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Research Areas
Research programs are available at Masters, Doctorate and Professional Doctorate level.
Research topics can be pursued across a wide range of areas in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Business and Science.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Australian and Cultural Studies
- Youth culture and popular culture studies in film, television, literature and pop music
- Myth, fantasy and witchcraft in culture
- Australian film history
- Sci-fi horror and crime film and writing
- Heritage analysis and cultural heritage
- Urban, architectural and oral history
- Australian and global labour history
- Performance technology and the athletic body
- Sports history and identity
- Propaganda and war
- Corporate motives in Olympic education
Communication Studies
- Creative writing
- Public relations
- Media studies
- Journalism
- Professional writing
Environmental and Planning Studies
- Environmental management
- Environmental policy and planning
- Sustainable development
- Environmental economics
- Environmental justice
- Cultural geography
- Environmental ethics
- Environment, heritage and tourism
- Communications and the environment
Politics and International Relations
- International relations
- Asian-Pacific politics
- Australian politics
- Politics of the media
- Environmental politics
- American politics
Social and Community Studies
- Society and social institution functions
- Social, economic and political processes of social problems and issues
- Issues of power, knowledge, injustice and inequality
- Impacts of social constructs such as gender, class and race
- Social research methods
- Applied studies in community development
- Specialised areas of study including deviance, gender, youth, multiculturalism, indigenous issues, psychology, environment, health, disabilities, education, welfare, social policy and globalisation
Studies in Art and Design
- Visual communication and digital design
- Electronic media and multimedia
- Information design and visualisation
- Virtual tourism
- Digital aesthetics
- Navigation and virtual spaces
- Digital imaging and video technologies
- Digital semiotics
- Techno-sublime - rethinking traditional understandings of the sublime in the light of virtuality and digital technology
Faculty of Business
Accounting
- Financial, management and international accounting
- Accounting for investments
- Accounting for joint ventures
- Corporate governance
- Public Sector accounting performance
- Accounting theory and education
- Strategic management accounting
- Escalation of commitment to projects with sunk costs
- Social and environmental accounting
- Environmental management systems
- Small business management
- Management education
- Taxation
- Financial distress
- Insolvency
- Company reorganisation
- Finance
Information Systems
- Complex, ill-structured, real-world problem-solving with particular regard for the design of systems to support such activity
- Strategic management decision-making with particular regard to the design of information systems
- Systems methodologies (particularly Soft Systems Methodology)
- Information technology management within organisations - information requirements engineering
- New paradigm network-centred information systems (Internet and Intranet)
- Systems development methodologies particularly soft systems methodology
- Participation in systems development
- Systems frameworks development for making sense of complex, ill-structured problems
- E-commerce technologies adoption and diffusion
- Innovative information technologies and systems adoption and diffusion by small to medium enterprises (SMEs)
- Mobile data technologies and adoption by SMEs
- Electronic commerce and the digital economy
International Business
- International business and marketing for regional SMEs
- Cross-cultural management and marketing - East Asian focus
- Diversity management and multi-national companies (MNCs)
- Expatriate management and international HRM (human resource management)
- International strategic management and regional development
- Export marketing and management for regional SMEs
- Business networks
- Quality of business to business relationships
- Foreign market participation with a focus on Hong Kong
- Realist research philosophy and qualitative methods
- International marketing and purchasing
Management
- Strategy and productivity analysis
- Performance measurement
- Identification of issues that might affect organisations in regional areas
- Quality management
- Leadership
- Organisational behaviour and conflict
- Work stress and emotions
- Employment equity
- Regional economic development
- Organised crime
- Economy and business in Modern China
- Human resource management
- Indigenous employment
- Human rights and discrimination in employment
- Employment law
- Organisational behaviour (organisational culture,
- Organisational climate, and organisational socialisation) and work-related values / value congruence
- Higher education management
- Australian higher education history
- Conflict management - mediation and management practice
- University teaching and learning
Marketing
- Company turnarounds - reviving sick firms
- Strategic and sales force management
- Marketing orientation and growing business
- Research methods
- Marketing education and communications
- Advertising regulation
- Advertising self-regulation in Australia, overseas, and across boundaries
- Marketing research methods
- Social marketing issues
- Student attrition
