QUT has earned a ranking of world standard or above in more than 75 per cent of its research assessed under the Australian Government’s Excellence in Research for Australia assessment framework (ERA 2010). We are building an international reputation as an exceptional research institution that provides world-class facilities and infrastructure to our researchers.
| Principal Supervisor | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Hossein Adibi | Indigenous Australians and Islam: Spiritual, Cultural and Political Alliances. |
| Dr Rosemary Aird | Transition for children living with a disability and the impact of families |
| Aspro Diana Battistutta | Investigation of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and genetic markers in men with prostate cancer. |
| Dr Mark Brough | Refugees, Resettlement and Reconstruction: The impact of transnational practice and networks on the wellbeing and identity of the Karen Community in Brisbane. |
| Dr Mark Brough | The Role of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Reducing the Vulnerability to and Impact of HIV/AIDS in the Pacific: a health systems approach to capacity development. |
| Dr Mark Brough | Can funded neighbourhood centres in SE Qld be instruments of change in human services and enhancers of social capital and community development? |
| Dr Mark Brough | Narratives of complexity: an ethnographic exploration of resilience and wellbeing among single refugee women in Brisbane. |
| Dr Judith Burton | Reinvigorating the Domestic Violence Sector: Systemically addressing conflict, power and practitioner turnover. |
| Dr Judith Burton | Lesbian parents reflections on the symbolic impact of same sex law reform. |
| Professor Michele Clark | A qualitative investigation into different health experiences of people living with Type II diabetes in rural environments. |
| Professor Michele Clark | An analysis of Allied Health Professionals Understanding of and engagement in Clinical Governance |
| Professor Michael Dunne | Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Adherence among People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the North of Vietnam: a Multi-method Approach. |
| Professor Michael Dunne | An Exploration of Postnatal Depression in Central Vietnam |
| Professor Michael Dunne | Drinking and driving in Vietnam: perceptions, risk, and consequences. |
| Professor Michael Dunne | Understanding Determinants of HIV Risks among Male Freelance Workers in Urban Vietnam. |
| Professor Michael Dunne | Using Emergency Department Records to Improve the Surveillance of Child Abuse |
| Professor Michael Dunne | Association between Academic Stress and Mental Health among Chinese Adolescents |
| Professor Gerard Fitzgerald | Quality of Work Life (QWL) and its Relation to Turnover Intention: A Cross-Sectional Study of Primary Health Care Nurses in Saudi Arabia. |
| Professor Gerard Fitzgerald | Policy Analysis of Health Disaster Management in China |
| Professor Gerard Fitzgerald | Controlled drugs and misuse: an examination of doctor shopping behaviour in Queensland. |
| Professor Gerard Fitzgerald | Emergency Department congestion: an analysis of factors impacting on the efficient management of patients within Queensland |
| Professor Gerard Fitzgerald | Emergency health services: factors influencing demands and predictive model of demands |
| Professor Marylou Fleming | Opioid deaths in Queensland |
| Professor Marylou Fleming | Breaking the silence of dissatisfaction: A qualitative study of the acute health-care consumer in Queensland and their experience of complaining |
| Professor Marylou Fleming | Applying the social ecological theory to chronic disease prevention and management in community-based program |
| Professor Marylou Fleming | Evaluation of a stages’ of change based telephone health coaching intervention to influence health behaviour change in the Queensalnd Police Service. |
| Professor Marylou Fleming | Implementation of a Clinical Practice Improvement Payment(CPIP) in Queensland Health: Does it improve the quality of care? |
| Professor Marylou Fleming | An evaluation of early implementation of the Viet Nam non-communicable disease policy |
| Professor Nicholas Graves | Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of strategies that decrease the risk of surgical site infections following primary total hip arthroplasty. |
| Professor Nicholas Graves | The Economic Outcomes from Improving Maternal and Infant Health in Sichuan Province, China. |
| Dr Sandra Hayes | Motivators and barriers influencing adherence to treatment for lymphoedema |
| Dr Sandra Hayes | Lymphoedema: women’s lived experiences following breast cancer treatment |
| Dr Sandra Hayes | |
| Dr Xiang-Yu Hou | Accelerated pathways in the assessment of suspected acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department. |
| Aspro Monika Janda | Does self-efficacy in men aged 50 and over effect skin self-examination behaviour |
| Aspro Monika Janda | Factors Influencing the Impact of Primary and Secondary Prevention Strategies for Cervical Cancer Among Queensland Women. |
| Aspro Monika Janda | Barriers to Adequate Sunscreen Use Amongst Primary School-Aged Children |
| Aspro Monika Janda | Improving Information Exchange for Adult Patients Newly Diagnosed with a Brain Tumour and Their Caregivers |
| Aspro Monika Janda | A knowledge repository for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Enabling clinical risk management decision-support at the point-of-care |
| Professor Michael Kimlin | Investigating the association between sun exposure and folate degradation in the human body |
