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PhD and Masters Research Degrees In Australia

Are you looking to further your knowledge and become an expert in your field of interest? Start your greatest adventure with a Higher Degree by Research at the University of Adelaide.

Ranked in the top 100 of universities globally, at the University of Adelaide you will be involved in discovery, innovation and cutting-edge research. Enjoy an outstanding research environment under the wing of top-ranked researchers and establish life-long connections with industry and like-minded students. Start building your future now.

Find your degree

There is an option for every discipline. Explore our Masters and Doctorate degrees by research.

Industry opportunities

Turn theory into practice with a research internship and industry-engaged higher degree research program (HDR). Develop expertise in your chosen field and extend your professional contacts and networks.

Programs are open to applicants who are eligible for onshore study and meet the University of Adelaide’s English Language Requirements at the time of the application.

International joint PhDs

Widen your research connections and study at two high quality universities within Australia or between different countries.

You will spend time at each university and receive a single doctoral degree jointly awarded by both institutions.

Research connections

Australian Institute for Machine Learning

The University of Adelaide’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning is the largest university-based research group in machine learning in Australia. Research areas include agriculture, space, medicine, transport, defence, cybersecurity and advanced manufacturing.

The University of Adelaide is a founding member of SAHMRI, South Australia’s independent, not-for-profit health and medical research institute. Research areas include clinical trials, genetics, Aboriginal health, public health and medical imaging.

International scholarships

The University of Adelaide offers a range of strategic and merit-based scholarships for outstanding Higher Degree by Research applicants.

International student resources

Why study a research degree with us?

The infrastructure and supports for research students are excellent. I have enjoyed access to a range of services and courses created to promote career development. The staffs are friendly and very helpful.

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Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Higher Degrees by Research

Whether you intend to work in academia, government or industry, a higher degree by research can give you a competitive edge throughout your career.

With our research areas positioned above world standards * , and six disciplines ranked in the top 50 globally ^ , our internationally renowned academics are at the cutting edge of research and discovery.

By undertaking a research degree with us, you will be involved in discovery, innovation and cutting-edge research. Our strong focus on addressing global challenges creates a highly stimulating setting for our students interested in changing the world.

We provide a stimulating environment for research students. Be part of a thriving research culture which promotes excellence, fosters creativity and catalyses success.

Study options

Join our  Master of Philosophy  or  Doctor of Philosophy  research programs and experience specialised and research-intensive study.

Finding research opportunities

Research degrees in laboratories and groups at the University are highly competitive.

Finding a research project that drives your passion is a two-step process:

• You need to find an opportunity to work on a project that interests you, and then
• You will need to find a supervisor to work with.

Your highest chance of success will likely come from identifying areas that are a good ‘fit’ to your own research interests and your previous research experience.

If you find a lab or group that matches the criteria, contact them directly by email to introduce yourself. At this point, you should provide evidence of your academic achievements and, most importantly, details and evidence of your previous research training, such as scientific publications.

Found a research opportunity?

Once you have decided on a research project, an Academic will need to assess your eligibility.

Send the following to your  potential supervisor  or to one of our  Postgraduate Coordinators  for an initial assessment:

• academic transcripts
• completed  expression of interest form

Once you have emailed the above to your potential supervisor, you can apply for admission and scholarships through the Adelaide Graduate Research School. 

Admissions and scholarship applications

The  Adelaide Graduate Research School  administers applications for both admission and scholarships (domestic and international).

Scholarships

Scholarships for research degrees are available to international and domestic students. You can increase your chances of gaining a scholarship by having an established list of published research papers in internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals.

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Hear from us

Considering taking the next step and studying a Research Degree with us? Check out the recording of our recent info session to hear from a range of speakers what it’s like to undertake a research degree at UoA.

Industry engaged research

The University of Adelaide Industry PhD (UAiPhD) is an exceptional and innovative 4 year program, which includes a 6 month industry placement.

Gain valuable understanding about how organisations innovate and solve real world problems, making an impact with your research while gaining a significant employment advantage. 

Find out more

For more information, please contact the Adelaide Graduate Research School

• Email:  [email protected]
• Tel: +61 8 8313 5882
• Free Call: 1800 061 459

*  2018 Excellence in Research Australia ERA ^  Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020

School of Humanities

PhD Students

English, creative writing and film, creative writing.

