Research Students
UCRISE is proud of the many University of Canberra PhD students that study through the institute, contributing to the our distinguished research output.
See below a list of current and graduated students.
- 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
- Murray Campbell - To evaluate the effectiveness of education/ethics programs on elite athletes
- 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 the 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
2022
- Clare Quinlan - Physical activity and cognitive function in middle-aged adults
- Erin Smyth –Development and application of holistic injury prevention strategies in pre-elite sport: Implementation in Australian netball
- Wayne Haynes - Physical and cognitive cerformance in pre-adolescent children: relationships to orientation and alignment to gravitational vertical
- Alice Wallett - The Effect of exercise and heat stress on indirect blood markers of gastrointestinal damage in well-trained populations
- Kathryn Speer – Heart rate variability to track autonomic nervous system health in young children: effects of physical activity and cardiometabolic risk factors
- Kathleen Miles - Sleep in female athletes: exploring risk factors for disturbance and implications for recovery
- Alexandra Lascu - The perceptions and practices of talent development for female cricketers: a skill acquisition perspective
- Emily Partridge - Acute pre-exercise partial-body cryotherapy exposure to enhance physical performance
2021
- Peta Maloney – Thermoregulation in athletes with a spinal cord injury
- Rhiannon Campbell – 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 – 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 – Are Intrinsic Factors Useful in Predicting Risk of Injury and Performance in Field Hockey
2020
- Katie McGibbon – Achieving marginal gains: perfecting the pacing strategies of Australian swimmers
- Nan Yang – Ankle Proprioception: Laterality, Measurement, Age and Physical Activity
2019
- Kellie Toohey – Effects of Exercise on Health Outcomes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Cancer Survivors
- Avish Pal Sharma – Optimising training prescription and periodisation during altitude training in elite runners
- Andrea Hams (Miller) – Intrinsic athlete characteristics as predictors of shoulder injury and throwing performance in water polo
- Emily Lewis – Adherence to lifestyle intervention in adults with obesity
- Kirsten Everett – Understanding the time course effects of neuromuscular fatigue from anaerobic exercise: Implications for periodisation and performance
- Paul Perkins – Can a modified low-risk form of boxing achieve significant community uptake?
- Robin Poke – A Narrative History of Australian Rowing, 1770 - 2016
- Finn Marsland – Macro-kinematic performance analysis in cross-country skiing using micro-sensors
- Lachlan Mitchell – Anaerobic assessment and training monitoring in elite swimmers
- Joseph Northey – The Ageing Brain: Investigating the Role of Physical Activity Dose on Neurocognitive Health
2017
- Kym Williams – The Optimal Load to Maximise System Power During a Countermovement Jump
- Andrew Flood – Examining the relationship between endogenous pain modulation and exercise
- Tim McGrath – Measurement of function in an ecological study of autograft (2ST/2GR) and synthetic (LARS) ACL reconstruction
- Kristy Martin – The impact of mental fatigue on physiological, psychological and performance variables during exercise
- Amy Woods – Effects of endurance training interventions on resting metabolic rate, body composition and performance in highly trained athletes
2016
- Adam Hewitt – Performance Analysis in Soccer: Applications of Player Tracking Technology
- Jocelyn Mara – The Physical and Physiological Characteristics of Elite Female Soccer Players
- Ronald Smith – An Investigation into Goal-Scoring in Professional Association Football
- Courtney McGowan – Competition Day Preparation Strategies to Enhance Performance in Swimmers
- Phillip Newman – Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome
- Anthea Clarke – Improving the Physical Preparation and Development of Women's Rugby Sevens Players
2015
- Anthony Walker – Maximising the safety and performance of Australian urban firefighters working in the heat
2021
- Luke Gallagher – Application of video-based technologies in assessing athletic development
2020
- Rachel Gale – Short-term heat training to enhance physical performance of team sport athletes
2019
- Steven Bingley – The application of popular body weight exercise in a combat sport population
2018
- Damian Raper – Relative loads during running and its application to the rehabilitation of athletes
- Jamie Youngson – Moving from Multidisciplinary to Interdisciplinary Support Teams in High Performance Sport: from a Strength and Conditioning Perspective
2017
- Jan Legg – Physiological profile and variability of jump kinetics in national level female basketball players
2016
- John Mitchell – Strength and lower body power in international rugby sevens players: Seasonal variations and the effects of travel