Higher Degree by Research projects
Classics and Ancient History HDR Projects
Current Projects
Student: Susan Edmondson
Project Title: Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Identity and Self-Representation in the Atlantic Ports and Harbours of Western Hispania from the Late Republic to the Third Century AD
Principal Advisor: Dr Janette McWilliam
Student: Annabel Florence
Project Title: The Public Finances of Fourth-Century BC Athens
Principal Advisor: Dr David Pritchard
Student: Stephanie Golding
Project Title: The Pietas and Virtus of Scipio Africanus: Livy's Portaryal of a soldier, statesman and visionary
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Tom Stevenson
Student: John Hajek
Project Title: Discourses on power and authority in Roman declamation
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Tom Stevenson
Student: Scot McPhee
Project Title: The Space of Battles: The representation of conflict and the Italian landscape in Latin Literature of the Late Republic and Early Empire
Principal Advisor: Dr Janette McWilliam
Student: Elicia Penman
Project Title: Origins of the Medieval Dragon in Greek Mythology
Principal Advisor: Professor Alastair Blanshard
Student: Charles Pry
Project Title: War on Stage: The Representation of War-making in the Tragedies of Euripides
Principal Advisor: Dr David Pritchard
Student: Rory Ardill-Walker
Project Title: Problems of Youth: The Leisure Pursuits of Young Men in Classical Athens
Principal Advisor: Professor Alastair Blanshard
Contact: r.ardillwalker@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Lucile Myers
Project Title: The Impact of Attribution and Restoration on our Understanding of Greek and Roman Sculpture of Classical Antiquity
Principal Advisor: Professor Alastair Blanshard
Contact: lucile.myers@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Filippo Attinelli
Project Title: Cicero’s Use of Justice in Roman Foreign Relations
Principal Advisor: Dr Janette McWilliam
Contact: f.attinelli@uq.net.au
Student: Nicholas George
Project Title: Space and Civil Violence in the Late Republic and Early Empire.
Principal Advisor: Dr Janette McWilliam
Contact: nicholas.george@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Sarah Prince
Project Title: The Public Presentation of Scipio Africanus
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Tom Stevenson
Contact: sarah.prince@uq.net.au
Student: Katherine Prouting
Project Title: Domestic Violence in the Ancient Athenian Law-Court Speeches
Principal Advisor: Professor Alastair Blanshard
Contact: k.prouting@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Samantha Levick
Project Title: The Contexts and Functions of Health Care Advice in the Roman Republic and Empire
Principal Advisor: Dr Janette McWilliam
Contact: samantha.levick@uq.net.au
Studies in Religion HDR Projects
Current Projects
Student: Michelle Cook
Project Title: Being a Covenanting and Multicultural Church? Explorations of Ecclesiology in the Uniting Church in Australia
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Neil Pembroke
Student: Rev. Helen Dick
Project Title: A qualitative study of the religious and spiritual beliefs of direct care workers in a Residential Aged Care Facility in the face of death dying and suffering in the workplace
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Neil Pembroke
Student: Chris Gibbons
Project Title: Theory and Practice of Yoga in the Mahābhārata
Principal Advisor: Dr Adam Bowles
Student: Tim Hodgson
Project Title: Addressing Moral Injury within the Royal Australian Air Force through a Restorative Process
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Neil Pembroke
Student: Gary Krause
Project Title: Centers of Influence: failed 19th Century approach or relevant model for urban ministry today?
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Neil Pembroke
Student: Peter Lockhart
Project Title: A critical analysis of the content of sermons preached by ministers ordained in the Uniting Church in Queensland between 2002-2012, with particular reference to key theological themes and socio-cultural issues
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Neil Pembroke
Student: Paloma Muñoz Gomez
Project Title: New religious ideologies and practices in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata
Principal Advisor: Dr Adam Bowles
Student: Nithyananda Nathan
Project Title: The communion of saints of the Apostles' Creed: Christian socialism of New Humanism for contemporary society
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Rick Strelan
Student: Anthony Kent
Project Title: The Sabbath in Luke-Acts: Luke's case for perpetuating the Sabbath
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Rick Strelan
Contact: anthony.kent@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Elizabeth Culhane
Project Title: Dynamic Tension: Knowledge, Being, and Time between Theological Metaphysics and Continental Philosophy
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Neil Pembroke
Contact: e.culhane@uq.edu.au
Student: Jonathan Sargeant
Project Title: God as a Filmed Body: An Investigation Drawing on Unconventional Depictions of God in Western Cinema 1936-2017
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Neil Pembroke
Contact: j.sargeant@uq.net.au
Philosophy HDR Projects
Current Projects
Student: Riccardo Carli
Project Title: Nietzsche's challenge for creativity: perspectives on shaping the free spirit
Principal Advisor: Dr Aurelia Armstrong
Student: Catherine Carol
Project Title: Luce Irigaray: Thinking sexuate difference and the law
Principal Advisor: Dr Michelle Boulous Walker
Student: Anton Chang
Project Title: Work in Progress: The Phenomenology of Work
Principal Advisor: Dr Michelle Boulous Walker
Contact: anton.chang@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Anthony Cupitt
Project Title: Should the batter walk? Fairness and ethical decision making in the sport of cricket
