Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Preclinical research on novel therapies and neurochemistry in intractable epilepsy
Published 2025Epilepsy is a condition involving underlying hyperexcitability of neurons in the brain leading to various seizure-related phenotypes. However, there remains unmet clinical need in epilepsy for around 30% of patients that ...Open AccessThesis -
Demystifying Vocabulary Knowledge: Depth, Size and the Productive Domain
Published 2025Understandings around the nature of vocabulary knowledge and its relationship with vocabulary use in the productive domain remain vague. This study revisits the conceptualisation of vocabulary depth, its interplay with ...Open AccessThesis -
Teaching Critical Reflection using a 4Cs Approach: A Multimethod Study of Two Secondary Classes
Published 2024Critical reflection is a necessary capability that positively transforms how people see, act, and think for the social good. However, many secondary educators experience doubt when conceptualising this phenomenon and ...Open AccessThesis -
Responding to an Epochal Climate Crisis: Introducing a framework of Strategic Socio-Ecological Relational analysis (SSER) to position planetary, capital and hegemonic relations through state ensembles in Australia
Published 2025Historical and contemporary strategic projects and capital accumulation regimes have eroded critical planetary processes, escalating the risk of systemic tipping points and frequent global crises. This dissertation proposes ...Open AccessThesis -
Somatotopic organization of the human periaqueductal gray revealed in pain and placebo analgesia
Published 2025Pain is a critical and fundamental homeostatic state that results in the execution of defensive behaviours, one of which is a profound placebo analgesia. Early discoveries on the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) found ...Open AccessThesis