Available projects for research degrees

The project will investigate the development and production of novel bioproducts from scallop fishery waste, including tissue and shells, to reduce waste disposal costs and provide a value added product for the Tasmanian scallop fishing industry.

Develop and validate AI computer vision tools to identify, measure and verify shark catches from electronic monitoring video, supporting accurate catch estimates, onboard processing, fisheries compliance and sustainable management of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery.

What is the origin and nature of submarine plateaus off northwest Australia? This project will use new geophysical data to look deep into the crust that makes up the seafloor deep beneath the Indian Ocean.

What is the geological evolution of submarine plateaus off northwest Australia? This project will determine their crustal character, age and tectonic history, providing new insights into Gondwana breakup and the processes that shaped the evolution of the modern Australian continent.

New therapies are needed that slow or reverse the clinical progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). In this project, we will leverage human genetics integrated with state-of-the art in vitro modelling to identify new targets for MS progression.

This project investigates geothermal heat flow, lithosphere dynamics, and ice-sheet evolution in East Antarctica. Using geological and geophysical data, plate reconstructions, and mantle flow models, it will constrain heat-flow variability and geodynamic evolution of the Cook Glacier area.

This PhD project aims to develop new geophysical approaches to investigate Antarctic ice sheet outlets. With a focus on practical field data acquisition and analysis, the student will advance the understanding of how glaciers move and evolve.

Glacier and solid Earth interactions

Salmon Rickettsial Syndrome (SRS) is an emerging disease in Atlantic salmon aquaculture, present also in Tasmania. Using CRISPR toolkit, project aims to identify genes that influence SRS resistance in salmonid cells, and provide basic understanding of the host-pathogen interaction.

This project investigates the potential residues from forest and wood supply chains, the value adding opportunities from processing, the transport and logistics requirements, and demand for the new products, to determine the feasibility of developing a bio-hub in Tasmania.

Tasmania’s Central Plateau lakes support endemic biodiversity and valuable services, but climate-driven heat and water-level volatility are increasing ecological risk. This project will combine field monitoring, manipulative tests, and food-web/network modelling to predict responses and guide practical trade-offs.

This research explores attraction, recruitment, retention, wellbeing, job satisfaction, and workforce development within Tasmania’s public mental health workforce. Conducted with key stakeholders, findings will inform workforce planning, policy, service improvement, and sustainable workforce development amid growing demand and reform.

This PhD will investigate the genetic and ecological mechanisms underpinning the evolution of family life. It will integrate genomic, behavioural, and long-term field data, to examine how genetic variation, social interactions, and environmental change shape social behaviour and population dynamics.

This project investigates the everyday practices and experiences of those who work in biosecurity roles at Australia's ports and airports. In doing so, the project will generate rich insights into how border biosecurity works and how it can be improved.

A multidisciplinary study of how forestry and hardwood resource transitions affect timber industries and sustainable construction, with a focus on industry adaptation, and the future of timber in Australia's built environment.

This project aims to build resilient and productive cattle shipping practices across Tasmania by combining retrospective data analysis and prospective intervention trials to generate the first evidence base to inform industry best practice.

This project involves the development methods for the rapid screening of forestry biomass to develop a phytochemical database to identify opportunities to develop new products from biopolymers, agrichemicals and heath related applications.

In this field-based project, the successful candidate will investigate how soil biological composition and function interact with the plant community and hydrological patterns to control the processes of soil carbon cycling in Tasmania's highland grasslands.

This proposal seeks to reduce the number of Australians with T2DM experiencing incident heart failure [HF] by developing and implementing an innovative approach to early diagnosis of subclinical HF (“stage B”, SBHF), leading to secondary prevention.

This project will use high‑throughput methods developed in our lab to generate carbonate chemistry fitness landscapes for a diverse range of phytoplankton species. Goal is to provide the mechanistic underpinning for identifying winners and losers in future ocean scenarios.

Climate change and increasing coastal connectivity may alter the spread of harmful algal species and other marine biohazards. This project will investigate HAB ecology, dispersal pathways, biosecurity risks and management options to support resilient coastal ecosystems and sustainable seafood production.

This PhD project develops play-based, deliberative methods such as tabletop games to engage citizens in democratic decision-making about carbon dioxide removal technologies. It aims to support participatory dialogue between citizens and governments for justice-driven approaches to climate changed futures.

