Board of the Graduate Research School Dean's List Winners
In recognition of an outstanding thesis, Board Members nominate the thesis for an Honourable Mention in the Board of the Graduate Research School Dean's List.
PhD theses that are awarded the prize are automatically shortlisted for the Robert Street Prize - a prize awarded for the most outstanding contribution to its field in a given year.
| Student Name | Higher Degree Course | Research Area | Thesis Title | Year |
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| | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Effects of electron spin resonance in a cryogenic sapphire whispering gallery mode maser | 2012 | ||
| Mr Rhys Povey | Master of Science | Physics | 2012 | |||
| Dr Martina-Sara Mueller-Zaugg | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | Re-creating the past: the accuracy of re-created Roman houses and villas in northwestern Europe and the justifications for their creation | 2012 | ||
| Dr Andrea Nathan | Doctor of Philosophy | Population Health | Active living in retirement village residents: exploring built and social environmental correlates using mixed methods | 2012 | ||
| Dr Keith Godfrey | Doctor of Philosophy | Business | Can pairs trading act like arbitrage to enforce the law of one price? | 2012 | ||
| Dr Joseph Novak | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Superform formulations for off-shell supermultiplets with gauged central charge in N = 2 supergravity | 2013 | ||
| Dr Sally Brinkman | Doctor of Philosophy | Paediatrics and Child Health | The validation and use of population measure of early childhood development in Australia; the Australian Early Development Index | 2013 | ||
| Dr Foteini Hassiotou | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry and Biochemistry | The cellular hierarchy of human breastmilk: Novel insights into breastmilk stem cells | 2013 | ||
| Dr Simon Tyler | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Studies of low-energy effective actions in supersymmetric field theories | 2013 | ||
| Dr Xiangling Fang | Doctor of Philosophy | Plant Biology | Characterization and management of soil-born pathogens on strawberry and resistance mechanisms against Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. fragariae | 2013 | ||
| Dr Tracy Kinsella | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Sciences | Dead Reckoning. The criminal parvenu: narratives of transgression and upward mobility | 2013 | ||
| Dr Angela Spence | Doctor of Philosophy | Sport Science, Exercise and Health | Comparative impacts of endurance and resistance exercise on the cariovascular system in humans: A prospective randomised 6-month intervention | 2013 | ||
| Doctor of Philosophy | Mathematics and Statistics | The generation and interaction of convection modes in a box of a saturated porous medium | 2013 | |||
| Ms Georgina Statham | Master of Philosophy | Humanities | Causes as deviations from actual standards: a perspective of account causation | 2013 | ||
| Dr Sajni Gudka | Doctor of Philosophy | Pharmacy | 2014 | |||
| Dr Loretta Scolaro | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 2014 | |||
| Dr Xianjue Chen | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Top-down fabrication of novel two-dimensional materials and their decoration with noble metals | 2014 | ||
| Dr Chris Owen | Doctor of Philosphy | Humanities | 2014 | |||
| Dr James Smith | Doctor of Philosphy | Humanities | Water as medieval intellectual entity: Case studies in twelfth-century western monasticism | 2014 | ||
| Dr Michelle Marneweck | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Perception of facial expressions of emotion in Parkinson's disease | 2014 | ||
| Dr Gar-Wing Truong | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | 2014 | |||
| Dr Benjamin Grafton | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Always look on the bright side of life: The attentional basis of positive emotional disposition | 2014 | ||
| Dr Gerrit Haas | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | Ficto/critical strategies: Subverting textual practices of meaning, other, and self-formation | 2014 | ||
| Dr Marc Sim | Doctor of Philosophy | Sport Science, Exercise and Health | Effect of exercise on inflammation, hepcidin regulation and iron metabolism | 2014 | ||
| Dr Kyra Clarke | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | Getting messy: Exploring intimate pedagogical moments in film and television | 2014 | ||
| Dr Kerry King | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | 2014 | |||
| Dr Rishi Kotecha | Doctor of Philosophy | Paediatrics and Child Health | Rare childhood tumours: clinical challenges and genetic alterations | 2014 | ||
