As Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, I am proud to present the achievements of our graduate research scholars in 2020. We are working together on some of the biggest challenges and opportunities facing Australia and the global community.
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Team identification and athletes' off-field behavior: Effects on consumer intention in traditional and non-traditional sports contexts. Conversely, athletes' off-field behavior did not significantly influence consumer intention among traditional participants.
Benjamin Tarr
This research extends team identification and social identity theory by investigating whether fans react differently to athletes' off-field behaviors based on their support for teams in traditional or nontraditional sports leagues. Data from three independent samples show that athletes' off-field prosocial and antisocial behavior significantly influence consumer intention in a nontraditional setting, with results showing that the less identified a person is with their team, the more susceptible they are to the behavior of the athlete outside the field. by changing their consumer intention levels.
Choity Jones
Explaining the relationship between investor attention and market returns and return volatility, where attention is measured by Google search volume and two indirect measures based on price, investor attention does not contribute to return predictability, but significant associations with volatility are found. Furthermore, when re-examining the joint volume-volatility relationship to investigate the dynamic relationships of market volatility, trading volume, and investor attention (as measured by Google search and Twitter tweet volume), investor attention provides a marginally significant link for the degree to which investors search market information.
Denis-Emanuel Stan
We assess the quality of exercise practitioners in New Zealand's fitness industry, given concerns expressed about quality, by compiling original datasets from publicly available information on exercise professionals and their gyms and industry-level education. We find that there is a significant decline in the quality of practitioners involved in this industry.
Hannah Altman
We are also developing a fundamental behavioral economics model to help determine the supply and demand for high-quality exercise professionals. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the phenomenon of mobile-enabled showrooming and understand how location-based advertising can be used to engage with consumers more effectively.
Jorge Fiestas Lopez Guido
Analysis of the relationship between family involvement and innovative capability in Chinese family SMEs. Furthermore, the findings revealed that Human Resource (HR) redundancy within Chinese family businesses can moderate the relationship between family ownership and innovative contribution, as well as the relationship between family governance and innovative capability.
Kaiyang Sun
The research they report provides a better understanding of what fairness means in the eyes of superiors and subordinates in today's workplace. In doing so, the findings and discussion provide an updated picture of what organizational justice in the workplace looks like today.
Lina Alsaree
This thesis is an exploratory study that examines the perceptions and experiences of both supervisors and subordinates in a university environment. Relevant to global food security, these findings help the understanding of accountability in the fresh food supply chain and contribute to thinking about cooperatives.
Linda Bennison
This thesis examined the moderating role of follower personality on the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) using the five-factor personality model. Most importantly, those who self-identify as high in the trait of neuroticism show higher levels of organizational citizenship behavior in the presence of a transformational leader.
Lisa Jankowski
The findings indicated complex differential frameworks, with a predominance towards traditional and heroic leadership, while at the same time emphasizing post-heroic perspectives. Media framing of individual leaders highlighted tensions between expectations to perform leadership and conform to gendered cultural norms.
Maria Khan
The unique characteristics of projects combined with benefits management challenges suggest that there are barriers to the transfer of knowledge to benefits. Study focus is project yield knowledge transfer barriers at individual level within a specific.
Neville Marshall
An existing nine-barrier model for knowledge transfer was used to investigate the specific problem of knowledge transfer from project staff to benefit management staff. The case study used interviews and project documentation to gather evidence showing that four barriers existed to the transfer of benefits knowledge.
Rizal Rickieno
Flexible work practices and employee outcomes: The role of gender, social support, and flexibility stigma. Using gender role and ecological systems theory, it also examines the moderating effects of gender, social support, and flexibility stigma on the relationship between FWPs and employee outcomes.
Tahrima Ferdous
Through the lenses of social exchange theory and signaling theory, this study investigates the impact of the perceived availability of flexible work practices (FWPs) and the use of FWPs on employee outcomes, namely performance, well-being, work-life balance, goals turnover and career consequences. Findings provide insights for practitioners and policy makers into the relationship between FWPs and employee outcomes.
Victoria Lister
This thesis contributes to the under-researched phenomenon of digital transformation in the creation of virtual service landscape with a service-dominant logic. This research examines how firms close capability gaps and how dynamic capabilities are leveraged to achieve organizational agility in the creation of virtual servicescapes.
Yang Zhang
As short break vacations become increasingly popular, identifying the accommodation attributes that travelers seek has attracted the attention of scholars. Using a repertoire test, this paper identifies the attributes of short break accommodation that are important to travelers of Chinese origin in Brisbane.
Yechun Xiao
This thesis provides valuable insight to the Australian accommodation industry, helping practitioners to better understand travelers' needs for their short breaks and predict which accommodation attributes travelers consider most important. Using a cross-sectional research design involving data from 524 Australian employees, this study examined the extent to which attributions about wellness programs moderate the relationship between job demands and employee outcomes.
Michelle Smidt
More heterosexual adults are reentering the dating market with liberal sexual attitudes, low risk perceptions, and limited condom use experiences. This research uses the social marketing and sexual health literature to explore their experiences of condom use.
Natalie Bowring
The co-creating classroom: Does value co-creation hinder or facilitate customer engagement in low socioeconomic education services. The research found that students are capable of co-creating values, but face limited opportunities to engage in these behaviors.
Nicholas Grech
Given the shortcomings in public sector ethics, this research focused on the effectiveness of public interest disclosure legislation and the difference between the protections offered to potential whistleblowers in the public and private sectors. Using the whistleblower triangle, this research found that potential applicants look for applicants with certain characteristics.
Adam Ozdowski
This research examined how group norms influence consumer behavior when individual and group consumption preferences differ, and was conducted in a religious context. This research also expands our understanding of how groups can influence individual behavior in the presence of conflicting consumption preferences.
Alfian Anas
However, a conflict may arise and individuals must choose between conforming to the group norms or to their own preferences. The results of this thesis show that religion is not a homogeneous construct and must therefore be considered more than a demographic variable for consumer behavior.
