Melbourne School of Population HealthCentre for Health and Society

Our Students


This is a list of current or recently completed PhD students within the Centre for Health & Society. 

Name
PhD Thesis Title
Supervisor
Year Completed
Email
Affiliated Department (where applicable)
Acklin,Faye
Koori women: what they know, feel, believe and perceive about cervical cancer and the PAP test.
Brookes, A ongoing
f.acklin@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Atkinson, Petah
COAG; Is that all we're worth? Is COAG an effective mechanism for addressing Aboriginal disadvantage in the Goulbourn Valley or will COAG just rearrange the table of the welfare state?
Tynan, M
ongoing
p.atkinson2@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Branowska, Carmela
East Timor, Indonesia, Afghanistan: The relationship between filmmaking, peacebuilding and post conflict situations
Presa, E
ongoing
c.baranowska@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Benison, Danika
A generalised feeling of disorder: a study of migrane and gender
Macintyre, M
ongoing
d.benison@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Clark, Caroline
A social and medical history of alcoholism in Australia
McCalman, J
ongoing
c.clark2@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Clarke, Angela
Indigenous knowledge of community development
Genat, B
ongoing
clarkea@unimelb.edu.au

Cox, John
Money, governance and religion in contemporary Melanesia
Macintyre, M
ongoing
j.cox@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Davies, Grant
The applied ethics of HIV vaccines
Gillam, L
ongoing
g.davies2@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Edmonds, Frances
How does the knowledge and practice of south-east Australian Aboriginal art relate to the health and well-being of the Aboriginal Community and the individual?
Pyett, P
ongoing
f.edmonds@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Harris, Anna
International medical graduates in the urban Australian hospital: An ethnographic study
Guillemin, M
ongoing
a.harris4@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Hayes, Barbara
Is there an ethical difference between the requirement to offer the medical treatment of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the requirement to offer other medical treatments?
Gillam, L
ongoing
b.hayes@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Horsley, Philomena
A social anatomy of autopsies
Guillemin, M
ongoing
P.Horsley@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Keegel, Tessa
Tell me about it: Hazard communication in the workplace
La Montagne, A
ongoing
t.keegel@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Livingston, Jennifer

Gillam, L
ongoing
j.livingston@unimelb.edu.au

Lock, Mark
Policy networks and research to policy transfer in Aboriginal health.
Anderson, I
ongoing
mjlut@unimelb.edu.au

MacDougall, Rosalind
Adverse events in health care: The experience from the patient and family perspective
Gillam, L
ongoing
r.mcdougall@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

McLeod, Kim
Doctors' experience of ethical issues in their early years of practice
Fitzgerald, J
ongoing
k.mcleod2@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Marriott, Patrice
The construction of wellness in relation to antidepressant use in the community
Gillam, L ongoing
p.marriott1@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Moeller-Saxone, Kristen
Evaluation of smokefree interventions for people with a mental illness
Guillemin, M

ongoing
k.moeller-saxone@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Murray, Caitlin
Aboriginal mental health in historical perspective
Anderson, I
ongoing
c.murray@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Myers, Natalie
The intersection of environmental degradation with belonging to place
Langton, M
ongoing
njmyers@unimelb.edu.au

Nipe, Tara
Talking to the dead: a study of health care, the media and death work
Brookes, A
ongoing
t.nipe@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Ong, Katherine
Assessing the cost effectiveness of preventative programs for non-communicable disease: Methods of health service delivery in the Indigenous community
Anderson, I
ongoing
k.ong3@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Otim, Michael
Assessing cost-effectiveness of health care services: planning for the prevention of non-communicable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Anderson, I
ongoing
m.otim@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Phillips, Gregory
Motivation and self-perception among health-care providers in their   professional roles
Brookes, A
ongoing
glphil@unimelb.edu.au

Smith, Timothy
The Policeman's Eye: the photography of Paul Foelsche
Langton, M
ongoing
t.smith10@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Spilia, Angelique


ongoing
a.spilia@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Tacitos, Theonie
The limits and potential of community lead, place-based strategies to address health and social inequities
Warr, D
ongoing
t.tacticos@unimelb.edu.au

Tasker, Christine
Discourses of medical professionalism
Guillemin, M
ongoing
c.tasker2@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Van der Sterren, Anke
From crisis response to community health: improving the well-being of the Victorian Aboriginal Community
Anderson, I
ongoing
a.vandersterren@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Williams, Anthony
Disability in post-secondary education
Brookes, A
ongoing
a.williams3@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Williams, Robyn
Shifting the gaze to the other: Cultural safety and curricula in universities
Genat, B
ongoing
r.williams2@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Hall, Sandra
Decolonisation or recolonisation? A comparative analysis of colonial constructs and racial discourse in key Indigenous policy statements in Australia and Aotearoa

2007


Westall, Carolyn
Kept in the dark: the experience of resolution from postnatal depression

2007

Medicine
Welch, Nicki
There is no place like work

2007


Fetherstonhaugh, Deirdre
Hobson's choice:  dialysis or the coffin!  A study of dialysis decision-making amongst

2007

Medicine
Adams, Karen
Koori kids and otitis media prevention in Victoria

2007


Kowal, Emma
The Proximate Advocate: indigenous health on the postcolonial frontier

2007

Menzies, Darwin
Furler, John
Chronicity and character: Patient centredness and health inequalities in general practice diabetes care

2006

General Practice
Hodgson, Jan
Testing times, challenging choices. Women, prenatal testing and genetic counselling.

2006

Paediatrics
Coles, Jan
Breastfeeding and Maternal Touch after Childhood Sexual Assault

2006


MacLean, Sarah
Chrome world, chrome magic: inhalant use and public policy in an Australian context

2006

Youth Research Centre
Tinney, Jean
Still me: Being old and in care

2006


Paradies, Yin
Race, Racism, Stress and Indigenous Health

2006

Menzies, Darwin
Johnson, Penny
Diasporas of medical beliefs: A multi-ethnic clinic and the experience of tuberculosis in a low incidence country

2006

Social Work
Renkin, Peter
From segregated institution to self-managed community

2006


Hester-Moore, Jennifer
Going with the flow: Enacting fluidity in contraceptive and menstrual decision-making

2006


Delany, Clare
Informed consent: ethical theory, legal obligations, and the physiotherapy clinical encounter

2006


Fuscaldo, Giuliana
What is the role of genes in determining parenthood?

2006


Mann, Rosemary
Look wide- searching for health in the borderlands

2006


Duncan, Rony
“Holding your breath” predictive genetic testing in young people

2005

Paediatrics
McCoy, Brian
Kanyirninpa: health, masculinity and wellbeing of desert Aboriginal men

2004


Stephens, Marguerita
White without soap: philanthropy, caste and exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, a political economy of race

2004

History
Drew, Sarah
Stranger in the community: Life after cancer in childhood

2003


Wilde, Sally
Practising surgery: A history of surgical training in Australia 1927-1973

2003


Hunter, Cecily
History of geriatric medicine in Australia

2002

HPS
Newson, Ainsley
Moral problems in behavioural genetics: Should we find genes for intelligence?

2002

Paediatrics
Anderson, Warwick
The cultivation of whiteness: Science, health and racial destiny in Australia

2001 (MD)


Hemer, Susan
A malmalien e makil: Person, emotion and relations in Lihir, Papua New Guinea

2001


Kanitsaki, Olga
Ethnospecific health care: A critical ethnographic study of a Greek nursing home

1999



 

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