RESEARCH GRADUATES eYEARBOO 2022

As executive dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, I am proud and excited to present the results of our graduate postgraduate research students. On behalf of the Faculty of Engineering, I would like to congratulate you on completing your research training.

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

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The study examines the role played by the Forest Act 1927 in promoting sustainable forest management in Bangladesh. Using a doctrinal approach, this thesis has evaluated the law's contribution to the protection, restoration, sustainable use and sustainable management of forests in Bangladesh.

Nargis Aktar

These are the standards set by Goal 15 of the SDGs, which create management priorities for countries to sustainably manage their forests. This thesis provides new empirical evidence on the factors and appropriately contextualizes the established theoretical framework in the context of accounting.

Mohsina Akter

This thesis is entitled 'Rearticulating knowledge management: an alternative perspective informed by Buddhist epistemology'. It examines the knowledge management perspectives with specific reference to the philosophical basis of the knowledge management discipline.

Yasanthi Alahakoon

Based on Western knowledge widely discussed in the discipline, this dissertation extends existing knowledge by drawing from a Buddhist epistemological perspective. Using the image of the destination as its theoretical scope, this dissertation proposes the idea of "transformative destinations" that emphasize the importance of personal values and effect-based strategies to promote positive behavioral intentions in this context.

Thilini Hiranya Alahakoon

Research on emerging market entrepreneurs who discover and create opportunities in international markets is limited. Findings from in-depth semi-structured interviews show that entrepreneurs in emerging markets first and always use the logic of effect.

Novika Candra Astuti

The impact of value co-destruction on the welfare of actors in the sharing economy: An exploratory study in peer accommodation. This dissertation explores how value co-destruction affects consumer-supplier welfare in the sharing economy, specifically P2P accommodation.

Jayani Chamarika Athapaththu

Using a qualitative research approach and collecting data from Australian guests and hosts, this study explored the drivers of value co-destruction and the way in which they affect consumer-perceived values and thus consumer-supplier well-being. The study contributes to knowledge in the emerging research fields of 'value co-destruction', 'Transformative consumer research', to service-dominant logic and the wider tourism and hospitality industry, for which several theoretical and practical implications were discussed.

Darmawan Dwi Atmoko

This research study focused on the development of a framework for public building adaptation (PBA) in tropical developing countries. The effects are driven by religious beliefs, the composition of religious beliefs in couples, and.

Christopher Boulis

The role of valuation specialists in determining the quality of Level 3 fair value measurement reporting. This thesis investigates the role of auditor valuation specialists in determining the quality of Level 3 fair value measurement (FVM) reporting.

Chen Bu

Using a sample of international banks, I found that the use of valuation experts in level 3 FVM auditing can effectively improve the quality of level 3 FVM reporting, which is reflected in less earnings management, greater earnings persistence, and greater value relevance. Standard setters may need to pay more attention to disclosure requirements regarding the involvement of valuation professionals in fair value audits.

Michelle Cameron

The influence of emotions Work and health discipline rules for writing and using health management documents. The thesis has established new perspectives on predicting the realized volatility asset returns to improve financial decision-making.

Zihao Chen

It examines the relationships between social capital and access to credit, social capital and repayment performance, and the dynamic relationship between social capital, credit, and household welfare. In addition, they provide useful information on how to use social capital and credit to improve the welfare of rural households in Vietnam.

Le Phuong Xuan Dang

This thesis uses a survey of Sri Lankan large-scale and small-scale tea estates to analyze their efficiency levels. In the case of small-scale tea farmers, in the three different Sri Lankan districts studied, it appears that they do not share the same production technology.

Hasthimuni Nadeeka De Silva

The Indivisibility of Human Rights and Decision Making by, with and for Adults with Cognitive Disabilities. The thesis argues that article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – the right to legal capacity on an equal basis with others – requires both support for decision-making and decision-making by substitutes as a last resort, to protect the indivisible human rights of adults with disabilities. cognitive impairment.

Julia Duffy

In this thesis, the aﬀrance theory lens is used to explore AI progeny perception and actualization for the public sector through three related studies. The third study designed and evaluated artifacts for public agencies to actualize AI offerings.

Samar Fatima

This thesis explores the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) for the public sector. The thesis consists of three studies that answer the what, why and how questions of actualizing the power of AI in the public sector using a combination of primary and secondary data sources.

Marcel Gono

Environmental effectiveness of river basin management regimes: an evaluation using differences in differences and stated preference techniques. This thesis evaluates the environmental effectiveness of river basin management regimes in relation to management outcomes.

Michelle Gunn

Medical practitioners face dilemmas meeting competing expectations when rationing at the bedside, but have. It is unknown how orthopedic surgeons perceive their legal and ethical obligations to the individual patient and wider community, and how they reconcile competing obligations when rationing.

Anne Marie Halton

Pervasive and multi-level paradoxical tensions continue to affect many organizations and the individuals who work there. However, the complexity of coordination and the lack of a standard for data sharing among the many participating organizations remain fundamental challenges, preventing the spread of blockchain technology in microfinance.

Md Mahfuzul Hoque

The influence of board diversity on corporate social responsibility performance in organizations: an exploratory study of the processes. This study examines the influence of board gender and age diversity on corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance by exploring the processes involved in board CSR decision-making.

Ranjita Islam

In addition, the findings provide insight into the internal and external factors that influence the relationship between gender and age of the board and corporate social responsibility. This research explores the concept of work as a calling and its impact on work performance and innovation in the context of the Catholic Church.

Thomas Ulun Ismoyo

Minding My Own Business: Small Business Owners' Decision Making During a Natural Disaster Response in Southeast Queensland, Australia. Quick decisions and policy interventions support the survival of business owners during severe, disruptive events.

