The Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses recognises PhD graduates who have been commended by their thesis examiners.
The Dean’s Award has been introduced to formally recognize the high quality PhD theses produced at UNSW. To receive this award, candidates must produce a thesis that requires only minimal corrections and in the opinion of both examiners is in the top 10% of PhD theses examined.
Inaugural Awards
Faculty of Art and Design
Name |
Thesis Title |
David Eastwood |
Studio Afterlife: The Function of the Posthumous Studio in Contemporary Art |
Regina Saunders |
'Vaguely Familiar': haunted identities, contested histories, Indigenous futures |
Kynan Tan |
Rendering computational conditions: experiencing the relationality of data and algorithm through multisensory digital artworks |
Rewa Wright |
Mixed Reality Re-assembled: software assemblages at the edge of control |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Name |
Thesis Title |
Sophie Adams |
The biopolitics of adaptation to a changing climate: Constructions of the adaptive capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
John Apter |
Rethinking the Australian Dilemma: Economics and Foreign Policy, 1942-1957 |
Abraham Bradfield |
Decolonising Consciousness: Art, identity and engaging Indigenous artists in far western New South Wales |
Anthony Chmiel |
Theory, data, and application of psychological principles for music preference |
Amy Ireland |
Xenopoetics: Time, Matter, Transmission |
Xi Luan |
Mobilising Pierre Bourdieu's Theory to Understand the Role of Supplementary Education: A Chinese Story |
Kate Montague |
Tragedy After 1945: Affect and Labor in the American Novel |
Thanh Ha Ngo |
Developing A Model for Vietnamese Private Higher Education: Lessons from China and Korea |
Melissa Rogers |
Revisiting Alfred Hill (1869-1960): examining issues of reception and compositional approach |
Mahsa Salamati |
Transnational Film Circulation in the Iranian Context: From Conjunctural Crisis to Discursive Heterotopia |
Zahra Zsuzsanna Luhna Stardust |
Alternative Pornographies, Regulatory Fantasies and Resistance Politics |
Sophie Yates |
A Critical Frame Analysis of Victoria's Royal Commission into Family Violence |
John Zubrzycki |
Transnational exchanges in magical knowledge and methodologies between India and the West, 1813-1940 |
Faculty of Built Environment
Name |
Thesis Title |
Carlos Bartesaghi Koc |
Assessing the thermal performance of green infrastructure on urban microclimate |
UNSW Business School
Name |
Thesis Title |
Garland Jichao Huang |
Institutional Ownership and Technology Spillovers |
Eunice Khoo |
The Impact of Reputation on a Firm's Financial and Non-Financial Outcomes |
Dandan Yu |
Three Essays on Household Decision-Making |
Faculty of Engineering
Name |
Thesis Title |
Deepak Dalakoti |
Direct numerical simulation of lifted flames in diesel engine conditions |
Jinwen Feng |
Unified probabilistic and interval analysis of structures with hybrid uncertainties |
Alireza Gerami Kaviri Nejad |
Utilizing microfluidics for visualization of multiphase flow in coal cleats |
Xi Gu |
Heat Generation in Irradiated Gold Nanoparticle Solutions for Hyperthermia Applications |
Ziyuan Gu |
Dynamic Congestion Pricing in Urban Networks with the Network Fundamental Diagram and Simulation-Based Dynamic Traffic Assignment |
Wei Huang |
One- and two-qubit operations in Si-MOS quantum dots |
Haiwen Li |
Dynamic properties of sand-fiber mixtures |
Yifeng Li |
Advanced Modelling, Optimisation and Control of Vanadium Redox Flow Battery |
Joanna Ng |
Biotextilogy - Applications for Research and Development |
Alireza Pouraminaein |
Design Optimization of High-Performance Interior Permanent Magnet Machines Using a Fast and Accurate FE-based Technique |
Matthew Priestley |
Developing fault-tolerant control strategies for a five-phase permanent-magnet machine drive system |
Brian Stasak |
An Investigation of Acoustic, Linguistic, and Affect Based Methods for Speech Depression Assessment |
Haiqiao Wang |
Cubosome and Hexosome Microparticles: Shape, Rheology, and Templating |
Yuan Wang |
Porous Metal Oxides and Supported Noble Metal Catalysts for Methane Oxidation and CO2 Methanation |
Changyong Zhang |
Selective Abatement and Recovery of Nutrients from Wastewaters using Electrochemical Technologies |
Yulai Zhang |
Multi-scale Characterisation of Diffusion in Shale |
Qiancheng Zhao |
Investigation of light, thermal and radiation induced effects on the spectral behaviors of BACs in Bi/Er codoped silica-based fibers |
Faculty of Medicine
Name |
Thesis Title |
Jongho Baek |
Improvements in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy |
Sahar Bajis |
Enhancing the care cascade for hepatitis C infection in marginalised populations |
Adeniyi Borire |
Utility of Ultrasound in Peripheral Neuropathy |
