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Ideas for research projects
The following are research project ideas that potential students might like to undertake in the Arts at honours, masters or doctoral level.
The faculty has experienced researchers interested in supervising students on the following topics:
- Computer games research, play and learning environments, digital media and interaction design (Dr Christian Jones)
- Emotion research and technology mediated communications such as iPhones and social networking (Dr Christian Jones)
- International education and regional Australia (Dr Julie Matthews)
- Advantages and challenges, barriers and incentives for integrating education for sustainability as a whole-of-school approach? (Dr Julie Matthews)
- Twenty First Century interpretations of the Australian landscape in Literature (Dr Gary Crew)
- New / Fresh directions in Post Colonial Studies (Dr Gary Crew)
- Futures of peace and conflict (Dr Ivana Milojevic)
- Gender, educational futures (Dr Ivana Milojevic)
- Cognition and health, in particular biased attention and memory for body image information (Dr Kate Mulgrew)
- Issues of environmental justice, liberal governance and welfare policy (Dr Elizabeth Eddy)
- Comparative and travel journalism (Dr Folker Hanusch)
- Death and conflict in the news (Dr Folker Hanusch)
- Positive psychology and goal setting (Dr Samantha Clarke)
- Acceptance and Commitment therapy and affect regulation (Dr Samantha Clarke)
Priority areas identified by the Department of Communities:
- understanding homeless young people and their support needs
- how the justice system addresses the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
- how the justice system addresses the needs of young people with mental health, intellectual impairment
- understanding socially isolated populations: who, where and how should they be supported?
- understanding the different needs of vulnerable groups in regional and remote areas, eg childcare and early years
- what are the needs of homeless families with children?
- understanding the incidence and prevalence of elder abuse, including financial and legal fraud in Queensland
- examining the social issues associated with rapid growth in Queensland
- understanding the increase in young women offenders and the increasing violence of their offences: what are the causal factors?
- what are the needs of baby boomers?
Priority areas in education:
- investigations into industry retention and ongoing practice post-training in arts disciplines
- how schools systems increase engagement in the arts - the professional arts experiences delivered to schools by external parties
- new media and changing patterns of consumption, participation and learning in education, training, and the arts
- the impact of training in specialist arts practice on employment, with particular focus on post-training transition programs
- factors affecting student retention in primary, secondary and/or tertiary institutions
- environmental education for sustainability as a whole school approach: The advantages and challenges, barriers and incentives
- comparative analysis of Indigenous and non-Indigenous parent engagement with classroom teachers
- factors influencing higher education participation in regional areas
- Indigenous students’ participation in higher education, further training and employment
- what are the influences on Queensland school students’ participation and retention in higher education, in particular considering school sector and region?
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