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Professor Mike Letnic
Mike Letnic is an ecologist who grew up in Sydney, Australia and has worked at UNSW since 2012. Mike completed a BSc at UNSW.
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Current Projects
The projects below are ongoing and I would welcome the participation of new students! (My current team should appear at the bottom of this page).
Handbook on Gender and Employment Relations
Abstracts are now invited for contributions to a new Research Handbook on Gender and Employment Relations.
Constitutional Populism: Friend or Foe of Constitutional Democracy?
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The project aims to identify, reconstruct, and evaluate legal and constitutional aims of, and institutional solutions adopted by, regimes that have come to power in a global wave of ‘populist’ parties challenging traditional ones - examining whether they respect both the forms and under
BREATHE – centre for research excellence in airborne threats
Title: BREATHE - mitigating airborne threats to health
ADFA IDS Datasets
The ADFA Intrusion Detection Datasets (Latest Version)
The ADFA Intrusion Detection Datasets
Humanitarian work to transform the health of communities in Uganda and Kenya
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Uganda is one of three target regions where the University of New South Wales aims to improve the lives of one million people by 2025.
The roles of heparan sulphate proteoglycans in tissue development and repair
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This project investigates the structures of heparan sulphate proteoglycans that control the tissue development and aging including liver, heart, kidney, palate and brain by studying genetically modified mice.
Bioengineered growth factor binding scaffolds
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Diabetes is a world-wide health issue that affects approximately 1.7 million Australians. Diabetes causes changes throughout the body including impairing the ability to heal wounds that are typically located on the feet and lower legs.
Remembering Sydney’s Post-War Greek Neighbourhoods: 1949-1972
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The project aims to revise our understanding of how migrants integrated into post-war Australia by examining everyday life histories as mediated through individual and social memory.
Robert Frank: Experimentation Across Film and Photography in Post-War America
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Robert Frank is one of the twentieth century's most important photographers. His book The Americans revolutionised postwar photography, offering a radically new approach to the nexus of photographic representation and national identity.
4D Immersive Surgery
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Seeing is believing: Microscopy-capable single-molecule bioelectronics
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This project aims to create new biophysical tools for single-molecule sensing by advancing the state-of-the-art in nanoscale bioelectronic devices.
Regulation of glucose uptake by tropomyosins and myosins
Although the actin cytoskeleton has been known for some time to regulate vesicle trafficking, its exact role in this process is still unclear. This has largely been due to the difficulty in targeting specific actin filaments within the same cell.
Towards a more accountable United Nations Security Council
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Reform discourse about the United Nations Security Council gives every reason to believe that flaws in its legal and institutional design prevent the Council from adequately meeting its responsibility to maintain or restore international peace and security - in part by allowing the Council to act
Research to reduce smoking among those people with a psychotic illness
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Smoking is a major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor for people with mental illnesses such as psychosis and depression.
Research in General Practice
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In Australia and among international researchers in smoking cessation, Robyn Richmond is among the very few who have been conducting research in general practice for almost four decades. Her work has resulted in significant changes in the practice of medicine where GPs now are trained in, and implement, smoking cessation interventions with their patients.
Building up quantum electronics with tailored semiconductor nanostructures
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This project aims to develop a new generation of nanoscale InAs/GaSb devices produced ‘from the bottom up’ using state-of-the-art 3D templated semiconductor growth methods. This material’s key feature is a pair of electron and hole layers separated by a few nanometers.
Bioelectronic Logic
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Bioelectronics is a frontier field which aims to connect biological systems with modern electronics and so create the next generation of biomedical devices. A key challenge in bioelectronics is transducing ion and electron signals using some form of biocompatible functional interface.