Theses from 2015
Fowl feathered fox: Monsters, pipers, families and flocks, Michelle Aslett
Manufacturing and properties of titanium-based materials produced by selective laser melting, Hooyar Attar
A neuro-genetic hybrid approach to automatic identification of plant leaves, Oluleye Hezekiah Babatunde
What we know, what we do and what we could do: Creating an understanding of the delivery of health education in lower secondary government schools in Western Australia, Donna Michelle Barwood
The requirement to be fit and proper: What does it mean to Australian psychologists?, Francesca A. Bell
Optimisation of stand-alone hydrogen-based renewable energy systems using intelligent techniques, Adel Brka
Boundaries of governance: Social responsibility in mining in Western Australia, Gemma L. Broderick
Cognitive fatigue: Exploring the relationship between the fatigue effect and action video-game experience, James Brooks
Risk assessment and Western Australian male aboriginal sexual and violent offenders, Deborah Burner-Fernie
Heat stress: A risk factor for skin carcinogenesis, Leslie Calapre
Flow characteristics of a transverse water jet into an unconfined water channel, Sharmishtha Chakraborty
Stand-alone solar-pv hydrogen energy systems incorporating reverse osmosis, Daniel Clarke
Influence of anthropometric and upper body strength qualities on surfboard paddling kinematics, Joseph Coyne
The clinical utility of multidisciplinary rehabilitation in individuals with Huntington’s Disease, Travis Miles Cruickshank
Work-related exposure to child exploitation material: The experiences of Western Australian digital forensic officers and their spouses, Emma E. DeCicco
Ecology of feral cats Felis catus and their prey in relation to shrubland fire regimes, Tim S. Doherty
Perceived harms and benefits of parental cannabis use, and parents’ reports regarding harm-reduction strategies, Kathleen J. Donoghue
Picturing irony: Making a visual case-study from the work of Camus, Emma-Kate Dowdell
Producer–market orientation of community-based tourism (CBT) products: A case study in Bali, Indonesia, Ni Made Ernawati
Living after confronting death; story telling during the recovery trajectory of intensive care unit survivors: An interpretive biographical approach, Beverley Anne Ewens
The shifting voice: Investigating accent and dialect training for West Australian actors, Luzita Fereday
Music in Site: Integrating elements of site-specificity into composition, Mace Francis
Transformational learning in a first year Western Australian Bachelor of Education primary course, Clare Christine Freeman
An appraisal of experiences of climate change and adaptive response to heat stress by farmers in rural Ghana, Kwasi Frimpong
The absurd reality of satire in Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig', Hermione Gehle
Exploring the benefits of attracting, recruiting and retaining mature age employees up to and beyond the traditional age of retirement: Perspectives from Western Australia, Jonathan Georgiou
Engineering characteristics of compacted sand-bentonite mixtures, Ali Faisal Ghazi
Cries from within: The struggles and triumphs of creating a Singaporean voice in Musical Theatre, Caleb Goh
The regulation of human iron metabolism in hypoxia, Andrew Govus
Ethical research in indigenous contexts and the practical implementation of it, Graeme Gower
Medical cannabis in the United States: Policy, politics and science, Jelica Grbic
Maps for the lost: A collection of short fiction And Human / nature ecotones: Climate change and the ecological imagination: A critical essay, Susan Heather Greenhill
Judging dread: A quantitative investigation of affect, psychometric dread and risk consequence, Melvyn Griffiths
Leaving home: Investigating transitioning challenges faced by boarding students and their families, Kate Margaret Hadwen
Designing for communities in bushfire-prone situations: Redesigning the FireWatch website interface, Paul William Haimes
The role of a newspaper in an advocacy campaign to save Dhaka’s rivers in Bangladesh, Ashfara Haque
Leaving ideological social groups behind: A Grounded theory of psychological disengagement, Kira Jade Harris
An examination of social desirability confounds in a new ipsative measure of Murray's Psychogenic Needs, Lisa Harris
Bone strength, load tolerance and injury risk in elite Australian football, Nicolas H. Hart
Vine copula modelling of dependence and portfolio optimization with application to mining and energy stock return series from the Australian market, Jose Arreola Hernandez
Towards an interactive environment for the performance of Dubstep music, James Herrington
Aboriginal perspectives about child sexual abuse: Informing the cultural dimension in sex offending theories for use with Aboriginal offenders, Victoria Elizabeth Hovane