Alice Solda
Standard economic models assume that individuals gather and process information in a way that gives them a relatively accurate perception of reality. This thesis aims to show that individuals benefit from overconfidence in strategic interactions, which would explain the persistence of this bias despite its social cost.
Andrew Spark
This thesis focuses on how individuals and groups perceive and behave in the face of risky and ambiguous outcomes. There has been much research into how individuals behave in these situations, but much less research into when and why they behave this way.
Anthony Newell
Culinary Destination Consumer-Based Brand Equity: Exploring the Impact of FoodPorn-Related Tourist Gaze on Social Media. By focusing on the growing influence of user-generated content on social media, this research advances our understanding of how FoodPorn viewing improves consumer-based brand equity of a culinary destination.
Guljira Manimont
Due to the intangible nature of travel experiences, Foodporn can give consumers a taste of a destination. (1) Australia is "one of the leading nations." by increasing the transparency of corporate tax measures to the public and the implementation of ROETI contributed to this.
Heidi Zummo
This thesis consists of three essays that explore issues related to energy economics, environmental economics, and health economics. The second essay examines the relationship between carbon emissions and urbanization in different sectors across economies.
Honghong Wei
This thesis shows that self-regulation is a source of impatience in the daily decision-making of consumers. Nine studies show that performing self-regulation (e.g. suppressing emotions, following a diet) causes people to pay more attention to time, causing future time intervals to be perceived as longer and increasing impatience.
Hyo-je Kim
Further, the results provide a theoretical framework for understanding why self-regulation may influence intertemporal judgments in domains other than the domain in which self-regulation originally occurred. In a series of experiments, this paper revealed that after making donations, people are more generous if the charity uses self-benefit rather than other-benefit messages.
Jappy Parlindungan Fanggidae
The thesis analyzes how the degree of dependence on natural resources can help explain the persistently high levels of income inequality in Chile. Using data at the municipal level, it also investigates the causal effect of income inequality on the level of efficiency of local governments.
Javier Andres Beltran Valdebenito
Using an endogenous growth framework, this thesis models and tests whether hedge fund activists add value by correcting inefficient R&D investment in their targets. Overall, my research provides new insights into the governance role and value implications of hedge fund activism.
Justin Watson
This thesis is a mixed methods research study focusing on the evaluation of gender equality in project-based organizations. This research extends our knowledge of the effectiveness of gender equality initiatives in terms of women's representation and organizational practices in the selection and implementation of formal HR initiatives aimed at this.
Marzena Baker
Using productivity analysis, including stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis, the main factors affecting the productivity of the Malaysian sea bass industry are identified. This analysis provides critical insights into the management of the Malaysian aquaculture industry and policy.
Mohd Ammarr Bin Mohd Aripin
This thesis presents the first detailed economic analysis of the sea bass industry in Malaysia, considering all stages of the aquaculture system from the farm to the rearing sector. Using farm survey data, this thesis examines the financial and economic performance of the sector, providing managers and farmers with information on the economic performance of the different sectors.
Naomi Moy
Using extensive panel data from the Indonesian stock market, the study finds that the accrual quality of listed SOEs has improved significantly under IFRS, but not earnings sustainability or earnings stability. Using the latent growth curve model, the study reveals that the second stage of convergence had a more pronounced impact on accrual quality.
Putu D’yan Yaniartha Sukartha
In comparison, the pace of construction quality improvement was higher for state-owned enterprises than for non-state-listed enterprises. This dissertation examines the ability of context to influence the way gamification products are experienced in social marketing domains of healthcare and the workplace.
Robert Mitchell
Overcoming barriers to private sector housing development in a developing country: A case study in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The study examines supply-side barriers to private housing development in developing countries using Dhaka, Bangladesh as a case study.
Rowshan Jahan
Using the Delphi method, content and thematic analysis, corrupt bureaucratic mechanisms and delays in plan approval were identified as the most influential supply-side barriers to housing development. The findings of the study contribute to the literature on affordable housing and assist government regulators and policy makers in formulating appropriate policies for housing development in the context of developing countries.
Ruolin Wang
Essay on the flow of information between capital and credit markets: before, during and after the financial crisis. The strength of the interaction between capital and credit markets is found to be related to the creditworthiness of the firms in question.
Samantha Paredes
A cross-country study of eWOM continuance motivations on review sites: Do cultural values matter. The results reveal the influences of reviewers' individual cultural values on eWOM continuance motivations.
Saranya Labsomboonsiri
This research studied reviewer motivations for electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) and how individual and collective cultural values influence these motivations. Research shows that a combination of affective motivations (positive and negative feelings associated with consumption) and cognitive motivations (helping and warning others) drives eWOM.
Scott Murray
Our results show that especially men in late adulthood systematically underdelegate financial decision-making. We show that age has a negative influence on executive function and memory, which is positively correlated with economic capacity.
Sylvain Hohn
At a basic level, high-frequency traders improve market liquidity and efficiency because they compete and undercut each other, allowing slower traders to benefit. However, high-frequency traders have increased both systematic and systemic risk in the stock markets and also increased common liquidity resilience during adverse market conditions.
Vasilios Papalexiou
The notion that preferential treatment promotes customer-favorable behavior has been widely accepted by practitioners and academics. It identified the specific moral feelings of shame and embarrassment as being a function of the type of preferential treatment offered.
Vivian Pontes
Rather, its unearned counterpart should be used with caution by practitioners as it causes perceptions of unfairness and distress. This thesis used a mixed method, which allowed the identification of the main sources of negative associations for both types of preferential treatment, categorized as "harm to others" and "negligent delivery". Using three experiments, this thesis addresses the following research gaps: (a) the lack of literature on.
Wai Fan Ching
This research examined the determinants and consequences of employee networking behavior in the context of employee gender and ethnicity. The results further show that employees have different networking behaviors depending on their gender and ethnicity.
