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HDR research projects
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HDR research projects
UCRISE is proud of the many University of Canberra PhD students that study through the institute, contributing to the our distinguished research output.
| HDR Student | Project |
|---|---|
| Fahad Alfarraj | Risk Assessment and Predictive Measures Associated with The Most Prevalent Injuries in Male Professional Soccer Players |
| Andrea Baker | Influence of heat therapy on neuromuscular function, proprioception and balance |
| Udana Bandara | The relationship between mechanical stiffness and ball release speed in cricket fast bowling |
| Heidi Bochenek | Can exercise modulate immune function in those with Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer? |
| Craig Bolger | Evaluating physical demands of women's rugby union |
| Riley Brassington | Talent identification, anthropometryand performance analytics in NRLW and NRL |
| Felicity Bright | The thermophysiology of self-paced exercise |
| Harry Brown | Seasonal Heat Acclimatisation: From Youth to Adulthood |
| Claire Buechel | Nutritional approaches to support refeeding post chronic energy restriction in athletes |
| Jerushah Bull | Energy, Power and Foot Spring - a fast pace running study |
| Shaun Cameron | SabeRLmetrics: A Quantitative Approach to Valuing Rugby League Players Based on Their Contribution to Team Success |
| Rebecca Cesnik | Evaluating and increasing physical activity levels in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy |
| Sara Chica Latorre | Exploring inflammation along the menstrual cycle in female athletes |
| Carmen Colomer | A systems approach to analysing tactical behaviour and player load in competition |
| Melissa Crunkhorn | Evaluation of the current health of Australian triathletes to optimise health and availability |
| Benjamin Currie | Performance Health in Australian Diving Athletes: Optimising Injury Prevention and Health Systems and Practices |
| Louise Drysdale | Investigation of risk factors for bone stress injury in pre-professional and professional ballet dancers, incorporating subsequent injury modelling. |
| Josh Elliot | Optimising heat acclimation in elite athletes across the national institute network |
| Byron Field | The use of instrumented mouthguard technology to quantify head injury in Professional Rugby Union. |
| Alison Fitch | Optimisation of Athlete Health and Performance Progression in Australian Diving Athletes |
| Sheila Galloway | An evaluation of the response readiness of the national, state and community level sport organisations |
| Sara Guevara | Investigating factors that affect athlete attrition on the high performance pathway: A complex systems approach |
| Tristan Hedger | How Commanders and Leaders make population health decisions to achieve performance outcomes |
| Kylie Holt | Pathoanatomy of an elite swimmer's shoulder |
| Annabel Horsburgh | Relationship between interoception and pain |
| Kevin John | Influence of post-exercise hot water immersion heat acclimation on endurance and neuromuscular performance in female athletes |
| Erin Kelly | Maximal strength training as an intervention to improve the mental health and well-being of survivors of intimate partner violence |
| Lachlan Kerin | Performance, profiling and tapering elite female swimmers |
| Nic Lawlis | Physical activity for cognitive performance in young onset dementia |
| Aidan Lewis | The Effects of tDCS on Performance: The Role of The Blood Brain Barrier |
| Genevieve Lim | Understanding sports capacity to mitigate and respond to integrity threats |
| Cody Lindsay | Conventional swing bowling in Australian cricket: understanding key technical aspects |
| Felicity Lord | A complex, dynamic system called field hockey; unravelling the complexities through performance analysis |
| Stephen MacGabhan | Optimising talent identification: integrating coach ratings, psychometrics and perceptual neuroscience |
| Billy Mason | The use of acute exercise interventions as strategies to improve athlete readiness and physical performance in team sport athletes |
| Vicki McCarthy | Cognition and cerebral blood flow changes during simultaneous engagement in cognitive tasks and exercise |
| Keely McDicken | The effect of exercise and a simultaneous cognitive task on cerebral blood flow and cognitive function |
| Peter McDonald | The influence of environmental characteristics on heat acclimation adaptions |
| Ashleigh McGill | Ankle somatosensation in novel environments: a simulation of Moon and Mars gravity |
| Alexander McKenzie | Supporting mental health through community sport in intersectional and racialized groups |
| Jack Mest | Tendon injuries and the somatosensory issues |