Current HDR Candidates

Em Koenig – Queer Ecologies and Contemporary Poetry

Dancey Gordon – Metafictional Television: an Exegesis Investigating How Metafictional Techniques Can Add to the Quality Or Sophistication of a Television Comedy, Plus a Creative Work (Comedy Television Series) About a Creative Writing Student’s Life In a Postgraduate College

Glenn Diaz –Into the Forest: Historical Imagination in Philippine Fiction

Angela Kingston – Epistolary Novel about the Influence of Enid Blyton on Australian Cultural Identity

Olujide Adebayo-Begun – Iya Kafayat: A Novel (Creative Component) A Grammar of Play in a Postcolongy of a Postcolony (Exegesis)

Lyn Dickens – A Prose Fiction Project on Colonel William Light

Juliet Paine – Exerting Machines

Delana Carbone – Superfiction

Gemma Parker – The Blackness of the Sun: An Exploration of Nihilism and Meaning in the works of Albert Camus and Samuel Beckett

Jennifer Molloy – Beyond the frame: Assumptions and silences in ST Gill's utopian visions of Colonial South Australia

Stephen Abram – Tattoos as Ekphrastic Narratives of Otherness in Crime Fiction

Jane Turner Goldsmith – Motivations to Read in the Time of the Virus – ‘Psychological First Aid’ and the Composite Novel

Verity Oswin – A Woman is a State (Poet as Vandal): An intersectional feminist reading of Major Mitchell’s Australia Felix expedition and the production of a colonial poetics to legitimize dispossession

Natalie Le Beau – Notes from the Pyrocene

Susan Hazel – Longpela Gut Bai: A Braided Narrative of Privilege and Loss

Nadia Roberts – Writing a war from within a war: Explorations in traumatic Bosnian war memory

Bronwyn Lovell – Astronaut Adaptations: What reboots and revisions reveal about shifting attitudes toward astronauts and space exploration

Gillian Hagenus – Writing the Australian Suburban Gothic

Alex Sutcliffe – No Promises: Literary Language and Late Capitalism

Jane Costessi – Tracing Charlotte Jay: The Geraldine Halls Project

Recently Completed

Mark Anthony Cayanan – Major Work: Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous; Exegesis: "Expiation, For, the, sin, of, Nothing": The Politics of Form in Queer Philippine Poetry in English

Gretta Mitchell – kookaburra: anti tales of laughing doom (PhD)

Anj Foley – Narratives of Child Abduction in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe: Volume 1: Novella; Volume 2: Exegesis (MPhil)

Emily Palmer – Volume 1: Scapegrace; Volume 2: The (Absent) Female Body: Cross-dressing Narratives in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction (PhD)

Paul Turley – The Poetic Invitation: Exploring manifold experience in easy poems (MPhil)

Phillipa Martin – Volume 1: My Killer Secret; Volume 2: 'Literary' Crime Fiction - an Analysis (PhD)

Ngoc Thu Hoang – Vietnam to the World, a Magical Connection: 'Embers of Time' (a novel) and 'Bridging Disparate Realms' (an exegesis) (PhD)

Current Candidates

Benjamin Kearvell – English – Deleuzian Difference and Disability

Owen Everitt – Mapping the Murray: a Bioregional Approach to Character and Narrative

Darryl Do – A Literary Study of Classical Influences on Milton's Theodicy in Paradise Lost

Najla Alyabis – Muslim Women's Identity in a Changing World: the Fiction of Leila Aboulela

Samuel Cox – A Search for Country in Australian Literature

Laura Hamilton – Reading-as-Witnessing in the Trans-Indigenous Literacy Archive: a Study of Lee Maracle and Alexis Wright

Celine Zerna – 'The Other in Ourselves': The Ethics, Aesthetics, and Epistemologies of Feminist (Auto) Ethnography

Jacob Sunter – Beach Bodies: Cruising the Shore in Fire Island Literature

Jana Norman – LGBT Bound for South Australia: The role of gender and sexual diversity in migration and mobility to South Australia 1950-1999

Meg Madden – Fragments of Self: Contemporary Women's Life Writing

Clare Charlesworth – Revisionary Practices in American Literature: A Study of Walt Whitman, Henry James, and Willa Cather

Theodora Galanis – Figuring the Sea, Inland: Oceanic Imaginaries in Contemporary Australian Literature

Azadeh Feridoun Pour – “. . . a story in an obscure corner of the front page . . .” American White Women Novelists: New Recognitions (1950s-1965)

Matthew Couper – Fishing in Moby-Dick, Omeros, and Carpentaria

Taylor Westmacott – Violence, Boredom, Extinction: Artist Depictions of Symbolic Death and Masculine Deliquency

Ruby Niemann – From Zero Hour to Kudzucene: Reading Margaret Atwood's Post-Millennial Novels under the Auspices of Anthropocene Thought (PhD)

Patrick Moritz – ‘A lightness that is both new and a return’: Nekyia and katabasis in twenty-first century receptions of the Iliad (MPhil)

Kate Bowen – The Masks That Wear Men: The Representation of Masculine Masquerade In 1990s American Action Cinema (PhD)

Brydie Kosmina – We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn’: Feminist Afterlives of the Witch in Popular Culture (PhD)

Charlotte Kelso – Bound by Narrative: 'Reading' the Female Body and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (MPhil)

Jane Nelson – Shakespeare and Christian Hermetism: religio mentis a Study of Esoteric Thought in Four Plays (PhD)

Jessie Bryne – Just Desserts: Reading, Writing and Rewarding Australian Women’s Crime Fiction (PhD)

Kezia Perry – Shadow of The Archers and Crossing Over: Writing Young Adult Fiction and Finding the Contemporary Reader

Alison Coppe – Notes from Above Water: Fictocriticism as Queer Creative Research Practice (PhD)

European Languages and Linguistics

French studies.

