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.
- Alison Sarah Fitch – Optimisation of Athlete Health and Performance Progression in Australian Diving Athletes
- Amanda Scott - Evaluation of changes in cognitive performance during and after physical and environmental strain
- Annabel Horsburgh - Relationship between interoception and pain
- Annaleise Naylor – Understanding and Implementing Physical Literacy in Adults Aged 18-75
- Ashleigh Sarah McGill – Ankle somatosensation in novel environments: a simulation of Moon and Mars gravity
- Benjamin Salcinovic – Systems Thinking in High Performance Sport: Putting Theory into Practice
- Benjamin Currie – Performance Health in Australian Diving Athletes: Optimising Injury Prevention and Health Systems and Practices
- Byron Field – The use of instrumented mouthguard technology to quantify head injury in Professional Rugby Union
- Carmen Colomer – Game analysis and running demands of rugby union - A systems approach to analysing tactical behaviour and player load in competition
- Ceridwen Rose Radcliffe – How do the Muscles and Tendons of the Leg and Foot Interact During Landing Tasks and How Does This Inform Rehabilitation?
- Charles Mountifield – Beyond the Sausage Sizzle: Advocacy, public policy and the sustainability of community sport
- Chris Myers - Pelvic floor dysfunction in the exrcising male
- Claire Buechel - Nutritional approaches to support refeeding post-chronic energy restriction in athletes
- Cody Samuel Lindsay – Conventional swing bowling in Australian cricket: understanding key technical aspects
- Damien Norman Parry – The Inclusion Fairness Dichotomy: Understanding the Tension Between Inclusion and Fairness Within Sport
- Daniel Tait – The role of the foot and ankle in landing biomechanics associated with non-contact ALC injury
- Erin Smyth – Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Holistic Injury Prevention Strategy in Australian Pre-Elite Netball Athletes
- Fahad Alfarraj – Risk Assessment and Predictive Measures Associated with The Most Prevalent Injuries in Male Professional Soccer Players
- Felicity Bright – The thermophysiology of self-paced exercise
- Felicity Lord – A Complex, Dynamic System Called Field Hockey; Unravelling The Complexities Through Performance Analysis
- Harry Brown – Seasonal Heat Acclimatisation: From Youth to Adulthood
- Heidi Bochenek - Effects of exercise on epigenetics and ageing
- Hollie Speer – Molecular mechanisms of hypertension in aging
- James Wallace – Neck pain in high performance jet aircrew
- James White – Exploration of the drivers of engagement and disengagement of Touch Football participants in Australia
- Jerushah Bull – Energy, Power and Foot-Spring: A Fast Pace Running Study
- Katherine Carleton – Activation, patient-caregiver relationships and psychosocial wellbeing in the heart failure community
- Margot Rogers – The role of energy availability in the prevention of injury and illness in elite female athletes
- Mathew Mooney – Elite Athlete Availability: A Public Health Approach into Outbreak Investigation and Management of Infectious Disease in Elite Athletes
- Matthew Turnbull – Health, performance and the financial cost in professional Australian Football League
- Melanie Moore - Exercise guidelines for haemotological cancer patients (include if UCRISE) supervisors: Toohey, Semple, Northey
- Melissa Crunkhorn – Evaluation of the current health of Australian triathletes to optimise health and availability
- Michael Pengelly - The effect of iron deficiency on sport specific performance among female athletes and supplementation to mitigate the consequences experienced from deficiencies
- Michael Sydney – Quantifying the Workloads of Elite Youth Soccer Players in Training and Matches
- Murray Campbell – To evaluate the effectiveness of education/ethics programs on elite athletes
- Peter McDonald – The influence of environmental characteristics on heat acclimation adaptions
- Rachel Venn – Stress response and metabolic systems in children living in military and first responder families
- Rebecca Cesnik – Evaluating and increasing physical activity levels in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
- Richard Saw – Imaging (MRI) Lumbar Spine Bone Stress: Interpretation, Methods, and Injury Prevention
- Sara Chica Latorre - Exploring inflammation along the menstrual cycle in female athletes
- Sara Guevara – Investigating factors that affect athlete attrition on the high-performance pathway: A complex systems approach
- Sheila Galloway - An evaluation of the response readiness of the national, state and community level sport organisations
- Simone O'Neill - Dietary interventions to treat depression
- Susan Antcliff – An exploration of the role of proprioception in falls risk of older people
- Thomas Topham – Thermoregulatory Responses to Exercise-heat Stress in Children and Adults
- Tristan Hedger - How Commanders and Leaders make population health decisions to achieve performance outcomes
- Udana Bandara – The relationship between mechanical stiffness and ball release speed in cricket fast bowling
- Vicki McCathy - Cognition and cerebral blood flow changes during simultaneous engagement in cognitive tasks and exercise
- William Mason – The use of acute exercise interventions as strategies to improve athlete readiness and physical performance in team-sport athletes
2022
- Clare Quinlan - Physical activity and cognitive function in middle-aged adults
- 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