| Mathew Mooney | Elite athlete availability: a public health approach into outbreak investigation and management of infectious disease in elite athletes |
| Charles Mountifield | Beyond the sausage sizzle: advocacy, public policy and the sustainability of community sport |
| Melissa Muzeau | The brain KPI's : Profiling and monitoring toward a new game changer for performance optimisation and mental health |
| Chris Myers | Pelvic floor dysfunction in the exercising male |
| Annaleise Naylor | Understanding and implementing physical literacy in adults aged 18 |
| Simone O'Neill | A low FODMAP diet and exercise as a viable adjunctive treatment for depression in otherwise healthy individuals |
| Isobel Oon | Assessment of alignment strategies in total knee replacements |
| Damien Parry | The inclusion fairness dichotomy: understanding the tension between inclusion and fairness within sport |
| Hannah Pegg | Sports most likely to be impacted by climate change and potential solutions to lessen or prevent the impact. |
| Michael Pengelly | The effect of iron deficiency on sport specific performance among female athletes and supplementation to mitigate the consequences experienced from deficiencies |
| Alanah Pike | Examining the effect of physical activity on quality of life and cognitive function for breast cancer survivors |
| Ceridwen Radcliffe | The influence of the foot spring on patellar tendon load during landing |
| Margot Rogers | Uncoupling exposure from disease: improving epidemiological rigour in he study of low energy availability and its translation to practice in elite female athletes |
| Travis Ronaldson | Nutrition and mental fatigue in team sports |
| Richard Saw | Imaging (MRI) lumbar spine bone stress: interpretation, methods, and injury prevention |
| Amanda Scott | Evaluation of changes in cognitive performance during and after physical and environmental strain |
| HollieSpeer | Molecular mechanisms of hypertension in ageing: telomere length and skeletal muscle reactive oxygen and nitrogen species production |
| Trevor Spencer | Gluteal tendon tear presentations, treatments and outcomes |
| Stirling Sharpe | Officiating role identity and recruitment in community sport |
| Michael Sydney | Quantifying the workloads of elite youth soccer players in training and matches |
| Daniel Tait | The role of the foot and ankle in landing biomechanics associated with non-contact ACL injury |
| Thomas Topham | Thermoregulatory responses to exercise - heat stress in children and adults |
| Constantino Toufexis | The effects of non-invasive brain stimulation on episodic future thinking |
| Matthew Turnbull | Health, performance and the financial cost in professional Australian Football League |
| Richard Vaughan | Athlete experience in anti-doping systems |
| Rachel Venn | Stress response and metabolic systems in children living in military and first responder families |
| James Wallace | Neck pain in high performance jet aircrew |
| Josh Waugh | Promoting health and performance in elite and youth female football players |
| James White | Exploration of the drivers of engagement and disengagement |
| Amanda Bulman | The effects of L-Theanine as a functional ingredient on quality of sleep |
| Brittany Harriden | Davidson plum (Davidsonia jeresyana) as a functional food product; the effect on vascular function in athletes |
| Harshini Meegaswatte | The effects of N-Acetylcysteine in the combination with glycine and L-Theanine on physical and vascular functioning in post-menopausal women |
| Graduate | Year | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Harry Brown | 2024 | Seasonal Heat Acclimatisation: From Youth to Adulthood |
| Michael Sydney | 2024 | Quantifying the Workloads of Elite Youth Soccer Players in Training and Matches |
| Thomas Topham | 2024 | Thermoregulatory responses to exercise-heat stress in children and adults |
| James White | 2024 | Exploration of the drivers of engagement and disengagement of Touch Football participants in Australia |
| Felicity Bright | 2023 | The thermophysiology of self-paced exercise |
| Fahad Alfarraj | 2023 | Risk assessment and predictive measures associated with the most prevalent injuries in male professional soccer players |
| Margot Rogers | 2023 | Uncoupling exposure from disease: improving epidemiological rigour in the study of low energy availability and its translation to practice in elite |
| Felicity Lord | 2023 | A complex, dynamic system called field hockey: Unravelling the complexities through performance analysis |
| Susan Antcliff | 2022 | Feeling and falling: An exploration of the role of proprioception in falls among older adults |
| Clare Quinlan | 2022 | Physical activity and cognitive function in middle-aged adults |
