and Otherness’ | PhD |
| Julian Potter (2019) | 'Faustian Modernity: German Critical Theory of Technological Modernity’ | PhD |
| Patrick Scolyer-Gray (2019) | 'Interpreting "Artistic Works of Fiction and Falsehood": A Sociological Analysis of the Production and Consumption of Knowledge on 4chan' | PhD |
| Fatemeh Shahani (2019) | ‘The Religious Placemaking and Performance in (Post)-Secular and Multicultural Urban Spaces: The Representation of Islamic Symbols in a Mosque, a Museum and a Mall of Metropolitan Melbourne' | PhD |
| Kyle Slade (2020) | Ontological Security and Convention in Residents of Bushfire-prone Areas along Victoria's Urban-rural Interfaces' | PhD |
| Humaira Tabassum (2019) | ‘The Role of Urban Planning in Developing Safer Cities in Pakistan: From Counter-Terrorism to Planning for Democracy, Equity and Diversity in Lahore and Islamabad' | PhD |
| Nguyen Truong-Young (2020) | ‘The Unique Phenomenon and Significant Role of Tube Housing in the Development of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam' | PhD |
| Melinda Turner (2017) | 'Harry Potter: The Story of Our Times? A Study of the Question of Meaning in Secular Modernity' | PhD |
| Ann Van Ryn (2017) | ‘Nature: A Noetic Unity’ | PhD |
| Naduni Wickramaarachichi (2017) | 'Re-imagining a Sense of Belonging: South Sudanese Migrants’ Experiences in a Semi-rural Small Town, Castlemaine, State of Victoria' | PhD |
| Shane Worrell (2020) | ‘Refugees and Social Media Brokering: Transnational Familial Communication in a Smartphone Age’ | PhD |
Current postgraduate students
| Name | Topic |
|---|---|
| Lauren Albino | 'Risk Society, Reflexive Modernity, National Tragedy: Sewol' |
| Houda Ali | 'The Reproduction of Islamaphobia's Logics in the Articulation of Muslim Women's Resistance' |
| James Annand | 'Social organisation, Kinship, and Native Title in Aboriginal Victoria' |
| Matthew Barca | 'How do Individuals who Identify as Experiencing Social Anxiety Make Sense of it?' |
| Stephany Brajanovski | 'Aboriginal Victorian Women's Narratives on Healing, Drug Use and Drug Recovery' |
| Clare Brealey | ‘An Investigation into Dog Breed Politics in Contemporary Australia’ |
| Adrienne Brodie | 'Seeking Safe Refuge: Negotiating Housing Precarity in the Face of Environmental Sensitivities' |
| Joanne Byrne | 'The Subcultural Use of Digital Social Spaces' |
| Lindy Cameron | '“Mentally Ill Puppets” and “Skinhead Lesbians”: Gendered Policing of Female Teen Activists' |
| Cecil Camilleri | 'Mental Health Literacy, Woundedness and Spiritual Wellbeing: Human-Centered Narratives Informing Personal Recovery and Leadership in the Mental Health and Substance Use Sectors' |
| Gonzalo Carrasco | 'The Evolution of the Chant: Protest Art and the Chilean New Song' |
| Lloyd Changaira | 'Help Seeking and Healthcare System Utilisation amongst African Migrants in Victoria, Australia' |
| Dino Concepcion | ‘Health on Hold: Experiencing Precarity, Racism, and the "Hidden Injuries" in Call Centre Work’ |
| Matthew Conrad | 'Shamanic Tourism in the Peruvian Amazon' |
| Kristie Deluca | 'A Trauma Focused Review of the Australian Child Protection System' |
| Adrian Doling-Hill | 'Across the Great Divide: Identifying Key Causes of Political Anomie and Bifurcation’ |
| Jacqulyn Evans | 'The Culture of Culture: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Relationship Between the Microbiota of Kombucha and its Human Producers' |
| Thomas Fisher | 'Inquiring into the Rise of the Far Right' |
| John Gannon | 'On "Being" a Late Modern Psychiatric Nurse: An Autoethnography'. |
| Brigette Glossop | 'Youth, Technology, Incivility: E-bullying in Australian Schools' |
| Natasha Graham | 'The (Mis)measure of Prisoners Children: Problematic Conceptions within Discourses about Intergenerational Transmission of Criminality' |
| Shawn Green | ‘Countering radical and violent Islam in Indonesia through civil-society’ |
| Lisa Hatfield | 'Sustainability and Productivity: The Politics of Nature in Urban Australia' |
| Alasdair Henry | ‘The Effectiveness of Australian Survivor Advocacy Groups in the Domain of Historical Institutional Child Abuse’ |
| Stephanie Houghton | ‘Inclusivity, Participation and Narratives: Exploring How Three Organisations in Ghana Engage Short-term Volunteers within Development’ |
| Claire James | ‘Race, Culture and Enduring Attraction: An Anthropological Perspective on Past and Present Relationships Between Aboriginal Women and Men of European Descent’ |