Wanigasekara Wanigasekara
This thesis examines the performance of the discriminating price auction relative to the uniform price auction in the Indonesian treasuries. For a large sample of Islamic (Sukuk) and conventional treasury bill auctions between 2003 and 2017, the results show that switching from a discriminatory price auction to a uniform price auction is expected to improve both auction revenue and efficiency.
Wawan Sugiyarto
This PhD project explores the relationship between scientists' self-esteem, physical appearance and writing style on the one hand and their scientific performance, social recognition and collaboration opportunities on the other. The thesis presented the research questions relevant to the understanding of the psychological and social characteristics of scientists, with methodological approaches drawn from new developments in data mining.
Weilong Bi
This study examines how customer heterogeneity can be a useful resource for innovations in the service sector. The results of this study help managers see customer heterogeneity as a resource rather than a problem to mitigate.
Wijekoon Wijekoon
Using a dynamic capabilities view, this study states that firms need knowledge integration capabilities to identify, capture, and combine knowledge related to customer heterogeneity with firm expertise and experience. Analyzing a sample of Australian companies, the thesis found that good performers disclose more information and communicate optimistically, confidently and clearly; they also present their information in a more readable way; experience with sustainability disclosure improves performance, and the sustainability committee also contributes to performance.
Zhongtian Li
This practice-led research project explores and expresses my disillusionment with the dysfunctions of the political establishment in Australia. This is achieved by reformulating the visual elements of political spectacle through the installation of video, sound and sculpture, implemented in public settings and galleries.
Amy Sargeant
The research is framed through a RanciÞrian lens and employs a practice-led methodology, employing the situationist dÚtournement method to destabilize symbolic reference points appropriated from Australian politics. It uses a practice-led research approach that combines reflective practice theory and a critical review of existing literature with four industrial case studies from my own professional practice.
Bryan Crawford
Too Old to Rock: Investigating the Queensland Mid-Career Music Scene' examines the career support needs of independent mid-career musicians in Queensland and provides a contextual overview of the musical landscape and the state of independent mid-career musicians in Queensland. This study focused on this large group of established mid-career musicians (with 15 years or more professional experience) in Queensland, on how they conduct their professional practice or long-term careers, and on what professional development is accessed or required.
Chanel Lucas
In the Australian population, established artists practice longer and there are many professional mid-career artists who will be working on their creative work for some time into the future. This research project used VR technologies in a contemporary art practice to creatively and critically examine entertainment with military themes (militainment).
Guy Lobwein
Colonizing madness: How magical realism can be used to represent the experience of mental illness. This practice-led project asks: how writers of dementia memoirs represent the discontinuity and incoherence of the experience of dementia and how I can approach this as a writer.
Helen Stringer
This research project explored the individual creative practice of contemporary Australian professional male dancers, to examine how the concept of 'identity in movement' develops over a professional dance career. Together, a nimble toolbox of "embodied sampling" strategies was developed from the researcher's creative practice when investigating his own moving identity.
Jayden Grogan
The results of the research study showed that each of the three interviewed independent Australian professional dancers' "moving identities" developed in different ways during their careers as dance practitioners. This study explored the roles played by two local community organizations during the 2011 Brisbane flood, providing important new knowledge about how their roles were fulfilled, identifying the impact of community disaster resilience characteristics and key elements of social capital and as a study of experiences from international models of community-led responses.
Laurelle Muir
The thesis examines how local communities can play an effective role in The framework developed through this research provides a practical and workable mechanism for activating the vision of disaster resilience outlined in policy frameworks in Australia.
Hemma Kearney
Lines in The Sand: North Stradbroke Island Festivals Chronicling a Curatorial Philosophy in Response to Ecology of Change. This intensely local research study is a creative response to political, cultural and environmental change in Quandamooka.
Joanne Duncan
Themes of mining, development and human impact on the environment involve issues facing large parts of the planet. The results speak to a much larger narrative of restoration and rejuvenation of the land both ecologically and spiritually.
Melanie Saward
Choreographic strategies to achieve visual communication within an original film story through academic ballet choreography. The findings identify eight choreographic strategies for the successful use of academic ballet choreography as a means of visual communication in film, inspiring other choreographers to challenge existing traditions to evolve.
Paul Hourigan
This research explored the use of ballet in cinematic narrative – particularly its effectiveness as a source of visual communication when removed from the stereotypical characterizations, plots and cinematic tropes that have become associated with cinematic ballet. To test this effectiveness, the project involved the production and choreography of the original feature film Nearly Not Me, followed by an audience survey to gather qualitative data.
Drew Flaherty
This project focuses on exploring and understanding how analog life drawing practices can be redefined in the digital world of virtual reality. In this practice-led project, the creative practice of analog life drawing is the basis for making immersive drawing artworks in the virtual environment.
Heli Puhakka
Glare in open-plan offices can negatively impact the productivity and well-being of office workers. Developed as part of an ARC Linkage Project, this thesis challenges the limitations in current glare measurements by providing a new model for predicting glare for open-plan offices.
Ayman Wagdy Mohamed Ibrahim
The thesis was completed with a creative practice and explores the design processes and principles that could support the complex process of translating traditional Chinese symbols into a modern design environment in the context of tea packaging design. The study included reflective practice, content analysis of tea packaging design, semi-structured interviews with professional designers, and the creation of fifteen original artworks that were publicly exhibited in 2019.
Bin Hu
A key outcome of the study is a set of design processes, guides and principles for designers and researchers working with Chinese symbolism in Asian and non-Asian contexts. It is my contention that this methodological model provides a useful way of understanding art practice as a network of object-based structures while preserving its alien, emergent properties.
Charles Robb
Balancing the Binary: Ambivalent Entanglement and Digital Isolation in Creative Capacity for Contemporary Photomedia Artists. This thesis is an investigation of contemporary art photography and how digital isolation and digital.