Gabrielle Jess

Recent capital market shock events have drawn increased regulatory attention to the pro-cyclical nature of Basel's upcoming market risk regime, the Fundamental Review of Trading Book (FRTB). The overall objective of this research is to assess whether quantitative improvements in the FRTB can moderate the impact of the Basel market risk capital framework on business cycles.

Gabriella Katona

The research found no strong evidence that FRTB would reduce the overall procyclicality of the framework. This study also confirmed that banks can reduce their market risk charge through their modeling choices without reinforcing procyclicality in their capital requirements.

Aknes Kendra

A Transactional Analysis of Residential Real Estate: Implications of Foreign Investment, Mispricing, and Disposition Effects. However, recent concerns about the effects of foreign investment in residential real estate have been an issue that has not yet been addressed.

Jee Won Kim

The research promotes a dialogical vision of accounting by promoting the development of organizational environments where the voices of beneficiaries are not only heard, but listened to. Here accountability goes beyond traditional approaches to promote knowledge of accounts and expressions of appreciation of account-worthy beneficiaries.

Kylie Kingston

Based on insights from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and data including 34 interviews in two Australian non-profit organisations, the findings suggest that accountability to beneficiaries can be enhanced by engaging beneficiaries in immanent (inside and disclosure) accountability and evaluation. Specifically, CEO overconfidence leads to higher deal activity but lower deal completion and lower long-term acquirer stock performance.

Nisansala Kulathunga

This thesis uses innovative behavioral approaches to i) explore concepts and methods that are best suited to empirically investigate personal problems. insolvency decisions, ii) the way individuals choose between available personal insolvency options, iii) the effects of public attitudes towards these options, and iv) the role of public records of personal insolvency in encouraging desired behavior. In this way, this thesis contributes to new methodological approaches and addresses important public policy issues in the regulation of personal insolvency law.

Imke Lammers

A brand selfie is a type of selfie photo that shows a brand's daily consumption activities. This dissertation identified dimensions and developed the brand self-efficacy scale, which is new to the literature.

Thusyanthy Lavan

Although consumer brand selfies have generally been perceived as credible, what constitutes a consumer brand selfie as credible is not well understood in the literature. The thesis argues that gig workers show varying levels of interest in working collectively to take action to improve their working conditions.

Kanchana Nilmini Liyanapathiranage

This PhD study examines the approaches that gig workers in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland have taken to improve their working conditions by working together. Also, internal governance and external donor governance have a positive impact on the financial performance of private and public foundations.

Zheyu Lu

Pension Member Disengagement and Fund Efficiency: The Impact of the Fees and Costs Section on Superannuation Fund Product Disclosure Statements. This thesis adopts behavioral finance as the theoretical framework to investigate whether the fees and costs section in Product Disclosure Statements (PDS), following two regulatory changes affecting this section, engage members and increase pension fund efficiency.

Kexin Ma

Based on multiple case studies of Kenyan telephone farmers, this research examines how digital technologies influence the operations of hybrid enterprises and help create new virtualization value within the agricultural context in a developing country. In this way, this dissertation contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship and digital technologies by developing a theoretical understanding of the interplay between entrepreneurship and digital technologies and by providing an empirical description of the telephone farming phenomenon.

Joseph Macharia

The role of law and policy in promoting transparency of information in managing emissions from the. This dissertation examines the role of legislation and policy in the United Arab Emirates in promoting information transparency in reporting the measurement of vehicle emissions and mitigation information.

Ibrahim Fatehi Ibrahim Marei

Passenger Transport Sector to Address Climate Change: Proposals for Law Reform in the United Arab Emirates. The study found that no mandatory rules are in place in the UAE to facilitate systematic reporting of this information.

Marcia Mattushek

Government Funding of University-Industry Collaboration: Exploring the Impact of Targeted Funding on Research Translation. In this thesis, I examine the effect of funding directed at collaboration between universities and industry on the overarching goal of providing social and economic benefit.

Annita Nugent

Involvement in the purchase of imperfect products was investigated through an experiment framing four value messages and assessing how consumers' internal values influence this involvement. The experiment showed that communicating financial savings is not effective in increasing positive customer involvement unless the customer is focused on self-benefit, but signs that promote environmental well-being increase overall customer involvement with imperfect products, regardless of customer value orientation.

Laura Peachey Burgess

The thesis investigates the effects on the consumer's search for variety due to the match between the regulatory focus (promotion, prevention) and the regulatory mode (movement, evaluation). Findings suggest that a regulatory focus mode reduces variety seeking due to enhanced cooperation and relational certainty.

Thi Minh Thuy Pham

Therefore, this research introduces a new type of regulatory fit, extending previous literature that examines fit based on either regulatory focus or regulatory mode in isolation. Managers can segment consumers based on their motivations or adjust advertising messages to anticipate and influence variety seeking.

Ian Pieper

This research focused on developing a multi-model financial framework, not only for affordable housing for low-income families, but also for ensuring the sustainability of public housing. The results of the study suggest a number of determinants of public housing rent, implementation strategies for government subsidies to strengthen the sustainability of mixed housing developments in transit-oriented development projects.

Farida Rachmawati

This thesis examines the efficiency, productivity and survival of real estate construction firms in Indonesia. Applying a meta-frontier approach, the results show that the efficiency and productivity of firms are relatively low.

Joko Purnomo Raharjo

This suggests that the overall industry could achieve a remarkable efficiency and productivity improvement if firms could access technologies used by more efficient firms. Using mixed methods, this research conceptualized and measured a strategic subordinate's attributes as a significant outcome of internal leader-subordinate communication.

Raja Sumayyah Raja Arif

Voice of female shop floor worker in Sri Lankan garment industry corporate social responsibility agenda. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives are being used to respond to and deflect criticism of unfair labor standards in manufacturing sites in the Global South.