| Dr Emma Nicoletti | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | Reading literature in the Anthropocene: Ecosophy and ecologically-orientated ethics of Jeff Noon's Nymphomation and Pollen | 2014 | ||
| Dr Ellen Paynter | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Cellular energetics of long-term survival and storage in honeybee sperm | 2015 | ||
| Dr Sharon Perrella | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry and Biochemistry | The effect of different types of nutrition on the gastrointestinal response of the preterm infant | 2015 | ||
| Dr Moses Laman | Doctor of Philosophy | Medicine and Pharmacology | 2015 | |||
| Dr Munawar Hayat | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Software Engineering | 2015 | |||
| Dr John Dunlop | Doctor of Philosophy | Geology | 2015 |
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| Dr Anders Winkel | Doctor of Philosophy | Plant Biology | 2015 |
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| Dr Jason Collins | Doctor of Philosophy | Business | 2015 | |||
| Dr Clint Bracknell | Doctor of Philosophy | Music | Natj Waalanginy (What Singing?): Nyungar song from the South-West of Western Australia | 2016 | ||
| Dr Natalie Rosser | Doctor of Philosophy | Animal Biology | Alternative breeding times and evolutionary pathways in corals in north Western Australia | 2016 | ||
| Dr Salman Khan | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Software Engineering | Feature Learning Structured Prediction for Scene Understanding | 2016 | ||
| Dr Graham Zemunik | Doctor of Philosophy | Plant Biology | 2016 | |||
| Dr Alexander Tang | Doctor of Philosophy | Animal Biology | 2016 | |||
| Dr Maxim Esin | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical and Chemical Engineering | 2016 | |||
| Dr Karl Grob | Doctor of Philosophy | Sport Science, Exercise and Health | 2017 | |||
| Dr Andrew Chubb | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Sciences | Chinese Popular Nationalism and PRC Policy in the South China Sea | 2017 | ||
| Dr Benjamin Sacks | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | 'Purely of their own manufacture': the adoption and appropriation of cricket in Samoa, C. 1879-1939 | 2017 | ||
| Dr Louise Delane | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Science | 2017 | |||
| Dr Dianne Lyn Wolfer | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | 2017 | |||
| Dr Mohamed R. Abdalla Estai | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Sciences | 2017 | |||
| Dr Briony Swire-Thompson | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Science | The role of memory and ideological biases in the correction of misinformation | 2017 | ||
| Dr Gaylene Somerville | Doctor of Philosophy | Agriculture and Environment | 2017 | |||
| Dr Philip Wijesinghe | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering | 2017 | |||
| Mr Michael Swaddle | Master of Philosophy | Physics and Astrophysics | SubRiemannian geodesics and cubics for efficient quantum circuits | 2017 | ||
| Dr Luke Strickland | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Science | The race to remember: A computational model of event-based prospective memory | 2017 | ||
| Dr Stephen Andrews | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics and Astrophysics | Measuring and modelling the cosmic spectral energy distribution | 2017 | ||
| Dr Timothy Rosenow | Doctor of Philosophy | Paediatrics and Child Health | Quantitative analysis of chest computed tomography in early cystic fibrosis lung disease | 2017 | ||
| Dr Felix Mackenzie-Rae | Doctor of Philosophy | Molecular Sciences | 2018 | |||
| Dr Louisa Lobigs | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Sciences | 2018 | |||
| Mr Kyle Rosa | Master of Philosophy | Mathematics and Statistics | 2018 | |||
| Mr Rowan Lymbery | Master of Philosophy | Human Sciences | Sperm Competition and gamete interactions in a marine broadcast spawner | 2018 | ||
| Dr Robert Green | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Sciences | 2018 | |||
| Dr Khan Robert Langton Collins | Doctor of Philosophy | Phychological Science | 2018 | |||
| Dr Clifford Scott Stagoll | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | Creating one's self: The prescriptive ethical pragmatism of William James | 2018 | ||
| Dr Oyekoya Taiwo Ayonrinde | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical School | The epidemiology and significance of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in adolescents | 2018 | ||
| Dr Krishneil Anand Singh | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Science | The removal of information from working memory: An executive updating process | 2018 | ||
| Dr Quihong Ke | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Software Engineering | 2018 | |||