Charlotte Tegan
Strong Houses, Strong Voices: Sharing the Lived Experiences of Post-Natural Builders in South Africa. This project explores and shares the stories of post-natural builders in South Africa who use re-purposed waste materials and natural materials to build 'replacement huts'.
Christine Scoggin
The project's video narratives and multimedia artworks share stories of how the post-natural building practice connects builders with cultural identities associated with traditional architecture, builds local capacity through training and community activity, and provides low-cost, climate-friendly shelter. The design of this research required a new concept, techno-stice - a synthesis of technology and a 'social space', to understand the role of politics, digital media and agency in the creation of contemporary art.
Christopher Howlett
This thesis examines how the record producer participates in the sound studio as a member of a sensemaking team. This study helps new record producers understand the organizational communication skills required to work in the record industry.
Daniel Pratt
Embody Futures: interweaving futures thinking, applied theater and community development in creative and participatory embodied practice. Themes covered in the reflection on practice include: temporal patterns and macro histories; distancing through role and metaphor; and rethinking ancestors.
Deanna Borland-Sentinella
Networked discursive alliances: Antagonism, agonism and the dynamics of discursive struggles in the Australian Twittersphere. This project examines the complex interrelationship between social media and democracy by exploring the dynamics of economic, social and political disagreements and struggles among Twitter users in Australia.
Ehsan Dehghan
From Product to Process and Site to System: Disaster Resilience and Humanitarian Design in Architecture Education. The research found that architecture education must embrace transdisciplinary, collaborative design methods to address complex global issues facing 21st century learners.
Elizabeth Brogden
This research explores humanitarianism and disaster resilient design within architecture education through the practice of transformative pedagogy. This research aims to provide a better understanding of the relationship between a user's cultural values and the emotional attachment they develop with products through a cross-cultural study on Australian and Iranian cultures.
Fatima Kamali
It's the first longitudinal study of veteran YouTubers and established television producers who co-create highly popular narrative web series, and it shows. This study found that the majority of teams used highly watched web series for licensing deals with digital TV stations and online streamers and thus potentially sustainable careers.
Guy Healy
This study reveals distinctive new forms of screen industry convergence with profound implications for creators themselves and the screen industry in general. This study examines the practices and tensions between urban actors in the production of the smart city, as well as mechanisms for more pluralistic and participatory approaches.
Irina Anastasiu Cioaca
However, virtual production currently has perceptual limitations that affect the actor's understanding of the virtual environment during the performance. This study explored different approaches to address this limited perceptual experience by reducing the player's responsibility for the systems found in virtual production.
Joel Bennett
Virtual production is a relatively new concept that encompasses a wide variety of production approaches focused on combining physical and virtual content in real time. The findings of the study led to the development of a conceptual framework that can be used to facilitate the actor's perceptual experience of the virtual environment during performance.
Kelly Lewis
Belonging at the end of the world: (re)imagining paradise through narratives of low-income locals on the Gold Coast. Low-income and disenfranchised locals simultaneously embody a sense of alienation and belonging in their lived experience of the Gold Coast.
Kelly Palmer
This thesis includes a collection of stories and an exegesis that complicates ideas that the Gold Coast is simply a holiday world with a criminal underbelly. Cultural texts imbue the Gold Coast with an otherworldly aura—one that mythologizes the city as both a paradise and a paradise lost.
Malcolm Burt
Place attachment, the residents' meaningful ties to their place of residence, arises from its ecological, socio-cultural and economic composition. The aim of this study is therefore to investigate the different neighborhood characteristics that influence the development of residents' ties with their neighborhood.
Marieh Barzegaran
The result was a learning and teaching model called "A Model for Contemporary Architectural Design Learning in Australia", which exemplifies a modern shift in the distinctive studio pedagogy. This model is applicable to the four models of studio pedagogy prevalent in Australian schools of architecture.
Naima Iftikhar
This research identifies essential knowledge for effective learning and teaching of subject-situated architectural design in Australia. Sounding relationships to land and water: responding to social-ecological change through spoken word poetry.
Petrus Johannes Loock Odendaal
Special DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.206171 Email: petrusjohannesloock.odendaal@connect.qut.edu.au Country: South Africa. Special DOI: http://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.202918 Email: silviaximena.montananino@connect.qut.edu.au Land: Colombia.
Silvia Ximena Montana Nino
This dissertation examines the digital communication strategies of outsiders to Russian politics who oppose the current political elite. This research provides a case study of Russia's popular opposition leader Alexey Navalny in the vibrant research fields of populism, investigative journalism and digital media.
Sofya Glazunova
The study concludes that the combination of investigative journalism and digital activism practices embedded in the populist style of communication on YouTube contributes to the persistence of Russian opposition in the public sphere. The Mathematics of Desire: Exploring the interface between Science and Theater by translating Mathematical Theorems into a Play Script.
Susan Miller
Dating, digital media and diaspora: Contextualising the cultural use of Tinder and Tantan among the Australian Chinese diaspora. Using digital ethnographic approaches, it explores the experiences of 23 interview participants – mainly young, first-generation migrants from mainland China – on Tinder and Tantan in Australia.
Xu Chen
This research critically assesses the development of the bestseller in an Australian museum context. Based on semi-structured interviews, reflective practice and critical historiography, this research argues that current iterations of the blockbuster genre have given rise to a new ecology of 'attractor' exhibitions that are fundamental to visitor engagement strategies in the 21st century Australian museum.
Bernadette McCormack
This thesis explores the impact and influence of the curator of public art to create the identity of the place. Through theories of place-making and brand marketing and a review of the arts and cultural policies of New York, Singapore and Qatar, it draws on practice in the curation of public art.
Chetana Andary
Can a reality program be produced that illustrates a social issue as well as having the characteristics of successful entertainment. This research examines how reality television can be used to highlight the social issue of homelessness while meeting the needs of stakeholders.
