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 43 project(s).
This controlled trial investigates the efficacy of Groups 4 Health to improve the mental health of people of higher weight through psychotherapy and behaviour change, decreasing feelings of loneliness and weight stigma through social networks.
Theme
- Diagnostics, Therapeutic and Clinical Care
- Society, Culture and Health
People
- Clinical Professor Paul Dugdale, Co-investigator
- Dr Joanne Rathbone, Principal investigator
- Ms Kate Western, Co-investigator
- Professor Elizabeth Rieger, Co-investigator
- Professor Tegan Cruwys, Co-investigator
- Dr Fiona Tito Wheatland, Health Care Consumers Association ACT
Social identify and self concept are ways we see ourselves in relation to other people. These have important impacts on self-regard, the amount and type of social support available to us and our wellbeing and resilience under stress.
Theme
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for students
People
- Dr Lillian Smyth, Principal investigator
- Dr Kasia Banas (University of Edinburgh), Co-investigator
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 study explores the rural health workforce. In particular what leads to the uptake of rural health care by medical doctors including general practitioners, and whatsupports continued medical practice in rural areas.
Theme
- Diagnostics, Therapeutic and Clinical Care
- Society, Culture and Health
People
- Associate Professor Jonathan Mond, Co-investigator
- Dr Louise Baker OAM, Co-investigator
- Dr Remo Ostini, Principal investigator
- Ms Anne Davis, Co-investigator
- Professor Sally Hall Dykgraaf, Co-investigator
General Practitioners are invited to complete a one hour interview about their life experiences relating to being a rural general practitioner.
Theme
- Society, Culture and Health
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
A cross-College project with the ANU College of Art and Social Sciences on Transdisciplinary Health Humanities Education at ANU.
Theme
- Society, Culture and Health
Student intake
Open for students
People
- Associate Professor Alexandra Webb, Co-investigator
- Associate Professor Anna Olsen, Co-investigator
- Associate Professor Brett Scholz, Co-investigator
- Associate Professor Krisztina Valter-Kocsi, Co-investigator
- Dr Kristen Murray, Co-investigator
- Dr Lillian Smyth, Principal investigator
- Dr Riemke Aggio-Bruce, Co-investigator
- Shelly Khatijatusshalihah, Co-investigator
- Dr Bonnie McConnell (School of Music, ANU), Principle Investigator
- Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney, Co-Investigator
- Dr Stacey Ward, Co-Investigator
- Dr Ta Ta, Co-Investigator
- Dr Claire Hansen, Co-Investigator
- Dr Keren Hammerschlag, Co-Investigator
- Professor Christopher Sainsbury, Co-Investigator
- Mr Sejul Mlade, Co-Investigator
- Mr Joshua Robinson, Co-Investigator
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 project aims to understand the key training needs of health professionals working with people experiencing long-term medical conditions.
Theme
- Diagnostics, Therapeutic and Clinical Care
- Society, Culture and Health
People
- Associate Professor Anna Olsen, Co-investigator
- Dr Kristen Murray, Principal investigator
- Professor Elizabeth Rieger, Co-investigator
- Associate Professor Rachel Bacon (University of Canberra)
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