Current Projects

This page helps us to be informed about one another's ongoing research. Researchers and post-graduate students are welcome to submit a description of their project(s) for inclusion on this page using this format. Updates and links to researchers' own web pages and documents are also welcome.

Information on Past Projects

• Behavioural pathways to obesity: Understanding the role of physical activity and nutrition in weight gain among Australian adults
  Researcher(s): Kylie Ball (Deakin University), supervised by David Crawford
  
  
• Palliative Care practices in high intensive transplant care units
  Researcher: Cecelia Boyd
  
  
• Learning Improves in Networking Communities (LINC)
  Researcher: Dr Joanne Deppeler
  
  
• The role of control in determining subjective well-being among obese women and women self-reporting disturbed eating behaviour
  Researcher: Sasha Gardiner-Crossley (Deakin University)
  
  
• Quality of life within the community – A focus on Neighbourhood Watch
  Researcher: Kathryn Heily (Supervised by Dr. Sandra Tunley)
  
  
• Impact of the Limbs of Hope Prosthetic Program on the Physical and Psychosocial Function of Victims of Uppere Extremity Amputation in Sierra Leone, West Africa
  Researcher(s): Jeffrey Johnson MS, Kim Kargbo RN, Matthew Oakes MS, Stephanie Oakes MS
  
  
• A comparative Analysis of the Quality of Life between People in Recovery from heroin use on a methadone programme and those on a total abstinence programme
  Researcher: Caitríona Kearns
  
  
• Quality of life for people with multiple sclerosis
  Researcher(s): Professor Marita McCabe (Deakin University)
  
  
• Children of chronically ill parents
  Researcher: David Morley (Institute of Neurology, University College London), supervised by Dr Marjan Jahanshahi
  
  
• Seeking a Good Life: Goals, Goods, and Sexual Offending
  Researcher(s): Mayumi Purvis (University of Melbourne), supervised by Professor Tony Ward
  
  
• Social, cultural and environmental determinants of the burden of disease
  Researcher(s): Dr Daniel Reidpath (Deakin University), Dr Aka Kouamé (IFORD, Cameroon),
  Dr Pascale Allotey (University of Melbourne), Professor Robert Cummins (Deakin University)
  
  
• Daily Hassles & fear of crime : Its impact on the quality of life among Adult population of Karachi City
  Researcher(s): Haider Rizvi (University of Karachi), Dr.Nazre Khalique (University of Karachi)
  
  
• The quality of life of Mental Disability Patients
  Researchers: Sonia Soto (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
  
  
• To characterise the influences of a wilderness experience on the individual health and wellbeing among tour guests on Fraser Island
  Researcher(s): Miss Belinda Warren, Honours Research Student at University of the Sunshine Coast. Supervised by Dr Anne Neller and Dr Ron Neller
  
  
• Improving the Contribution of Protected Areas to Quality of Life in Rural and Regional Communities
  Researcher: Matthew Wolnicki, principal supervisor Robyn Bushell
  
  
• The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey
  The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey is a major longitudinal panel survey of Australian households to be conducted over a four year period.
  
  
• The Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia - Research Section of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
  http://www.immi.gov.au/media/research/
  
  
• Talking to The Animals: matters of affect, attachment and bonding
  Graduate Diploma Project, 2001. MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Sydney