Dean Weily
The research will help television producers who want to broaden the appeal of social programming in commercial settings. This research contributed to directing flexibility towards improved practices and addressed in part the mitigation of the logarithmic growth of the financial burden on health services.
Harm Hollander
The flexibility of construction within a hospital building serves as an opportunity for a health service to advance clinically. This research sought the possibility of extending flexible design approaches by consolidating established knowledge into a refreshed model of flexibility.
Jay Mogis
Let's talk about fear of public speaking: supporting and sustaining sustainable speaking practices in college and beyond. This framework promotes self-regulation, self-efficacy and self-reflection to develop sustainable speaking practices, both at university and beyond.
Lesley Irvine
I see you watching me - An analysis of the relationship between invitation and participation in early years theatre. The research analyzed the structure of performative work, the work of performers and the observable actions of young children as co-creative participants.
Sally Chance
A new model for examining iconic works in popular creative culture was developed, generating comparative insights into how the iconic film Morning Of The Earth (1972) functions as a medium, first by re-recording the original soundtrack using emerging local talent , then asking the same artists to re-imagine the soundtrack and compose new material for the film. Informed by the historical connection to the original film, the artistic direction of these projects enabled the exploration of how the influence of Morning Of The Earth inspired these artists' reworking and response to the original soundtrack while comparing the film's overall position in Australian popular culture.
Tim Gaze
Surf, Sun and Sound: The Role of Surf Music in the Development of Australian Popular Culture. An eye-opening experience: Building secondary students' intercultural understanding and empathic, active citizenship through a humanitarian trip to Vietnam.
Brigid Muir
This research examined 10th to 12th grade students' perceptions of the usefulness of 18 interactive PhET simulations for learning physics. The study summarized students' descriptions of why they found simulations useful into nine factors.
Edward Chi-Ping Lin
A quantitative survey followed by qualitative interviews was conducted to examine students' perceptions of why and how PhET simulations helped them visualize abstract physics concepts and relate mathematical understanding to physics concepts. Overall, students found the PhET simulations to be very useful for both aspects of their learning, especially visualization.
Karlie Ross
Whole school approach to language immersion using augmentative and alternative communication for students with multiple disabilities and complex communication needs. This study explored the features, strategies, and challenges of a whole-school approach to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for students with multiple disabilities and complex communication needs.
Liesl Harper
A case study of policy enactment: Examining a homestay program for Indigenous students in an all-boys Catholic high school. This study examined a residential program for Indigenous students from remote communities at an all-boys Catholic high school in metropolitan Queensland.
Luke Royes
This qualitative narrative inquiry explored the account of a principal's perceptions over time, regarding the role of play in Queensland's Preparatory Year. The participant's views of play were found to be related to her evolving epistemological constructions of play pedagogies and were influenced by Growth Mindset Theory.
Rowena Burress
A mixed methods approach included a study of writing self-efficacy among 62 Year 7 and Year 9 students, and their 2018 writing scores on a national standardized test (NAPLAN). A subgroup of six students was then interviewed to explore students' perceived influencing factors related to writing self-efficacy.
Stephanie Grigoras
In addition, the qualitative data revealed eight themes likely to influence the writing process and writing achievement. These include emotion, self-perception, parental and teacher influence, student strategies, writing genre, writing comprehension, and writing achievement. The experiences of Torres Strait Islander students moving from different countries to Brisbane to undertake university studies.
Glen Fairfoot
This study explores children's perspectives on creativity and the role it plays in their lives. This thesis offers perspectives on how to encourage children's creativity, with implications for children's general learning and well-being.
Shelley Radanovic
Research on the development of creative thinking and adaptability skills using procedural drama techniques in junior high school students in Sri Lanka. The thesis demonstrated the importance of developing creative thinking and adaptability through a drama-based teaching approach in junior secondary school students in Sri Lanka.
Ayomi Indika Irugalbandara
The findings will help teachers enable and encourage the development of creative thinking and adaptive skills in junior high school students by teaching them how to be open to new ideas and think outside the box through techniques of process drama, enhancing 21st century skills. Implementing a tele-classroom consultation approach in rural and remote settings to support a community of practice for teachers supporting young children on the autism spectrum and with complex needs in mainstream settings.
Chris Edwards
This qualitative study examines the potential for political literacy development through the Australian Curriculum subjects of History and Civics and Citizenship. Results indicate acceptance of the importance of political literacy, but limited potential for its development.
Hugh Atherton
It argues that political literacy is important in the context of significant challenges facing liberal democracies. In particular, the data point to limited implementation of civic education and citizenship, and disagreement among scholars and teachers about what constitutes political literacy education.
Iwona Czaplinski
School-family relations in diverse Australia: A sociological case study of the links between a school community and parents from an Afghan refugee background. This theory-led case study investigated how a primary school in Queensland is engaging parents with an Afghan refugee background.
Jennifer Azordegan
This study sheds light on the complexities of building effective school-family relationships in increasingly diverse societies. This research examined teaching and learning using Chromebooks and Google's G Suite for Education in a Year 5 primary school classroom in Queensland.
Kristy Corser
The research used Actor Network Theory and Communities of Practice theory to explore the material aspects of using technologies in the classroom and how cloud-based technologies promote collaborative learning. A new analysis method showed that the type of information in the feedback could be linked to different aspects of the context.
Mary Finch
Early career teachers were asked to identify the impact of teacher quality improvement policies on their practice. In this qualitative study, 13 early career teachers from teacher education excellence programs in Queensland and Western Australia were interviewed.
Peter Churchward
Grammar and Vocabulary Test in Senior High School English Entrance Test in China: A Washback Study from the Perspective of Learning-Oriented Assessment. This project investigated the positive and negative impact of a demanding standardized test of English as a foreign language on the teaching and learning of grammar and vocabulary in junior high schools in China through the lens of learning-based assessment.
Ruijin Yang
This research takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine representations of mind modeling in children's picture books. This thesis contributes new knowledge on mental modeling in picture books and provides directions for further research in classroom applications.
