Theses: Recent submissions
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Socio-Ecological Determinants of Young Men’s Help-Seeking: Barriers and Pathways to Engagement
Published 2026Guided by the socio-ecological model, this thesis examines the determinants of young men’s help-seeking across multiple levels of influence and identifies practical strategies to support more effective and timely engagement ...Open AccessThesis -
Determining changes in Eucalyptus litter during decomposition
Published 2026This study demonstrated that both natural and thermal decomposition alter litter carbon and nitrogen content, affecting decomposition rates. Climate was the dominant driver, with rapid initial mass loss under warm and wet ...Open AccessThesis -
THESE WALLS HAVE EYES AND EARS On architectural memory and conservation
Published 2026The desire to keep alive the memory of the past is deeply human and arguably universal. However, the set of claims the conservation movement has made about buildings as witnesses to time and repositories of memory are ...Open AccessThesis -
Designing for Casual Human-Robot Collaboration in Urban Public Spaces
Published 2026Robots are evolving beyond their traditional roles in controlled environments and are increasingly being deployed in dynamic public urban spaces (e.g., delivery robots). To ensure smooth deployment in these settings, robots ...Open AccessThesis -
Behavioral Dataset Compression for Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Published 2026Offline reinforcement learning (offline RL) provides a principled framework for learning decision-making policies from fixed datasets without environment interaction, enabling applications in safety-critical, privacy-sensitive, ...USyd AccessThesis