Each year the Melbourne Social Equity Institute gives Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarships and other scholarships to students whose interest in social equity issues aligns closely to our research agenda.
Recipients of these scholarships are given automatic entry into our Doctoral Academy once they have completed confirmation.
Students currently undertaking their PhD aligned to the Institute are:
Rashika Bahl
Understanding Migrants' Misinformation Behaviour
Supervisors:
Professor Shanton Chang, School of Computing and Information Systems
Dr Dana McKay, RMIT University
Associate Professor George Buchanan, School of Computing and Information Systems
Surriya Baloch
Antenatal screening for family violence with migrant south Asian women in Australia
Supervisors:
Professor Kelsey Hegarty, Department of General Practice
Dr Elizabeth McLindon, Department of General Practice
Georgia Burn
Understanding the features of communication access for people with communication difficulties
Supervisors:
Professor Keith McVilly, School of Social and Political Sciences
Dr Jerome Rachele, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Salsawi Feleke Debela
Settling well: a longitudinal study of refugees in regional Australia
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Karen Block, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Associate Professor Celia McMichael, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Dr Ankur Singh, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Philippa Duell-Piening
The right to be counted for people with disabilities who are refugees and/or from refugee backgrounds
Supervisors:
Professor Michelle Foster, Melbourne Law School
Associate Professor Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Melbourne Law School
Vrinda Edan
Consumer and clinicians experiences of Advance Statements under the Victorian Mental Health Act (2014)
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Bridget Hamilton, Centre for Mental Health Nursing
Professor Lisa Brophy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Professor Bernadette McSherry, Melbourne Law School
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
Supervisor:
Associate Professor Jane Dyson, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Mireille Kayeye
Empowerment of women seeking asylum
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Celia McMichael, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Associate Professor Bina Fernandez, School of Social and Political Sciences
Meghan Lee
'The little things': young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds co-creating wellbeing in regional and rural Victoria
Supervisors:
Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Dr Zubaida Mohamed Shaburdin, Department of Rural Health
Associate Professor Debra McDougall, School of Social and Political Sciences
Micheline Lee
Disability, law, and all that romance: a cross-disciplinary approach to equality rights for people with disabilities
Supervisors:
Dr Eddie Paterson, School of Culture and Communication
Professor Bernadette McSherry, Melbourne Law School
Professor Beth Gaze, Melbourne Law School
Erika Martino
From shelter to security: affordable housing for intimate partner violence survivors
Supervisors:
Professor Rebecca Bentley, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Dr Ilan Wiesel, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Thomas McGee
The displacement-statelessness nexus – Syrians in limbo
Supervisors:
Professor Michelle Foster, Melbourne Law School
Professor Susan Kneebone, Melbourne Law School
Dominica Meade
Gender dynamics in community volunteering practices
Supervisors:
Dr Brendan Churchill, School of Social and Political Sciences
Professor Jo Barraket, Melbourne Social Equity Institute
Hala Nasr
Safe spaces as a response to gender-based violence in refugee settings: possibilities and limitations
Supervisors:
Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Associate Professor Karen Block, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Dr Elise Klein, School of Social and Political Sciences
Jacqui Parncutt
The social determinants of health of people with disability
Supervisor:
Professor Anne Kavanagh, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Dr Tania King, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Helena Roennfeldt
Crossing the threshold: a study of the lived experiences of people in mental health crisis who have accessed mental health crisis care
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Bridget Hamilton, Centre for Mental Health Nursing
Dr Nicole Hill, Department of Social Work
Dr Louise Byrne, RMIT University
Alana Roy
Mental health & wellbeing of people who are deaf-blind
Supervisors:
Professor Keith McVilly, School of Social and Political Sciences
Professor Beth Crisp, Deakin University
Claire Sullivan