Shih-Han Su
This research investigated how EFL students can improve their EFL learning by developing cognitive skills through digital game-based learning in a Vietnamese higher education context. The findings indicated that the adoption of digital game-based learning in EFL learning may have had a positive impact on the participants.
Song Huyen Chau Nguyen
The findings of this study contribute to further understanding of the relationship between digital game-based learning and cognitive skills to improve teaching and learning in the EFL discipline. This thesis investigated the professional identity development of university student ambassadors in an extra-curricular STEM outreach programme.
Maria Barrett
In addition to the development of knowledge and skills, the program enabled the formation of the students' professional identity by building self-image and confidence in their abilities, as well as the affirmation and reevaluation of career paths. This research provides new insights into the enablers of professional identity learning and development resulting from on-the-job training and peer feedback that occurred in the supportive "safe space" of an outreach program.
Santi Farmasari
Exploring teacher agency through English language school-based assessment: A case study in an Indonesian Primary School. This qualitative instrumental case study analyzed the manifestations of teacher agency through one complete cycle of a School-Based Assessment (SBA) practice of English in a primary school in Indonesia.
Caitlin Lock
This thesis is an investigation of the effects of repeated exercise and rest on body temperature responses in men and women, according to current Australian Army occupational guidelines. The findings of this thesis indicate that current guidelines adequately protect both men and women working in the heat and may inform the Australian Army's decision-making regarding the appropriate duration of up to four repetitive periods of work and rest when working in extreme heat.
Christopher Anderson
Heidi Wagner
Demonstrating the impact of research in terms of social and economic benefits is a relatively new notion for many researchers, but it is of increasing importance in the research landscape. This research builds on the impact research literature in the Australian environment and provides insights into what practical training researchers can value.
Louise Barnsbee
This dissertation focused on determining the neurocircuitry of olfactory fear conditioning to further understand and contribute to its refinement of the microanatomy of posttraumatic stress disorder. This study concluded that newborn neurons can undergo long-term potentiation after conditioning by olfactory fear, which may support their survival up to 14 days after birth.
Marziah Hakim
This thesis described case mix, health resource utilization and geographic clustering of health service demand for liver disease using data collected from the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane. The results of this research program highlight some specific issues that need to be addressed to improve healthcare services for patients with chronic liver disease.
Nathan El-Atem
Understanding family care for individuals with traumatic brain injury following a road traffic accident in Oman. The study is the first of its kind in the region and has highlighted the impact of brain injury on the integrated family unit in Oman.
Roopa McCall
This thesis describes HNF1B transcript variants along with defining their expression pattern and functional properties in prostate cancer. Future research will reveal the molecular mechanism of their action and whether targeting these HNF1B transcript variants in cancer may prove to be a useful therapeutic strategy.
Shubhra Chandra
Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have identified HNF1B located at chromosome 17q12 as the leading risk gene for prostate cancer susceptibility in multi-ethnic populations. Retrospective Chart Review of Holter Monitoring and Exercise Stress Testing at Two Queensland Rural Hospitals.
Tiffany Roberts
The thesis describes the service delivery process and evaluates the non-invasive cardiac diagnostics of stress testing and Holter monitoring between two rural and remote Queensland health facilities. The thesis offers an insight into cannabis and driving in Australia from the perspective of users and health professionals.
Estelle Pretorius
An evaluation of a collaborative physician-pharmacist prescribing model compared to the usual medical prescribing model in the emergency department. This project was a comparative study to investigate whether a collaborative physician-pharmacist prescribing model provides safer and more accurate prescribing outcomes than the usual medical model in emergency situations.
Monika Ogilvie
This study showed that a collaborative physician-pharmacist prescribing model produced a safer and more accurate medication chart than usual care, improved venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prescribing, and demonstrated high patient satisfaction rates.
Pauline Nicholas
A cost-effectiveness analysis of a silicone film-forming gel versus 10% glycerin in patients with head and neck cancer. This thesis included a trial-based economic evaluation of a silicone gel (StrataXRT«) versus 10% glycerin (sorbolene) in the treatment of radiation dermatitis in patients with head and neck cancer.
Rae Blades
Radiation dermatitis is one of the most common and difficult to manage side effects in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy. Therefore, the use of cooling systems by first responders must be considered in the context of the protective clothing you wear and the environment you encounter.
Aaron Bach
This project defined the important role of tumor cell plasticity in the response of prostate cancer cells to chemotherapy drugs. Key proteins that control cell plasticity have emerged as promising theranostic targets that can be pursued to develop new approaches to improve outcomes for men with metastatic prostate cancer.
Akanksha Upadhyaya
Planning for pediatric palliative care services in Queensland: characteristics, demographics and health needs of children and young people with life-limiting conditions. The thesis provides an evidence-based foundation to inform health policy and guide strategic and operational planning for pediatric palliative care.
Alison Bowers
This study examined vitamin B12 intake in 1530 women of childbearing age on a vegan diet in Australia, using an online survey that included a food frequency questionnaire and an assessment of supplemental intake. The data obtained from this study provide direction for interventions aimed at ensuring adequate vitamin B12 intake in people who eat a plant-based diet.
Amanda Benham
Relationships were found between adequacy of intake and participants' characteristics, including knowledge attitudes and beliefs regarding vitamin B12. The limitations of current methodology for assessing vitamin B12 status and considering supplemental intake as equivalent to intake from food were explored.
Amanda Murphy
The negative consequences of bullying are not limited to health problems, nor to experiences in childhood and adolescence, and can persist into adulthood. This dissertation makes an important contribution to the field of bullying and the crucial role of anti-bullying intervention programs.
Amarzaya Jadambaa
Development and evaluation of an intervention targeting parenting practices associated with obesity-related behaviors in young children attending preschool. A peer facilitator led brief conversations about parenting issues and strategies for implementing appropriate parenting practices.
