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:
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)
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
Mollie Daphne
How can/does the Victorian education system support social inclusion, educational engagement and successful educational outcomes for students from refugee backgrounds in both primary and secondary schools in the growth areas of Melbourne?
Supervisors:
Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Dr Julie Choi, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Dr Karen Block, 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 Psychiatric Nursing
Associate Professor Lisa Brophy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Professor Bernadette McSherry, Melbourne Social Equity Institute
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
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 Social Equity Institute
Professor Beth Gaze, Melbourne Law School
Samantha Mannix
Gender equity, social transformations and education
Supervisor:
Professor Julie McLeod, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Associate Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
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, Senior Lecturer, School of Geography
Hala Nasr
Safe spaces as a response to gender-based violence in refugee settings: possibilities and limitations
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Dr Karen Block, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Dr Elise Klein, School of Social and Political Sciences
Carol O'Dwyer
The gender sensitive care project
Supervisors:
Professor Kelsey Hegarty, Department of General Practice
Dr Laura Tarzia, Department of General Practice
Dr Sabin Fernbacher, North West Mental Health
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
Peer workers within emergency departments: evaluating the impacts for consumers, peer workers and traditional staff
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Bridget Hamilton, Centre for Psychiatric Nursing
Dr Nicole Hill, Department of Social Work
Dr Louise Byrne, RMIT
Alana Roy
Mental health & wellbeing of people who are deaf-blind
Supervisors:
Professor Keith McVilly, School of Social and Political Sciences
Claire Sullivan
Syrian refugees adoptions, adaptions and rejections of legal responses to experiences of family violence and SGBV
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Dr Karen Block, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Juan Jose Tellez
Model laws and guidelines to regulate the use of chemical restraint on persons with disabilities
Supervisors:
Professor Bernadette McSherry, Melbourne Social Equity Institute
Professor John Tobin, Melbourne Law School
Associate Professor Lisa Brophy, 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
Associate 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
Associate Professor Cathy Vaughan, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Students Awarded Doctorates
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 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
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 Psychiatric 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 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