Gayani Piyankara Kumari Samarakoon Samarakoon Mudiyanselage

This thesis conducts the first comprehensive empirical assessment of the theories surrounding the coevolution of capital markets and the banking system, using four different studies that investigate the effects of stock market liquidity spillovers on various aspects of banking operations. In addition, the increased liquidity of the stock market improves the profitability and stability of banks, thus proving that the stock market and banks complement each other.

Ama Pramudinie Samarasinghe

This dissertation consists of two parts that examine the relationship between the determinants of climate change attitudes in the United States. The first part aims to investigate these determinants and their interaction effects on climate change attitudes.

Chamupathy Dilhantha Samaratunga

The analysis derives evidence-based information relevant to climate policy decision-making and suggests that "framing" matters in creating a consensus on climate change.

Pasit Sararueangpong

This dissertation examined the impact of identification, employee well-being, leadership and support on discretionary performance. Study two found that professional identification positively influenced employees' discretionary performance through higher well-being when organizational support was high.

Navid Sedaghati

This thesis advances understanding of the interaction of key influential workplace variables and their role in extending performance beyond stated performance expectations. The findings shed light on a range of psychological processes while providing a simple way to increase satisfaction, purchase intention and loyalty.

Benjamin Sheehan

Findings indicate that credit unions' accountability practices were mainly influenced by their cyclically specific internal structures, with implications for the degree of discretion of credit union management. The positive effects of the credit unions' accountability practices included trust, participation, collective responsibility, personal and organizational development, and improved performance and mission achievement.

Antonius Sumarwan

This research examines factors that influence accountability practices and their effects, specifically on. This thesis examines open publishing in higher education and offers an alternative for how educational material (especially textbooks) can be sustainably produced and managed.

Jessica Thiel

Examining the changes in symptoms of indigenous business failure since the introduction of the CATSI Act 2006. This thesis found that the changes to the legislation had a positive impact on the symptoms of business failure over time, with the use of monitoring and policing powers influencing these changes.

Catherine Wales

This thesis examines changes in the symptoms of failure in indigenous businesses, influenced by both changes in legislation and the management of those changes. Defining failure as the invocation of special governance, publicly available regulatory documents were examined to examine the interaction between the regulator and the regulated based on the changes made to the regulations over time.

Brydon Wang

This thesis considers the role of reliability in automated decision-making systems (ADS) spanning data collection, modelling, analysis and decision output in different legal contexts. The thesis finds that reliable, benevolent ADS requires a specific form of transparency that functions through mutual vulnerability in the relationship of trust, and seams in the automated decision-making process where human discretion is exercised.

Xiaohua Wu

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

The relationship between executive functions, sensory processing and motor performance in children with autism in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Both models fit the data well, indicating that lower-level impairments undermine higher-level functions in children with autism.

Rehab Hamad H Alsaedi

This study explores students' emotions before and after responsive teaching practice during science investigations within two Australian year 10 chemistry classes. Understanding the uncomfortable feelings associated with common challenges experienced by students gave teachers insight into developing responsive teaching practices to meet students' needs.

Subhashni Appanna

An interpretive design and multiple data collection methods were used to develop theoretical understandings of students' emotional experiences as they worked on their science research projects. It examines preservice teachers' reflective internal conversations in understanding and teaching critical thinking, criticism, creative thinking, and creativity (4Cs) in middle school history, English, music, and science.

Stella Bachti

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.227366. Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.228738.

Angela Baeza

The data of this research allowed the development of a model for the identification of factors influencing the identity of teachers in rural indigenous schools [FITIRIS]. The findings of the study may lead to future improvements in teacher education and training to perform adequately in a rural indigenous setting.

Ruth Bayley

Alethea Beetson

Walking together - The artist as public pedagogue and the conditions for the research and creation of new work. Drawing on Biesta's (2012) theories of public pedagogy as belonging, this PhD on creative works examines the conditions necessary for the artist as public pedagogue to create new work.

Lenine Bourke

Nicole Boyd

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.232624. This dissertation provides new knowledge about music cities and is based on the key concept of what I define as the 'undersong' of a city.

Yanto Browning

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.235059. Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Jared Donovan, Associate Professor Glenda Caldwell, Dr Muge Fialho Leandro Alves Teixeira.

Alan Burden

This thesis provides an overview of the evolution of game sense design principles through an exploration of how game sense has existed and evolved in mainstream character action games. The thesis helps to demystify game sense for developers and guide practice towards a clearer understanding of game sense as a central tenet of character action games.

Justin Carter

It includes a textual analysis of four influential character action games from discrete, historical generations and examines how design strategies associated with game feel have evolved. Extreme sports as filmed entertainment: Understanding aesthetic form, style and characteristics of extreme sports films.

Joseph Carter

This study examined students' emotional engagement (i.e., emotions and social bonds) in a Bhutanese 10th-grade physics class during classroom instruction incorporating transformative pedagogy. This study created a conceptual framework for interpreting emotions and social bonds from Bhutanese perspectives.

Sonam Choegyal

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.233464. A study of emotions and social bonds during transformative pedagogy in a Bhutanese 10th-grade physics class.

Daniel Cook

This thesis is an examination of the practices and products found in the Australian pollination services industry. This demonstrates that members of the African community in Australia access and use digital technology differently than non-African members of the community.

Souleymane Coulibaly

Exploring teachers' knowledge, perceptions and practices to support students with autism in inclusive schools in Bhutan. This study employed an exploratory mixed-methods approach to explore Bhutanese teachers' knowledge and perceptions of autism, their views on inclusion, and use of inclusive classroom practices for autistic students.

Dawa Dukpa

Teachers' views on the inclusion of autistic students were clearly influenced by Bhutan's educational, social, cultural and religious context. This qualitative study explored how six post-conventional police leaders in the Australian Federal Police (AFP) make sense of complex change.