This project will involve implementing and evaluating a co-designed pilot program to improve risk factor management and psychosocial wellbeing after stroke in regional Australia supported by a team of stroke and health service research experts.

Generative AI can be used to assist educators during the scenario creation process. This project will explore different methods of doing this and elicit feedback from stakeholders to measure the performance of the various solutions.

Mixed species pastures have been promoted to provide resilience to climatic extremes. This project will investigate the characteristics of pasture species roots and their role in persistence and production within established mixed pasture swards.

This PhD will investigate how anthropogenic and natural nitrogen sources influence reef health in marine systems. By examining links between nutrient enrichment and reef condition, the project will improve understanding of resilience, change, and evidence-based management in multi-use coastal ecosystems.

Consumer and community engagement are increasingly essential in research, including in trials. Developing tools to improve consumer and community engagement in trial design is essential for encouraging representative, diverse engagement. This project will co-design tools that are accessible for people from a broad range of backgrounds.

Our simulation platform can be used to train healthcare professionals across a range of disciplines, but the existing evidence focuses on its use in pharmacy education. This project will develop scenarios for a range of professions and elicit stakeholder feedback.

Develop multiport power converter topologies and advanced control strategies for renewable energy and energy storage systems. The project focuses on improving efficiency, power density, reliability, and cost-effectiveness through modelling, simulation, hardware prototyping, and experimental validation.

This project will build climate resilience into red handfish recovery by identifying and testing climate-resilient restoration material, mapping genetic diversity, prioritising restoration under future conditions, and developing an evidence-based emergency preparedness framework to safeguard populations during extreme environmental events.

Project will take a fresh look at how rain and snow affects circulation in Antarctic marginal seas. The goal is to understand the dynamical role of atmospheric water in the ocean and differentiate its effects from glacial melt.

Develop new models of black-hole jets in realistic galaxy environments, connecting their dynamics, radio emission and interactions with gas to observations of distant galaxies and providing improved prescriptions for AGN feedback in cosmological simulations.

Maternal Deterioration Recognition and Escalation in Tasmania

This project investigates how water flow and debris accumulation influence vibrations in hydropower intake screens. Using advanced simulations, it aims to improve understanding of fluid-structure interactions, supporting more resilient, reliable, and cost-effective designs for hydropower and pumped-storage infrastructure.

The Antarctic marginal ice zone (MIZ) is a dynamic, wave-influenced boundary which can influence sea-ice extent. This PhD develops machine-learning and satellite methods to map MIZ variability, link storms and waves to retreat, reveal ice properties, and improve validation.

The project will investigate how Alzheimer’s disease-relevant protein deposits change the physiology of microglia. Using advanced proteomics, molecular biology, cell and animal models, it will investigate new mechanisms of Alzheimer’s progression and inform therapeutic strategies for intervention.

Investigate how digital capability develops through educational transitions, using generative AI as a contemporary context. Working with Tasmanian education partners, this project explores how capability can be understood, measured and strengthened to support equitable participation in further study and work.

This project will build the first self-consistent models describing the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black hole jets deep within them. Predictions for jet and galaxy populations will confront data from leading telescopes including SKA pathfinders and JWST.

This project will use a unique 50-year network of East Antarctic automatic weather station observations to improve understanding of precipitation variability, evaluate reanalysis and satellite products, and strengthen estimates of Antarctic surface mass balance and future climate change.

Understanding how to analyse patient-reported data in cancer trials is essential for making trials patient-centred and for evaluating outcomes that are meaningful to patients. This project will evaluate statistical methods to achieve this.

PhD research on CFD modelling of viscoplastic free-surface flows interacting with engineering structures. The project will quantify impact forces, pressure distribution, and flow arrest mechanisms using CFD, and develop physics-based design guidelines for protective structures under extreme non-Newtonian flow conditions.

The project will determine the requirements for digital decision support tools to improve both hospital bed managers' effectiveness and the lived experience of patients receiving emergency care through a combination of interviews and software prototype development and evaluation

This project will investigate a novel compound library to identify NRF2 activators. Building on promising preliminary findings, a systematic drug-discovery approach integrating biological activity, structure–activity relationships, toxicity and stability will guide optimisation and identify lead compounds for preclinical development.

