Postgraduate Research Projects
Listed here are current research projects being undertaken by postgraduate research students in the School, as well as research projects completed in the last five years.
PhD in Criminology (1297)
| Louise Hirst | Topic to be advised |
| Chris Marel | Topic to be advised |
| Ana Rodas | Policing of Public Events |
| Glenn Took | Therapeutic Jurisprudence |
| Jenny Wilson | DNA Evidence and Sexual Assault |
MA (International Studies)(2353)
| Pham Cao Cuong | US Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia under the Clinton and Bush Administrations |
PhD in Politics and International Relations (1270)
| Nicholas Apoifis | Topic to be advised |
| Peter Balint | Multiculturalism |
| Genevieve Bassin | Cultural Values and Human Rights |
| Kuo-Cheng Chang | Topic to be advised |
| Moya Collett | Foreign Intervention in West Africa |
| Diane Colman | Topic to be advised |
| Deborah Cummins | Topic to be advised |
| Gemma Edgar | Topic to be advised |
| Kathleen Gleeson | Topic to be advised |
| Rowan Hague | Chinese Identity and its Effect on Chinese Foreign Relations |
| Eva Hanley | Investment in Asia |
| Paul Kildea | Topic to be advised |
| Edwin Lowe | Topic to be advised |
| Robert Nicholls | The USFTA and Trade in Audiovisual Services |
| Daniel Novotny | Indonesian Foreign Policy A Quest for the Balance of Threats |
| Allison Orr | An Examination and Analysis of Language in the E-Democracy Discourse |
| Tapas Patra | Interrogating 9/11 Western Discourse Around Terrorism |
| John Rees | Religious Actors and the World Bank |
| Jamie Roberts | Conceptions of the Good |
| Richard Southall | Marxism, Democracy and the USSR |
| Joan Staples | Topic to be advised |
MA (Politics and International Relations) (2353)
| Kirsten Blomeley | Middle East Politics |
| Giulia De Mattis | The Euro and Italian Politics |
| Andrew Kapos | Topic to be advised |
| Umut Ozguc | Human Security and Canadian Foreign Policy |
| Sharon Springell | Topic to be advised |
PhD in Social Science and Policy (1295)
| Jasmine Bruce | Facilitating Restorative Justice Conferences |
| Sherman Chan | Financial Exclusion |
| Yammie Chan | Chinese Permanent Residents |
| Lynne Margaret Chester | Who Benefits From the Restructuring of the Australian Electricity Sector td> |
| Robert Tony Davidson | Nature of Markets In the Contestable Contracting Out of Government Human Services Programs |
| Brooke Dinning | Horse-riding For the Disabled |
| Kate Simone Harrington | E-Government |
| Sean Robert Hosking | Aspirational Voters |
| Myvanwy Hudson | Topic to be advised |
| Marilyn Helen McHugh | Cost of Foster Care |
| Priscilla Pontoh | Inter-firm Cooperation |
| Thanyawat Rattanasak | Energy Policy in Thailand |
| Gerard Redmond | Child Poverty |
| Christie Robertson | VIEW Clubs as Community Support for Welfare |
| Kim St John Spurway | Landmines Research – Impact Thereof |
| Fiona May Taylor | Social Cost of Youth Poverty |
| Le Nhat Tran | Vietnamese Students’ Cultural Transition |
| Donna Vaughan | ICT and Development |
| Christopher Walker | Public Sector Reform |
Master of Social Science and Policy (2358)
| Scott Burrows | Comparative Study of Unemployment |
| Yin Ping Chan | Family Care in Indigenous Communities |
| Catherine Rodrigues | Policing of Same-Sex Violence |
PhD in Social Work (1980)
| Paul Andrews | Gay Men Managing Monogamy and Openness in Their Committed Relationships; Implications for Counselling |
| Loreto Bartos | Impact of Changes in Service Provider Relationships on Centrelink |
| Linda Bartolomei | Women, Gender Based Violence and the International Criminal Court |
| Jean Burke | Role of Social Ties in the Prevention of Post Natal HIV Transmission to Children in East Africa |
| Lydia Campillo | Domestic Violence and the Workplace |
| Cheryl Fletcher | Single Parenting and Donor Conception |
| Benito Folino | Policy Activism of Ministerial Staff Within the NSW Parliamentary System Implications for Social Policy and Representative Democracy |
| Diane Godsen | Australian Asylum Seeker and Refugee Policy A Contested Area |
| Susan Green | History of Aboriginal Welfare in NSW |
| Jennifer Hamer | Recognition of Prior Learning in Vocational Education and Training - Its Role in Identity Construction and Potential for Personal Transformation |
| John Healy | New Religious Movements |
| Peter Maplestone | Ex-Prisoners in Westen Sydney Social Reintergration and Social Exclusion |
| Shannon McDermott | Self-neglect and Squalor Among Older People The Ethics of Intervention |
