ISTP Students and dissertation topics: Current and Recent

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An alphabetical list of current PhD students is available here

City Policy PhD/MPhil

• Antonelli, Paul: Ecovillages in Theory and Practice
• Armstrong, Rebecca: Sustainable Regeneration in Maddington and Kenwick
• Cameron, Iain: An urban systems model to minimise automobile dependence and improve the sustainability of urban transport (PhD)
• Egger, Steve: Sustainable urban patterns in the information age: Impact of information mode of development on sustainable development strategies and policies (PhD)
• Falconer, Ryan: Sick of the Traffic: Exploring the Urban Design, Transport and Health Matrix
• Hodgman, Kendal: Biodiversity conservation in the Gosford area in the face or growing urban sprawl: Is it possible under the present legal and administrative framework? (PhD)
• Kasat, Pilar: Cultural Planning and Sustainable Communities
• Kiera, Agnieshka: Regulation as a positive economic and social force in managing integrated urban conservation (PhD)
• Kott, Joe : Streets of Clay: Re-Shaping Urban Arterial Streets for Sustainability
• Narayanan, Yamini: The Effects of Urbanisation on Delhi's Rural Women (MPhil)
• Townsend, Craig: In whose interest? A critical approach to Southeast Asia’s urban transport dynamics (PhD)
• Talukder, Siraj: Managing Megacities: A case study of metropolitan and regional governance in Dhaka
  

Sustainable Energy and Third World Development

• Alam, Khorshed: Integrating the environment into policy decision-making: The case of Bangladesh (PhD)
• Amin, Md Rabiul: Technology transfer and the clean development mechanism (PhD)
• Aryal, Murari: Sustainable development in Nepal (PhD)
• Devereux, Peter: The work of international volunteers for development and sustainability
• Edgehill, Janet: Articulating and Negotiating Change in the Australian Planning Profession
• Ehlers, Julien: Corporate Structure for Local Ownership of Wind Farm (RMT)
• Ellery, Mark: Energy storage as a means of enabling communities to fuel environmentally and socially sustainable development (PhD)
• Guo, Xiumei Melanie: One child family policy and population aging in China (PhD)
• Islam, Rumana: Sustainable developemnt through Ecological Agriculture in Bangladesh (PhD)
• Prihatinah, Tri: Women and income generating projects: The gender impact of two Indonesian government schemes (PhD)
• Salequzzaman, Md: A framework of environmentally sound sustainable development in coastal Bangladesh through tidal power (PhD)
• Siddiqui, Firoze: An evaluation of rural sustainable development planning: A case study of renewable energy feasibility in Bangladesh (PhD)
• Sunil, Govinage: A sustainability assessment of the Sri Lankan Civil War
• Walls, Sean: How will the energy industry affect a real transition to sustainable energy (PhD)

Sustainable Futures: Innovation and Technology

• Brown,David: Politics, governance and information technology in the public sector (PhD)
• Browne, Colleen: Federal Funding: The impact of industry adjustment programmes as small businesses rapidly expand (RMT)
• Dell, Peter: Computer mediated communications (PhD)
• Dhakal, Subas: Application of community informatics to sustain community-based environmental groups
• Dietrich, Heather: Science and return of the humane: A holistic approach to communication and control in science (PhD)
• Garrity, Lisa: Hydrogen bus fuel cells – sustainable development (PhD)
• Gollagher, Margaret: Sustainable development and industrial corporations (PhD)
• Hammersley, Richard: Theoretical/professional paradigms within the Australian (and international) drug and alcohol treatment industry
• Krishnaswamy, Girija: Diffusion of Internet technologies in Australia: Determinants, extent, comprehensiveness and impact on competitiveness (PhD)
• Mountain, Helen: Social, cultural and ethical issues in genetic naturalise of consanguineous couples in Western Australia (PhD)
• Thomas, Terrence: Sustainability, medical practice and tertiary level hospitals (PhD)
• Trench, Gaomai: Western Australia’s exposure to volatile oil market - How Western Australian copes with oil vulnerability (RMT)
• Trench, Jim: Role of the Chinese Steel Industry In the Economic Development of China and Australia's Contribution to the Industry as a Supplier of Raw Materials (PhD)
• Wong, Susan: Community development: a case study on remote communities’ use of technology (PhD)

