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
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
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: a Phenomenological Ontology
Principal Advisor: Dr Michelle Boulous Walker
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: Causal fundamentalism, higher levels and emergence
Principal Advisor: Dr Claudio Mazzola
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: The entanglement of theoretical physics with agency
Principal Advisor: Dr Matt Farr
Student: George Nguyen
Project Title: The Epistemology of Manipulating the Quantum World
Principal Advisor: Dr Peter Evans
Student: Peter Shaw
Project Title: Can scientific theories of moral cognition ground moral philosophy?
Principal Advisor: Dr Julian Lamont
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: Woman and the Other
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze
Student: Diane Zetlin
Project Title: Gender and the formation of the early modern state
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Deborah Brown
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: Michelle Pfeffer
Project Title: The Secularisation of the Soul?: Henry Layton, William Coward and Christian Materialism from 1692-1706
Principal Advisor: Professor Peter Harrison
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: Dr Lisa Featherstone
Student: Wing-Fai Wong
Project Title: Tung Shu and Everyday Life of Australian Chinese
Principal Advisor: Associate Professor Chi-Kong Lai