Caron Egle

These regulations challenge the prevailing negative connotations of parental smartphone use put forward by the media. Challenges related to smartphone use by mothers were also recognized, including the continued use of smartphones by mothers and how such use sets the template for children's smartphone use.

Cicilia Evi

The findings suggest that mothers' use of smartphones presents both benefits and challenges. Smartphone use is seen as a means of mediating interactions between parents and children, supporting mothers in managing work and home life, and supporting children's learning.

Eugene Flynn

The National Consolidation of Data on Students with Disabilities (NCCD): An Institutional Ethnography of Student Funding. This institutional ethnographic inquiry investigated the implementation of Australia's inaugural national education funding policy for students with disabilities, the ongoing National Data Collection for School Students with Disabilities (NCCD).

Jeanine Gallagher

This DCI thesis explored the professional practices of micro-influencers in the creative industries: influential social media users who appear in engaged smaller online communities. The second project is an "Introduction to Microinfluencer for Creative Professionals" microcourse that translates the model into a teachable creative artifact that empowers individuals to become effective microinfluencers in their chosen profession.

Lisa Harrison

Presented in two projects, the first project develops a theoretical model to define five dimensions of micro-influence, which identifies the skills, knowledge and capabilities that shape communication practices in contemporary culture. The Three R's, Relationships, Relationships, Relationships: How Teacher-Student Relationships Can Be More Positive and Productive in Secondary Schools.

Mark Herriman

This research sought the views of students, secondary teachers, parents and school counselors on what a productive and positive teacher-student relationship was and what they believed to be the strategies for teachers to start and maintain such a relationship. This research focuses on knowledge transfer and learning approaches used during X-ray security screening at airports.

Shahab Hoghooghi

Maria Hrisafi nas

Instead, the lenses of the counterpublic and transnational reveal that the new generation of filmmakers is revising art cinema conventions and their position as creators – in the state and in the world – to meaningfully intervene in the Greek economic crisis. Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.230011.

Bridget Hughes

This study aims to show how a hybridized research strategy is essential for conducting culturally sensitive conservation. My research focuses on applications of Motion Capture technology, for exploiting observations of Ajat dance - through a focus on elementary rotational maneuvers.

Sze Joon Jong

How instructional designers work with teachers to develop their ability to design for learning. It explores how learning planners facilitate teacher development in three ways: advancing design thinking, shaping instructional skills and processes, and pedagogical skills for curriculum implementation.

Steven Kickbusch

It explores the role of learning designers as co-designer and coach through studies of how these roles are performed during learning design sessions and the methods available to explore them. Water is Life: Using Creative Visual Methods to Promote Community Cultural Participation in Water Management in the Solomon Islands.

Samantha Kies-Ryan

A comparative case study of Korean and Australian early childhood education for sustainability: examining teachers' practices, beliefs and assumptions through a cultural lens. This comparative case study identified that the teachers' practices, pedagogical beliefs and assumptions differed, which corresponded to the dominant cultural characteristics of the two countries.

Soyoung Kim

This dissertation explored Korean and Australian teachers' pedagogical practices and beliefs regarding early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) and their assumptions about human-nature relationships. This research supports the need for cultural consideration in understanding teachers' practices, pedagogical beliefs, and assumptions for a culturally inclusive ECEfS.

Alinta Krauth

This study aimed to explore the inclusive practices implemented in inclusive demonstration primary schools in Fiji from the perspective of students with disabilities, following the introduction of the Inclusive Education Policy in 2016. The present study used qualitative methods to explore the learning and social experiences of students with disabilities.

Pinky Pritika Kumar

This study links early Aboriginal activism to the provocation of systemic racism - exposing the nexus of Indigenous power - with the historical timeline of NAIDOC. The film NAIDOC and Me, created as a product of scholarship and exegesis, connects academic, public and private resources, promoting Indigenous leadership.

Jennifer Mason

Myles McGuire

Fruitful Approaches: Queer Theory and Historical Materialism in Contemporary Australian Fiction” examines the application of historical materialist ontologies to contemporary Australian gay-themed novels, examining these topics through the lens of totality and refixation. Artist-run initiatives and community: a practice-led investigation of how artist-based communities are formed and understood in contemporary Australian art.

Amelia McLeish

Jessica McLeod

This study analyzes how sustainable value is created along the Australian cotton value chain, as well as opportunities to create value. Twenty-one stakeholders were interviewed across two Australian cotton value chains from farm to retail, to reuse.

Zoe Mellick

Investigating the past, present and future of Australian deaf theater allows us to understand the social, cultural, professional and political landscape of deaf theater companies and deaf theater practitioners. It offers reflection on lessons learned within the arts management practices of deaf theater companies and making performances with deaf theater practitioners.

Racheal Missingham

It argues that Brazilian YouTube represents Brazilian culture in new ways and is helping to change the way the country sees itself. Attention is paid to three very popular Brazilian YouTube channels: Canal KondZilla, whinderssonnunes and Porta dos Fundos, as well as their crossover productions for television.

Gabriela Monteiro Lunardi

This thesis analyzes YouTube culture in Brazil and its role in the broader Brazilian media environment. Developing singing competence, confidence, motivation and self-identity for primary school music teaching.

Andrea Morris-Campbell

This research explores the obstacles and opportunities faced by anti-slavery organizations in mobilizing people through Facebook to participate in contemporary slavery activism, particularly ethical consumerism. A mixed research approach was used, which included a content analysis of the Facebook communications of two anti-slavery organizations, an online survey of Facebook users, and interviews with Facebook users and representatives of anti-slavery organizations.

Judith Newton

This research shows that the way Facebook users engage in anti-slavery activism, both online and offline, is influenced by an organization's credibility among Facebook users, the content and style of the posts, and whether the content of anti-slavery organizations is in line. with the information needs of Facebook users. This qualitative case study explored EFL teachers' perceptions of knowledge and skills related to the integration of technologies in teaching English at a university in Vietnam.

