The Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses recognises PhD graduates who have been commended by their thesis examiners.
To receive this award, candidates must produce a thesis that requires only minimal corrections, received outstanding and/or excellent levels of achievement for all examination criteria, 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 |