| Ruth McCausland | The Relevance of a Human Rights Approach to Development in Indigenous Policy in Australia, In Particular to Addressing Disadvantage and Discrimination Experienced by Indigenous Women |
| Chrisanta Muli | Information and Communication Rights and Needs of Urban Poor Women, and Their Community Development Initiatives in Narobie, and State Policy |
| Jane Mowll | Viewing the Body After a Sudden and Unexpected Death; The Experience and Effects on Grief and Trauma Outcomes For the Bereave |
| Therese Milham | Evaluating Clinical Performance |
| Maria Nichterlein | A Post Structural Reading of Family Therapy Theory |
| David Palmer | Political Leadership and the Reception of Refugees |
| Jonine Penrose-Wall | To 'get a life' Rather Than Suicide Sociality and Reconnecting After Major Mental Disorder |
| Carole Shaw | Refugee Women, Peace Building and Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) |
| Juanita Sherwood | Why Has Research Not Improved Aboriginal Health? |
| Frances Smedley | A Tripartite Study of Constructs of Disability and People With Impairment |
| Phillip Snoyman | Multilevel Modelling For People With Cognitive Disabilities and Mental Illness In Contact With CJS |
Master of Social Work (2970)
| Aileen Crowe | Social Exclusion and Social Isolation of Refugees in Australia|
| Charmaine Silove | Significant Events in Successful Migrant Re-Settlement |
PhD in Sociology (2970)
| Cynthia A’Beckett | New Views On the Formulation of Relations and Implications For Early Childhood Education|
| Leslie Adorjany | Sociology of Literature |
| Olaug Andreassen | Globalisation and Expressions of Identity on Rapa Nui |
| Wendy Bacon | Sociology of Investigative Journalism |
| Christyana Bambacas | Feminism, Popular Culture and Postmodern Theory |
| Harriet Blankevoort | Modernity and Text in the Third World |
| Diana Borinski | Exploring Difference Through Lived Intimate Relationships |
| John Budarick | Patterns of Media Consumption of Iranian-Australians |
| Marea Capell | Water Scarcity & the Social Impact on Farms in the Lachlan Shire, Central West NSW |
| Belinda Clayton | Alcohol Consumption Among Women (Mothers in Particular) |
| Rosa Dai | Topic to be advised |
| Noela Davis | The Politics of Entanglement Feminism, Post Structural Theory, Political Theory |
| Norbert Ebert | Social Constructions of Corporate Identity |
| Laura Fisher | Topic to be advised |
| Peta Hinton | Cyberspace and Embodiment |
| Mohammad Hossain | Health Promotion Practices in the Bangladeshi Community of Sydney |
| Guy Hungerford | Religion in Modernity |
| Fayek Iskander | Islamic Attitude Towards Terrorism |
| Anthony Ivancic | Household Participation in Capital Markets Embourgeoisement, Heterodoxy & Transformation In the Australian Financial System |
| Michelle Jamieson | Depression and Memory Disorders Analysed Through Contemporary Theories of Subjectivity in Continental Philosophy and Sociology |
| Tamara Josimovic | Ethnic Belonging; The Meaning of Home and Negotiation of Return Among Refugees From Bosnia and Herzegovina, Living in Australia and France |
| Anthony King | Sociology of Suicide |
| Fu Li Enclosures, Development Interventions and Communities in Inner Mongolia | |
| Charles Lo | Old Gay Men and Home Care |
| Rasheed Mahmood | Global Aspects of Ethnicity, NGO's and the State |
| Benjamin Manning | Change in Institutional Forms |
| Demelza Marlin | Post-Structural Approaches to the Question of Spirit |
| Jacqueline Marshall | Cultural Mapping of the Cargo Cults of Vanuatu |
| Annette Mitchell | Informal and Formal Caring Strategies of Italian Female Carers of Relatives |
| Benjamin Mudaliar | Inter-ethnic and Intra-ethnic Friendship and Intimacy in Fiji |
| Christopher Nash | Communication/Globalisation |
| Lucille Ngan | Impact of Transnational Migration on Identity and Family |
| Elizabeth Pearce | Sociology of Memory |
| Tamara Popowski | Investigating Embodiment Feminisms/Queer Theory, Theories of Representation, Biological Discourses |
| Andrew Sankoh | Social Reconstruction and Development in East Timor |
| Carol Sullivan | Representation and the "Two Cultures" |
| Jane Thomson | Disappeared in Sri Lanka |
| Tomoki Wakatsuki | Communication and Japanese Culture |
| Josie Wakim | Social Strategies For Limiting Ethnic Domestic Violence |
| Wai Lim Wong | Aged Care and the Commercial Residential Sector in Hong Kong |
| Jingqing Yang | From Work Unit to Profession Chinese Public Doctors in a Socialist Market Economy |
| Rinduan Zain | Political Islam in Indonesia |
MA (Sociology) (2353)
| Karen Armstrong | Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Russell | Thomas Topic to be advised |