| Erin Smyth | 2022 | Development and application of holistic injury prevention strategies in pre-elite sport: Implementation in Australian netball |
| Wayne Haynes | 2022 | Physical and cognitive cerformance in pre-adolescent children: relationships to orientation and alignment to gravitational vertical |
| Alice Wallett | 2022 | The Effect of exercise and heat stress on indirect blood markers of gastrointestinal damage in well-trained populations |
| Kathryn Speer | 2022 | Heart rate variability to track autonomic nervous system health in young children: effects of physical activity and cardiometabolic risk factors |
| Kathleen Miles | 2022 | Sleep in female athletes: exploring risk factors for disturbance and implications for recovery |
| Alexandra Lascu | 2022 | The perceptions and practices of talent development for female cricketers: a skill acquisition perspective |
| Emily Partridge | 2022 | Acute pre-exercise partial-body cryotherapy exposure to enhance physical performance |
| Peta Maloney | 2021 | Thermoregulation in athletes with a spinal cord injury |
| Rhiannon Campbell | 2021 | Taking the guesswork out of managing training load in gymnastics – using inertial measurement units to develop a load catalogue for men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics |
| Umut Dogan | 2021 | Personal Protective Qualities in Sport: Tackling Conceptual Matters, Developing and Evaluating a Profile to Assess, and a Smartphone App to Enhance Psychological Strategies |
| Mark Stokes | 2021 | Are Intrinsic Factors Useful in Predicting Risk of Injury and Performance in Field Hockey |
| Katie McGibbon | 2020 | Achieving marginal gains: perfecting the pacing strategies of Australian swimmers |
| Avish Pal Sharma | 2019 | Optimising training prescription and periodisation during altitude training in elite runners |
| Andrea Hams (Miller) | 2019 | Intrinsic athlete characteristics as predictors of shoulder injury and throwing performance in water polo |
| Kirsten Everett | 2019 | Understanding the time course effects of neuromuscular fatigue from anaerobic exercise: Implications for periodisation and performance |
| Paul Perkins | 2019 | Can a modified low-risk form of boxing achieve significant community uptake? |
| Finn Marsland | 2019 | Macro-kinematic performance analysis in cross-country skiing using micro-sensors |
| Lachlan Mitchell | 2019 | Anaerobic assessment and training monitoring in elite swimmers |
| Kym Williams | 2017 | The Optimal Load to Maximise System Power During a Countermovement Jump |
| Rohan Telford | 2017 | Physical activity: patterns and influences in Australian children |
| Andrew Flood | 2017 | Examining the relationship between endogenous pain modulation and exercise |
| Tim McGrath | 2017 | Measurement of function in an ecological study of autograft (2ST/2GR) and synthetic (LARS) ACL reconstruction |
| Kristy Martin | 2017 | The impact of mental fatigue on physiological, psychological and performance variables during exercise |
| Amy Woods | 2017 | Effects of endurance training interventions on resting metabolic rate, body composition and performance in highly trained athletes |
| Adam Hewitt | 2016 | Performance Analysis in Soccer: Applications of Player Tracking Technology |
| Jocelyn Mara | 2016 | The Physical and Physiological Characteristics of Elite Female Soccer Players |
| Courtney McGowan | 2016 | Competition Day Preparation Strategies to Enhance Performance in Swimmers |
| Phillip Newman | 2016 | Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome |
| Anthea Clarke | 2016 | Improving the Physical Preparation and Development of Women's Rugby Sevens Players |
| Anthony Walker | 2015 | Maximising the safety and performance of Australian urban firefighters working in the heat |
| Nehad Makhadmeh | 2015 | Talent Identification and Development in Women's Football: Integrating Australian Insights in Jordan |
| Graduate | Year | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Luke Gallagher | 2021 | Application of video-based technologies in assessing athletic development |
| Rachel Gale | 2020 | Short-term heat training to enhance physical performance of team sport athletes |
| Steven Bingley | 2019 | The application of popular body weight exercise in a combat sport population |
| Damian Raper | 2018 | Relative loads during running and its application to the rehabilitation of athletes |
| Jamie Youngson | 2018 | Moving from Multidisciplinary to Interdisciplinary Support Teams in High Performance Sport: from a Strength and Conditioning Perspective |
| Jan Legg | 2017 | Physiological profile and variability of jump kinetics in national level female basketball players |
| John Mitchell | 2016 | Strength and lower body power in international rugby sevens players: Seasonal variations and the effects of travel |