This project combines Antarctic ice-sheet and subglacial hydrology modelling, observations, ISMIP7 projections and TIPMIP experiments to determine how uncertain hydrology affects ice loss, sea-level rise, tipping thresholds and recovery.

This project will implement a thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling model into a hybrid finite-discrete element method developed by the supervision team to investigate glacier-bed interactions for the development of improved slip laws for next-generation ice-sheet models.

This project will use newly acquired ocean observations, through recent Southern Ocean voyages and Deep Argo profiling floats, to quantify and understand the drivers of variability and change in Antarctic Bottom Water.

Targeting no-reflow in stroke

What are the sources and control on the supply of biologically essential trace metals on the East Antarctic margin? Using newly collected, co-located water-column, porewater and DNA samples from multiple regions in East Antarctica, this project will quantify the source of metal fluxes to test how seafloor sediments, glaciogenic inputs, water masses and microbial communities regulate dissolved iron and other trace metals.

Cardiovascular health is established in childhood, yet little is known about how teachers are prepared to promote it. This project will examine how cardiovascular health is embedded in teacher education and identify opportunities to strengthen school-based health promotion.

This study examines reproductive biology, spawning phenology and productivity of southern calamari. By integrating reproductive and growth data into population models, it will develop biological reference points and evaluate spawning closures to support recruitment and sustainable fisheries.

This project will use human brain organoid models, live-cell imaging and single-cell multiomics to investigate how chromatin remodelling dysfunction drives medulloblastoma development and progression, and test whether epigenetic therapies can redirect tumour cell fate toward differentiated, non-tumourigenic states.

Using state-of-the-art coupled ice-ocean modelling capabilities, this project will investigate one of the key uncertainties in future sea-level rise: how feedbacks between the Southern Ocean and the East Antarctic Ice Sheet control long-term ice loss.

Discover how life on the seafloor is organised across the Macquarie Island Marine Park. Using imagery, habitat mapping and functional ecology, this project will investigate biodiversity patterns and contribute to understanding climate vulnerability and refugia in sub-Antarctic ecosystems.

AOD Health Promotion for Tasmanians

This PhD project is an exciting opportunity to contribute to understanding of the links between large-scale ocean circulation and coastal waters along southeastern Australia that support valuable natural ecosystems, recreation, and commercial aquaculture and fisheries.

Develop and pilot regulatory-ready environmental risk and impact assessment frameworks tailored to ocean alkalinity enhancement trials, integrating operational elements (metrics, thresholds and quantification of uncertainty, scoring, and monitoring design) suitable for climate-impacted multi-use marine systems.

Using behavioural paradigms, brain stimulation and imaging this project aims to understand the brain processes involved in cancelling upper limb and stepping actions, when multiple sources of distracting information may impact our ability to perceive and process critical sensory cues.

This project examines the changing relationship between sport, social connection, and loneliness in contemporary Australia. Candidates will investigate sport as a community-based solution to loneliness for at-risk groups in the context of wider sporting and social changes.

Driving Change: road safety

This PhD project investigates the risk and reliability of hybrid methanol–battery marine propulsion systems for maritime decarbonisation. Using engine room simulation, risk assessment, and probabilistic reliability modelling, it will evaluate failure scenarios, system interactions, operational resilience, and propulsion safety.

This PhD project call proposes recovering Aboriginal women's ecological knowledge in early Van Diemen's Land through fragmentary oral, linguistic, forensic and archaeological evidence, complementing and refining dominant dispossession-focused historiography.

Developing a predictive framework using AIS, operational and environmental data to anticipate vessel access and infrastructure availability in Australian ports, reducing vessel waiting, improving throughput and supporting maritime decarbonisation.

A PhD study of pre-service teachers' experience in Change2Teaching, an employment-based partnership and pathway to a teaching career in regional communities in Tasmania.

This project focuses on new methods of polymer synthesis that enable a move away from traditional, hazardous organic solvents and the creation of circular, low-waste technologies for a variety of applications.

This project involves implementation of a workplace sustainability and planetary health training program for mental health clinicians within a Tasmanian health service.

Despite expanding role GLP-1 agonist and SGLT2i in management of cardiometabolic health, little is known about how they are used in routine clinical practice in Australia. This project will use health data to examine their use and clinical outcomes.

