Higher degrees by Research Graduates

Postgraduate Research

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2007

2006

2005

2004

2007 Higher Degrees by Research Graduates

Dr Raeleene Gregory

School: BSSH
Degree: PhD
Research Title:Too close for comfort? Personal and professional role boundaries in rural health and welfare practice.

Ms Catherine Knox

School: Nursing
Degree: Masters by Research
Research Title: 'Navigating their way'. How do women with hospitalised premature infants perceive their roles in regional special care nurseries?

Mr Fernando Marmolejo Ramos

School: BSSH
Degree: Masters by Research
Research Title:The comprehension of emotions in narrative texts. The role of embodied knowledge

Dr Monica Maud

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: Investigation into the Specific Associations Between Anger, Early Maladaptive Schema and Parenting.

Dr Renee Van Der Horst

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: Professional Help-Seeking Among Women: Development and Testing of a Model.

2006 Higher Degrees by Research Graduates

Dr Steve Carroll 

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title:The construction validity of the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder symptoms: A multitrait-multisource approach based on father and mother ratings.

Dr Andrew Cooper

School: BSSH
Degree: PhD
Research Title: The BIS/BAS Scales and the Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire: Evaluation of their psychometric properties using IRT and CFA models.

Associate Professor Rosemary Green

School: Education
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: Traversing the Great Divide! Preparing social work and welfare students for rural practice in Australia.

Dr Tania Herbert

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: The Campione-Brown of Intelligence: Testing a path model of differences among intellectually low, average and gifted children. 

Dr Brendan Meagher

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: Predictors of post-traumatic stress symptoms after a motor vehicle accident.

Dr Wendy Penney

School: Nursing
Degree: PhD
Research Title: A critical ethnographic study of older people participating in their health care in acute hospital environments.

Dr Imogen Schwarz

School: BSSH
Degree: PhD
Research Title: (Re)creating spaces within rural general practice: Women as agents of change at the organisational and practitioner levels.

Dr Wayne Scott

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: Male domestic partner abusers: Typologies and responses to treatment.

Dr Jayne Turner

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: Mental health in older adults: The development and testing of a model.

Dr Robert Watson

School: BSSH
Degree: PhD
Research Title: Generalist telephone counselling and referral call data as a social indicator: A lifeline to social support?

2005 Higher Degrees by Research Graduates

Dr Jodie DeAraugo

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: The effect of website, face-to-face, and combined programs on physiological, psychological, and lifestyle risk variables for cardiovascular disease.

Dr Aaron Grieve

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: The role of psychological variables in help-seeking amongst farmers and farming families.

Dr Simone Heeney

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: The prevention of psychoeducational problems in children: The development and validation of a new screening instrument.

Ms Lynette Kelson

School: Nursing
Degree: Masters
Research Title: An exploration of the reasons why women from Central Victoria choose to birth at home.

Ms Dorothy Lea

School: Nursing
Degree: Masters
Research Title:  Addressing the 'missing dimension' of holistic care: Spiritual health needs of nurses in the Western Region of Victoria.

 2004 Higher Degrees by Research Graduates

Dr John Di Battista

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title:  Personality characteristics and their effects on perceived stress, interpersonal relationships, and psychological distress.

Dr Allan Donelly

School: BSSH
Degree: PhD
Research Title:  'Working through it': Men's experiences of fatherhood following a life event.

Dr Khurshid Khowaja

School: Nursing
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title:  Integrated clinical pathway of transurethral resection of the prostate: Impact on clinical quality, cost, patient, and staff satisfaction.

Dr Mari Molloy

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: Young, gay and suicidal: Who cares? The attitudes of homosexual and heterosexual men and women towards the suicide of gay, lesbian and heterosexual adolescents.

Dr Robert Moss

School: BSSH
Degree: PhD
Research Title: Psychological assessment and the development of insight and adjustment in Dementia.

Dr Angela Murphy

School: BSSH
Degree: PhD
Research Title:  When urban policy meets regional practice.

Dr Felicity Smith

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: Internal and external validity of DSM-IV ADHD symptoms among adolescent.

Dr Ron Tallent

School: BSSH
Degree: Professional Doctorate
Research Title: Validation of DSM-IV Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.