| Dr Abraham Neelankal John | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical School | 2018 | |||
| Dr Kim Eaton | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Science | Self-stigma in parents of children with a mental health disorder | 2018 | ||
| Dr Olof Henrik Mikael Grenholm | Doctor of Philosophy | Earth Sciences | 2018 | |||
| Mr Saul Freedman | Master of Philosophy | Mathematics and Statistics | 2018 | |||
| Dr Victorien Paumard | Doctor of Philosophy | Earth Sciences | 2018 | |||
| Dr Jacob Berson | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | The role of sexual selection in the evolution of insect cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) | 2018 | ||
| Dr Azim Zahir | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Sciences | 2018 | |||
| Dr Wendy Helena Reynen | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Sciences | 2019 | |||
| Dr Fiamma Riviera | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | Patterns and drivers of kwongan vegetation restored after mining: A multifaceted approach | 2019 | ||
| Dr Lisa Stinson | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical School | The not-so-sterile womb: New data to challenge and old dogma | 2019 | ||
| Mr Joshua Joannes Bon | Master of Philosophy | Mathematics and Statistics | 2019 | |||
| Dr Kara Perks | Doctor of Philosophy | Mathematics and Statistics | 2019 | |||
| Dr Rachael Marie Zemek | Doctor of Philosophy | Biomedical Science | 2019 | |||
| Dr Jinyi Chen | Doctor of Philosophy | Agriculture and Environment | Resistance mechanisms to dinitroaniline herbisices in annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum Gaudin) | 2019 | ||
| Dr Mary-Anne Lowe | Doctor of Philosophy | Agriculture and Environment | Soil water repellency and its limitations on water infiltration | 2019 | ||
| Dr Andrew William Milne | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | 2019 | |||
| Ms David Monllao Olive | Master of Philosophy | Computer Science and Software Engineering | Automatic classification of students in online courses using machine learning technique | 2019 | ||
| Dr Michael John Wheeler | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Sciences | 2019 | |||
| Mr Kenyon Wei Yaw Ng | Master of Philosophy | Mathematics and Statistics | Shape constrained regression for nonparametric longitudinal and flexible parametric modelling | 2019 | ||
| Dr Belinda Coral Martin | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | The seagrass root microbiome: Micro-scale solutions for macro-scale resolutions | 2019 | ||
| Dr Jessica Anne Kretzmann | Doctor of Philosophy | Molecular Sciences | Developing non-viral polymeric agents to deliver genome engineering technology for breast cancers | 2019 | ||
| Dr John Andrew Forrest | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | 2020 | |||
| Dr Victoria Camilieri-Asch | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | Neurobiological indicators of olfactory sensitivity in a cartilaginous and a bony fish | 2020 | ||
| Dr Jane Patricia Valentine | Doctor of Philosophy | Medicine | 2020 | |||
| Dr Hai Long Vo | Doctor of Philosophy | Business | 2020 | |||
| Dr Nicole Bezemer | Doctor of Philosophy | Agriculture and Environment | Sex on the rocks: Genetic structure, pollen dispersal and mating patterns in Eucalyptus Caesia | 2020 | ||
| Dr Jordan Ross Lavers | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | Schwesterstimme: Gender, emotion and kinship in the correspondence of the von Gunderrode Sisters | 2020 | ||
| Dr Karen Paiva Henrique | Doctor of Philosophy | Agriculture and Environment | Contested ground: Examining the contours of flood adaptation along Sao Paulo's Tiete River | 2020 | ||
| Dr Jemma Rose Collova | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Sciences | 2020 | |||
| Dr Wissam Chiha | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | Identifying and manipulating molecular changes following neurotrauma in the visual system | 2020 | ||
| Dr Paul David Macintyre | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | The vegetation patterns of the kwongan vegetation of South-West Western Australia | 2020 | ||
| Dr Anna Cresswell | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | 2020 | |||
| Dr Ashton Jay Roberts | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Sciences | 2020 | |||
| Dr Jessica Hutomo | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Off-shell higher-spin gauge supermultiplets and conserved supercurrents | 2020 | ||
| Dr India Ella Dilkes-Hall | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Sciences | 2020 | |||
| Dr Bianca Jane Thorup | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Sciences | A new approach to understanding perceoptual expertise and other-race effects in face perception | 2020 | ||
