Dr Malaykham Philaphone
Status: Completed in 2021
Thesis title: Credit access, innovation and knowledge management, the critical factors influence SMEs growth: A case study of Lao PDR
Supervisors: Dr Ashokkumar Manoharan, Associate Professor Janice Jones
This research explores how access to credit, innovation and knowledge management contribute to the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) using Lao PDR as a case study.
Reem Alothmany
Thesis title: A cultural investigation on the impact of HPWS implementation on employee outcomes in Saudi Arabia’s healthcare
Supervisors: Dr Zhou Jiang, Dr Ashokkumar Manoharan
High-performance work systems (HPWS) in healthcare have been extensively investigated in Western developed countries and in parts of South East Asia. However, the HPWS literature on countries of the Middle East is scarce. This research aims to contribute to the literature by exploring HPWS implementation in an under researched context, Saudi Arabia’s healthcare.
Gemma Beale
Thesis title: Recalibrated Expectations: A longitudinal investigation into the impact of high rates of precarious employment on workers’ employment transitions following industry closure.
Supervisors: Professor Adela McMurray, Professor John Spoehr, Dr Ashokkumar Manoharan
This research investigates the impact of precarious employment on South Australian workers' transitions following the closure of the Australian automotive manufacturing industry.
Felicia Kim
Thesis title: Ethnic groups’ purchase behaviours within a multi-cultural nation
Supervisors: Professor Roberta Crouch, Dr Naser Pourazad, Dr Lara Stocchi
This research examines the factors affecting the ethnic and national identity of different ethnic groups within a multi-cultural nation and whether these factors influence their purchasing behaviour. It also outlines an empirical approach to investigate whether ethnic and national identity impacts the image of products from their perceived country-of-origin vs. products from the adopted country.
Dr Ha Dieu Thuong
Status: Completed 2021
Thesis title: Determinants of successful adoption of the Balanced Scorecard in Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises
Supervisors: Associate Professor Greg Fisher, Associate Professor Thanh Le, Dr Philip Palmer
This research is pioneering work on the Balanced Scorecard in SMEs conducted throughout the whole of Vietnam. This research provides future studies on Balanced Scorecard in Vietnamese SMEs an appropriate set of scales, creating favourable conditions better research results.
Luke Brownlow
Thesis title: Antecedents of mHealth Gambling App Acceptance: Opportunities for Interventions to Reduce Harm from Problem Gambling
Supervisors: Professor Roberta Crouch, Dr Naser Pourazad
This thesis crosses business and health disciplines to investigate technology, consumer and health factors that motivate problem gamblers to accept healthcare smartphone apps as treatment interventions.
Anusha Hewage
Thesis title: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Future of talent recruitment
Supervisors: Dr. Andreas Cebulla, Associate Professor Janice Jones
We anticipate the next decade will have a significant impact on AI. Focusing on the future of working and emerging technology disruption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this research digs-deeper into the application of AI in the talent recruitment function of Human Resource Management. If you were ever worried if an AI-based robot would steal your job in the future, just tune into this research.
Graeme Mitchell
Thesis title: Innovation and problematic workplace leader arrogance.
Supervisors: Professor Adela McMurray, Dr Ashokkumar Manoharan, Dr Rajesh Johnsam
This research is designed to:
Katy Lathouras
Project title: The disruption and dismantling of OMCGs in NSW: A case study of Strike Force Raptor's 'prevention-led' policing
Supervisors: Professor Mark Halsey
This project incorporates an in-depth case study of Strike Force Raptor's policing approach to the disruption and dismantling of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMCG) in New South Wales. It will analyse the perspectives of police detectives involved in the implementation of policing-led desistance; as well as the perspectives of former OMCG members on the receiving end of this approach.
Clifford Sayer
Project title: Police Bail: The 'moments of truth' on entry into the Criminal Justice System
Supervisors: Professor Adela McMurray, Associate Professor Caitlin Hughes, Associate Professor Rodrigo Praino
An observational study of police deciding and communicating about bail for those who have been detained in custody within the criminal justice system in South Australia.
Winnie Agnew-Pauley
Project title: A comparative analysis of police use of stop and search in Australia and the United Kingdom
Supervisors: Associate Professor Caitlin Hughes, Professor Andrew Goldsmith, Professor Alex Stevens (Kent University, UK)
The aim of this research is to compare key similarities and differences in the use of stop and search by police between Australia and the UK and to use procedural justice theory to explore the positive and negative impacts of stop and search for police-community relationships.
Dr. Alexandra Baxter
Status: Completed 2021
Thesis title: ‘Mothers of contract’: Pathways and perceptions of women who traffick other women in Australia.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Marinella Marmo, Dr Nerida Chazal
This research examines cases involving women who have been charged as the offender, in Australia, in crimes related to human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. Specifically, this research focuses on those women who have experienced victimisation in their lives prior to becoming the offender and how the Australian Courts, specifically the Judges on sentencing, acknowledge and understand these experiences.
Tahlia Hart
Thesis title: Motivational Engagement in Online Deception: Adolescent Self-Presentation on ‘Adult-Based Platforms’
Supervisors: Professor Andrew Goldsmith, Dr Russell Brewer, and Dr Melissa de Vel-Palumbo
This research examines why and how adolescents use the Internet and technology to facilitate inauthentic presentation online. In particular, adolescent experiences of circumventing and accessing online ‘adult-based platforms’ (e.g. a platform which requires users to be of, or above, the age of 18-years-old). This research will seek to understand what steps and techniques are adopted by adolescents in engaging with these platforms, including any digital or social hurdles they may encounter.