Andrea Fuller
This thesis focused on the prevention of obesity in children under the age of five by targeting parenting practices that support the development of healthy lifestyles related to eating, active play, screen time and sleep. This knowledge allows road design engineers to better select the appropriate safety fence for different sites.
Andrew Burbridge
This thesis investigated the role of rod, cone and melanopsin photoreceptors in mediating human brightness perception across the natural working area of the eye. In scopic illumination, brightness perception is initiated by rod signals transmitted to higher brain centers via conventional retinogen and melanopsin pathways.
Ashim Dey
Prognostic, predictive and therapeutic role of FGFR2 isoforms and related FGF ligands in endometrial cancer. This project investigated the role of FGFR2 isoforms (FGFR2b/FGFR2c) and their cognate FGF ligands in endometrial cancer development, prognosis and treatment response by designing and validating an innovative BaseScope RNA in-situ hybridization assay and generating patient tumor-derived organoids.
Asmerom Tesfamariam Sengal
FGFR2c and high FGF18 expression were significantly associated with aggressive tumor characteristics and poor survival outcome. The research presented here documents the epidemiology of the disease in the Asia-Pacific region.
Badal Madiththegedara Chamini Randika Yapa
Developing a culturally sensitive evaluation framework for the Oman Research Council's road safety research programme. This research program included the development of a culturally sensitive evaluation framework for the Oman Research Council's Road Safety Research Program.
Buthaina Al Kindi
The evaluation framework that emerged from the research consisted of a number of complementary evaluation approaches. This thesis investigated music that repeats itself over and over in the mind (an "earworm"), hypothesizing that this phenomenon is characterized by automatic mental singing through working memory resources.
Callula Killingly
Results showed that phonological working memory resources are recruited during vocal and instrumental music earworms. Focused on supply chains and vulnerable workers, this research aims to address gaps in the understanding of:- the quality, completeness and usefulness of key data sources for occupational injury surveillance - occupational injury patterns and trends across different data collections (admitted injuries, workers' compensation claims and regulator reports) - regulatory enforcement data patterns and trends - how parties communicate, consult and coordinate regarding health and safety hazards and risks across supply chain operations. This research identified opportunities to achieve a more complete occupational injury surveillance profile that would better identify the at-risk worker population and enable regulators to employ more risk-relevant supply chain interventions.
Caroline Gillespie
Although there is evidence of unsafe children's products entering the Australian market, no research currently examines product safety regulations to identify their frequency, type and nature. This study then built and analyzed a comprehensive knowledge base of Australian and US product safety regulatory responses over the period 2011-17 to provide a more comprehensive understanding of hazardous children's products.
Catherine Niven
This interdisciplinary research then applied a public health approach to this unique empirical evidence to identify the need for further research into children's product safety and regulatory reform in Australia.
Chieh Yu
Understanding the role of innate immune and novel genes in the evolution and regeneration of sea anemones. Furthermore, experimental results have shown how both old and new genes are precisely regulated in immune and regeneration responses when involved in these complex processes.
Chloe van der Burg
This project generated and used genomic resources to understand the evolution of genes involved in the immune response and regeneration of whole animals. This thesis describes a series of studies examining the musculoskeletal pointing tasks of long jump through a theoretical framework of ecological dynamics.
Christopher McCosker
A multi-method approach was used to investigate athlete behavior in competitive environments, revealing the complexity of field-based locomotor pointing tasks, providing important information for the design of practice environments for practitioners. The development of a new substantive theoretical model of execution, response, and management presents itself as a new tool for practitioners in understanding emergent behavior in the long jump and can be used to better frame representative learning designs.
Daniel Lyubomirov Vankov
Investigation of the role of methionine oxidation in substrate and inhibitor interactions with native and recombinant human neutrophil elastase. This thesis was an exploration of how Human Neutrophil Elastase (HNE) activity can be modulated by oxidation of methionine residues located on substrates and inhibitors.
Darren Leahy
Successful community-based care models for eliminating hepatitis C virus as a public health threat. This research has shown that successful community-based models must implement different strategies to provide support to patients and primary care providers and to collaborate with other related services.
Davoud Pourmarzi
This research included an analysis of models reported in the literature, a Delphi study to identify key elements of successful models, and a detailed case study to identify enablers and barriers to community-based HCV treatment delivery. Grieving without dying': Improving psychosocial support of spousal family caregivers of persons with dementia after residential placement.
Deborah Brooks
This research examined the support needs of Australian spouses of people with dementia following residential care placement and piloted an evidence-based intervention to improve psychosocial outcomes. This research examined the issues that support or hinder good infection prevention measures and identified gaps in policy and education that, if addressed, could help reduce the risk of disease transmission.
Debra El-Saadi
Francesco Casciello
This investigative study identified the R171WMSN missense moesin protein variant as a disease-causing mutation in an unknown primary immunodeficiency disorder (PID) using an exome sequencing (WES) approach. In addition, variants located within microRNAs and their targets were investigated in association with NHL susceptibility in an Australian cohort of matched NHL cases and healthy controls, where SNPs in MIR143 were shown to be significantly associated with increased NHL risk .
Gabrielle Bradshaw
This research provided new insight into the effect of near-sightedness and nearsightedness (myopia) on the anterior eye structure. This project evaluated the anterior sclera in participants with varying levels of myopia and assessed how the sclera changes during near-sighted activities.
Hamed Niyazmand
An exploration of psycho-social and cultural factors of well-being in the Indonesian context. Indonesians considered basic needs, social relationships, and positive worldviews to be important components of well-being.
Herdiyan Maulana
Findings indicated that the number of items in the existing well-being measure was not culturally relevant and meaningful to the Indonesian population. Finally, a model explaining the role of universal and culturally specific relational and social well-being factors in the Indonesian sample was identified and tested.
