World-class supervisors

Faculty: Science
Areas of research: Tectonics, 3D modelling and visualisation, structural geology.

Faculty: Science
Areas of research: Differential geometry, analysis of partial differential equations, Einstein equations and general relativity, energy and quasi-local energy definitions and properties, numerical solution of Einstein equations, spacetime singularity formation.

Faculty: Engineering
Areas of research: Cleaner coal technologies, combustion and gasification of coal, biomass and waste materials, fuel cell application.

Faculty: Science
Areas of research: Focusing of atoms and molecules for molecular-beam microscopy, slowing and trapping of neutral molecules

Faculty: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of research: Structure and behaviour of materials, using Synchrotron techniques, in order to improve their use as exciting new nanomedicines.

Faculty: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of research: Synthetic medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and lead identification in CNS disorders with a special focus on schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease, drug discovery and lead identification of antibacterial agents based on colistin and platensimycin, and inhibitors of the enzyme ketopantoate reductase.

Faculty: Science
Areas of research: Oil ecology and above and below-ground linkages, plant mutants as model systems to study plant-microbe interactions, climate change impacts on organisms and ecosystems.

Faculty: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of research: The application of computational methods to drug development including: fragment based drug design, the design of new anti-HIV compounds, the development of conformationally constrained bioactive peptides, the molecular dynamics of protein and lipid systems.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Pre-modern and modern East Asia, Japanese history, maritime history, colonialism and imperialism.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Linguistics, translation studies, intercultural communications.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: History of German literature from the 18th century to the present, literary aesthetics, theory of authorship, theory and history of drama and theatre.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Feminist literary and cultural studies, women's writing, literary and cultural collaboration, gender and work, gender and higher education.

Faculty: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of research: Mechanisms underlying electrical rhythmicity in the urogenital system, role of pacemaker cells in the generation of spontaneous activity in the prostate gland, identification of alternative targets for the treatment of conditions of the prostate gland, namely benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: History of ideas, visual culture in the Renaissance and 20th century Europe, literary theory, aesthetics, European novel 19th century (particularly German).

Faculty: Education
Areas of research: All levels of mathematics education.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Music performance

Faculty: Science
Areas of research: Aquatic chemistry, biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, environmental analytical chemistry, characterization of natural organic matter using enzymes, aquatic ecosystem process measurements (e.g. whole stream metabolism), ecological risk assessment, integrating science into natural resource management,

Faculty: Education
Areas of research: Factors that impact on childhood aggression including self-control, attitudes, self-esteem, self efficacy, and social skills.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Sociology of the family, sociology of addiction

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Postcolonial literature including Indian and Sri Lankan literature and the postcolonial literary diaspora, creative writing (fiction and creative non-fiction) with special interest in travel, migration, diaspora, cultural interactions.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Medieval intellectual history, contemporary historiography, cultural and political history in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research:Syntax and typology, especially of Austronesian languages, language contact, endangerment and maintenance, technological tools for linguistics, corpus linguistics, computer-mediated communication.

Faculty: Education
Areas of research: Initial teacher education and continuing professional learning, early childhood curriculum and policy, sociocultural and cultural-historical activity, theoretical analyses of collective forms of teacher knowledge and practice, symbolic interactionism.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Sociology of health, sociology of new technologies (especially bio and nanotechnologies), sociology of gender and sexuality, sociology of the body.

Faculty: Education
Areas of research: Values in mathematics education, socio-cognitive aspects of mathematics education, cross-cultural education administration, teacher professional change management.

Faculty: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of research:Mental health disorders, primarily drug addiction, Animal models of complex behaviours, the role of adenosine A2A receptors in neuronal signalling and complex behaviours, stem cell derived neurones as potential disease modulators.

Faculty: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of research: Potential new antimicrobial agents. Projects involve fragment-based drug discovery including a focus on designing and synthesising enzyme inhibitors, the design and synthesis of peptidomimetics and non-natural amino acids, through the isolation of natural products with interesting biological activities.

Faculty: Education
Areas of research: Vocational preparation and workplace learning for new workers, workplace safety, learning for sustainable communities and environments, the role of teachers and schools in building sustainable rural and regional communities, retention of teachers in hard-to-staff schools.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Public history, oral history.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Anthropology, language and culture and religion.

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Sociology of the family, sociology of addiction

Faculty: Arts
Areas of research: Realist film theory, documentary film studies; Australian film and television, Australian film history.