Current HDRs

Debra Hoadley – French Studies - Collaboration in Photographic Art Works (Sophie Calle and Mathieu Briand)

Freya Davies-Ardil – French Studies - Geographies of Francophone Pacific Literature - Mapping Place, Writers and Writing

Lauren Twine – French Studies - Exploring Artistic Responses to Far-right Populism in Contemporary France

Melanie Maillot – French Studies - Poetics of Neutrality and the Question of Being in the poetic work of Andrée Chedid and Jeanne Benguigui

Marianne Braux – French Studies - Parole De Narrateurs: Figures De L'Enonciation Dans Le Recit Francais Moderne (PhD)

German Studies

Mary Quigley – German Studies - Learning German in English-Speaking Tertiary Contexts: Identity, Social Strategies and Language Use

Linguistics

Quang Le – Linguistics - Time-marking words in Vietnamese - from fallacious tense-aspect-mood markers to modal particles of sequentiality

Yumei Cui – Linguistics - Semantic Preference in Chinese Business English Words: a Corpus-based Study

Teuku Auwal – Linguistics - A Study of Young Acehnese-lndonesian Bilingual Adults in Aceh

Christopher Venning – Linguistics - Linguistic Classification in the Daly River Languages

Caryn Rogers – Linguistics - Rhetorical Structure and Persuasion in Classical Hebrew

Elise Westin – Linguistics - Unburied Memories: Exploring the Cultural Trauma Process through Holodomor Survivor Literature

Susie Greenwood – Linguistics - A Comparative Study of Breton and Cornish

Hakeem Beedar – Linguistics - Ainu Revitalisation in Japan: a comparative study

Ingrid Kerrigan – Linguistics - Reconstruction of Barngarla Lexicon from Primary and Secondary Sources

Chloe Castle – Linguistics - Co-option of Grammatical Resources from Foreign Languages (a Focus on English and Czech)

Eve Kheir – Linguistic - Codeswitching as an Index and Construct of Sociopolitical Identity: The Case of the Druze, Christians and Muslims in Israel (PhD)

Penelope Cashman – Linguistics - International Best Practice in the Teaching of Lyric Diction to Conservatorium-Level Singers (PhD)

Historical and Classical Studies

Art history.

Sarah Gibson-Walker – Art History - The Visual Culture of Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand

Heather Lee – Art Histor - Australian sculptor Ian Bow and the plurality of mid-century Modernism

Alexandra Mowbray – Art History - The Contemporary Nude in The Digital Age

Alexandra Nitschke – Art History - The History of the Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia (CAOA) Network

Ralph Body – Art History - Behind the Scenes: Hans Heysen's Art World Networks (PhD)

Susan Woodburn – Art History - Alexander Schramm (1813-64) and the Visual Representation of Aboriginal People in Mid-Nineteenth Century Colonial Australia (PhD)

Nerina Dunt – Art History - Investigating the Aesthetic Character of Australian Urban Indigenous Art: A Socio-Political Fusion (PhD)

Gemma Neal – Classics - (Mis)translation of Sexual Violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Greg Macpherson – Classics - From Magic to Medicine: The dynamics of faith and science in drug development in antiquity.

Emily Chambers – Classics – Free speech in the Roman world

Mary Harpas – Classics – The Hippocratic Understanding of the Living Body (MPhil)

Tamas Preston – Classics - Dissimulation and Veiled Criticisms in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (MPhil)

Tiana Blazevic-Bastow – Classics – The Ascent to the Hidden One: The Reception of the Egyptian One God in Neoplatonism and the Greek Magical Papyri

Benjamin Nagy – Classics – Carmen et Standard Error: Computational Methods of Stylistics in Latin Poetry

Tamara Bremert – Classics – Sex in Suetonius: Sexual Material as a Characterisation Device for Tyrannical Emperors (MPhil)

Judith Bailey – Classics – Fleecing the Pious: The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow in the Central and North Welsh Marches 1400-1530 (PhD)

Alex Antoniou – Classics - Divine Emperors and Italy: Emperor Worship in the Italian Peninsula (Excluding Rome) (MPhil)

Janice Lee – Classics - Silius Italicus' Punica 8. 1-241: a Commentary (MPhil)

Rebekah Harms – History - Building the Innovation Economy: the Development of Science and Technology Policy in South Australia, 1980 - 2020

Grace Waye-Harris – History - Henrician Fashion Diplomacy

Megan Nattrass – History - Princess Mary and the Performance of Loyalty, 1516-1547.

