Research projects
Explore diverse psychology, health, and medicine projects from honours to PhD, supported by experts.
We have a wide range of psychology, health and medicine projects led by our expert researchers. Projects range from short-term honours projects to graduate projects, from three-year PhD projects through to industry and government supported projects.
If you’re a student interested in participating in a project, please contact the listed project supervisor for further discussion and ideas.
Displaying 1 - 15 of 26 project(s).
This program of research is conducted in collaboration with the ACT Government to enable evidence-based policy decision-making.
Theme
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
Group
People
- Professor Kate Reynolds, Co-investigator
- Professor Tegan Cruwys, Principal investigator
This project aims to develop and test a new model of psychological processes by which people come to understand information as true or not.
Theme
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Eryn Newman, Co-investigator
- Dr Li Tay, Co-investigator
- Professor Kate Reynolds, Co-investigator
- Professor Michael Platow, Principal investigator
This project aims to significantly deepen understanding of the phenomenon of radicalisation toward violent extremism by moving beyond static descriptions of what antecedents are present in violent extremists to dynamic causal explanations of why people radicalise.
Theme
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Professor Michael Platow, Co-investigator
- Dr. Emily Corner
- Dr. Helen Taylor (ANU)
- Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty (University of Newcastle)
This project aims to analyze the circulating miRNA pre-operation of the TKA and knee tissue mRNA post primary TKA.
Theme
- Diagnostics, Therapeutic and Clinical Care
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Rachel Li, Principal investigator
- Dr Joseph Lynch, Co-investigator
- Dr Thomas Ward, Co-investigator
- Ms Yixuan Lei, Co-investigator
- Professor Paul Smith AM, Co-investigator
- Dr Tahlia Stewart
Mitigating the effects of climate change on health outcomes requires adaptation within the health system. Primary health care providers are on the frontline in dealing with both direct and indirect health effects of climate change. This project will provide a proof of concept on climate resilient primary health care framework.
Theme
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students
People
- Dr Sutarsa Nyoman, Principal investigator
- Dr Anak Agung Sagung Sawitri, Faculty of Medicine Udayana University (Bali Province, Indonesia)
- Dr Made Dwi Ariawan, Faculty of Medicine Udayana University (Bali Province, Indonesia)
- Dr Cintya Denny Y, Faculty of Medicine Udayana University (Bali Province, Indonesia)
- Dr Made Sri Nopiyani, Faculty of Medicine Udayana University (Bali Province, Indonesia)
- Dr Utami Dwipayanti, Faculty of Medicine Udayana University (Bali Province, Indonesia)
- Dr Sang Gede Purnama, Faculty of Medicine Udayana University (Bali Province, Indonesia)
- Ayu Rissa Cempaka, MPH, Faculty of Medicine Udayana University (Bali Province, Indonesia)
- Wahyu Sulistya Affarah, MD, Faculty of Medicine Mataram University (West Nusa Tenggara)
- Nurul Firdausi, MD., From Faculty of Medicine Mataram University (West Nusa Tenggara)
- Riris Yunita, MPH, Sikumana Kupang Health Centre, Indonesia
- Kristina J Tehangr, Sikumana Kupang Health Centre, Indonesia
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most serious challenges to global public health, as drug resistance has been found for all classes of antibiotics used in clinical practice.
Theme
- Diagnostics, Therapeutic and Clinical Care
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Rachel Li, Principal investigator
- Clinical Associate Professor Karina Kennedy, Co-investigator
- Professor Paul Smith AM, Co-investigator
- Dr Anindita Das
- Associate Professor Xiaobo Chen
Drug checking is a health intervention to reduce the harms of drug use.
Theme
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Anna Olsen, Principal investigator
- Amy Peacock
- Raimondo Bruno
This project aims to improve understanding of the relationship between emotions and heart health and investigate the ability of emotion regulation interventions to improve cardiac functioning and recovery.
Theme
- Brain, Vision, Mental Processes and Health
- Diagnostics, Therapeutic and Clinical Care
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Amy Dawel, Principal investigator
- Dr Junwen Chen, Co-investigator
- Dr Kristen Murray, Co-investigator
- Dr Nicole Vargas, Co-investigator
- Honorary Clinical Associate Professor Rajeev Pathak, Co-investigator
- Lukah Tan
The ability to regulate how you express your emotions is a key ingredient for social success.
Theme
- Brain, Vision, Mental Processes and Health
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Amy Dawel, Principal investigator
- Dr Conal Monaghan, Co-investigator
This research looks at perspective-taking, particularly in the areas of empathy, compassion and alturism.
Theme
- Brain, Vision, Mental Processes and Health
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students
People
- A/ Prof Stephanie Goodhew, Principal investigator
- A/Prof Mark Edwards, Principal investigator
This research wll investigate multiple potential cognitive predictors of crash risk in provisional drivers leading to novel training programs to improve road safety .
Theme
- Brain, Vision, Mental Processes and Health
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students
People
- A/ Prof Stephanie Goodhew, Principal investigator
- A/Prof Mark Edwards, Principal investigator
This team is undertaking various projects aiming to identify how exposure to enivronmental stress, including extreme heat exposure, can effect health and modify physiological, behavioural, perceptual and cognitive function.
Theme
- Brain, Vision, Mental Processes and Health
- Diagnostics, Therapeutic and Clinical Care
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Dr Kathleen Miles, Co-investigator
- Dr Lillian Smyth, Co-investigator
- Dr Nicole Vargas, Principal investigator
- Dr Riemke Aggio-Bruce, Co-investigator
- Dr Suzanne Estaphan, Co-investigator
- Dr Ulrike Schumann, ANU John Curtin School of Medical Research
- Dr Michael Tong, ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
- Professor Ben Rattray, University of Canberra, Active Brain
- Dr Kristy Martin, University of Canberra, Active Brain
- Professor Ollie Jay, University of Sydney, Heat and Health Research Incubator
- Dr Nicholas Ravanelli, National Singapore University
The project will test the biocompatibility of the novel alloy and assess local tissue reaction and fracture healing at the test site as well as systemic absorption of metabolites.
Theme
- Diagnostics, Therapeutic and Clinical Care
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Rachel Li, Principal investigator
- Dr Alexander Bobinskas, Co-investigator
- Professor Paul Smith AM, Co-investigator
- Professor Xiaobo Chen
The aim of this project is to conduct a longitudinal survey to measure ANU medical students’ attitudes to, experiences of and intentions to participate in drug use-related health care.
Theme
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students
People
- Associate Professor Anna Olsen, Principal investigator
- Dr Joanne Rathbone, Co-investigator
The foundation of this research is a systematic review of the current literature and a conclusive definition of arrhythmogenic substrates in patients with nonischaemic mixed CMP.
Theme
- Diagnostics, Therapeutic and Clinical Care
- Society, Culture and Health
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