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Understanding autism and its treatment

We have recently established an Autism Research group within the Brain and Mind Research Institute. We seek to substantially advance knowledge about autism and to lead the worl more...

Supervisor(s): Guastella, Adam (Associate Professor)

SWASH – Australia’s longest running regular survey of lesbian, bisexual and queer women’s health and wellbeing

SWASH is the longest running regular survey of lesbian, bisexual and queer women's health. The project has quantitative data on sexual and gender identity; community connection; tob more...

Supervisor(s): Mooney-Somers, Julie (Dr)

‘Magic Bullet’ Cancer Drugs and Antibiotics

We are building new kinds of cancer drugs and antibiotics: molecules that change their behaviour in the presence of their biological target, being chemically activated only when the more...

Supervisor(s): Rutledge, Peter (Professor)

Reducing joint load in people with knee osteoarthritis

This project will involve the implementation of biomechanical interventions with the aim of reducing the load in the medial compartment of the knee during gait. more...

Supervisor(s): Simic, Milena (Dr), Pappas, Evangelos (Professor)

Resilience and distributed systems for a healthy society

This project aims to develop an understanding of the link between the nature of distributed systems and the resilience that underpins healthy future societies. more...

Supervisor(s): Zomaya, Albert Y. (Professor), Vadas, Mathew (Professor)

Modelling social network structure, technology use and care coordination

This project uses theories from social networks and information systems to construct a model for understanding how network (structure, position and ties) and social technology use i more...

Supervisor(s): Chung, Kenneth (Dr)

Towards a social network-inspired model for understanding evidence uptake and pain management in cancer care

This project is aimed at understanding treatment processes and decisions made by medical practitioners (e.g. nurses) involved in cancer care. In particular, we aim to model the role more...

Supervisor(s): Chung, Kenneth (Dr)

Towards a social network-inspired model for improving medical referrals in cancer care

This project is aimed at understanding how general practitioners (GP) tap into their professional network for making cancer patient referrals to appropriate specialist units. The so more...

Supervisor(s): Chung, Kenneth (Dr)

Social networks model for Open Source Drug Discovery

Using an open source drug discovery approach, current research shows that it is possible to find an improved synthesis of drugs for diseases (e.g. a tropical neglected disease such more...

Supervisor(s): Chung, Kenneth (Dr)

Social capital, brokerage, technology use and performance of project-based workers: Real estate agents in NSW, Australia

Studies on how individuals seek for both relational and non-relational information have been documented in organizational psychology, organization behavior and communication studies more...

Supervisor(s): Chung, Kenneth (Dr)