Michael Heim – History - Precarious Accounts: Britain 1700-1850

Alexander Parsons – History - Australian Protestant Church Responses to the Threat and Reality of War, 1931 - 1945

Tamika Gloutfsis – History - Interpreting History in Interactive Media, with Particular Focus on Video Games

Emma Carson – History - Intimacy, Power, and Separation: The Impact of Military Service on Marital Relationships in World War II

Jessie Lewcock – History - Documenting Suicides by Australian First and Second World War Veterans

Jack Crawford – History - The rise of industrial unionism in South Australia, 1908-22

Jodie Vanderpeer – History - South Australian Art Needlework 1876-1909.

Tess Watterson – History - Gender, History and Magic: The Witch in Video Games

David Milazzo – History - Conflicting Histories: The Memorialisation of Frontier Violence

Julian Kusabs – History - Indigenous Civic Literacy: A Comparative History of Education in Australia and New Zealand

Cathy Chua – History - How conflict between online social network platform providers and users develops and is resolved

Natalie Ciecierska-Holmes – History - Raw Feeding for Dogs in the UK and Australia: A Social and Ethical Cross-Cultural Comparison

Caitlin Merlin – History - The New York City Theatrical Community’s Response to the 1980s and 1990s HIV/AIDS Crisis

Elijah Winters – History - Australia and the Apollo Program

Tatiana Sazonova – History - Merchants of pre-revolutionary Russia: their role in the life of the empire and influence on society

Kelly McKinley – History - History of Community Attitudes and Activism in Australia Around The Emergence and Development of GM for Food and Agricultural Purposes, 1970s- Present

Karina Burns – History - Animal Ethics in Psychological Research in Australia from 1900 to Present

Daniella Pilla – History – Migrant Hostels

Jasmin Parasiers – History - Early Modern Sermons and Religious Culture

Selina Kuo – History - Neither Bread Nor Cake: Ersatz Foods and The Spirit of Full Disclosure

Virginia Baker – History - Science at the Interface: Community Engagement and The Promise and Transdisciplinarity

Lisa Hunt – History - 'Blackboxing' Australian Science? Understanding Popular Perceptions of Science in Australia, 1939- 1963

Adam Scorgie – History - Australia's Pivot from the UK to the USA in the Twentieth Century

Lachlan McCarron – History - Politics and Emotion in Jacksonian America

Alexander Pring – History - Roman Catholic Missions in the Americas and East Asia in English Anti-Catholic Discourse, 1558-1660

Courtney Davis – History - Th evolution of memory politics in Scotland, 1979-2016

Madeleine Sallis – History - Examination of the relationship between white settlers and the local Aboriginal population in the Cooper Creek region

Robert Bartnik – History - Boleslaw Bierut and Stalinism in Poland, 1944-1956

Emma Grimes – History - ‘A Floating Home’: The emotional lives of nineteenth-century emigrants voyaging to Australia

Jade Ryles – History - The War at Home: Australian Children and their Families during World War II

Benjamin Nicholls – History - The Piano and Colonisation in South Australia

Elizabeth Bor – History - Responses to Bushfires in Colonial South Australia

James Hurst – History - Two Australian colonists, the 2nd Life Guards and the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte: Private Thomas Playford and Lieutenant Richard Meares in England, Portugal, Spain, Belgium and France during the Peninsular Campaign and the Hundred Days.

Lani Gerbi – History – Socio-sexual scripts and erotic literature in eighteenth-century Britain (MPhil) – under examination

Claire Morey – History – “I will not maintain you”: Understanding men’s desertion and failure to provide as economic abuse in colonial South Australia (MPhil)

David Chadwick – History – Hear the Lion Roar: Trade unionism at General Motors-Holden’s in South Australia, 1931-1981 (PhD)

Jessica Jocher – History - The Solidarity Wave: Settlement Experiences and their Influence on the Identity of Polish Migrants Arriving in Australia During the 1980s (PhD)

Linda Haines – History - The Bounty of the Suburbs. Home Food Production and Preservation in Adelaide Suburban Yards 1945-1995 (PhD)

Emily Ireland – Law/History - Married Women’s Litigation in the English Court of Chancery, 1698-1758 (PhD)

Stephanie Thomson – History - Women, Piety, and Patronage in Reformation England, c.1530-1558 (PhD)

Jessica McCandless – History - Mysticism and Emotional transformation in a Seventeenth-Century English Convent (PhD)

Thomas East – History - Anglo-American Responses to German War Technology in World War II (MPhil)

Rachel Caines – History - "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out": The Acknowledgement of Indigenous First World War Service in Australian and New Zealand National Commemorations, 1918-2019 (MPhil)

Rachel Harris – History - In a State of War: Women's Experiences of the South Australian Home Front, 1939-45 (PhD)

Melissa-Ellen Dowling – History – Writing Russia: Anglophone Historians Discursively Constructing AnOther Nation (PhD)

John Davey – History – Legalised Trade Unions, Compulsory Primary Schooling, Enhanced Higher Education - the Legacies of Anthony John Mundella, 1825-1897 (PhD)

