Theses: Recent submissions
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Uexküll's Animals: The Experimental Origins of the Umwelt
Published 2026Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of the Umwelt has been influential in many different disciplines spanning both the sciences and the humanities. Given the resurgence of interest in the Umwelt concept in recent decades, it is ...Open AccessThesis -
The Men Question in Chinese Digital Feminism: Embodied Gender Subjectivity and Ugly Affects
Published 2025This thesis examines the controversial phenomenon of yan-nan (misandry) in post-MeToo Chinese digital feminism. Through empirical and theoretical approaches, this thesis situates Chinese digital feminists’ attitudes ...Open AccessThesis -
Self-Supervised Intrinsic Representation Learning on Medical Images for Universal Foundation Models
Published 2025Deep learning has advanced medical imaging, yet clinical adoption is limited by scarce annotations, weak interpretability, and poor generalization. A key limitation of existing methods is their purely data-driven nature, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Financial Wellbeing and the Early Release of Superannuation
Published 2025The Early Release of Superannuation (ERS) is one of the Australian federal government’s policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing individuals who were financially impacted by the crisis to withdraw up to A$20,000 ...Open AccessThesis -
Forecasting Electricity Price Spikes: A Comparative Analysis of GAM and SVM
Published 2025The Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) exhibits high price volatility, with prices determined every five minutes. Sudden and unpredictable price spikes create substantial uncertainty and financial risk for market ...Open AccessThesis