Cultural acceptance of geoengineered mine closure landforms in Australia, integrating geomorphology, geoscience, and geoengineering with Aboriginal and community landscape values to inform socially credible, environmentally credible post‑mining landform design.

Climate literacy is essential to impelling climate action. This study will establish a robust, contemporary understanding of what it means to be 'climate literate' today, using insights from climate change communication, psychology, and the affordances of extended media technologies.

With rapid electrification and digitalisation, effective thermal management is increasingly important across many sectors. This project aims to develop advanced and sustainable thermal management technologies that improve thermal performance, enhance energy efficiency, and reduce environmental impacts across diverse applications.

To advance our understanding of the impact of extreme heat on First Nations people by exploring both historical and climate change projections of extreme heat.

The project will develop new sub ppb methods for the capillary electrophoresis separation of heavy metals

This project investigates innovative approaches to the teaching and learning of spelling across primary school years in Australian schools to provide more evidence-based research in this area to inform English pedagogies, curriculum and policies.

This project will generate a continuous methane record from the Million Year Ice Core to improve ice-core dating, investigate past methane-cycle variability, and examine firn processes that smooth atmospheric signals preserved in ice.

Electric catamarans provide the path to zero emissions but are limited in range due to installed battery capacity. This project seeks to reduce hull resistance by way of using CFD coupled with AI to optimise hull geometry.

The scarcity of iron limits biological productivity in the Southern Ocean. This project will use isotopes of the naturally-occurring radionuclide thorium, to quantify the input of iron to the Southern Ocean from sources such as dust, bottom sediments, and glaciers

This mixed-methods PhD project will examine and refine a dual-purpose dementia risk profiling tool to meaningfully estimate dementia risk and equitably and effectively promote risk reduction. This may include health messaging individualisation, co-design with a priority population, and/or software development.

This project investigates the vulnerability of dams to waves generated by landslides entering reservoirs. Numerical modelling will examine wave generation, propagation and interaction, assessing how landslide characteristics, reservoir geometry and water depth influence wave heights, overtopping and associated hazards.

This project investigates the contribution of mobile DNA to neurodevelopment and schizophrenia-relevant dysfunction. Leveraging CRISPR modulation and long-read sequencing, we will explore the regulation and activity of mobile DNA in a prenatal immune-challenge model of schizophrenia.

Develop, validate and translate heart–brain phenotypes in heart failure (HF) by integrating Australia-wide linked administrative health data with an RCT, thereby identifying patients most likely to benefit from multidisciplinary disease-management programs and informing national implementation of precision HF care.

Plants form symbioses with microbes, but the benefit plants derive can vary widely. This project will identify the genes that enable plants to gain the most benefit from symbioses for ecological processes and future crop improvement.

This project assesses how climate change may affect giant crab and southern rock lobster populations by combining vulnerability assessment, larval connectivity modelling, climate-driven recruitment projections, and population modelling to inform management of potting crustacean resources under changing environmental conditions.

Multimodal Deep Learning for Phishing Detection

Determine whether cancer survivorship is associated with a distinct trajectory of coronary atherosclerosis, identify treatment-specific patterns of plaque formation and progression, and define the clinical and imaging features that identify survivors at greatest risk of rapid or adverse plaque progression.

Tectonic and climatic controls on sediment-hosted Cu-Co mineralisation in the Central African Copperbelt

This project is interested in exploring mechanisms of power in the ancient world, including how rulers, elites or political communities constructed and communicated authority. It is especially interested in investigating these aspects during periods of instability, transition or change.

How sensitive is the Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica to climate change? Using newly collected marine sediment cores, this project will reconstruct ocean, ice-sheet and ecosystem changes during major climate reorganization of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.

There is tremendous potential and excitement for the future of functional genetics to broaden our understanding of human haematopoiesis. We aim to understand the contribution of genetic variation in driving haematopoietic cell development, through dissecting the genetic drivers of haematopoiesis.

This PhD will develop and validate a Parkinson’s disease-specific measure of work difficulties through lived experience and expert consultation, psychometric validation, and prediction of employment outcomes, ultimately informing targeted interventions to support people with Parkinson’s to remain employed.

This project investigates how medium-sized Australian ports can prepare for green shipping corridors by assessing technical, energy, investment, regulatory and stakeholder readiness, their interdependencies, and alternative transition pathways to support practical port decarbonisation and sustainable maritime transport.

