Research 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