Knowing and teaching: the impact of teachers’ knowledge on students’ early literacy achievement, Janet Hunter
Antenatal clinic: Using ethnographic methods to listen to the voices of pregnant adolescents, Deborah Ireson
Carbon storage and preservation in seagrass meadows, Mohammad Rozaimi Jamaludin
Secure portable execution and storage environments: A capability to improve security for remote working, Peter James
Analysis of plant analytes using capillary electrophoresis and high performance liquid chromatography, Umme Kalsoom
Women’s experiences of pregnancy loss: An interpretative phenomenological analysis, Esther Lea Kint
Wedge failure analysis of anchored rock slopes subjected to surcharge and seismic loads, Yan Kou
Electric vehicles in Smart Grids: Performance considerations, Uttam Kumar Deb Nath
Characterisation and applications of iron ore tailings in building and construction projects, Francis Atta Kuranchie
Spatial and temporal patterns (1973-2012) of bushfire in an arid to semi-arid region of Western Australia, Megan Ladbrook
Investigation of Pax7 and its transcripts in the regulation of foetal and adult mouse myogenesis: A natural history, Tina Marie Lamey
Beliefs and perceptions about burnout amongst mental health professionals, Marieke Ledingham
Accurate modelling and positioning of a magnetically-controlled catheter tip, Vi T. H. Le
Evaluation of a modified food frequency questionnaire to measure lignans in Australian men and women, Ying Qi Winnie Li
I see a spark and blow on it: Drama practice in Year 1 and the new Australian Curriculum in the Arts, Christine Lovering
Landing performance and lower extremity injuries in competitive surfing, Lina Elizabeth Lundgren
Accessibility of Thai university websites: Awareness, barriers and drivers for accessible practice, Rattanavalee Maisak
Development and distribution of Nematalosa Vlaminghi (Perth herring) eggs and larvae within an estuary, Peter Malanczak
Enter the movement: Generating stimulus from sceneography and proposing 'De-sign' as a tool for choreographic invention, Helene Gee Markstein
Training load quantification in professional Australian basketball and the use of the reactive strength index as a monitoring tool, William Markwick
Sexuality, desire and the ageing female body: An essay, Lauren Marsh
An analysis of insider dysfunctional behavours in an accounting information system environment, Mohd Saiyidi Mat Roni
Alexithymia in a psychiatric population: Stability and relationship with therapeutic outcome, Lauren McGillivray
A contextual study of Boris Asafiev's Musical form as a process and and application of concepts to his Sonata for solo viola, Kathryn Fiona McKay
A fabulist’s alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime, Keira Jane McKenzie
Duet for life: Is alexithymia a key note in couples’ empathy, emotional connection, relationship dissatisfaction, and therapy outcomes?, Pamela D. McNeill
Analysis of road sprint cycling performance, Paolo Menaspa
Simulated solar light assisted photocatalytic degradation of organic matters, Jing Miao
Learning to see, seeing to learn: The learning journey of three pre-service teachers in a video club setting, Catherine Moore
Churchgoers’ help-seeking behaviours for emotional and mental health difficulties and the role of clergy, Caryn Leigh Morais
Assessing Western Australian Year 11 students’ engagement with responding in Visual Arts, Julia Elizabeth Morris
The Historian’s Daughter (A novel); Monsters and Memory (An essay), Rashida Murphy
Learning to teach: What pre-service teachers report, Dawn Naylor
Peel, Fondle, Ogle: An exhibition and Unfixed parameters: A creative arts praxis investigation of the in-between conditions of the corporeal body: An exegesis, Kimberley Simone Pace
Electrical resistivity of sandy soil with water, leachates and seawater, Lopa Mudra Pandey
Social work is what social workers do: A study of hospital social workers’ understanding of their work and their professional identity, Christine Perriam
Australian charity organisations: A study of audit fee determinants, Andrew Priest
Intelligent network intrusion detection using an evolutionary computation approach, Samaneh Rastegari
Writing into the apocalypse - an examination of the method of writing into the dark within the context of post-apocalyptic fiction: An exegesis, Brendan Ritchie
The N-Glycosylation of immunoglobulin G as a novel biomarker of Parkinson’s disease, Alyce Christine Russell
A forensics framework and method in the acquisition and extraction of data from NAND Flash memory storage chip, Krishnun Sansurooah
Evolution, systematics & geographic parthenogenesis of Ilyodromus (Crustacea, Ostracoda), Rylan James Shearn
The evolution of joint management in Western Australia parks and the indigenous tourism nexus, Lori-Ann Shibish
Pre-surgical exercise intervention in prostate and rectal cancer survivors, Favil Singh