Pericyte-associated microglia functions

Unsteady turbulent and cavitating flows interacting with compliant structures generate complex fluid-structure dynamics. This project investigates vibration, unsteady loading and noise mechanisms in lifting surfaces, improving understanding, flow control strategies and performance prediction for turbomachinery and marine propulsion systems.

This project investigates how completing the Teacher Performance Assessment shapes preservice teachers’ professional identity, self-efficacy, and perceived classroom readiness, using mixed methods with University of Tasmania participants to understand preparation, confidence, and career transition in context of national teaching standards.

Project Outline Background and Rationale: Marine aquaculture operations require reliable, resilient power systems to support small but varied offshore energy demands such as feed-barge platforms, pumping systems for artificial upwelling, and environmental monitoring equipment. Current renewable energy solutions typically rely...

This project explores how Industry 5.0 technologies can support resource-led, performance-based architectural design by integrating reclaimed, recycled and upcycled materials into human-in-the-loop digital and physical design workflows, advancing material circularity, reducing waste and enabling low-carbon built environment outcomes.

This project uses phenomenology and interdisciplinary research to examine how AI and emerging technologies shape human experience, agency, and society. Focusing on technology, feminism, and ethics, it aims to promote human flourishing, social justice, and genuinely human-centred technological development.

This project aims to develop light-driven catalytic systems for selective hydrocarbon functionalisation using visible light as a clean energy source. The resulting methods will establish new principles for reactivity, leading to efficient synthesis of high-value molecules, including pharmaceuticals.

To explore the factors that facilitate or hinder the timely recognition of sepsis and the subsequent response to clinical deterioration among residents in aged care facilities in Tasmania.

Coastal oceans are increasingly polluted with unsustainable amounts of phosphorous from human activity. This project investigates if the addition of calcium minerals for the primary purpose of atmospheric CO2 removal can permanently bind phosphorus through calcium-phosphorus mineral formation.

Investigate second‑order soil responses to wildfire and prescribed burning using pre-and post-burn in situ study, laboratory fire simulations, and soil micromorphology to understand post‑fire soil structure, function, and long‑term recovery in fire‑prone and sensitive conservation landscapes.

Development of sustainable hybrid microchannel heat sinks for next-generation electronics, enabling high-efficiency thermal management, reduced energy consumption, and improved reliability in high-power electronic systems aligned with climate-conscious engineering solutions.

This project will characterise genetic diversity in the major histocompatibility complex and develop new alignment and variant calling pipelines. You will assemble long-read sequencing data and build MHC pangenome graphs, and use these to examine variation in MS cohorts.

This project will develop and evaluate a low-cost automated oxygen control device for integration with neonatal respiratory support systems used in resource-constrained healthcare settings.

The project will develop and evaluate a smart sensing platform for monitoring red meat quality and predicting shelf-life using sensory and microbiological data and data-driven modelling.

Petrels without borders

Develop advanced control strategies for power converters to enable secure integration of renewable energy and battery storage in future power grids. The project focuses on grid-forming control, stability enhancement, weak-grid operation, and experimental validation for high-renewable, low-carbon electricity systems.

This project investigates the social-ecological drivers of seagrass restoration success through Australia-Chile fisheries comparisons, community engagement before and after restoration activities, and laboratory experiments on seagrass sprigs. Outcomes will inform more effective, socially supported seagrass conservation and restoration strategies.

This project will develop climate-smart approaches to marine habitat restoration for threatened species by identifying environmental drivers of recruitment, testing multi-habitat restoration and ecological facilitation, and mapping climate refugia to prioritise restoration actions that maximise resilience, biodiversity and ecosystem recovery.

This project aims to understand the distribution and ecology of Tasmania’s elusive burrowing crayfish. It will identify the factors shaping species distributions and develop eDNA methods to improve detection. It will also assess habitat requirements and trophic ecology.

Climate resilience of Australian seaweed

Cavitation about a propulsor or control surface on maritime platforms contributes to the vessel’s bubbly wake, with dissolved gases rapidly diffusing into vapour cavities which linger. The physics of the bubble formation remain to be fully understood.

