Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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A Study of Teachers’ Multimodal Discourse in Online Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Published 2024The current study conducts a multimodal discourse analysis to explore the CFL teachers’ multimodal pedagogy observed in remote teaching as well as online class interaction with the support of multimodality tools and ...Open AccessThesis -
The EV-phage Biobots – unraveling natural synergies of extracellular vesicles and bacteriophage as a multifunctional therapeutic agent for infected skin wounds
Published 2025This research program aims to develop multifunctional biobots that integrate antimicrobial bacteriophage and cell-instructive EVs delivered precisely to an infected site where they synergistically kill bacteria and disrupt ...Open AccessThesis -
Ventriculostomy – Related Infections: Prognosis and Diagnosis in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit
Published 2025External ventricular drains (EVDs) are commonly used in the management of acute neurological injury. Ventriculostomy – related infection (VRI) is a common complication associated with the presence of EVDs. Despite how ...Open AccessThesis -
How are meal delivery applications disrupting food environments and affecting population diets and health?
Published 2025Background: Meal delivery applications (‘apps’) enable convenient access to takeaway foods, typically high in sodium, saturated fats, and sugars. These apps may further promote unhealthy diets and elevate risk for diet-related ...Open AccessThesis -
The ecology of host-microbiota associations in sharks.
Published 2024The health and function of most multicellular eukaryotes is underpinned by innate associations with microorganisms. Understanding the interactions between eukaryotic hosts and their microbiota is particularly important ...USyd AccessThesis