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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.

UCRISE student and researcher

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