- Marketing of new technology to small and medium-sized enterprises
- Services marketing
- Relationship marketing
- Consumer behaviour
- Service quality
- Customer satisfaction
- Health care marketing
Tourism
- Tourism decision making
- Community tourism development
- Special interest tourism and marketing
- Sustainable and small business tourism
- Technology and tourism
- Education needs in tourism
- Olympics, sport and tourism
- Ecotourism management
- Tourism policy and planning
- Sociocultural impacts of tourism
- Water-based tourism and recreation
- Tourism (coastal, marine, wildlife, nature-based, adventure-based, sports and events)
- Cetacean-human interaction management, interpretation
- Outdoor, marine, and environmental education
- Marine and coastal sports, recreation and leisure
- Corporate training, team building, leadership, and adventure based programming
- Personal, worksite and community health, health and lifestyle education and promotion
- Performance enhancement programs for individuals, teams, businesses and corporations
Faculty of Science
Biomedical Science
- Molecular markers of nutritional status and clinical disease
- Toxicology of plant and animal toxins
- Pharmacokinetics and drug residues
- Pathogenesis of bacterial translocation and sepsis
- Gut microbiota and probiotics
- Pharmacology of allergies and asthma
- Immunoreceptor signal transduction
- Mast cell and basophil biology
Environmental Science
In the key areas of natural environment, managed ecosystems, marine systems, environmental management, environmental restoration and ecology:
- Erosion and sediment transport
- Water erosion processes and soil conservation
- Erosion control technology
- Catchment management
- Molecular ecology
- Plant physiology
- Horticulture production
- Habitat fragmentation
- Maintenance of biodiversity
- Conservation genetics
- Coastal heath vegetation
- Restoration ecology
- Nature conservation studies
- Ornithology
- Conservation of rare and threatened plant species
- Ecology and population genetics of rare plants
- Rainforest ecology and population genetics of rainforest plants
- Animal-habitat associations
- Behavioural, physiological and evolutionary ecology
- Soil and water quality in agriculture and forestry
- Plant roots and processes at soil-root interface
- Management of soil compaction with tillage practices
- Contaminant uptake in plant systems
- Environmental management for community and private sector infrastructure
- Benthic soft-sediment community ecology
- Freshwater-estuarine exchanges
- Coastal conservation and biodiversity
- Estuarine ecology conservation
- Coastal population biology
- Sandy beach ecology
- Mapping natural organic compounds in riverine environments and their impact on native fish spawning
- Crustacean and mollusc physiology
- Aquaculture (including mollusc hatchery production)
- Post harvest physiology
- Bioremediation
- Mollusc taxonomy and conchology
- Ecological footprints
Life Sciences
Focusing on physiology and anatomy and exploring the aging process with respect to immunological, biomechanical, nutritional and behavioural changes:
- Growth factors and growth and development
- Scientific and immunological basis of natural therapies and preventative medicines
- Effects of exercise, stress and other parameters on mucosal immunity
- Pathophysiology of mammalian disease
- Physiology of digestion
- Skinned skeletal muscle fibre contractile properties
- Crustacean muscle stretch receptor functions
- Jelly fish envenomation
Microbiology and Biotechnology
Addressing the critical role of microbes in the environment and health:
- Epidemiology and ecology of food and water-borne pathogens
- Pathogenesis of bacterial translocation and sepsis
- Molecular environmental microbiology: blue green algal blooms, aquaculture systems
- Bioremediation - biorestoration
- Secondary metabolism of bacteria and improved production of bioactive compounds
- Biological control of crop pathogens
- Marine microbiology
- Bacteriophage therapy
- Molecular biotechnology: metabolic pathways, engineering and bioremediation
- Synthesis of new amino acid derivatives
- Analysis of microorganism metabolites
Public Health
Focusing on the management of social, economic and physical environmental conditions and human behaviours that promote, protect or harm health and well being:
- Body image
- Unhealthy weight and shape control methods
- Public health education, workforce training and development
- Capacity building for health promotion
- Health promoting schools
- Discrimination and prejudice
- Environmental epidemiology
- Ecosystem health indicators
- Integration of environmental and health risk assessment
- Aquatic ecotoxicology
- Environmental health indicators
- Health effect of air pollution especially in relation to child health and elderly people
Sport and Exercise Science
In the key areas of sports performance, exercise prescription, biomechanics and rehabilitation science:
- Biochemistry of exercise performance
- Biochemical markers of training and fatigue
- Nutritional ergogenic aids in sport
- Non-invasive monitoring of energy metabolism in athletes
- Exercise physiology
- Sports performance enhancement
- Thermoregulation during exercise
- Acclimatisation to heat and exercise
- Sports biomechanics - able and disabled athletes
- Functional rehabilitation
- Muscular function and training
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Exercise rehabilitation
- Obesity and exercise
- Age and obesity
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