Tien Dung Nguyen

Findings show that participants differ significantly in terms of knowledge and skills, and in how they use technology productively in teaching practices. Entrepreneurship and career development in higher music education within the context of the creative industries in Colombia.

Camilo Andres Nino Contreras

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.234042. The lessons have been distilled into a series of principles and recommendations for the inclusion of entrepreneurship in higher music education and call for significant changes in legislation and education.

Veronica Nolan

Theater creation in the age of #MeToo: Working cross-culturally on a framework for making safer creative spaces. This study describes a framework for creating safer, more inclusive theater-making environments in the era of #MeToo.

Younghee Park

Preservice teachers' beliefs and intended practices around promoting reading for pleasure among primary school children. This dissertation describes a mixed methods study examining early childhood and primary school teachers' self-reported beliefs about the importance of reading for enjoyment in the early years of school, as well as the benefits and challenges they expect to experience in implementing reading for pleasure pedagogy in the classroom.

Elizabeth Pink

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.231720. The findings of the study provide evidence to inform further research and have implications regarding potential improvements in early school reading instruction and preservice teacher education.

Anne Price

This research explored creativity learning in alternative sites within justice, occupational therapy and law courses. This study illuminates why and how creativity is taught and learned in alternative places and contexts.

Jonathan Purdy

Private Television Channels in Bangladesh: A Political Economic Analysis of the Role of the State and How It Affects the News Media. Applying a critical political economy approach, this qualitative study shows that due to the weakening of democracy, increasing corporate pressure and deteriorating working conditions for journalists, the role of Bangladeshi private television channels in the public sphere is has steadily declined in recent years. .

Atiqur Rahman

The discoveries from this research address the ways in which cultural justice intermediations provide an essential contribution to the enabling conditions necessary for all communities to thrive. The study concludes by emphasizing that we do not have the luxury of merely adjusting the boundaries of cultural policy. Because culture is a human right, if cultural justice is not central to all our cultural efforts, we deprive the most vulnerable communities of vital resources. narrative primary protection.

Scott Rankin

This thesis presents a controversial analysis of Tesla's (large) battery, which was an imagined technology introduced in 2017 via a bet on Twitter to solve an ongoing power crisis controversy in Australia. This research examines the composition of Tesla's (large) battery through the key events, actors and issues raised by publics on social media and problematizes the simple "green" narratives.

Aleesha Rodriguez

It's Kinda Punishment': The role of the voluntary sector in the youth criminal justice system. This thesis examines the relationship between the voluntary sector and the youth criminal justice system.

Abigail Salole

By conceptualizing the interface between the statutory criminal justice system and the voluntary sector, which previous scholarship has not yet fully explored, a new approach to understanding the complex and contradictory relationship between the state and the voluntary sector is developed. The relationship between the state and the voluntary sector has important implications for the study of institutional responses to crime and legal perceptions.

Megan Schroder

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.234108. Using Craft's (2013) framework of wise human creativity, the study examines how creative capacities are understood and activated by Queensland secondary school teachers in the implementation of the QCAA 2019 secondary school curriculum package.

Ghazaleh Sepahpour

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.229267. This framework unifies methods for oral organizational storytelling practice from identification, to creation, to delivery, to assessment.

Anthony Simcoe

Following a research framework of media industry studies and drawing on interviews with more than 50 industry stakeholders, this project argues that the emergence of digital distribution has opened formal avenues to transnational capital and audiences hitherto unseen in Nollywood. However, rather than a rational and linear transition away from the industry's historical informal dynamics, the emergence of streaming services in Nollywood has been marked by complexity, contradiction and ambivalence through what I suggest are 'pluriformalising' market mechanisms.

Godwin Iretomiwa Simon

Teachers' perspectives on embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures in mathematics. This thesis examined how six mathematics teachers embedded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Nicole Simone

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.227459. Recommendations are made on how to support in-service teachers with their personal cultural skills to authentically embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories and cultures in the mathematics curriculum.

Paige Street

Sonam Tashi

Factors influencing classroom teachers' practices in supporting students on the autism spectrum in mainstream settings. The study was adapted from Fishbein and Ajzen's (2010) Theory of Reasoned Action/Theory of Planned Behavior and Berger and Luckman's (1966) Theory of Social Constructionism.

Tanya Taylor

By investigating the current practice of teaching sound design, this project presents pedagogical strategies that could help address said subjectivity. Finally, the thesis proposes a definition of the concept of sound design and a series of tasks for teaching sound design along with their respective assessment methods.

Estefania Toro Duque

This practice-led thesis in the field of creative writing questions the relationship between the emphasized narrative form and creative practice. Throughout the novella Almost Not and the accompanying exegesis, I use the narrative form of chiasmus; I think that while the development of the narrative can be shaped by the form, the development of the narrative can also shape the form.

Ellen Vickerman

This research placed a purpose-built mobile makerspace and 3D printing program in two dialysis units to shift the hospital experience from a place of poor health and treatment to a place of learning, making and productivity. The dissertation explored the transformative impact of the digital arts-in-health intervention and delivers a design for a hospital makerspace program that has value for human mental health.

John William Waldron

The thesis explores how the university, industry and government interact with each other in the creative industries. This study provides a better understanding of the important aspects of knowledge sharing through different stakeholders in the creative economy.

Yi Wang

Exploring Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Collaboration in the Creative Industries: A Comparative Analysis between Shenzhen and Brisbane Through the Triple Helix Framework. This research illustrates approaches, synergies and barriers to knowledge sharing and stakeholder engagement in the creative industries across university-based, industry-led and government-oriented actors.