Deborah Burnett |
Investigation into immune tolerance |
Sophie Carter |
Novel respiratory phenotyping to determine the effects of zopiclone on obstructive sleep apnoea |
Keeming Chia |
Targeting the androgen receptor in breast cancer |
Qian Du |
DNA replication timing: impact on the cancer genome and epigenome |
Alex Gavino |
Studies on atrial fibrillation and associated risk factors in a rural Australian population |
Katherine Giles |
BRG1 ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodelling in Prostate Cancer: Epigenetic Consequences |
Simon Hardwick |
Designing synthetic spike-in controls for next-generation sequencing and beyond |
Tejaswi Kandula |
Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Children |
Erin Kelly |
Tackling adolescent bullying head on: Victimisation, perpetration and targeted intervention |
William Lee |
Improving risk assessment for drugs that cause cardiac arrhythmias: In silico and in vitro insights into acquired long QT syndrome |
Chantal Marquez Badilla |
Differential modulation of HIV-1 capsid uncoating kinetics revealed by a novel single-particle uncoating assay |
Joyce Meiring |
Recruitment and Organisation of Tropomyosins in Stress Fibres |
Vivienne Moxham-Hall |
Investigating the Utility of Indexes in Comparative Drug Policy Analysis |
Erin Nesbitt-Hawes |
The structure, function and treatment of the pelvic floor in women with chronic pelvic pain |
Pietro Ridone |
Modulation of mechanosensitive channel activity by plasma membrane lipids |
Eden Robertson |
The development and pilot of 'Delta': Supporting parents and young people deciding whether to enrol in a paediatric oncology clinical trial |
Amanda Roxburgh |
The epidemiology of opioid overdose mortality in Australia |
Neda Seyedsadjadi |
Associations between modifiable lifestyle behaviors and plasma biomarkers of oxidative stress, inflammation and NAD+ metabolism in an apparently healthy human cohort |
Rachel Sutherland |
New Psychoactive Substances in Australia |
Scott Teasdale |
Nutrition Interventions In People Experiencing Severe Mental Illness |
Faculty of Science
Name |
Thesis Title |
Peter Ayre |
Hypergraphs: Colourability, Contiguity and Rigidity |
Eun A Choi |
Modification of cardiovascular function after spinal cord injury |
Gustavo Espinoza Vergara |
Mechanisms of intracellular resistance and the role of the escape of Vibrio cholerae from protist hosts |
Gavin Ferguson |
Age-related changes of glutathione homeostasis in Caenorhabditis elegans |
Georgette Fleming |
Internet-delivered parent training for young Australian children with conduct problems: Adapting treatment for non-responders |
Franzisca Froreich |
Issues of personal control in eating disorders: from theoretical understanding to application in clinical practice |
Emma Gibson |
Sex Hormones, Tears and Dry Eyes |
Nadja Herger |
Towards a viable alternative to model democracy using optimal climate model subset selection |
Jinghao Huang |
Derivations with values into ideals of a semifinite von Neumann algebra |
Karina Hudson |
Spin Properties of Heavy Holes in Low-Dimensional Quantum Electronic Devices |
Zoey Isherwood |
A BOLD approach to natural scene statistics |
Dohyung Kim |
Exploring Nanoscale Properties in Metal Halide Perovskites and Multiferroics via Scanning Probe Microscopy |
Huan Lin |
Novel likelihood-based inference for symbolic data analysis |
Neil Mallo |
Visible light-responsive photoswitches |
Anna McGann |
Derivation Of Fractional-Order Models From A Stochastic Process |
James McPherson |
Transition metal and lanthanide chemistry of dipyridylpyrrolide ligands |
Firouzeh Noghrehchi |
Multiple Imputation and Access to Likelihood Based Tools in Missing Data Problems |
Gennady Notowidigdo |
Rational trigonometry of a tetrahedron over a general metrical framework |
Daniel Pearson |
Learning to avoid looking: The influence of reward on attentional capture and control |
Metaxia Toumbelekis |
The Effect of Secure Attachment Priming on Fear Learning |
Uyen Tran |
Development of Novel Organic Syntheses Using Sustainable Methods |
Hon Lun Wong |
Rocking the cradle of life: Illuminating the microbiome of microbial mats from Shark bay using genome-resolved metagenomic analyses |
Yanfang Wu |
Solid-State Nanopore Blockade Sensors: From Fabrication to Localized Surface Functionalization to Sensing Application |
Jenna Zhao |
Control over emotion-induced blindness: The roles of context, expectation, and motivation |
UNSW Canberra
Name |
Thesis Title |
Peter Job |
The Fraser government and the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, 1975-1983 |
Angeline Lewis |
Rajah Brooke and the 'Pirates' of Borneo: A Nineteenth Century Public Debate on Sea Power |
Abdullah Salamai |
Intelligent Decision Support System for Risk Management in Supply Chains |