| Professor Michael Kimlin | Workers’ UV exposure and the subsequent impact on skin |
| Professor Michael Kimlin | Reducing Unsafe Sun Exposure in Southeast Queensland Secondary Schools: The UV & ME Project. |
| Professor Michael Kimlin | Elucidating the links between UV radiation and Vitamin D synthesis: using an in vitro model |
| Professor Michael Kimlin | A multi-component intervention to improve sun protection behaviours of outdoor workers in Queensland, Australia. |
| Professor Michael Kimlin | IF49: Vitamin D status among pregnant women and the outcome of their newborns in Brisbane |
| Professor Michael Kimlin | The influence of 25(OH)D status, serum S100BB status and seasonality on the progression of malignant melanoma. |
| Dr Marie Knox | Community Aged Care in the home: An exploration of the experiences of people receiving community Aged Care Packages and implications for care provision. |
| Dr Marie Knox | "Diagnosed Artist" What is the understanding of "artist" held by a person diagnosed with mental illness: does their understanding impact on their notions of recovery and their role in the community? |
| Dr Marie Knox | Within These Walls: Understanding how meanings of home are constructed by people with intellectual disabilities living in group homes. |
| Dr Marie Knox | What Is Disability In Taiwan: The Views Of a Small Group Of Taiwanese Adults With A Physical Disability. |
| Dr Marie Knox | Australia’s disabling income support system: Tracing the history of the Australian disability income support system 1908 to 2007 - disablism, citizenship and the Basic Income proposal. |
| Dr Marie Knox | Developing, delivering and evaluating the effectiveness of a training program for frontline disability service workers who support older people with an intellectual disability. |
| Dr Marie Knox | A life lived with support: a narrative exploration with people with intellectual disability of their constructions of paid support relationships. |
| Dr Marie Knox | A Community Inclusion Strategy that Increases the Social, Economic and Civic Participation of Adults with a Disability in the Caboolture Shire by Increasing the Awareness of and Knowledge about Inclusion of Shire Residents and the Opportunities Available. |
| Dr Marie Knox | Perspectives of the life experiences held by parents of young adults with intellectual disability who share the family home: Enduring strength from a labour of love. |
| Dr Marie Knox | Deaf realities: the narrative construction of identity in the life stories of deaf people. |
| Professor Bob Lonne | Meeting the needs of children in kinship foster care in rural China. |
| Professor Bob Lonne | Down and out in the bush: Women’s experiences of major depression and accessing services/treatment in Rural and Remote Australia. |
| Professor Bob Lonne | Forgotten Australians - Power, Politics and Parsimony. |
| Professor Bob Lonne | Investigation of the characteristics of children in foster care with sexual behaviour problems and the implications for placement stability. |
| Aspro Alison Marshall | Physical activity and post natal depression: a follow on study. |
| Ms Jennifer Mays | The Art of Negotiated Survival: Presenting an interpretative evaluation of government and non-government protocols, policy and programs to reduce the impact of domestic and family violence within Queensland. |
| Dr Kirsten Mckenzie | Designing A Continuum Of Quality Cause of Injury Data In Queensland: From Ambulance To Hospital |
| Adpro Beth Newman | Biological Monitoring Of Occupational Exposure To Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons In Prebake Smelting |
| Dr Judith-Ann Oliver | Post structuralist Approaches to professional development and practice reflection for health /allied health workers. |
| Aspro Elizabeth Parker | Primary Teachers’ Use of Social and Emotional Wellbeing programs and the Factors Influencing Program Use |
| Professor Shilu Tong | Assessment of the impact of climate variability on the transmission of dengue in Australia and Bangladesh. |
| Professor Shilu Tong | Climate variability and malaria transmission in Xishungbanna, South West China. |
| Professor Shilu Tong | Comparison of environmental health risks of fine particulate matter air pollution between Biejing and Brisbane |
| Professor Shilu Tong | Health impacts of heat waves: Development of adaptation strategies. |
| Professor Shilu Tong | |
| Professor Shilu Tong | Forecasting the patterns of Barmah forest virus disease in Queensland under different climate change scenarios. |
| Professor Shilu Tong | Impact of Socio-environmental factors on suicide in Australia |
| Professor Shilu Tong | Heat stress and birth outcomes |
| Professor Shilu Tong | The effect of temperature variation on hospital admissions in Brisbane, Australia and Beijing, China. |
| Professor Shilu Tong | The impact of weather temperature variation on the elderly mortality. |
| Professor Shilu Tong | Assessment of the impact of heat waves on mortality in Queensland |
| Professor Gavin Turrell | The impact of socioeconomic factors on mid-aged persons’ understanding of health promotion messages to prevent weight gain and obesity, and subsequent behaviour change. |
| Professor Gavin Turrell | What explains the association between socioeconomic status and depression in Vietnamese adults. |
| Professor Gavin Turrell | The contribution of psychosocial factors to socioeconomic differences in food purchasing. |
| Professor Gavin Turrell | Risk perceptions of communicable disease |
| Professor Gavin Turrell | Exploring Environmental Conscience: the Association between a Sense of Responsibility for the Environment and Environmentally Pro-Active and Health Enhancing Behaviours |