This project aims to prepare and develop photoactive transition metal complexes as next generation photo-therapeutics in cancer treatment. Photo-therapeutic metallodrugs that will be explored include metal-based photo-carbon monoxide release molecules and metal-based photoswitches.

The project will take a social-psychological approach to examine the relations between problematic internet use, emotion regulation, and interpersonal connectedness.

Coronary plaque phenotyping and precision prevention

Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) is an emerging method that aims to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store additional CO2 as bicarbonate in the ocean. This project will address how OAE affects commercially important Australian fish species.

Addressing developing urban stream syndrome in mountain‑derived rivulets: integrating geomorphology, geospatial analysis, sediment budgets, and hydrodynamic modelling to assess opportunities for channel sinuosity restoration, improved flood attenuation, and nature‑based stream rehabilitation in constrained urban and peri‑urban catchments.

This research will partner with marine-linked communities in south-east Tasmania to examine socio-ecological and socio-cultural values, trial innovative frameworks such as social accounting and wellbeing, and propose an integrated assessment methodology for ecological monitoring and the analysis of community values.

This project explores how artificial intelligence can enhance workforce efficiency and reduce operational costs in shipping companies. It examines AI-driven solutions for workforce planning, task automation, resource allocation, and decision-making to improve productivity, streamline operations, and strengthen organisational competitiveness.

This project develops an applied framework for sustainable urban logistics in regional Australia, examining current and emerging challenges, technologies, policy developments, and operational trends to support context-specific planning, evaluation, and adoption of urban freight initiatives across different planning horizons.

This project combines animal movement information with epidemiology to understand how wildlife can connect disease outbreaks across ocean basins and identify high-risk transmission pathways relevant to Southern Ocean conservation.

This project integrates climate, soil, crop, and management data from national field sites to model landscape-scale drought risk and evaluate adaptation strategies for resilient mixed farming systems.

Over 166 million people experience concussion annually, and nearly half suffer persistent symptoms without resolution or targeted care. This project will identify blood biomarkers predicting ongoing symptoms, addressing the urgent need for diagnostic tools and improved outcomes.

This project explores how knowledge, power, and space are co-produced through spatial imaginaries and situated practices. Drawing on STS, human geography, and governmentality, it examines sustainability and/or climate change to inform more just, place-responsive futures.

This project seeks to document unhealthy food and beverage advertising and identify strategies to support local and state governments to reduce unhealthy food and beverage advertising, particularly on and in government-owned and/or operated assets.

The development of a lightweight microclimate sensing platform for an agrivoltaic system including predictive environmental modelling with local precision, and electrical design and field deployment.

In order to monitor and prevent Devil Facial Tumour Disease, we need to build an AI capable smart trap, suitable to be deployed in the remote Tasmanian bush.

Cavitation onset is currently an unsurmountable barrier limiting the maximum speed of high-speed sailing crafts. Novel hydrofoil concepts, optimising the transition from sub- to super-cavitating flow regime either naturally or via air ventilation, will be investigated.

Building on Cyrene/water-enhanced wood plasticisation in European species, this project evaluates Cyrene/water systems in Australian wood species for uniform plasticisation, efficient preservative delivery, Cyrene's intrinsic preservative potential, and polymer dissolution for improved wood–polymer composite impregnation and performance.

This project will explore Australian political narrative building during the twentieth century with particular emphasis on the historical legacy building efforts of particular politicians among their constituents and its interactions with key events in Australian history.

This PhD project aims to develop a new method for analysis of trace element and halogen contents in fluid inclusions in various minerals and explore ways to utilise the data for provenance reconstructions in sediment-hosted Cu and other ore systems

This project seeks to understand factors that influence women’s access to cancer screening services in Tasmania. Identifying enablers and barriers to screening will inform the co-design of a contextually relevant and consumer-informed cancer screening strategy for Tasmanian women.

This project develops integrated safety systems for ammonia-powered vessels, including leak detection, risk assessment, and inherent, passive and active protection measures. It can enable safe adoption of ammonia as a zero-carbon marine fuel, supporting decarbonisation goal.

Depression is a common neuropsychiatric symptom in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), often emerging in the early to middle stages of the condition. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) are frequently prescribed to manage depressive symptoms due to their favourable safety profile and tolerability in older adults. Emerging evidence suggests that SSRIs may influence AD pathology and progression, yet their precise role remains unclear. This study aims to investigate the effects of SSRIs on pathological and functional outcomes in AD, integrating clinical and preclinical approaches to enhance translational relevance.

