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Postgraduate Supervision

Current theses under supervision

Masters

MPhil: Intra-Italian Trade in Ancient Rome and the Empire. Supervisor: Jane Bellemore.
MPhil: Workplace Injuries? Deaths and the Neo-Liberal State: Is 'Regulation' Enough? Supervisor: James Bennett.
MPhil: Heroic donkeys and Legendary Men: Cross Cultural Transactions and the Appropriate of Identity. Wayne Godfrey. Supervisor: James Bennett.
MPhil: The Scottish Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. Justine Atkinson. Supervisor: Philip Dwyer.
MPhil: John Carpenter's 'The Thing'. Julie Guihot. Supervisor: Philip Dwyer
MPhil: Memory, Mining and Community at Teralba. Peta Belic. Supervisors: Victoria Haskins and Josephine May.
MPhil: Women and the construction of re-membering identity formation. Stephanie Gilbert. Supervisor: Victoria Haskins
MPhil: Women and the construction of re-membering identity formation. Stephanie Gilbert. Supervisor: Victoria Haskins.
MLaw: The Role of the United Nations in Creating Culture in Support of Human Rights and the Role of Law in Post-Conflict Societies. Cheryl White. Supervisor: Jackson Maogoto.
MLaw: Contemporary Applications of Natural Law Theory in the Common Law Tradition. Timothy Passfield. Supervisor: Jackson Maogoto.
MLaw: Military Response to Terrorism & the UN Charter: A Case for the Revision of the Charter. Taghleb Ridda. Supervisor: Jackson Maogoto.
MPhil: The Question of Jewish Identity in the First Century. T. R. Dawe. Supervisor: Neil Morpeth.
MPhil: The Impact of Creation Myths on the Development of Patriarchal Educational Epistemologies. Lynda Weatherstone. Supervisor: Neil Morpeth.
MPhil: News Effects and Mobilisation: Australian Army Recruitment, a Regional Perspective. Stephen Garz. Supervisor: Wayne Reynolds.
MPhil: A History of the Electricity Commission of NSW. Ken Thornton: Supervisors: Wayne Reynolds and James Bennett.

PhDs

PhD: The Portrayal of Children in Domestic Pempeii and other sites in the Ager Pompeianus. Gina Caddies. Supervisor: Elizabeth Baynham.
PhD: The Transmission of the Eikones of the Philostratoi in Western Art. Raichel Le Goff. Supervisor: Elizabeth Baynham.
PhD: The Celtic Response to Caesar. Supervisor: Jane Bellemore.
PhD: Philosophical and Educational Issues Regarding the Environmental Impact of Large Scale Hydroelectric development with Special Reference to the Three Gorges Dam Project in China. Dan Zhou. Supervisor: Tom Griffiths.
PhD: The Instructional leadership role of the Primary School Principal in Thailand. Suwadee Mongkol. Supervisor: Tom Griffiths.
PhD: Public Opinion and the British Atomic tests in Australia, Erin Ison. Supervisor:
PhD: Pioneer Women and Social Memory. Shannon Schedlich-Day. Supervisors: Victoria Haskins and Roger Markwick.
PhD: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Right to Self-determination for Northern Irish Nationalists and Indigenous Australians. Amy Maguire. Supervisor: Jackson Maogoto.
PhD: Evaluation of Diverse Teaching Practice at the University of Newcastle: A Case Study. Lyn Alderman. Supervisor: Neil Morpeth.
PhD: Decolonising Pedagogy. Supervisor: Barry Morris.
PhD: Pauli Murray: Feminist Civil Rights Activist. Troy Saxby. Supervisors: Michael Ondaatje and Philip Dwyer.
PhD: Space Regulatory and Policy Institutional Frameworks: Reflections and Implications for National Security. Noel Siemon. Supervisor: Wayne Reynolds.
PhD: Behind the Brisbane Line. Jennifer Sloggett. Supervisors: Wayne Reynolds and Nancy Cushing.
PhD: Tanzania’s Foreign Policy during the Third Phase Government. Lucy Schule. Supervisor: Wayne Reynolds.
PhD: Value to Vermin: A History of the Donkey in Australia. Jill Bough. Supervisors: Lyndall Ryan and Josephine May.

Completed theses (last five years)

2007

PhD. Artists and Trauma. Lynn Brunet. Supervisors: Lyndall Ryan, Caroline Webb and Jean Harkins.

2006

MA. Geometry and Philosophy in Greek Antiquity. Kenneth Pringle. Supervisor: Neil Morpeth
PhD. Diet in Disease and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome. Helen Ackland. Supervisor: Neil Morpeth
PhD. Post Indigenous Rights - the political rationalities and technologies governing Federal Indigenous affairs in Australia in the contemporary period. Supervisor: Barry Morris.

2005

PhD. Reducing the Margin of Ignorance: The Contribution of Intelligence to Royal Australian Navy Operations 1939-1972. Ian Pfennigworth. Supervisor: Wayne Reynolds
PhD. The Impact of Detention on Iraqi Artists in Australia and the Use of Art Practice as a Method of Healing. Ibtihal Samarayi. Supervisors: Lyndall Ryan and Anne Graham.
PhD. Testimonio: Witnessing my Mother's Life: Race and Identity in Twentieth Century Australia. Gail Hennessy. Supervisors: Lyndall Ryan and Caroline Webb.

2004

PhD. Being Hula: The appropriation of Christianity in Irupara village, Papua New Guinea. Deborah van Heekeren. Supervisor: Lyndall Ryan.

2003

PhD. Women in Justin: Investigation into the presentation of female characters in Justin's Epitome of Pompeius Trogus' Philippic Histories. Supervisor: Elizabeth Baynham.
PhD. A Comparative Exploration of the Topology and Iconography of Labyrinthine Symbols in Western Culture: Towards an Integration of Philosophy, Mathematics and History. Supervisor: Neil Morpeth
MA. Engaging the Near North: 1931-1941. Australian Regional Initiatives from the Manchurian Crisis to the Onset of the Pacific War. Lynne Davies. Supervisor: Wayne Reynolds
PhD. Evatt to Barwick: Australia's Regional Policy and the Problem of 'Great and Powerful Friends'. Gloria Higgonbottom. Supervisor: Wayne Reynolds
PhD. Desire for Social Justice: Equal Pay, the International Labour Organisation, and Australian Government Policy, 1919-1975. Wendy Paterson. Supervisors: Wayne Reynolds and Lyndall Ryan.
M. SocSci. A Knowledge of Body — Feminist Transformative Action Re-search on Body Image Dissatisfaction in Women Using Narrative Therapy Techniques. Debbie Notara. Supervisor: Lyndall Ryan