Margaret Boult – History -  Epilepsy in the Lunatic Asylums of South Australia (1852 – 1913) (MPhil)

Emily Buddle – History - Australian Meat Consumers' Understandings of Farm Animal Welfare (PhD)

David Milazzo – History - Commemorative Days and the Negotiation of National Identity (MPhil)

Karen Agutter – History - More than Just a Roof over Their Heads: Migrant Accommodation Centres and the Assimilation of "New Australians" 1947-1960 (PhD)

Tania Cammarano – History - Ideas of Italy and the Nature of Ethnicity: A History of Italian Food in Australia with Case Studies (PhD)

Matthew Gray – History - 'Baptism, No Wall of Division': Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptists and Dynamics of Toleration (PhD)

Jade Riddle – History - Emotions in Place: The Creation of the Suburban 'Other' in Early Modern London (PhD)

Kelly Birch – History - SLAVERY AND THE ORIGINS OF LOUISIANA’S PRISON INDUSTRY, 1803-1861 (PhD)

Alexander Parsons – History - 'Everybody's Favourite Fascist': An Examination of the Figure of José Antonio Primo de Rivera within the Historiography of Spanish Fascism (PhD)

Amy Morrison – History - Communist Women's Resistance in Occupied Paris: Engagement, Activism and Continuities from the 1930s to 1945 (PhD)

Jennifer Caruso – History - Dream-Phantasy of a Utopia The Making of the Methodist Overseas Half-Caste Mission of Croker Island: A Personal History (PhD)

Peter Whellum – History - The Administration of Justice in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands: A Front Line in Tensions between Traditional Aboriginal Culture and the Criminal Law (PhD)

Stefania Chiro – History - For The Sentiment: Emotions as Practice in the Development of Eighteenth-Century British Abolitionism (PhD)

Current HDRs PhD

Anne Nattembo - Investigating Effectiveness of Social Networking Sites in Influencing Mental Health Promotion Among Young People

Alexander Beare - Moments of crisis: Tracking 21st century masculinity through complex television

Kari Seeley - Positioning Audio Description in Media Theory: an Australian Context

Caitlin Adams - Media Mimicry - How fictional videos emulate user-generated content in online stories

Amy Brierley - The Evolution of Romance in Digital Games

Robert Boucat - ‘Oscar Bait’: exploring links between the perceived Oscar-worthy film and Academy Awards controversies.

Marisol Da Silva - Household Experiences of Reducing Waste: Moving Towards Circular Economy Futures

Sebastian Morrison - Non-Normative Gender Identity in the Australian Video Games Sector

Philippa Dore - The Revolution Will Be Televised: Audio-visual content in the era of streaming and “peak TV”. An investigation of industry change, content trends, and globalisation post the digital revolution

Sophia Fluin - A Multifaceted Perspective on Hallyu and its Impact on Ethnic Identity Amongst Asian-Australian Youths

Idris Martin - Historical Memory and Malay Media

Thanh Nguyen - Identity and belonging negotiation through social media during the process of integration among Vietnamese international students in Australia

Sami Dannaoui - Design Cultures in Conflict: An Analysis of User Experience Design Standards in Social Media Smartphone Apps ( )

Guillaume Vetu - Beyond the Tree of the Living-dead: a Rhizoanalysis of Japanese Cinematic Zombies ( )

Muhammad Imran - Media Portrayal of Ageing: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Media Discourses in Australia and Malaysia (PhD)

Rukia Nzibo - Reporting on Terror: Assessing the Viability of Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News Media (PhD)

Ayodeji Aiyesimoju - Remediation or Replacement: Masthead Stakeholders' Perception of News Digitalisation in Nigeria (PhD)

Amy Nancasrrow - The Art of Selling Arts: Marketing Culture Using Digital Media at Fringe Arts Festivals (PhD)

Brigitte Everett - Temporal Passage: Dynamic Experiences and the B-theory (MPhil)

Rebecca Randell - Beyond Dualism: The Challenge for Feminist Theory (MPhil)

William McCarthy - Contested Kingdom: The Role of Online Media in the Relationship between Disney and Fans over Disneyland (PhD)

Varunika Ruwanpura - Crafting true stories: an interpretation of four Australian journalists' nonfiction writing practices (MPhil)

Linh Chung - South Australian Film-makers' Perspectives on Policies: State and Federal Film Policies and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Australian Films (MPhil) Robert Farquharson - The Role of Analog Computation in Path Integrating Behaviour of the Desert Ant: A Defence of the Explanatory Credentials of Connectionism in Cognitive Science (MPhil)

Robert Palmer - Adapting communication conventions: Helping vulnerable people in Adelaide learn about climate change and adaptation (PhD)

Hongyan Zou - Western China on Screen: Cinema and Urban Exploration as Thirdspace (PhD)

Dook Shepherd - Philosophical Theories of Mind, Cognition, and The Status of Representation: Veridicality and Combination in Biological Sciences