This research project is about studying the current situation of frequency allocations coordinated in international treaties by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and develop strategies for improved protection for VLBI.

This project advances understanding of trauma-informed design for young people in the context of community support settings. Founded in interdisciplinary inquiry at the intersection of architecture and neuroscience, it prioritises the lived experience of young people and translational research.

Generative AI tools are widely used in learning, yet pose risks including inaccuracies, fabricated citations and privacy issues. This project develops embedded verification checkpoints to help users critically assess and validate AI-generated content within academic workflows.

Investigates how regional organisations can build workforce AI capability to support productivity, responsible AI adoption and regional economic growth.

This project will investigate how training, skills, and competency development can build Green Human Capital for maritime decarbonization. It will identify emerging workforce requirements, assess competency and training gaps, and develop a framework to support workforce transformation for sustainable shipping.

Develop efficient mathematical models of remnant black-hole jet bubbles using spectral methods, capturing turbulence, mixing, heating and repeated outbursts. The existing RAiSE analytical model will provide initial conditions, enabling predictions of energy transport across parameter space for cosmological simulations.

This project develops mineral chemistry-based tools to improve exploration of sediment-hosted Cu-Co deposits. Resistate mineral signatures will be characterised and integrated into predictive models, enabling deposit-scale vectoring and global basin fertility assessment for critical mineral supply.

Implementing mindfulness training to support brain health and quality of life for people at risk of, or living with neurodegenerative disease

This project uses machine learning and UTAS telescope data to create Tasmania’s first Dark Sky and Atmospheric Health Index, mapping light pollution, atmospheric change, and ecological vulnerability to protect the island’s night skies and environmental resilience.

From the lab to the field, this PhD will develop novel imaging frameworks to quantify sea-ice biogeochemical properties, resolving presence and abundance of ice-algal pigments and geochemical constituents, thereby improving understanding of sea-ice ecological interconnections in a changing Antarctic icescape.

Validate serious game measures that track Parkinson's symptoms during natural gameplay and test whether they detect medication response, symptom fluctuation and progression in longitudinal community use.

The Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry – Tasmania has collected data on prostate cancer outcomes and treatments, since 2015. This project will use epidemiological and survey methods to address key questions about prostate cancer outcomes and impacts in the real world.

This PhD investigates the interconnection between pain and mental health in Multiple Sclerosis using pre collected longitudinal survey data and new qualitative insights. Findings may inform interventions, improve self‑management, enhance quality of life, and guide advocacy in MS care.

Sustainable Detection of PFAS

This PhD project investigates how pericytes and microglia interact to drive neurovascular dysfunction and neuroinflammation after traumatic brain injury, using advanced experimental models to uncover mechanisms that may reveal new therapeutic targets and improve long‑term neurological outcomes.

You will identify and study unusual supernovae and other extreme transients using Rubin/Fink alerts, develop new selection tools, and carry out rapid optical and near-infrared observations with UTAS, the ANU 2.3-m telescope and international networks to investigate their physical origins.

This project explores how ancient societies understood health, illness, ageing, and the good life as both lived realities and powerful metaphors for moral character, political order, and civic decline. It brings ancient thought into conversation with contemporary wellbeing challenges.

This project is a child-led project that empowers young people to co-design cardiovascular health resources. By creating and evaluating these resources, the project aims to improve children's health literacy, helping them build the knowledge, skills and confidence to make heart-healthy choices throughout life.

Understanding mechanisms and cultivating resilience in plants facing rapid environmental change

Supermassive black hole jets and massive stars both regulate star formation in galaxies through their energy input. This project will study the mutual feedback between these processes using numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations, and make predictions for observations with next generation telescopes.

Cardiovascular disease risk begins developing in childhood, yet early vascular ageing remains under-recognised and poorly studied. This project investigates which paediatric populations and vascular biomarkers are most informative for identifying early cardiovascular risk.

Advanced mathematical models and algorithms for prediction and decision making in complex environments

Using replicated translocations of eastern quolls to identify drivers of population declines.

This PhD will evaluate the biodiversity and socioeconomic outcomes of community protected areas in Cambodia and explore the potential to scale these up to unlocking the power of community-based management.