Aminath Waseela

This descriptive, mixed-methods study examined Maldivian junior secondary teachers' perceptions of TPACK and integration of digital technologies in their classrooms. Based on the findings, a model for teacher integration of digital technologies in teaching and learning (TIDTITL) specific to the Maldivian context was developed that can benefit key stakeholders in the implementation of large-scale technology initiatives.

Ashley Watson

This thesis is a step forward in understanding how older people experience loneliness and whether they consider communication technology as a tool to alleviate it. Using a mixed method approach to triangulate the three concepts of loneliness, communication technology, and successful aging, the study casts critical doubt on the current thinking that communication technology can alleviate loneliness in an aging population.

Nicola Whichelow

Nimal Wijesiri Wijesiri Narayana Don

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.235385. This thesis analyzes the development process and implications of China's online creative industry (known as wanghong) and examines both empowerment and precarious labor in the specific context of China.

Xiaoting Yu

The thesis considers platform governance, platform endorsements and creative labor management, serving as an extended case study of the global social media entertainment industry. Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Thesis DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.228586.

Ding Zhou

This project was a step forward in the development of a reliable, economical and accurate real-time warning system for individual rainfall-triggered landslides based on physical, optimized slope monitoring and statistical and numerical approaches. The physics-based system includes experimental and numerical analyzes in the implementation of a low-cost slope monitoring system on critical slopes in North Maleny, estimating parameters of slope angle (and slope degree), volumetric soil water content and precipitation.

A Gedara Tharindu Bhagya Bandara Abeykoon

This conclusion was incorporated into a questionnaire survey of 130 engineers working for contractors, consultants and project management companies in the UAE to help identify the sub- and super-structural elements involved and ultimately develop a systematic scoring scale to minimize or avoid delays.

Mohammed Al Jashaami

Factors influencing the effectiveness of the project team to achieve the quality of construction projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This dissertation examined the organizational and project level factors that influence team effectiveness to achieve construction project quality in KSA.

Meshal Abdulaziz B Alharbi

The survey was validated for evaluating perceived team effectiveness factors to achieve quality through the interviews. The conceptual framework enables construction organizations to better understand the organizational and project levels' influences on team effectiveness to achieve quality.

Shahnewaz Ali

This thesis introduces a new Road User Safety Field Theory to proactively assess road safety by studying the interactions of different road users at signalized intersections. By applying artificial intelligence-based video data analysis, the proposed Road User Safety Field Theory is shown to better estimate crash risks in terms of crash frequency and severity than traditional traffic conflict techniques.

Ashutosh Arun

The thesis proposes a new automated method of detecting and characterizing cracks on unstructured surfaces using a 3D point cloud. Crack detection on unstructured surfaces is challenging compared to flat surfaces such as pavement and concrete, which typically use image-based sensors.

Faris Azhari

This thesis investigates how to maximize spatial information from surgical camera images for robot navigation. Targeted applications include bronchoscopy and arthroscopy, with trials using real and synthetic data showing potential for improved clinical outcomes of minimally invasive surgery.

Artur Banach

This thesis was a step forward in the development of new robot learning based localization and navigation systems using real world data and simulation environments. Three new methods were proposed to provide new insights into the role of joint motion and vision-based end-to-end robot learning in both location recognition and navigation tasks, within modern reinforcement learning and deep learning frameworks.

Marvin Aldo Chancan Leon

Silicon and lithium metal are promising anode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries, but material degradation and rapid decay of electrochemical capacity hinder their practical applications. This thesis provides a better understanding of the structure evolution and lithiation mechanism in silicon anodes through advanced molecular dynamics simulation.

Su Chen

Using an exploratory research design approach, this thesis aims to provide in-depth knowledge about adult visitors. This research explored the behavior and activities of adult visitors in park environments with integrated qualitative and quantitative analysis from objective and subjective data.

Urmee Chowdhury

Simulation is an indispensable technology in robotics; However, the reality gap prevents many simulated solutions from being perfectly translated into reality. We present studies that first quantify and then benchmark the reality gap when comparing popular robot simulators with a real ground truth collected using motion capture.

Jack Collins

We then present a promising new method for bridging the reality gap that uses an online sim-to-real approach that uses different physics to iteratively narrow the gap and improve the simulation environment using data collected from the real system. Innovation is demonstrated through the ability to build customized robots on demand in the field.

Troy Cordie

However, typical deep RL agents require millions of training data samples, equivalent to days or weeks of training in simulation, and months to years in the real world. In this thesis, we address the issue of efficiency in RL to make it a viable option for real-world robot learning by focusing on improvements in three main aspects: data collection, data utilization, and policy training.

Vibhavari Dasagi

This thesis developed a multiscale modeling method to simulate the airflow behavior and particle movement in the human airways. The multiscale method has been shown to be feasible to speed up the human airway simulations with acceptable accuracy.

Zhenya Fan

This thesis is two-dimensional phase-field modeling of dendrite growth in Li-metal batteries. It investigates the effects of different Li core conditions and operating environments on the Li-ion electrodeposition and the optimal parameters for dendrite inhibition.

Qingchao Fang

The results of the empirical study based on real traffic data in Brisbane, Australia demonstrate the validity of the methodology, which is of great value for the identification of key corridors.

Zhicheng Fang

This project developed a numerical model to investigate the micro-characteristics and morphology of cartilage fibers. They studied the effects of fiber-fiber interaction and individual fiber morphology on the mechanical behavior of the cartilage collagen fiber network.

Shijie Gao

A computational study of the effect of articular cartilage collagen fiber network on its mechanical behavior. By comparing the degraded cartilage configuration with computer simulation results, the relationship between the cartilage degradation and the change of fiber-fiber interaction was investigated.

