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ABC tunes in to PhD research at USC
Twelve PhD students at the University of the Sunshine Coast have featured in a series of interviews with local radio station ABC Coast FM over the past few months.
Mary-Lou Stephens, who presents the ABC’s afternoon Drive program, chatted with students every Tuesday afternoon from September to the end of November about their PhDs.
Ms Stephens asked students to explain why they chose their particular PhD topics, what they had discovered, and what impact they hoped their research would have on society or the world.
ABC Coast FM reported that the interviews attracted positive feedback from listeners, while many of the students remarked on how much they had enjoyed being interviewed.
The radio station posted podcasts of many of the interviews on its website. The students and their PhD topics are listed below:
- 13 September – Steven Boyd – Creating authentic property investment games – Engagement and beyond in higher education.
- 20 September – Brad Stefanovic – Muscle fatigue in peripheral arterial disease - The effect of muscle metabolism and blood flow.
- 27 September – Alison Willis – The experiences of teachers in Northern Uganda with children and their learning.
- 4 October – Maureen O’Neill – High performance athletes at school: A study of conflicting demands.
- 11 October – Naomi Stekelenberg – Evolutionary disgust and the libertine fiction of the Marquis de Sade.
- 18 October – Ginna Brock – Athenian tragedy and the ontological position of the familial home (investigation into the goddess Hestia and the hearth).
- 25 October – Peter Jenner – Social enterprise with a focus upon the factors that make the sustainable.
- 1 November – David Fleischman – Marketing international education via community engagement to enhance to value of the international student experience.
- 8 November – Jamilla Rosdahl – Scultping the woman: A genealogical analysis of femininity and its relationship to muscularity.
- 15 November – Sarah Burkhart – Dietary intake, eating behaviours and nutrition knowledge of athletes competing at elite level competition.
- 22 November – Ashton Berry – Research into assisting local governments in making adaptive management decisions that enable sandy beaches to maintain their ecosystem services in the face of sea level rise.
- 29 November – Chandrika De Alwis – The role of Sri Lankan Media in a conflict transformation phase.
— Terry Walsh