| Dr Sharynne Hamilton | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical | 2020 | |||
| Dr Mary Binsu Abraham | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical | The prevention of hypoglycaemia with sensor-augmented pump therapy in Type 1 diabetes | 2020 | ||
| Ms Megan Theres Barbetti | Master | Music | 2020 | |||
| Dr Michael Liam Kelly | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | An investigation into sleep in sharks: Behavioural and electrohpysiological approaches | 2020 | ||
| Dr Juliana Pille Arnold | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | 2020 | |||
| Dr Alannah Kelli Anique McKay | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Sciences | The effect of dietary manipulation on iron metabolism and the immune system in elite athletes | 2020 | ||
| Dr Uzair Nadeem | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Software Engineering | Model learning for structured predictions from complementary data sources | 2020 | ||
| Dr Olivia Johnston | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Students' reconciling with their teachers' expectations of them - A grounded theory | 2021 | ||
| Dr Hsueh-En Stacey Hong | Doctor of Philosophy | Biomedical Sciences | 2021 | |||
| Dr Marie-Anne Elisabeth Burckhardt | Doctor of Philosophy | Paediatrics and Child Health | Improving patient care in young people with Type 1 Diabetes using advances in technology | 2021 | ||
| Dr Emma Lucy Haynes | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical | 2021 | |||
| Dr Douglas Macfarlane | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Sciences | 2021 | |||
| Dr Naeha Sharif | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer, Science and Software Engineering | 2021 | |||
| Dr Jennifer Anne Middleton | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | Unravelling ecosystem function in anthropized streams: Implications for rehabilitation | 2021 | ||
| Dr Khidhir Alhameedi | Doctor of Philosophy | Molecular Sciences | 2021 | |||
| Dr Indra Roux | Doctor of Philosophy | Molecular Sciences | Development of synthetic biology tools for accelerating fungal natural product discovery | 2021 | ||
| Dr Sanjeevan Muruganandan | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical | Optimising care of individuals with malignant pleural effusion | 2021 | ||
| Mr Mohammad Amir Asim Khan Jalwana | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics, Mathematics and Computing | Leveraging internal gradients to understand deep visual models | 2021 | ||
| Dr Kaitlyn Danielle Turbett | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Sciences | The role of serial dependence of facial identity in face recognition | 2021 | ||
| Dr Hannah Joy Thomas | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Sciences | 2021 | |||
| Dr Umair Zulfiqar | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering | H2 near-optimal projection methods for finite-horizon model order reduction | 2021 | ||
| Dr Cameron Laurence Mathison Gilchrist | Doctor of Philosophy | Molecular Sciences | Bioinformatics software applications for the analysis of secondary metabolism in microbial genomes | 2021 | ||
| Dr Charlie McLeod | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical | Improving the methodology for PAtient-centred trails in cystic fibrosis (IMPACT-CF) | 2021 | ||
| Dr Sudharsan Thiruvengadam | Doctor of Philosophy | Engineering | A Unified mathematical and theoretical framework for intelligent reassembling robotics | 2021 | ||
| Dr Nayyer Aafaq | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics, Mathematics and Computing | 2022 | |||
| Dr Matt Stephen Hepburn | Doctor of Philosophy | Engineering | The development of optical coherence elastography for applications in mechanobiology | 2022 | ||
| Dr Samuel Colin Bennett | Doctor of Philosophy | Biomedical Sciences | 2022 | |||
| Dr Bhedita Jaya Seewoo | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | 2022 | |||
| Dr Jennifer Lee Currenti | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Sciences | Effect of viral adaptation and TCR usage on natural and vaccine-induced cellular immunity | 2022 | ||
| Dr Robin Mark Hare | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | Sexual selection on females in a species with dynamic sex roles | 2022 | ||
| Dr Michael Egan Ponds | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics, Mathematics and Computing | Models for (super) conformal higher-spin fields on curved backgrounds | 2022 | ||
| Dr Albert Pessarrodona Silvester | Doctor of Philosophy | Biological Sciences | Turf algae as emergent drives of ecological function in shallow reefs | 2022 | ||
| Dr Gursimran Kaur Dhamrait | Doctor of Philosophy | Population and Global Health | 2022 | |||