Matthew Nestor - A Structuralist Account of Dynamical Mental Representation in Recurrent Connectionist Networks

Victoria Vazquez Troitino - The Mind's Representing Vehicles and Their Contents ( Phil of Mind, Theories of thought)

Patrick Keeley - Schopenhauer's Theory of Aesthetics

James Vlachoulis - A Defence of the B-Theory of Time with Respect to Temporal Passage and Our Experience of Temporal Passage

Riley Harris - Normative Uncertainty and Information Value

Timothy Nailer - Praise, Blame and Holding Oneself Responsible

Henry Phillips - To Blame or Not to Blame: Respect and the Ethics of Blame

Nicholas Smyth – 17 th /18 th century philosophy

Jessica Pohlmann - Reality's Hierarchical Structure: On the Foundations of Asymmetric Dependence Relations

Margaret Penhall-Jones - Self-Deception and Wilful Ignorance. Self-induced, purported ignorance?

Elinor Pryce - The Morality of Procreation and Our Duty to Rescue Others From Harm

Anthony Bishop - Underdetermination and theoretical values

Adam Townsend - Representation in Neural Networks

Danny Wardle - Opening a Can of Spacetime Worms: The Metaphysics of Persistence

Atheer Al-Khalfa - The Referential/Attributive Distinction: Its Status and Scope (MPhil)

Michael Lazarou - Vindicating Vague Objects (MPhil)

Robert Farquharson - The Role of Analog Computation in Path Integrating Behaviour of the Desert Ant: A Defence of the Explanatory Credentials of Connectionism in Cognitive Science (MPhil)

Karen Bland - The Good, the Right and the Exigencies of Life: John Dewey and the Value of Moral Disagreement (PhD)

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Higher Degrees by Research

Want an exceptional student experience? Our postgraduate research students receive a world-class education from a university ranked in the top 1% of universities in the world.

Study with us and open the door to a range of rewarding career opportunities. Become a part of a community of alumni that includes Nobel Prize winners, pioneering researchers and world-renowned leaders in health. Our research programs are held in high regard, their quality and impact respected by peers and the community.

Why study a higher degree by research?

Studying a higher degree by research can provide you with the skills and experience to pursue different career opportunities, particularly a career in research. Employers recognise that the research ability and broad range of transferable skills which University of Adelaide graduates possess equip them well for challenging and diverse roles in industry, government and business, as well as in research and academic organisations. By undertaking a research degree with us, you will be involved in discovery, innovation and cutting-edge research. Our strong focus on addressing global challenges creates a highly stimulating setting for our students interested in changing the world.

We have a huge range of research projects listed under  Research Degree Projects (pdf file) .

Our postgraduate research degrees allow you to specialise and extend your knowledge in a research area of your choice. As part of the South Australian Health and Biomedical Precinct, we offer significant state of the art core technologies capabilities and facilities enabling students to provide innovative solutions to their research questions.  

The benefits of completing a postgraduate research degree include:

• The opportunity to attend conferences and symposiums to present your research and to network with national and international researchers in your field.
• The development of strong time management and organisational skills.
• The development of professional skills in presenting research in an academic context, both within your school and the wider University community, as well as nationally and internationally.
• A wider range of employment opportunities including higher paid jobs, both in Australia and overseas.

Finding a supervisor

A key component of a successful postgraduate research experience is finding the best supervisor to help you achieve your investigative goals. Depending on your area of interest, there are several avenues for you to explore potential postgraduate research topics and locate a supervisor. For an overview of all research within the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, and to locate a supervisor, explore our areas of research  and browse the  Research Degree Projects (pdf file)  .

Find all the information on your candidature and the Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences in the  2024 FHMS HDR Handbook .

Before applying online, you need to secure the support of a supervisor and postgraduate coordinator within your proposed school. To secure a supervisor, please forward a copy of your complete portfolio in one PDF to the Adelaide Graduate Research School . Please refer to the HDR portfolio submission criteria below.

HDR portfolio submission

To be considered by a postgraduate coordinator for higher degree by research studies, prospective students must submit a portfolio, including all of the below listed items in a single PDF formatted file.

• The degree you are applying for (e.g. Doctor of Philosophy/Master of Philosophy/Master of Clinical Science). Refer to Degree Finder for further information.
• The names of up to three potential supervisors from the school in which you wish to study. For information on our researchers and their availability to supervise, visit Researcher Profiles .         
• A short statement of your research interests and what you would like to research for your degree (maximum 200 words).
• Your English Proficiency Certificate. The faculty only accepts IELTS/TOEFL/PTE/CAE with scores as per the Adelaide Graduate Research School's English language requirements .
• Your academic resume.
• Your Google Scholar ID and/or ORCiD ID.
• Your academic transcripts for your undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
• Certificates for all of your university degrees and diplomas. Please do not include any other certificates, such as merit awards or for non-degree training.
• A summary of the main findings from the research component of any masters and/or honours degree, and from any other research experience.
• The full Vancouver or Harvard reference of any peer-reviewed publications with a statement regarding your contribution to each.
• The names and contact details of two academic referees who can comment on your research performance to date and on your aptitude for HDR studies. At least one of these referees should preferably be a principal supervisor and able to comment on the research component of your masters and/or honours degree.