Syrian refugees adoptions, adaptions and rejections of legal responses to experiences of family violence and SGBV
Supervisors:
Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Associate Professor Karen Block, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Juan Jose Tellez
Representations of chemical restraint: a case study of the Oakden Older Persons Mental Health Service
Supervisors:
Professor Bernadette McSherry, Melbourne Law School
Professor John Tobin, Melbourne Law School
Professor Lisa Brophy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Maharti Triharta
Investigation of sustainable female engineers’ career development – mitigating impacts of gender biological reproductive inequities
Supervisors:
Professor Elaine Wong, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Professor Sally Male, Teaching And Learning Lab
Dr Victor Sojo Monzon, Department of Management and Marketing
Dominic Troughton
Grounded theory research into best context for consumer leadership and capacity development within the Australian lived experience mental health consumer movement
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Bridget Hamilton, Centre for Mental Health Nursing
Dr Alexandra Devine, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Amita Tuteja
Reproductive health and contraceptive needs of migrants from Burma: practitioner and patient perspectives in the Australian context
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Meredith Temple-Smith, Department of General Practice
Professor Lena Sanci, Department of General Practice
Dr Lester Mascarenhas, Department of General Practice
Stephanie Weir
The relationship between communication autonomy, behaviours of concern and restrictive interventions in children who have little to no functional speech
Supervisors:
Dr Shiralee Poed, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Professor Keith McVilly, School of Social and Political Sciences
Alicia Yon
Enabling sociospatial justice: an integrated local planning approach to addressing the disability-gender violence nexus
Supervisors:
Professor Brendan Gleeson, Melbourne School of Design
Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Students Awarded Doctorates
Aviva Beecher Kelk
Diversity in decision-making: co-designing informed choice under the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Supervisors:
Professor Lynette Joubert, Department of Social Work
Professor Helen Dickinson, School of Business, University of New South Wales (Canberra)
Completed in 2020
Dr Jaz Dawson
Queering constructivist international relations: analysing norm implementation in sexual orientation based refugee law
Supervisors:
Professor Michelle Foster, Melbourne Law School
Professor Sarah Maddison, School of Social and Political Sciences
Completed in 2019
Dr Liz Gill-Atkinson
How do women with disability in the Philippines understand and experience participatory research practice?
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Professor Marilys Guillemin, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Completed in 2022
Dr Lauren Kosta
Parenting after a disaster: experiences since Black Saturday
Supervisors:
Professor Louise Harms, Department of Social Work
Professor Lisa Gibbs, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Dr David Rose, Department of Social Work
Completed in 2019
Dr Katie Lamb
Embedding the voices of children and young people in the development of programs for violent fathers
Supervisor:
Professor Cathy Humphreys, Department of Social Work
Completed in 2017
Dr Kelvin Lau
Understanding mental distress in young people from a migrant background in Australia through photo-interviewing
Supervisor:
Dr Victoria Palmer, Department of General Practice
Completed in 2018
Samantha Mannix
Gender equity, social transformations and education
Supervisors:
Professor Julie McLeod, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Completed in 2022
Dr Gemma McKibbin
Sexually abusive behaviour by young people: supporting Victoria's prevention response
Supervisors:
Professor Cathy Humphreys, Department of Social Work
Associate Professor Bridget Hamilton, Centre for Mental Health Nursing
Completed in 2017
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.
Supervisors:
Professor Katrina Skewes-McFerran, National Music Therapy Research Unit
Dr Nick Hagiliassis, Scope Victoria
Completed in 2017
Dr Carol O'Dwyer
The gender-sensitive care project: exploring sexual violence in psychiatric inpatient units
Supervisors:
Professor Kelsey Hegarty, Department of General Practice
Dr Laura Tarzia, Department of General Practice
Dr Sabin Fernbacher, North West Mental Health
Completed in 2021
Dr Naomi Pfitzner
Engaging new fathers: learning from Baby Makes 3
Supervisors:
Professor Kelsey Hegarty, Department of General Practice
Professor Cathy Humphreys, Department of Social Work
Completed in 2017