| Janelle Johnstone | ‘‘More Than Voices: An Ethnographic Analysis of Melbourne's Independent Live Music Industry’ |
| Rosie Jones | 'What Will We Do With the Dead?' |
| Amber Karanikolas | 'Imprisonment, Disability and Abolitionism: Figuring Disability within the Abolitionist Imaginary' |
| Kim Lah | ‘The International Criminal Court's attempted prosecution of the US, and the Trump Administration's Response: A Case Study of International (In)Justice' |
| Caroline Lyall | ‘The Impact of Mental Illness on Emerging Adults: Expected Transitions and Identity Formation’ |
| Neville Manaois | ‘The Korean Migration to the Philippines’ |
| Bernardo López Marin | 'The Significance of Trans-migratory Journeys and their Meaning for Migrants in Transit through Violent Territories within Mexico and Central Africa: Feelings and Sentiments that Transform the Human Condition and its Nature in Form and Shape' |
| Joshua Matanzima | ‘Cementing Uneven Development: The Socio- economic Disparities Engendered by the Sino Hydro-electric Project in Kariba, Zimbabwe’ |
| Sidrah McCarthy | 'Concepts of "Culture" amongst Victorian Aboriginal Communities' |
| Nibedita Mishra | ‘Paradoxes of “Smart” City Planning in India’ |
| Samiro Mohamud | 'Somali International Students and Mobility' |
| Marjorie Muyrong | Linkages between Culture and Economics: Understanding the Economic Miracles and Development Puzzles in Asia using Stochastic Frontier Analysis' |
| Amy Neve | 'Becoming Young Men: Hazara (Former) Unaccompanied Minors Transitioning into Adulthood in Australia'. |
| Kurnia Novianti | ‘An Ethnography of the Smart City Concept in Indonesia: A Case Study of Surabaya’ |
| Sharon O'Mara | ‘Risky Pedagogy: Teaching Victorian Secondary School Students the Ethics of Intimacy’ |
| Susannah Ostojic | ‘Food (In)Security: Personhood, Health, and Modernity in Vanuatu’ |
| Michelle O’Toole | 'Embracing Māori Language, Art, and Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand' |
| Sophia Pearce | ‘A Critical Examination of the Repatriation of Barkandji Material Culture in Western New South Wales, Australia’ |
| Diana Piantedosi | 'Augmented Reality in the Tinder Age' |
| Gilbert Que | 'The Role of the Philippine Indian Diaspora in India's Cultural Diplomacy: Understanding Identity, Communicating culture, Using Spaces' |
| Beth Radulski | '#TakeTheMaskOff: Autistic Performativity and the Neurodiversity Movement' |
| Benedict Santilli | 'A Hegelian Critique of the Disciplinary Science of Anthropology' |
| Justin Charles See | 'Assessing the Distributive and Procedural Justice of Climate Change Adaptation Programmes: The Case of Iloilo City, Philippines' |
| Michael Seddon | ‘Beyond the Sacred Valley: Ayahuasca Pilgrimage in Peru’ |
| Suzanne Shearer | 'Maintaining Village Identity in the Suburbs: The Place of Myth and Ritual in Cultural Identity' |
| Leah Slattery | 'Exploring Processes of Racialisation in the Victorian, Australian Criminal Justice System' |
| Francis Sollano | 'Legal Regimes and Literary Representations of the Post-Martial Law Philippines and the Indonesian New Order' |
| Deua Stojanovska | 'Flourishing in the Desert: Anangu Conceptions of Wellbeing while Living with Kidney Disease' |
| Jon Stokes | 'A Study in Workplace Injuries/Deaths and the Neo-Liberal State: NSW 1983-2011' |
| Magdalena Szypielewicz | 'Hipster Urbanism: Hipsters and their Impact on Gentrification in Melbourne, Australia' |
| Andrew Tang | ‘Cigarettes for Stories, or Queer Solidarity – Intersecting Subjectivities in a Solidarity Economy’ |
| Anna Torres Abblitt | 'A Study on Perceptions of Natural Disasters amongst Filipino Migrants in Australia' |
| Jane Urquhart | ‘Locating Gendered Knowledge and Practices in Aboriginal Fire Ecology’ |
| Kerry Watson | ‘Beyond Chinatown: The Location of Bendigo's Chinese Heritage Sites’ |
| Andrew Whalley | ‘A Place for Respect: Reshaping Client-practitioner Relations in a Service for People who Inject Drugs’ |
| Matthew Willis | 'Water Security in the Murray-Darling Basin' |
| Kerry Woodward | 'Agriculture Beyond Growth: Viability and Scalability' |
| Yiping Xing | 'Ethnic Identities and Intergenerational Relationships of Chinese Migrant Families' |
| Maryanne Xuereb | 'The Social Capital of Evangelization: Fostering Social Capital within Evangelical Catholic Communities in Melbourne' |
| Graham Young | 'Metamodernism and Narrative' |