Each year Melbourne Social Equity Institute provides Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarships and other PhD scholarships to students whose interest in social equity issues aligns closely to our research agenda.
Current Graduate Researchers
Roger Rofiq Alam
The changing power and roles of Rohingya men over the course of forced migration journeys and resettlement in Australia and Malaysia
Rashika Bahl
Understanding migrants' misinformation behaviour
Surriya Baloch
Antenatal screening for family violence with migrant south Asian women in Australia
Georgia Burn
Investigating a theoretical framework for Communication Access that supports the social inclusion of people with communication disability
John Paul Cruz
Accessibility in digital technologies: enhancing social equity
Salsawi Feleke Debela
Settling well: a longitudinal study of refugees in regional Australia
Vrinda Edan
Consumer and clinicians experiences of Advance Statements under the Victorian Mental Health Act (2014
Hannah Gordon
Is ending statelessness enough? A critical analysis of current approaches to addressing statelessness
Sara Guest
Examining the Informal, social and political networks utilised by international students to tackle food insecurity in the context of the neoliberal university in Victoria
Nicola Innes
Activating inclusive employment through work integrated social enterprise and their employer partners
Mireille Kayeye
Empowerment of women seeking asylum
Meghan Lee
‘the little things’: exploring what it means to be well in rural and regional Victoria with young people from recent migrant and refugee backgrounds
Micheline Lee
Disability, law, and all that romance: a cross-disciplinary approach to equality rights for people with disabilities
Thomas McGee
Syria’s changing statelessness landscape: protracted situations and “ticking time bombs”
Dominica Meade
Gender dynamics in community volunteering practices
Pat Onesta
Refugees, asylum seekers and social enterprise: a post-qualitative inquiry through documentary filmmaking
Helena Roennfeldt
Crossing the threshold: a study of the lived experiences of people in mental health crisis who have accessed mental health crisis care
Claire Sullivan
Syrian refugees adoptions, adaptions and rejections of legal responses to experiences of family violence and SGBV
Juan Jose Tellez
Representations of chemical restraint: a case study of the Oakden Older Persons Mental Health Service
Maharti Triharta
Investigation of sustainable female engineers’ career development – mitigating impacts of gender biological reproductive inequities
Amita Tuteja
Reproductive health and contraceptive needs of migrants from Burma: practitioner and patient perspectives in the Australian context
Kavitha Vipulananda
Creating affordable housing for the disadvantaged using robotics, AI and automation
Guanyu Wang
Digital journeys of international students from Asia: exploring their mental health information behaviours in diverse digital ecology
Stephanie Weir
The relationship between communication autonomy, behaviours of concern and restrictive interventions in children who have little to no functional speech
Alicia Yon
Enabling sociospatial justice: an integrated local planning approach to addressing the disability-gender violence nexus
Completed Graduate Reseachers
Dr Aviva Beecher Kelk
Informing NDIS market stewardship through consumers’ information preferences: an exploratory study
Dr Jaz Dawson
Queering constructivist international relations: questioning identity-based human rights norms in sexual orientation-based refugee law
Dr Philippa Duell-Piening
Knowledge, data, visibility and power: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Article 31 in refugee contexts
Dr Liz Gill-Atkinson
How do women with disability in the Philippines understand and experience participatory research practice?
Dr Lauren Kosta
Parenting after Black Saturday: lived experiences since the 2009 Victorian bushfires
Dr Katie Lamb
Seen and heard: embedding the voices of children and young people who have experienced family violence in programs for fathers
Dr Kelvin Lau
Understanding mental distress in young people from a migrant background in Australia through photo-interviewing
Dr Samantha Mannix
Young people’s perspectives on intimate relationships: more than sex, schooling, and risk
Dr Erika Martino
Housing as an infrastructure of safety: mapping the potential of safety-informed care practices and relations in women’s housing
Dr Gemma McKibbin
“I knew it was wrong but I couldn’t stop it”: young people talk about the prevention of sexually abusive behaviour
Dr Melissa Murphy
From social connectedness to equitable access: an action research project illuminating the opportunities and the barriers to accessing music for young people with disability transitioning from school to adult life
Dr Hala Nasr
“It’s a space for us to express our rights, to change ourselves and our community”: A feminist ethnographic study of Syrian refugee women’s experiences in and because of participating in a women and girl safe space in Beqaa valley, Lebanon
Dr Carol O'Dwyer
The gender-sensitive care project: exploring sexual violence in psychiatric inpatient units
Dr Naomi Pfitzner
Engaging new fathers: learning from Baby Makes 3
Dr Alana Roy
Consultation, research and policy development: lessons from the deafblind community about co-creating a more inclusive world