CERC PhD Candidates
If you would like to know more about becoming a member of the Collaborative Evaluation and Research Centre, Federation University staff can email CERC@federation.edu.au
| Candidate | Principal Supervisor | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Haris Ahmad (Completed Oct 2025) | A/Prof Blake Peck | The Influence of Probiotics on Infection Susceptibility and Developmental Trajectories in Children: A Double-Blind Randomised Trial. |
| Jessy Benny | Prof Joanne Porter | Exploring the experiences of international nursing students during mental health clinical placements in Australia: a mixed methods study. |
| Jamie Borg - MRes (Completed Feb 2025) | Prof Carolyn Unsworth | Wheeled mobility device stability on public buses using a semi-active containment system. |
| Natalie Bransgrove | Prof Joanne Porter | Using intersectionality to explore age (65+) and rurality within Hospital in the Home admissions: A mixed methods study. |
| Molly Branson | A/Prof Evita March | #nowomanever: Gender and Cyber Abuse |
| Trudy Brown | Prof Michael Olasoji | Improving the sexual and reproductive health of those with serious mental illness. |
| Nicole Coombs (Completed April 2024) | Prof Joanne Porter | Emergency nurse practice and attitudes towards public health messaging during disaster in Australia. |
| Amy Cowan | Prof Joanne Porter | The essential elements of effective nursing leadership for developing positive cultures. |
| Pritimoy Das (Completed March 2025) | Prof Aziz Rahman | Common mental health issues experienced by migrants in Australia: a mixed method study. |
| Bonnie Nas Deves (Completed June 2025) | Prof Carolyn Unsworth | Improving inclusion on the Bus: The Better Transport Insensitivity for All Passengers (Better Trip) project. |
| Kerry de Vent | Prof Joanne Porter | Use of an administrative database to evaluate health services performance in delivering home-based health care for older Victorians. |
| Natalie Dickson - M Health(Rsch) (Completed Dec 2023) | Prof Carolyn Unsworth | Assessment of Powered Mobility Device use among Older Australian in Residential Aged Care Facilities. |
| Steven Foulds | Dr Dom McNeil | Elite athlete perceptions of effective strength and conditioning coach-athlete relationships. |
| Anita Giannis | Prof Joanne Porter | Identify the experiences of female paramedics returning to work on a flexible working arrangements (FWA) post maternity leave. |
| Marufa Hasin | Prof Aziz Rahman | Investigating gestational diabetes mellitus among migrant women in Australia. |
| Megan Hekkema | Dr Meghan Casey | Development of a Sport Management Competency Assessment Tool. |
| Luis Hualda | Prof Joanne Porter | Investigation into agency as a food security dimension and its implications to public health outcomes in the Latrobe Valley. |
| Ting Ting Hui | Prof Michael Olasoji | Improving the physical health of young people with early psychosis: a feasibility study of a co-designed lifestyle intervention in Australia. |
| Sahaya Jesto | Prof Michael Olasoji | Developing and co-designing a novel education intervention to enhance nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived experiences in managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in aged mental health and aged care settings: A mixed methods study. |
| Gurdeep Kaur | A/Prof Karen Missen | Barriers to Accessing Reproductive Health Care Services Among CALD Indian Migrant Women Living in Metropolitan and Regional Areas of Victoria State of Australia. |
| Shariq Ali Khan | Prof Aziz Rahman | Oral health among the children attending Islamic boarding Schools in Pakistan. |
| Paul Kemel | Prof Joanne Porter | Youth activity and participation within bushfire impacted communities in rural and remote areas in Victoria. |
| Samira Kerbage | A/Prof Loretta Garvey | Pain management of the sedated and ventilated patients in the intensive care setting: An exploratory study. |
| Kerrie Laidlaw | A/Prof Karen Missen | Maternal displacement in the context of preterm infant admission to NICU: A grounded theory study. |
| Shingai Mareya | Prof Michael Olasoji | The effectiveness of the Stepped Care Model in delivery of mental health services in Australian primary health care. |
| Elizabeth Miller (Completed Nov 2023) | Prof Joanne Porter | Investigating environmental factors within the acute hospital setting - the natural, built, social (behaviour and language), and symbolic environments where people may receive bad news about their life-limiting illness. |
| James Naismith | Dr Kerry Hood | Investigating the efficacy of replacing undergraduate nursing clinical placement hours in Australia with simulation hours. |
| Naima Nimmi | Prof Aziz Rahman | Investigating gestational diabetes amongst migrant women in Australia. |
| Danielle Noble | Prof Karen Missen | Exploration of the support given to Registered Nurses who precept new graduate nurses in their transition year; A mixed method study, |
| Lucy Osborn | A/Prof Loretta Garvey | Exploring Clinical Competence Assessment in Nursing in Australia. |
| Marianne Ota (Completed June 2025) | Prof Danny Hills | The experiences of nurse leaders in promoting and maintaining civility in Australian rural health and aged care settings: A Qualitative Study. |
| Parul Parul (Completed April 2025) | Prof Aziz Rahman | Investigating substance use disorders and psychological intervention. |
| Rebecca Peel | A/Prof Karen Missen | Healthcare interactions in the emergency department: Perspectives from women experiencing menstrual symptoms and nurses. A mixed methods study. |
| Victoria Petrini | Prof Michael Olasoji | An investigation into the issue of staff recruitment and staff retention in Mental Health Wards across Scotland, UK and Victoria, Australia. |
| Masudus Salehin | Prof Aziz Rahman | Smoking behaviour of general practitioners in Australia. |
| Hayley Scott (Completed Nov 2024) | Prof Carolyn Unsworth | Developing and testing a driving clinical decision pathway to assist non-driver trained occupational therapists to guide return to driving practices for adults following a change in health status. |
| Lee Scullion | Dr Meghan Casey | An Exploration of the Relationship Between Game Skills, Fitness Components, and Injury Prevention in Women’s Amateur Australian Football |
| Bekithemba Sibanda | Prof Michael Olasoji | The Role of Spirituality, Religion and culture on the Mental Health of African Australians: A Phenomenological Study. |
| Megan Simic (Completed Oct 2024) | Prof Joanne Porter | Exploring the lived experience of emergency department nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Jane Strachan | Dr Meghan Casey | Enablers and barriers of early years menstruation in organised sport, what key components of education are needed. |
| Lyn Sudholz | Dr Meghan Casey | Understanding knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of the prevention and management of sport and recreation-related concussion - A socio-ecological approach. |
| Darren Thomas | Dr Meghan Casey | Exploring the development, implementation and outcomes of school sports academies. |
| Christine Trotman | Prof Joanne Porter | Safe at work: The prevention and minimisation of workplace aggression at rural and regional hospitals. |
| Pinyadapat Vacharanukrauh (Completed Aug 2025) | Prof Aziz Rahman | Breast Cancer and Cardiotoxicity: A Scoping Review, Nationwide Cohort Study, and Evidence-Based Pharmacological Interventions. |
| Amber van Dreven | Dr Julia Gilbert | Mentoring Models in Australian Nursing Academia and Their Impact on Mentors and Mentees. |
| Brittany Wadforth | Prof Dixie Statham | Trauma Transformed: Evaluating the Efficacy of TF-CBT and EMDR in Mitigating Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Symptoms |
| Jacqueline Wheatcroft | Prof Carolyn Unsworth | Understanding and enhancing clinical reasoning to support best practice in cognitive rehabilitation; a study of novice and expert occupational therapists. |
| Stacey Whitelaw | Dr Danielle Wagstaff | Late Diagnosis of Autism in Australia |