Weidong Gao

This thesis has shown that the use of Lagrangian coherent structures (LCS) can predict hotspots of debris accumulation, repulsive and upwelling circulation. Such hotspots are of great socio-economic importance for visual amenities and for efficient debris removal.

Anusmriti Ghosh

This approach thus provides a useful tool for effective clean-up management of sensitive regions and marine protected areas. This thesis outlines the development and application of a battery management system for a small electric vehicle, and the hardware required to test and validate these systems.

Sam Haines

The project uses state-of-the-art methods to estimate the remaining charge of a battery pack in a real environment. More recently, wireless power transfer systems (WPTS) have been identified as a reliable option for providing power to heart pumps.

Amir Hakemibarabadi

In addition, the existence of uncertainties in WPTS-based medical implants, such as load and mutual inductance variations, can lead to system instability or poor performance. The thesis shows how new ensemble and multiscale methods can be combined with modern artificial intelligence techniques to provide robust and reliable location recognition capabilities.

Stephen Hausler

Due to the different characteristics of different imaging modalities, developing image processing algorithms for multimodal images is challenging. This thesis proposes effective solutions to the challenging problem of multimodal semantic correspondence, establishing the connections between similar components in images of different modalities.

Akila Sachinthani Pemasiri Hewa Thondilege

By incorporating a multi-patient simulation, the research examines the emboli trajectories and found that they have a predictive nature due to the surgical cannula's location and the amount of blood pump flow. This study provides a better understanding of embolic fate and the role of blood flow during cardiac surgery.

Raymond Ho

The tool developed helps transit stakeholders identify regions where transit services can be significantly improved, leading to efficient and reliable transit services.

Etikaf Hussain

The effectiveness of the proposed new modeling is demonstrated with the case study on the Brisbane network. Broadly, most detection algorithms can be classified into neural network based, correlation fi lter based and hybrid.

Monika Jain

Virtual reality can refine the methods and tools of existing design processes of Media Architecture. Media architecture can be objects with dynamic properties, such as interactive light sources, that embody the urban space.

Waldemar Jenek

Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Glenda Caldwell, Associate Professor Jared Donovan, Associate Professor Veronica Garcia Hansen, Dr. Mingze Xi, Dr. Matt Adcock. In higher education, design tools such as real-time visualization software can refine traditional teaching approaches while discovering new ways of design thinking in architecture schools.

Valtteri Kallinen

Midair collision risk models with foundations in manned aviation are extended and adapted to develop separation standards for UAVs while addressing the unique differences from traditional manned aviation. Cell orientation, stiffness, morphology, internal viscosity of the cell and flow velocity were found to be the most important parameters determining spleen cell filtration.

Dinushika Madushani Wickramasingha Karandeniya

In this study, an accurate and efficient new numerical model was developed for different RBC shapes and their flow and deformation behavior was investigated using the LBM-IBM-DEM method. It draws on the voices of academics and graduate designers from four sustainability-focused design programs in Higher Education internationally to propose theoretical guidelines that support design educators to develop, enable and sustain design programs that respond to a rapidly changing world , which in turn equip design graduates with relevant capabilities to create change towards sustainable futures.

Charlotte Kessler

This project is a systematic study on how to use sugarcane waste to produce biogas using an integrated process. Biogas production has been improved by the proposed integrated process, which has the potential for further development as a commercial fuel source.

Napong Ketsub

In addition, the pretreatment and anaerobic digestion process is designed to integrate with hydrothermal carbonization to utilize anaerobic digestion residue for further improvement of process performance. Supervisor/s: Associate Professor Zhanying Zhang, Professor Ian O'Hara, Adjunct Professor Robert Speight, Associate Professor Mark Harrison.

Most Sheauly Khatun

In this PhD study, a simple FOS enzyme production process was developed using a newly selected Aureobasidium pullulans strain as enzyme producer and low-cost molasses as carbon source. The findings from this doctoral research are important for the further development and scale-up of the FOS production process towards commercialization, which will benefit both the Australian sugar cane and livestock sectors.

Shovona Khusru

This thesis has investigated the material properties of a new high strength steel (HSS) manufactured by Gifl o Steels (F series steel) using detailed experimental studies including ambient and elevated temperature mechanical property tests, post-fi mechanical properties and V. -Charpy hardness tests for hardness. His findings have shown that the new F-series steel has an advantage over similar HSS as it has superior post-fi mechanical properties while also maintaining other mechanical properties within the requirements of the relevant design standards.

Alexander Krossa

It is even more difficult to map the identified human pixels into a 3D model. Existing deep-learning models learn to manually map labeled human pixels in 2D images onto a human surface, which is prone to human error, and the scarcity of annotated data leads to suboptimal results.

Mithun Lal

Supervisor(s): Professor YuanTong Gu, Associate Professor Liangzhi Kou, Adjunct Professor John Bell, Adjunct Professor Haifei Zhan. The atomistic simulation approach enables a comprehensive characterization approach for the materials down to the atomic level and provides detailed insights into their mechanical behavior, usually beyond the reach of experiments.

Chengkai Li

The newly synthesized low-dimensional carbon nanomaterials show unlimited potential to improve the mechanical performance of the polymer. Understand the latest, emerging trends and impact of smart homes on future life.

Wenda Li

Challenges of manufacturing cell therapies at scale - Analysis through systems thinking of the nascent immunotherapy industry. This thesis uniquely applies the Five Competitive Forces framework to a nascent immunotherapy industry through which a greater understanding of the foundations of collaboration is evident.

Joachim Maartens

We studied the structural, morphological, chemical, optical, electrical and electronic properties of the films. The results showed that optimized properties of metal oxide thin films as charge (hole) transport layers improved the PSC device performance.

Sepideh Sadat Madani

This research investigated the stability and strength behavior of cold-formed steel-built columns. The results highlighted the shortcomings of current design standards, including North American and Australian/New Zealand standards, and led to simplified design procedures and strength equations for cold-formed steel-framed columns.