Please note: Incomplete portfolios or documents that are not combined into a single PDF file will not be considered further. PDF converters are available to download from the Adelaide Graduate Research School .

How to apply

The  Adelaide Graduate Research School administers both domestic and international postgraduate research applications.

To be eligible for entry into a research degree, you must have honours or proven experience in research, either through a coursework program with a substantial research component or industry experience. For more information, regarding entry requirements, admission and scholarships, visit the  Adelaide Graduate Research School .

International study opportunities for PhD students

In 2015, the University of Adelaide and our priority partners, Nagoya University (Japan) and the University of Freiburg (Germany) signed formal agreements to offer Joint PhD programs in the area of medical and biomedical research. In these programs, PhD students are enrolled in both the University of Adelaide and the respective partner university and will be supervised by experts from each university. At PhD completion, students will receive a jointly awarded PhD degree.

Students undertaking the joint PhD program will spend most of their candidature at the University of Adelaide and at least one year under academic supervision within the School of Medicine, Nagoya University or International Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg. All instruction is undertaken in English. 

What are the benefits?

• Obtain world class training and experience in quality research environments at two highly ranked universities
• Build international networks between researchers in Adelaide and Nagoya or Freiburg
• Attend Japanese or German language and culture training before departure to Japan or Germany
• Receive a Joint University PhD Degree at completion

Who is eligible?

Students interested in a biomedical or medical research area who received a first class honours or research master degree. You must be interested in working on your research project at both universities.

Are you interested?

If you would like to learn more about joint PhD opportunities, the application process and how to get in contact with suitable supervisors at both universities, please visit the Adelaide Graduate Research School .

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This collection contains Ph.D. and Masters (Research) theses from University of Adelaide postgraduate students.

Note that in many cases the full content of the thesis is not available here; instead we have scanned the title page, contents pages and abstract from each thesis and made that available as a PDF file. In 2015, the Library began a project to digitise and make all research theses available online. We expect new theses to be deposited here in complete form. Older theses may be included here on request from the author.

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PhD Internship Scholarship - IVAI

Internship Opportunity with Insight Via Artificial Intelligence – One opportunity is available for PhD students undertaking research in disciplines related to software engineering, computer science, data analytics or statistics

Organisational Overview

Insight Via Artificial Intelligence (IVAI) is an innovative Adelaide-based SME with extensive experience in the research, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual/augmented reality, and data analytics technologies.  

Internship Project Overview:

IVAI has curated an extensive dataset of physiological (biosensor) time series data, collected from various wearable devices worn by 100 participants over a two-week period as part of the Defence research project. This internship opportunity will involve joining IVAI’s research team to conduct a comprehensive exploratory data analysis on this dataset. 

During the internship, you will undergo extensive mentoring in data analysis techniques and methodologies, exposing you to the latest research in the field.  You will have the opportunity to interact with the project team and to work on a leading-edge Defence project.

You will be supported through an Internship Scholarship co-funded by Defence Trailblazer and IVAI, and providing stipend at a rate of $1,200 per week.

Internship activities may include:

• exploring low-level statistical details, such as analysing the frequency of missing data, assessing the agreement between different sensors (e.g., through Bland-Altman plots), and characterising outliers;
• undertaking traditional machine learning tasks, such as feature extraction for classification or clustering, both in supervised and unsupervised learning contexts,
• organising and partitioning the data, generating insightful visualisations, and
• documenting any significant insights or hypotheses that arise from the analysis.

Eligibility Criteria:

• PhD students undertaking research in the field of software engineering, statistics, data analytics or computer science
• a solid foundation in statistics and proficiency in data analysis with the ability to use programming languages such as R, Python, MATLAB, or Julia
• proficiency in writing Jupyter notebooks and producing clean, well-documented code/scripts.
• Australian citizens able to receive security clearance.

Additional Information:

The internship is anticipated to commence in October 2024 and will be offered on a part-time basis (2-3 days/week) over a 6-month period, for a minimum of 60 business days.

The student will be appropriately supervised by a qualified IVAI staff member.

At the conclusion of the project, full-time employment opportunities may be available for suitable candidates interested in future employment with Insight Via Artificial Intelligence. 

Application Procedure:

Application Start Date: 19 September 2024

Application Close Date: 3 October 2024

To apply, please refer to the Defence Trailblazer website and complete an online EOI form to provide the following documents for the – IVAI PhD Internship – Defence research Project

• Cover Letter (of not more than 1 page) addressing the essential criteria and relevant skills and experience

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview with Insight Via Artificial Intelligence.

If you have any follow up queries or require any other information prior to submitting your application, please contact Saba Ashraf, DTB WIL Program Coordinator, at [email protected] and we will be happy to assist you.