Principal Advisor: Dr Julian Lamont
Student: Katherine Diserens
Project Title: Peirce with Arendt: Judging Justifications for Beliefs about the Use of Force
Principal Advisor: Dr Gilbert Burgh
Student: Ross Forgione
Project Title: The ethical and legal arguments for the abolition of advocate immunity in Australia
Principal Advisor: Dr Julian Lamont
Student: Joshua Kelleher
Project Title: The limits of classical mereology: Mixed fusions and the failures of mereological hybridism
Principal Advisor: Dr Peter Evans
Contact: j.kelleher@uq.edu.au
Student: Glenn Manga
Project Title: The Observer and Observed As One, A Philosophical Move From Disembodiment and Dysfunctional Action, To A Trans-Disciplinary Topocosmic Re-embodiment and Relational Action
Principal Advisor: Dr Julian Lamont
Student: Chris Mesiku
Project Title: Novel applications of tacit knowledge to physics, STS, HCI and Neuroscience
Principal Advisor: Dr Joel Katzav
Contact: c.mesiku@uq.edu.au
Student: George Nguyen
Project Title: The Epistemology of Manipulating the Quantum World
Principal Advisor: Dr Peter Evans
Student: Peter Shaw
Project Title: Can a science of morality ground moral practice through its implications for the design of social institutions
Principal Advisor: Dr Julian Lamont
Contact: peter.shaw@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Alexandra Varlakov
Project Title: Information: Entropy, Complexity, and Life
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Phil Dowe
Student: Michael Vincent
Project Title: Diversity, Stability, Chronicity, and Morality
Principal Advisor: Dr Julian Lamont
Student: Hora Zabarjadi Sar
Project Title: Hermeneutical study of refugee identity: Hermeneutical injustice, social integrity failure and extremism
Principal Advisor: Dr Gilbert Burgh
Student: Sameema Zahra
Project Title: Risk, Violence and Subjectivity: A Beauvoirian Critique
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze
Contact: s.zahra@uq.edu.au
Student: Diane Zetlin
Project Title: Gender and the formation of the early modern state
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Deborah Brown
Student: Kaitlin Smalley
Project Title: Lovers of wisdom on Stolen Land: an investigation into the under- and mis-representation/s of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander philosophers and philosophies in Australian tertiary philosophy education today
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh
Contact: kaitlin.smalley@uq.net.au
Student: Bridget Allan
Project Title: Bringing Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir into Conversation on Political Judgment and Violence: A Response to Moral and Political Crises Today
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh
Contact: bridget.allan@uq.net.au
Student: Russell Varley
Project Title: Public Deliberation and the Intellectual Dark Web - A Socio-Epistemic Investigation
Principal Advisor: Emeritus Professor Fred D'Agostino
Contact: r.varley@uq.edu.au
History HDR Projects
Current Projects
Student: Samuel Finch
Project Title: "From the Oder and the Rhine": Germans in South Australia, 1838-1914
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell
Student: Andrea Josipovic
Project Title: Child sexual abuse by women: a genealogical approach to the constitution of an unthinkable crime
Principal Advisor: Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle
Student: Noreen Redhead
Project Title: A political biography of Sumitro Djojohadikusumo: an assessment of his significance in the development of modern Indonesia
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Chi-Kong Lai
Student: Chenchen Wang
Project Title: The business strategies the Chinese enterprises used to deal with economic crisis during the wartime (1937-1950)
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Chi-Kong Lai
Student: Elmari Whyte
Project Title: Domestic Service in Australia, 1914-1945: A Comparison with Britain
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Lisa Featherstone
Student: Wing-Fai Wong
Project Title: Tung Shu and Everyday Life of Australian Chinese
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Chi-Kong Lai
Student: Paige Donaghy
Project Title: False Conceptions, Molas and the Making of the Human Foetus in English and European Medicine and Society, 1600-1800
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
Contact: paige.donaghy@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Cassie Byrnes
Project Title: The Smart State?: Reproduction Regulation in Queensland from the Contraception Pill to the Abortion Pill
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Lisa Featherstone
Contact: c.byrnes@uq.edu.au
Student: Harry Kriewaldt
Project Title: Olgem eestlased, aga saagem ka eurooplasteks: Estonia's Experience of European Integration
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell
Contact: harry.kriewaldt@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Ilona Fekete
Project Title: Performing the nation – celebrations in the Australian-Hungarian diaspora
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell
Contact: i.fekete@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Troy Gillan
Project Title: Looking to the East: German business and the planning and implementation of the occupation of the Soviet Union 1939-42
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell
Contact: t.gillan@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Fiona McLeod
Project Title: Australian Army nurses and war related trauma in World War I
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Martin Crotty
Contact: fiona.mcleod@uqconnect.edu.au
Student: Frédéric Barthet
Project Title: The Anglo-Saxons in the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar period: Myths and Realities
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell
Contact: f.barthet@uq.net.au