Meet our graduate researchers

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.

Julian O’Shea

Adventures with sustainable vehicles for positive social change.

Amelia Wallin

Examining the operations of artists within institutions and the potential for care under capitalism.

Andrew Copolov

Understanding and catering to the social and spatial needs of food delivery riders.

Bianca Winataputri

A Regional Imaginary: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art and Exhibition-Making Then and Now

Bradley Webb

Examining and investigating how racism determines colonial frameworks (corpus) which then influences both government and media in the continued oppression of the Aboriginal narrative.

Brandi Salmon

My research project explores the tropes of Indigenous representation and (re)presentation within historical and contemporary art.

Corey Ferguson

Understanding the role of Citizens and Community within the transition towards a Circular Society

Ilianna Ginnis

Creating design systems for non-verbal communicators and cognitive diversity

Darcy Zelenko

An advanced architecture will be proposed that operates on timber housing systems utilising computational design and manufactured with digital fabrication technologies.

Jiyoon Lee

Enhancing user experience of mobility as a service ecosystem.

Enira Arvanda

Breastfeeding mothers in public space: Interiority and spatial tactics

Xiaoyou You

With a growing ageing population, cycling is often promoted as an effective solution against the significant challenge of maintaining health and mobility for an ageing population.

Fernando Pavez

Digital project delivery: towards a regenerative design and construction approach

Gabi Briggs

If the virtual realm is land-based, can it return us back to country?
Can we transcend the limits of all physical experience and knowledge to seek sovereignty within the virtual?

Grace Slonim

Investigating the reality of the Australian funding model for the arts.

Jennifer Rivera-Gonzalez

Harnessing the co-benefits: how safe mobility can support liveable cities.

Hilary Thurlow

Exploring the life and work of the Cuban artist and political activist, Tania Bruguera.

Hoa Yang

Meet me at the Intersection: Defining the role of light on perceptions of safety in cities through marginalised and intersectional urban experiences

Genjia Zhou

This research undertaken in collaboration with the Monash University Accident Research Centre seeks to improve the efficacy of motorised mobility scooters for older adults.

Mitali Kedia

Introducing urban design qualities to improve the physical and functional dimension of cycling infrastructure.

Xiongfeng Deng

Investigating how design can improve public trust and comfort in shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs).

Isabella Webb

Connecting communities: the design and production of effective and inclusive mobility in response to rapid growth urban sprawl for women and minoritised community members.

Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis

Exploring ways in which visual systems of cartography omit Indigenous knowledges of place, sustaining colonial narratives within Australia and the myth of ‘Terra Nullius’.

Kimba Thompson

Creating an independent gallery for First Nations Artists and World Indigenous Cultures.

Kimberley Moulton

Curatorial modes and the intersection of Contemporary First Nations arts practice and the historical archive.

Kirrakee Teea Watson

Providing a critical Indigenous perspective of the disposition of global Eurocentric architectures - products of colonial regimes alongside Indigenous architectures.

Mariyam Kareen Adam

Adjusting the gaze: using art to “re-represent” notions of tourist Island destinations.

Mark Romei

How architectural design methodologies can both investigate and bear witness to the spatial forms of immigration detention.

Mathew Jones

Snugglepot & Cuddlepie are Gay! A meditation on queer temporality.

Mehdi Taheri

Architectural Diplomacy: The Case of Iran's 1971 Imperial Celebration

Mohaimeen Islam

Integrating Computational Design and Digital Fabrication Strategies in Mass Timber Construction (MTC) for Mass Customization in the House Building Industry.

Moorina Bonini

Realigning Western Structures through centering Indigenous Epistemology.

Nnenna Okore

Exploring concepts related to waste, bioplastic and ecology as a means of generating learning, artistic experience and sustainable living.

Nícolas Guerra Tão

Fostering city life through planning for social diversity and urban space complexity.

Rashed Azizi

Beyond Housing: affordable and agile living in peri-urban areas

Sanket Pai

Design interventions in farm equipment for Indian small farmers

Chenlizhe Yang

This ARC linkage project will provide mobility solutions that contribute to the process of sustainable transition at the Clayton precinct, where the largest and main campus of Monash University is located.

Tyson Campbell

Understanding the legal rights of the ancestor Te Awa Tupua.

Uthra Swaminath Ganesh

PhD Candidate Design

Wani Toaishara

Re-imagining the African experience as pertaining to Indigeneity, Antiblackness and Afrophobia.

Wendy Christie

Future Housing in Vanuatu: A design framework for contextually appropriate urban housing in Vanuatu

Yvonne Meng

How a suburb undergoing rapid change is altered by a precinct-wide masterplan and series of architectural proposals.