PhD Students
Jean-Luc Arrigo
The working title of Jean-Luc’s thesis, supervised by Prof. Lynne McCormack and Dr Sally Fitzpatrick, is “Men in Harmful Relationships”. It explores the types of violence with which men are involved in their close relationships. He aims to capture the lived experiences of men in their own voice, via semi-structured interviews.JeanLuc.Arrigo@uon.edu.au
Dr Arrigo holds a PhD in Mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Markos Carelos
“Greek Political thought and the Treaty of Lausanne. 1914-1923.”
Kelsey Fitz-Gerald
Kelsey’s PhD is “Child Safeguarding in Christian Churches: Exploring child safeguarding understandings and practices of Evangelical Christians after the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse”. Under the supervision of Drs Kathleen McPhillips and Chris Krogh, she is exploring who interprets child safeguarding within Christian Evangelical institutions by considering the relevant dynamics of power, discourse, and relationships.
Heidi Freihaut
Women, memory and genocide: practices of remembrance, 1945-present.
Sarah Kabanoff
Creative Survival: What We Can Learn from Women Who Have Lived with Violence and How We Can Better Listen.
Paul Loudon
Paul’s area of research is the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence and abuse, and his PhD thesis title is: "When is Control ‘Coercive’? — A Comparative Analysis of Law and Practice in NSW and Ireland". The project focuses primarily on the roles of criminal justice system professionals (e.g. police, lawyers, court staff) and support agencies in shaping the collection and use of evidence in subsequent criminal proceedings. His supervisors are Dr Joseph Wenta, Professor John Anderson and Dr Ray Nickson.
Ashleigh McIntyre
What are You Afraid of? Pretraumatic American Literature in the Anthropocene.
Louise Rak
Narratives of Young Female Violence.
Emily Rose
Emily’s thesis topic centres around epistemic injustice (/violence) perpetrated from the mental health system (and other systems of governance) towards individuals with mental distress during 1970-1999. She has a personal and professional interest in understanding violence in all its myriad iterations, as well as forms of resistance.
Her thesis title is "Resisting the Mental Health System: Memories and Afterlives of Australian Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement Counter-Narratives, 1970-1999". The work is supervised by Professor Cathy Coleborne and Dr Effie Karageorgos.
Daniel Rowney
Daniel’s PhD thesis is entitled “Towards Effective Response and Enforcement Mechanisms for Coronial Inquest Recommendations in Child Neglect Cases” and is being completed within the School of Law and Justice under the supervision of Dr Marie Hadley and Dr Alice Neikirk. It explores the historical background to the office of coroner using primary source material from the 1850s to the present time.
Caroline Schneider
State Conducted Forcible Child Transfer: A Study of a Global Phenomenon from 1800 to the Present.
Diana Sillato
From Gallipoli to Malta: A Medical, Social and Cultural History of the Anzacs.
Truman Smith
"Unprovoked Barbarity” : Kidnapping on Queensland’s Frontier, 1859 – 1897.
Muhammad Thalal
Memory and Violence in Aceh during the Armed Conflict 1976 - 2005.
Rebecca Willis
Rebecca’s thesis title is The Human Element of Magic: Body Magic in Context. Her work sits at the intersection of Magic Studies and Body Studies. She examines the practices of magicians in antiquity with regard to methodologies and materials, particularly in relation to the use of the human body, in comparison with their reputation in contemporary fiction for regularly engaging in taboo acts of violence such as cannibalism and infanticide.
Robert Wyse
Suspicious Minds: Korean War Ex-POWs, Commonwealth Intelligence Services, and the Cold War.
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