Graduate research opportunities
Candidates undertaking Monash University's Graduate research degrees are challenged to apply new thinking to interpret – and solve – complex questions. Here are some of the projects they're currently investigating.
Opportunities
Join the Mobility Design Lab graduate research cohort. Refer to the links below for information on how to apply.
- Applications now open
- Scholarships may be available
- Undertaken with: Mobility Design Lab, Dr Robbie Napper, Associate Professor Selby Coxon,
Advancing active mobility
The role of the bicycle in sustainable transport. Of particular note here are studies that engage with industrial design studio practice to manipulate the intrinsic and socially constructed properties of bicycles to make them are more acceptable transport mode choice in low cycling mode share cultures like Australia.
- Applications now open
- Scholarships may be available
- Undertaken with: Mobility Design Lab, Associate Professor Robbie Napper,
Improving accessibility to rail station infrastructure for those with physical and cognitive impairments
Design research that seeks to address improved accessibility to public transport from those who have physical impairment. This project will have shared supervision between the Mobility Design Lab and Monash Institute of Rail Technology.
- Applications now open
- Scholarships may be available
- Undertaken with: Mobility Design Lab, Associate Professor Robbie Napper,
Research that investigates human powered logistics
The future of human powered logistics. We invite proposals that use industrial design studio practice to carry out research on cyclelogistics. These may engage with transferring technology from one culture to another or developing new vehicles, or other approaches to this problem.