Sustainable Regions and Natural Resource Management

• Armstrong, Rachel: Regional sustainability strategies: A regional flows for opportunities to improve sustainability in Western Australia (RMT)
• Davis, John: Community participation in coastal environmental management (PhD)
• Duxbury, Louise: Communication and landcare in the Torbay Catchment (MPhil)
• Flavio Gazzani: Economic Valuation of Biodiversity Conservation. Citizens' Non-use Value for Ningaloo Reef. (PhD) email: f.gazzani@murdoch.edu.au
• Jennings, Susan: Decision-making for sustainable agriculture: The influence of scale (PhD)
• Juniper, Robin: A Cape to Cape Cleanwaters project: Community communication and community science (PhD)
• Kennedy, Deborah: Ocean Views: An investigation into human-ocean relations (PhD)
• Letchford, Robert: Appropriate Technology and Innovation in Indonesian Sanitation: Resolving the Tensions (Hons) (PDF 1.1MB)
• Morrison, Judith: Reconceptualising conflict and developing innovative approaches to deal with competing interests in resource development projects (PhD)
• Parton, Graham: Sustainability in the Regions
• Paulin, Sally: Volunteers in Environmental Management
• Penberthy, Michael: Accommodating Aboriginal ways: The reflexivity of whitefellas working in the Aboriginal domain (PhD)
• Stanton-Hicks, Erik M: Mining and sustainability in Western Australia
• Galloway, Dave: Sustainability as an Organising Principle for Community based change

Sustainability Politics, Policy and Economics

• Burke, Gary: Addressing the Implementation Gap: Towards an Integrated Policy Framework for Implementation and Management of Sustainability
• Chappell, Gail: The influence of Animal/Human relationships on the long term success of conservation policy
• Davey, Phillippa: Complex identity(s): Theoretical and practical strategies to contest “naturalised” identities
• Lindsay, Elizabeth: Multiculturalism: A transitional process (PhD)
• McGrath, Natalie: Community governance, economy and culture: Reflections upon the experience of East Timor, Canada and the Western Desert in Western Australia
• Peddie, Brian: Festivals: a key to community change (PhD)
• Pinkard, John: Corporate citizenship - An action-research approach to developing understanding and improving practice
• Polgaze, Ray: Developing a philosophy and approach for independent nature conservation audits
• Prince, Michael: The transition from conservation reserve to sacred space (PhD)
• Raven, Margaret: Indigenous sustainability and intellectual property (PhD)
• Robson, Stephen: Equality and native title claims in Australia (PhD)
• Rodgers, Steven: Rethinking: eco-care policy and interdisciplinarity (PhD)
• Schiff, Rebecca: Food Policy Councils: An examination of organizational structure, process, and contribution to alternative food movements
• Scougall, John: The meaning of research in Indigenous contexts and the implications for qualitative research practice in Indigenous Australian contexts (PhD)
• Pope, Jenny: Sustainability Assessment

Sustainable Selves

• Blundell-Wignall, Grant: The body, cognition and meaning (PhD)
• Croft, John: Opening the Global Heart: Gaia philosophy and systems theory
• Cugley, Janelle: Palette of place: creative visual mapping as a community building tool (PhD)
• McMahon, Lance: Collective consumption (PhD)
• McNeil, Margaret: An ecofeminist critique of marketing (PhD)
• Myint, Aung: Psychology and early Buddhist practice: A process of integration (PhD)
• Naimo, Joseph: Understanding consciousness: Beyond methodological constraint (PhD)
• Packer, Ian: Anabaptist social ethics with special reference to James McClendon (PhD)
• Parnell, Matthew: Imperfect whitefellar dreaming: Ways to a culture of sustainability (PhD)
• Pule, Paul: Ecology for men in a globalising world: recalling an Ecological Masculinity from our primate past (PhD)
• Wooltorton, Sandra: Bridging the gap to sustainability: Participatory school communities (PhD)