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Honours projects available for study in 2012
Completing an Honours degree develops your ability to design and complete a research project relatively independently within a given time frame. Students considering honours or postgraduate studies are encouraged to make an appointment with the one of the School's Research Degrees Coordinators to discuss the potential research topic and the availability of suitable supervisors.
The Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering has the following research projects on offer for both internal and external students.
School of Science, Education and Engineering
| Principal supervisor |
Projects |
| Dr Scott Burnett |
- vertebrate ecology, conservation and monitoring
|
| Associate Professor RW (Bill) Carter |
- protected area management
- management effectiveness
- adaptive management
- environmental and cultural tourism
|
| Dr Scott Cummins |
- olfaction and evolution
- reproduction, growth and aging
- marine biotechnology
- neuroethology
|
| Professor Abigail Elizur |
- aquaculture biotechnology
- fish reproduction
- prawn genetics
|
| Associate Professor Wayne Knibb |
- genetics
- aquaculture
- environmental monitoring
|
| Dr Ipek Kurtboke |
- environmental microbiology
- health coastal waters
- water microbiology
- agricultural and soil microbiology
- waste management
- biodiscovery
|
| Associate Professor David Lee |
- improvement of tropical and subtropical hardwood tree species for timber and carbon sequestration
- plant reproductive biology and breeding systems
- Eucalyptus, Khaya and Corymbia genetics and breeding
- gene flow from plantations to native forests
- propagation of forestry species
- optimal matching of tree species to sites and selection of forest trees adapted to marginal environments
|
| Associate Professor Kathy Lynch |
- information and communication technologies
- virtual reality
- computer interaction
- pedagogy
- education
- ex-HMAS Brisbane
|
| Dr Thomas Schlacher |
- coastal ecology and human impacts
- controls and threats of biodiversity in coastal and deep-sea ecosystems
- environmental pollution
|
| Dr Alison Shapcott |
- plant ecology genetics, conservation and restoration
|
| Dr Jatinder Sidhu / Dr Warish Ahmed |
- public health related water microbiology
- fate and behaviour of microbial pathogens in recycled and environmental water
- development of rapid molecular methods for detection of pathogens in environmental samples
- microbial source tracking in water
- validation of methodology for the improved detection of enteric pathogens in water
- detection and quantification of pathogens in roof-harvested rainwater and stormwater
- quantitative microbial risk assessment
|
| Dr Sanjeev Srivastava |
- application of spatial techniques to study natural resources — spatial techniques include geographical information systems, remote sensing, surveying (with GPS and other conventional tools), and virtual earth systems such as Google Earth
|
| Dr Neil Tindale |
- environmental science
- environmental engineering
|
For more information
School of Science, Education and Engineering
Tel: +61 7 5459 4519
Email: sheinfo@usc.edu.au
Honours Coordinator: Dr Scott Burnett
Tel: +61 7 5459 4812
Email: sburnett@usc.edu.au
For details on the Honours projects available for study in 2012, download the faculty's Honours guide 2012 (PDF 1MB)
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School of Health and Sport Sciences
| Principal supervisor |
Projects |
| Dr Lesley Brooker |
- biomineralisation processes
- molluscan physiology and systematics
- molecular control of biomineralisation processes
|
| Associate Professor Brendan Burkett |
- 3D movement analysis of sport technique (particularly gait and lower limb sports)
- elderly balance and gait
- children's gait
|
| Professor John Lowe |
- workplace health promotion
- health communication
- social, environmental and economical sustainable change for health
- individual risk factors for chronic diseases
- smoking prevention
- smoking cessation
- cancer prevention and control
- injury prevention
- addictions
- mental health
|
| Associate Professor Kathy Lynch |
- information and communication technologies
- development and evaluation of blended, e- and m- learning materials and environments
- social media
- padagogy
- curriculum design
|
| Jude Maher |
- Maternal and child nutrition
- public health nutrition intervention
- obesity prevention
- sustainable diets
|
| Dr Mark McKean |
- Australian Institute of Fitness Research
|
| Daniel Mellifont |
- musculoskeletal health and rehabilitation
- biomechanics of rugby union scrummaging
|
| Dr Rebecca Mellifont |
- 3D movement analysis
- biomechanics
|
| Dr Florin Oprescu |
- health promotion
- health communication
- injury prevention
- transformational and service learning
- social marketing
- use of ICT in health promotion
|
| Dr Fiona Pelly |
- sports nutrition and exercise metabolism
|
| Dr Anne Roiko |
- environmental health risk assessment
- water-related health risks
- ecosystem health indicator development
- health and sustainability
- environmental epidemiology
|
| Dr Fraser Russell |
- cardiovascular pharmacology
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| Dr Mark Sayers |
- biomechanics
- performance analysis
|
| Dr Gary Slater |
- applied sport performance nutrition
- applied sport performance focused exercise physiology
|
| Colin Solomon |
- exercise physiology
- respiratory physiology
- long duration exercise
|
| Associate Professor Shelley Walton |
- study of immune factors that affect the development, prevention and diagnosis of allergy and atopy
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For more information
School of Health and Sport Sciences
Tel: +61 7 5459 4513
Email: sheinfo@usc.edu.au
Honours Coordinator: Dr Mohammad Katouli
Tel: +61 7 5430 2845
Email: mkatouli@usc.edu.au
For details on the Honours projects available for study in 2012, download the faculty's Honours guide 2012 (PDF 1MB)
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