Research Students
PhD | Masters | Graduate Research Community for Current Students
PhD
| Study Area | Student Name | Supervisor(s) | Thesis Topic |
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| Chinese | Corey BELL | David Holm Lewis Mayo |
A psychology with Chinese characteristics: Indigenous psychology, cultural identity and nation-building in modern China |
| Jonathan BENNEY | Anne McLaren Justin Tighe |
Contemporary rights-defending movements in the People's Republic of China | |
| Imma Di Biase | David Holm Lewis Mayo |
To be advised | |
| Meng MA | David Holm Yongxian Luo |
To be advised | |
| Yu Xing ZHOU | Anne McLaren Gao Jia |
Chinese-Australian film-makers | |
| Mark Crosbie |
Anne McLaren |
Buddhist Arhats in Chinese History and Ming Fiction |
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| Chinese/Anthropology | Ya-Ning KAO | MC Patterson David Holm |
How do Zhuang female ritual specialists sing the state? |
| Chinese/Creative Arts | Hsueh Sheng CHEN | Maggie Hegarty Peter Morse Anne McLaren |
Salon Photography in China: The Extension and Transformation of an Elite Culture |
| Chinese/History | Philippa RILEY | Lewis Mayo Antonia Finnane |
Contested Space: Taipei |
| Chinese/Music | Catherine INGRAM | Cathy Falk David Holm |
Rice still feeds the body, but does song still feed the heart? An early twenty-first century musical ethnography of the Dong people of Tongdao Dong autonomous country, Hunan Province , PRC |
| Indonesia | Dina AFRIANTY | Michael Leigh Arief Budiman |
Study of politics and civil society in Indonesia |
| Indonesian/Management | Gert GRONDOWSKI | Arief Budiman Howard Dick |
A political economy of democratisation: the role of international financial institutions in Indonesia |
| International Education |
Veronica Fitzgerald |
Thomas Reuter, Robert Hassan (School of Culture and Communication), Lyn Yates (Melbourne Graduate School of Education) |
Unpacking the Ultranet: Home-School Uses |
| Islamic Studies | Redha AMEUR | Abdullah Saeed Abdul-Samad Abdullah |
The notion of Ma'rifah in Sa'id Nursi's thought |
| Andi Muhammad Ali AMIRUDDIN | Abdullah Saeed Arief Budiman |
Islamic Syaria in South Sulawesi in Indonesia | |
| Anisa BUCKLEY | Abdullah Saeed Adrian Gully |
Muslim women and Islamic family law: the challenges of securing a 'complete' divorce in Australia and Britain | |
| Burhanuddin bin LUKMAN | Abdullah Saeed | Currency exchange in modern practice - an Islamic jurisprudence comparative study | |
| Imran K LUM | Abdullah Saeed Adrian Gully |
The Demand for Islamic Banking in Australia: A Study of the Approaches to Riba and the Religious, Economic and Social Factors Influencing Bank Selection Criteria of Australian Muslims | |
| Riyaz Ahmed ASVAT | Muhammad Kamal | An investigation into whether the contemporary Islamic State has legality in Islamic Law, basis in Islamic philosophy and precedent in Islamic history | |
| Sadik Kirazli | Abdullah Saeed Ian Coller |
The conflict resolution methods and approaches of the Prophet Muhammad in the Medinan period(622-632 CE). | |
| Joshua M. Roose | Shahram Akbarzadeh, Muhammad Kamal | Key Social Influences upon Identity: Construction and expression in Australian-born Muslim men | |
| Felix Tan Thiam Kim | Shahram Akbarzadeh Thomas Reuter |
This thesis will look at how political Islam has affected the political and social space in Malaysia and Indonesia. This thesis will also do a comparative analysis between the two countries. | |
| Ilya Levine | Shahram Akbarzadeh and Pradeep Taneja | A liberal account and analysis of the US pursuit of energy interests, democracy promotion, and the war on terror in Central Asia during the George W. Bush administration. The analysis seeks to map the interactions between these various interests and policies, and relate these to the conditions of complex interdependence and the dynamics of hybrid idealist-realist presidential doctrines. | |
| Kumuda Simpson-Gray | Shahram Akbarzadeh | Exploring the role of neoconservatism and exceptionalism in the formulation of the Bush Doctrine and how President George W. Bush's foreign policy highlighted the limitations of American power. | |
| Nicholas S. Tumbas |
Muhammad Kamal, Christina Mayer and Anthony Garnaut | Ghetto Gods and Urban Hymns: The Nation of Gods and Earths and the Islamic Tradition. | |
| Islamic/Indonesian Studies | Supriyanto Abdi | Professor Abdullah Saeed and Dr. Michael C. Ewing | Progressive Muslims' Discourse on Rreligious Freedom in the Post-New Order Indonesia. |
| Islamic Studies/Law | Nur HIDAYAH | Abdullah Saeed Timothy Lindsey |
Sharia contestation in Indonesia |
| Islamic Studies/Philosophy | Muhamad Razak IDRIS | Muhammad Kamal | Sadra and Hegel on change and progress in history |
| Japanese | Lulu VITALI | Jun Ohashi Michael Ewing |
It takes two to tango: Stylistic choice in Japanese |
| Iori Hamada | Carolyn Stevens | Japanese food culture in Australia: modernity in transnational perspectives | |
| Rosemary Overell | Dr. Carolyn Stevens (Asia Institute) Dr. Audrey Yue (School of Culture and Communication: Cultural Studies) |
Feeling brutal / feeling at home: Grindcore and affective belonging in Melbourne and Osaka | |
| Japanese/Politics | Caroline NORMA | Sheila Jeffreys Carolyn Stevens |
The Political Economy of the Japanese Sex Industry in the High Growth Era, 1960-90 |
Masters
| Study Area | Student Name | Supervisor(s) | Thesis Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Islamic Studies | Imaan Aaliyah AXIARLIS | Abdullah Saeed | Islam's inherently political nature: further debunking the myths that obscure Islam in the Western psyche |
| Rachel McCarthy | Shahram Akbarzadeh | British Muslims: Multicultural citizenship and identity. The research critically examines Tariq Ramadan's proposal for the participation of Muslims in the British political sphere. |