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Biosketch format pages, instructions, and samples.

A biographical sketch (also referred to as biosketch) documents an individual's qualifications and experience for a specific role in a project.  NIH requires submission of a biosketch for each proposed senior/key personnel and other significant contributor on a grant application. Some funding opportunities or programs may also request biosketches for additional personnel (e.g., Participating Faculty Biosketch attachment for institutional training awards).  Applicants and recipients are required to submit biosketches

• in competing applications for all types of grant programs,
• in progress reports when new senior/key personnel or other significant contributors are identified, and
• to support prior approval requests for changes in senior/key personnel status and changes of recipient organization.

NIH staff and peer reviewers utilize the biosketch to ensure that individuals included on the applications are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research. NIH biosketches must conform to a specific format. Applicants and recipients can use the provided format pages to prepare their biosketch attachments or can use SciENcv ,  a tool used to develop and automatically format biosketches according to NIH requirements.

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The evolution of antibiotic tolerant staphylococcus aureus cell types during long term colonisation developing into diabetes foot infection., phd research project.

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Development of broadband electronic warfare sensors for signal detection and direction finding

Targeting transposable elements in cancer, competition funded phd project (students worldwide).

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Space Domain Awareness Object Characterisation

Optimization of superconducting devices by mean of quantum field theories, multistatic and bi-static localisation of underwater targets, target motion analysis from doppler sensors, high-power, single-mode interdigitated slow photon laser diodes, enabling blue osmotic–green hydrogen energy coupling, atomic-scale regulation on photocatalysts for solar plastic upcycling, development of automatic control systems for integrated microfluidic chips used in mrna vaccine manufacturing, novel material (mofs) synthesis using microfluidic reactor, development of advanced anode materials for proton-based solid oxide fuel cells, development of integrated microfluidic chips for making mrna nanomedicines.

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Removing unwanted smoky notes from wine

The use of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) in taking smoke taint out of wine has been tested by University of Adelaide researchers.

University of Adelaide researchers have evaluated a new method to remediate smoke tainted wine, incurring less damage to the final product.

Smoke-derived compounds can build up in the skins and pulp of grapes after exposure to smoke, and can lead to the development of unpleasant smoky, medicinal and ashy characteristics after fermentation.

Currently adsorbents like activated carbon are used to remove the taint compounds, but they can also remove some of the desirable colour, aroma and flavour attributes from wine.

In this study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , Professor of Oenology from the University's School of Agriculture, Food and Wine Kerry Wilkinson and team used molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) tailored to specifically bind smoke taint compounds to remove them from Pinot Noir wine, Semillon juice and wine, and Merlot must and wine.

“The need for methods that address smoke taint in wine has increased as the impact of bushfires on wine regions around the world grows,” said Professor Wilkinson.

"I see an ongoing need for various strategies for mitigation and/or amelioration of smoke taint in the vineyard and the winery, into the future, as bushfires are predicted to continue to occur in the future due to warmer, drier conditions during the grape growing season." Professor Kerry Wilkinson, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide

The team experimented with adding the MIPs both during and after fermentation, either directly or in muslin bags, as well as with or without stirring. They found the addition of MIPs during fermentation gave the best wine chemical and sensory outcomes.

New Zealand headquartered MIP specialists, amaea, developed the MIPs used in the study, with its Head of Science Dr Sylvia Baars providing support. 

“The selectivity of MIPs is compelling as it helps retain key varietal characteristics of the wine. The work done with Kerry and her team provided valuable insight into how MIPs behave in a variety of scenarios,” said Dr Baars.

“An earlier version of our MIPs was used for this research and since then, many of the learnings have been implemented to create what is now being commercially used in Canada and the United States which is soon to include Australia as well.”

Professor Wilkinson said works are continuing around the best way for MIPs to be used in the winery.

"PhD student Yiming Huo completed a winery-based trial evaluating remediation of smoke tainted Chardonnay, rosé and Cabernet Sauvignon wines on a semi-commercial scale using a column packed with MIPs," she said.

"He showed that MIPs can remove volatile phenols from the wine, but further work is needed to optimise the MIP dose and the wine flow rate, to improve the efficacy of treatment.

"We also have an ARC Linkage Project underway investigating novel approaches to both detecting and managing smoke taint, in addition to our work on MIPs.

"We’re seeing promising results from trials involving spinning cone column distillation and membrane filtration technologies for remediation of smoke taint in wine.

"We’re also working with activated carbon fabric to prevent smoke contamination of grapes in the vineyard – again, results are promising but there are some logistical challenges to overcome."

Media Contacts: Kerry Wilkinson, Professor of Oenology, The University of Adelaide. Phone: +61 (0)407 185 994. Email: [email protected] Rhiannon Koch, Media Officer , The University of Adelaide. Phone: +61 (8)8313 4075. Mobile: +61 (0)481 619 997. Email: [email protected]

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