Jacqueline Peet
A relationship was established and a researcher embedded in a department around a shared interest in strengthening nursing supervision and patient safety. It seeks to understand the effects of road geometry in a complex urban road environment on driver speed choices by conducting an advanced driving simulator experiment and an observational study conducted in an Australian city.
Jason Deller
The aim of this research is to discover if and how 'Critical Performance Pedagogy' (CPP) is a strategy for students to think critically about ways to integrate theory and practice in social work using theatre. Using critical thematic and critical discourse analysis of qualitative interviews, performance videos and relevant texts, this research has identified the various ways in which CPP supports critical and collaborative engagement in social work.
Jean Carruthers
Research shows that students initially develop social and political analysis, establish appropriate connections between theory and practice (praxis), and promote skills in democratic leadership and social action. The findings of this thesis contribute to the growing literature on temperature and human health and may have a significant impact on mitigating the negative health effects of climate change in Australia.
Jian Cheng
This dissertation examines the ways in which dominant discourses of conflict resolution, legal rationality and parenting in family law shape the practice of mediation in family dispute resolution (FDR). This research challenges the participants' notions of objectivity, neutrality and self-determination and instead argues for a reconceptualization of mediation to take into account power relations and to adopt critical postmodern understandings of power to address some of the challenges posed inherent in the practice of mediation.
Joanne Clarke
Exploring barriers and opportunities in early childhood education and care services to meet Australian infant feeding guidelines. This thesis studies infant and young child feeding in early childhood education and care services in Australia, a setting of increasing importance for the child population.
Julianne McGuire
Oral health in an urban, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in Queensland, Australia and the development of a culturally specific health-related quality of life measurement tool. Within Australia, there is a lack of data on the oral health and health-related quality of life experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children living in urban areas.
Kaley Butten
This project used a mixed-methods approach to contribute new epidemiologic and life-experience data to the field of oral health and to create a culturally specific, parent-representative tool to measure children's health-related quality of life. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. These findings provide contemporary oral health data to inform policy and a basis for the development of other culturally specific measures of health-related quality of life for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Kamila Davidson
This thesis investigated how to improve early detection of overweight and obesity in children in Australia. This research evaluated the implementation, success and acceptability of new pharmacist and physiotherapist prescribing initiatives in several Queensland health facilities.
Karen Bettenay
Investigation of metabolic rewiring in prostate cancer cells during the adaptive response to androgen-targeted therapies. The development of therapy resistance is a major obstacle in the successful treatment of advanced prostate cancer.
Kaylyn Tousignant
This thesis investigated mechanisms that help drive therapy resistance and discovered that prostate cancer cells can use different metabolic pathways to become resistant to current therapies. This project is also exploring new therapeutic strategies for use in combination with current treatments to help fight disease progression and improve outcomes for men with prostate cancer.
Kelly Stewart
However, intense and repetitive training, such as that found in elite sports, creates situations where bone health can be compromised. The consequences of poor bone health in elite athletes can interrupt or end their careers prematurely (stress fractures) and can last into their post-career life (osteoporosis).
Kerri-Ann Woodbury
A prospective study of the impact of deployment on the intimate relationships of Australian military personnel and their loved ones. This thesis examines the impact of deployment to a war zone with the Australian military on intimate relationships.
Kidane Tadesse Gebremariam
This dissertation examined parents' beliefs and attitudes towards allowing their children to ride quad bikes for the purpose of developing content for educational safety campaigns. Message concepts challenged or promoted existing beliefs to discourage parents from letting their children ride quads, subsequently reducing the number of child-related injuries and deaths.
Kim Vuong
Message concepts were explored with parents in a series of interviews and a quad bike safety expert panel via a Delphi survey. This project systematically assessed the burden of esophageal cancer—as indicated by incidence, mortality, and survival—in Shandong, China, and examined the influence of geographic and socioeconomic factors on the various indicators.
Kou Kou
This study explored multiple aspects of social support from the perspectives of patients, caregivers, and health staff in the Vietnamese context of hemodialysis. Contextual factors, including financial burden and family culture, were found to be important factors influencing the provision of social support.
Lan Van Hoang
This study explored quality of life and 'meaningful activity' for people living with dementia in residential aged care settings, drawing on the experiences and perspectives of residents, their family members and care staff. The knowledge gained from this study will inform care practices and improve the daily lives of people living with dementia in residential aged care settings.
Laura Tierney
Enhancing quality of life for aged care facility residents with dementia: The role of 'Meaningful Activities'. A deeper understanding of 'meaningful activity', the benefits of participating in these types of activities and the support needed for resident participation was developed.
Leith Harding
Lynda Cardiff
This research investigated how people respond to visual presentation of novel stimuli depicting familiar and unfamiliar objects from different viewpoints, to study the effects of conceptual expertise on early brain signals. This thesis took a novel approach, aiming to disrupt a long scientific debate and finding compelling evidence to support that people's brain responses to visual stimuli are modulated by expertise over a range of stimulus categories and that canonical orientations of stimulus objects an important driver of these effects.
Manuela Russo
A preliminary randomized control trial was conducted which evaluated the effectiveness of an innovative cycling in bed. In-bed cycling with critically ill patients was found to be safe, feasible and acceptable to patients, families and clinicians.
Marc Nickels
A survey and evaluation of the work processes of licensed pharmacists conducting home drug reviews in Australia. However, little is known about the HMR workflows of licensed pharmacists (APs), and recent program restrictions have limited access to the HMR community.
Marea Patounas
Bone metastasis is a common and terminal outcome for patients suffering from advanced breast and prostate cancer. This PhD project was the first to investigate a humanized mouse model as a drug response tool, using novel and already clinically approved targeted treatments against cancer bone metastasis.
Marietta Landgraf
The presented outcomes and observations demonstrate that further humanization of the model will enable in-depth dissection of molecular differences between the mouse and human bone microenvironment in the context of drug response. The findings presented a representative look at middle-aged men's experiences with aging, challenging traditional views of 'old men'.
Mary Cavanagh