| Dr Suzanne Srdarov | Doctor of Philosophy | Humanities | Between the sheets: Contemporary blockbuster gothic romance fiction and its critical contexts | 2022 | ||
| Dr Andrew Michael Mashingaidze | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Sciences | 2022 | |||
| Dr Amy Christine Prosser | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Sciences/Medical School | The fate of tissue-resident lymphocytes and the immune response after solid organ transplantation | 2022 | ||
| Dr Kim Louise Feddema | Doctor of Philosophy | Business School | Understanding the role of online communities in wildlife trade | 2022 | ||
| Dr Cathryn McKenzie | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychological Science | 2022 | |||
| Mr Juan Pablo Posada Aparicio | Doctor of Philosophy | Business School | 2023 | |||
| Ms Jian Zhao | Doctor of Philosophy | Graduate School of Education | 2023 | |||
| Mrs Wavne Winsome Rikkers | Doctor of Philosophy | Graduate School of Education | 2023 | |||
| Ms Cayla Ann Bellagarda | Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Neuropsychology - Research | School of Psychological Science | Temporal integration of visual mirror symmetry: Psychophysics, modelling and haemodynamics | 2023 | ||
| Ms Katherine Margaret Audsley | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biomedical Sciences | 2023 | |||
| Ms Asja Angela Kroeger | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Molecular Sciences | ??????? Catalysis in carbon flatland and beyond - A computational investigation into the catalytic effect of graphene and cyclophanes on inversion processes | 2023 | ||
| Ms Aline Gibson Vega | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biological Sciences | 2023 | |||
| Dr Janis Marc Nolde | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical School | Data science and cardiovascular risk | 2023 | ||
| Mr Jacob Marsh | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biological Sciences | 2023 | |||
| Mrs Giulia Marchetti | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Social Sciences | Becoming adults elsewhere. The recent migration of young Italians to Australia | 2023 | ||
| Mr Michael Hall | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Molecular Sciences | Synthesis and reactivity of carbon-rich metallacumulene complexes | 2023 | ||
| Miss Malindi Gammon | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biological Sciences | Characterising climate change vulnerability at flatback turtle nesting sites in the Pilbara region of Western Australia | 2023 | ||
| Miss Pin-Pin Chan | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Social Sciences | The 'Zero' modern boy? Contesting the meaning of modern masculinity in early Twentieth-century Japan | 2023 | ||
| Ms Emily Camins | Doctor of Philosophy | Law School | Casting an international legal safety net: A complementary approach to address the harm to victims of armed conflict | 2023 | ||
| Mr Chris Arnold | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Humanities | 2023 | |||
| Miss Amy Ribet | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biomedical Sciences | Elucidating the contribution of osteoclast lysosomal proteins in skeletal homeostasis | 2023 | ||
| Mr Angus McKenzie | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Engineering | Exploring chemical adsorption to interfaces as a preventative to blockage developments within multiphase flow systems | 2023 | ||
| Mr Qidi Ying | Doctor of Philosophy | Medical School | Metabolic, vascular and therapeutic aspects of lipoprotein (a) | 2023 | ||
Miss Danielle Marie Fynn | Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Neuropsychology - Research | School of Psychological Science | Alexithymia in adults with acquired brain injury: Characterisation, measurement and relationship with emotional outcomes | 2023 | ||
Ms Jessica Michelle Bikaun | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Molecular Sciences | Towards a beehive breathalyser: Identification of volatile biomarkers for the costly honey bee disease American foulbrood | 2023 | ||
Ms Jessica Moretti | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Biological Sciences | Multi-model approach shows novel and diverse effects of low-intensity repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on brain cells and behaviour | 2023 | ||
| Ms Sonia Colette Sappl | Master of Philosophy | Graduate School of Education | Equating tests across grades in large-scale assessments: A study of two alternate methods in conjunction with methodological innovations | 2023 | ||
Mr Yingchao Li | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Engineering | A multiscale study of the structure, transformation, and mechanical behaviour of the NiTiB19' martensite | 2023 |