Akshay Mangal Mahar

The stability behavior was investigated by developing a composite spline-finite strip-based calculation tool, while experiments and finite element studies were conducted to investigate the strength behavior. Overall, this research has greatly improved the knowledge of cold-formed steel built-up columns, enabling structurally efficient and safer designs.

Vincent Timotheo Mair

A series of large-scale pavement model tests were carried out in a laboratory environment to investigate the effect of geosynthetics on improving the modulus of weak subsurfaces. A series of additional design maps were then developed that could be useful to industry practitioners when designing geosynthetic reinforced flexible pavements.

Kasun Dilhara Wimalasena Mataramba Kankanamge

A New Design for Double Skin Facade in Hot Climates: Improving Thermal Performance and Natural Ventilation of the System. This thesis contributes to the improvement of the thermal performance of Double Skin facades in hot climates.

Soha Matour

Finally, a framework was developed for implementing IS-DSF in warm climates applicable at the early stage of building design. Understanding the current engagement mechanisms and inherent challenges provided a basis for the development of a framework, the Quality Excellence Framework (QEF), a framework that provides the basis for successful quality outcomes, overall project success, continuous improvement and innovation .

Posani Maveza

This dissertation examined the level of stakeholder involvement in infrastructure construction projects, their influence on quality outcomes, and how enhanced participation can improve not only quality outcomes but also the overall success of project delivery. In this study, we developed and analyzed the behavior of multifunctional coatings for dental implants made using polydopamine, incorporating different amounts of copper to enable the formation of nitric oxide in a regulated manner.

Jayanti Arun Mendhi

Influence of water-sediment interactions and land use on the mobility and bioavailability of heavy metals in urban waterways. This PhD generated new knowledge on the mobility and bioavailability of heavy metals in urban waters.

Lorena Suede Miranda

The research study was based on a comprehensive investigation of the synergistic influence of sediment and water physicochemical properties, nutrients, land use and population characteristics on the behavior of anthropogenic heavy metals in river and estuarine environments. The results of the study confirmed that effective management strategies to protect urban waterways should be specifically designed based on the metal species, the nature of the aquatic ecosystem, and the characteristics of the surrounding environment.

Amin Miri

This mixed method research aims to assess how FOREX fluctuations affect business performance through the lens of organizational capability (OC). This research found three (3) key capabilities essential to the organization in mitigating the impacts of FOREX fluctuations; financial ability, technical ability and business management ability.

Mohd Amizan Bin Mohamed

However, overwhelming evidence has emphasized the interrelationship between rear-end collisions and highway traffic dynamics in recent decades. This thesis develops new mathematical models of highway traffic flow dynamics and safety to integrate them into a unified framework.

Saeed Mohammadian

Congestion and rear-end collisions are two undesirable phenomena of highway traffic flows, which are interrelated and greatly influenced by human psychological factors. In this research work, a feeder-level separation technique is developed to visualize unmonitored rooftop PVs and batteries on LV feeders with limited metering equipment.

Amin Mokaribolhassan

Examining the implications of peri-urbanization on climate change risk: the cases of Brisbane and Dhaka. It then identifies the implications of unidentified peri-urbanization on climate change risk for developed and developing country contexts.

MD Golam Mortoja

This thesis is a comparative study that examines the implications of peri-urbanization on the risk of climate change between developed country and developing country contexts using a case study approach. The study first develops a modus operandi for delineating peri-urban areas by revealing the unclear characteristics of peri-urban areas.

Olga Moskvyak

The project develops machine learning methods for the re-identification task, which matches images from the same category in a database. The thesis proposes approaches to reduce the influence of two critical challenges in image re-identification: Positional variations that affect the appearance of objects and the need to annotate a large dataset to train a neural network.

Saskia Neale

Strategies that can be used to attract sustainable electricity infrastructure investment in rural and indigenous communities. This thesis identifies strategies to attract sustainable electricity infrastructure investment in rural and indigenous communities.

Jennifer Ng

This project was a step forward in the design and testing of a low-cost coaxial UAV with an optical flow sensor. The thesis investigated how accurately the UAV can maintain altitude using VICON, LIDAR and the optical flow sensor.

Chandima Nikagolla

The research showed a balanced process, energy and techno-economic case for using concentrated solar thermal energy, essentially, for hydrogen production and other industrial process systems. The representative case studies undertaken in the research addressed solar thermal process and modeling, energy integration, process optimization, energy assessment and techno-economic assessment as it relates to renewable hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuel production.

Adetunji Onigbajumo

This thesis investigated the impact of residential design on children's outdoor activities in inner Brisbane. Public awareness about the benefits of green space close to home and the importance of children's independent mobility must be prioritized.

Linda Osborne

Children's input through surveys shows that they participate unsupervised in outdoor activities in courtyards that provide busy families with access to green space without the need to drive or supervise. This research investigated the fire resistance of external lightweight steel frame walls with autoclaved aerated concrete panels, corrugated sheet metal and brick veneer cladding using detailed experimental and numerical studies.

Jashnav Pancheti

Experimental measurements of this delayed feedback loop were simulated with to verify its effect on the wireless power transfer system, yielding the results in this study. An improvement to the wireless power transfer control system is proposed to compensate for this.

Shaetrun Pathmanathan

This research experimentally investigated the effects of different drying methods on pineapple quality. Convective drying has been found to be the economically viable drying technique in terms of maintaining the overall quality of pineapple fruit as other techniques are complex and expensive for similar quality results.

Jasmine Jeewanthi Senevirathna Petikirige

Both nutritional and sensory properties were determined using microwave convective drying, freeze drying and convective drying techniques. This thesis investigates how to monitor the performance of deep learning vision systems in mobile robots.

Quazi Marufur Rahman