The University of Sydney: Recent submissions
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From New to Second-Hand: Consumer Trade-offs Between Price, Range and Vehicle Condition for BEVs and Hybrids in Australia
Published 2026-02-10Most empirical work on vehicle choice has focused on new-vehicle purchase decisions, even though households often acquire vehicles through the second-hand market and face a different set of constraints and information ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Designing meaningful student engagement with course readings
Published 2026Course readings are central to student learning, yet they’re often treated as a routine, grudging task rather than a designed learning experience. On average, only 20-30% of students engage with assigned readings, which ...Open AccessArticle -
Decoding the Germline Genome of Paediatric Cancer: Detecting Novel Variants and Determining Their Role in Relation to Cancer Predisposition
Published 2026Cancer development in children does not typically require accumulated somatic mutations introduced by ageing and environmental mutagens, as seen in adult-onset. Rather, germline variants (present in constitutional DNA) are ...USyd AccessThesis -
Alternating Finger Tracing For Learning: A Cognitive Load Theory Perspective
Published 2026Drawing on cognitive load theory, finger tracing is an instructional method to support cognitive learning， being demonstrated across various subjects, learner demographics, and instructional designs. The variability of ...Open AccessThesis -
Social Interaction and Social Media: How Speech-Language Pathologists Support Adolescents with Communication Disability in a Digital Age
Published 2026This thesis examined how Australian speech-language pathologists (SLPs) assess and support the social interaction abilities of young people with communication disability, with a focus on the digital environments that shape ...Open AccessThesis