Phillip Screen
Thesis title: The evolution of transnational drug trafficking flows and the factors that affect them: A network perspective.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Caitlin Hughes, Dr R.V. Gundur
Cocaine and heroin are uniquely produced in a handful of countries. Consequently, they are trafficked along a series of distinct trade flows between countries. First, this PhD aims to explore how transnational drug trafficking flows for cocaine and heroin have evolved over time. The second aim is to explore the factors that affect drug trafficking flows. Cross sectional network maps will be constructed for each year between 1998 and 2018, utilising UNODC seizure data. Results will lead to a significant advancement in knowledge in mapping drug trafficking flows, how they have evolved and the factors that affect drug trafficking flows.
Krisha Brandon
Thesis title: Perceptions of safety in Kurlana Tapa Youth Justice Centre.
Supervisors: Professor Mark Halsey, Dr Melissa de Vel-Palumbo, Dr Simone Deegan
This research explores constructs of safety among children, young people and staff at the Adelaide Youth Training Centre (Kurlana Tapa) and how the environment impacts on perceptions of safety.
Jenna Mizzi
Thesis title: Jealousing and Aboriginal prisoner reintegration.
Supervisors: Professor Mark Halsey, Dr Simone Deegan and Professor David Bright (Deakin)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the Norther Territory describe jealousy/jealousing as a main contributor to social harms and recidivism. Despite this, jealousing is absent from academic literature. This study aims
to investigate the links between jealousing
and imprisonment/release. The study will also explore the often-overlooked daily solutions enacted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to resolve social harms. The perspectives
and knowledge of those who experience jealousing are made central through ethnographic fieldwork and adapted Indigenous methodologies. This study argues that by exploring jealousing
within its socio-cultural and historical contexts, interventions will be better equipped to provide preventative supports.
Hamid Ullah Azizi
Thesis title: The Taliban’s involvement and profit from organized crime and illicit drug trade in Afghanistan and their justification for using illicit financial resources: A key informant’s perspective
Supervisors: Associate Professor Caitlin Hughes, Professor Andrew Goldsmith
Through interviews with key informants in Afghanistan and collecting first-hand data, this PhD research investigates the nature of the Taliban's involvement in organized crime and illicit drug trade in Afghanistan. It further inquires how much is the Taliban's income from the illicit drug trade and how the Taliban, with an Islamic ideology, justify use of illicit financial resources to fund their operations.
Dr David Waterford
Status: Completed 2021
Project title: Politicians as policymakers: The interaction of interests, ideology, information and institutions in an Australian state
Supervisors: Professor Gerry Redmond, Professor Charles Lees
Investigation of policymaking by the South Australia political executive 2002-2010, in three policy areas – bioscience industry, radioactive waste management, and urban water-supply – by applying Carol Weiss’ 4Is framework of policymaking. Primary sources include interviews with members of the political executive from the era and previously unavailable cabinet documents.
Dr Dwi Ratih S. Esti
Status: Completed 2021
Project title: Effectiveness of evaluation practices in supporting regional development planning
Supervisors: Associate Professor Noore Siddiquee, Professor Gerry Redmond
This research provides an in-depth overview of the effectiveness of evaluation practices in supporting regional development planning in Indonesia using two case studies at the provincial level. Realist methodology was selected to better understand the causal mechanisms and contexts which influence the effectiveness of evaluation practice in regional development planning.
Fajar Fadli
Project title: The governance of renewable energy in Indonesia
Supervisors: Associate Professor Noore Siddiquee, Dr Peter Tangney
This research investigates renewable energy governance in Indonesia with a focus on transparency and public participation. It aims to evaluate governance process and to investigate the extent to which transparency and public participation can improve renewable energy share in Indonesia.
Nadeeka D. Mahamadachchi
Thesis title: Evaluating waste management policy in Sri Lanka
Supervisors: Associate Professor Cassandra Star, Associate Professor Beverley Clarke
This research explores the factors involved in the implementation gap of waste management policy in Sri Lanka. In addition, it examines the relationships among various actors in different levels of government and how these relationships affect effective policy implementation. A mixed method approach is utilised for the study.
Paige Fletcher
Thesis title: Australian feminist organisations relationship with the state: effective or ineffective?
Supervisors: Associate Professor Cassandra Star, Dr Peter Tangney
This research examines the effectiveness of feminist non-governmental organisations in influencing and contributing to domestic and family violence public policies. More specifically, it examines whether having a relationship with the state (i.e., being an insider or an outsider) impacts this effectiveness.
Aryanta Nugraha
Thesis title: Indonesia and the Making of Regional International Society in Southeast Asia
Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Michael Barr, Dr Maryanne Kelton
This research explores the role of Indonesia in constructing regional international society in Southeast Asia. Drawing from International Society perspective of the English School of IR, this thesis focuses on Indonesia's foreign policy in three episodes of creation, consolidation and maintenance of regional primary and secondary institutions of the regional international society.
Cole Williams
Project title: Reconceptualising sustainable development
Supervisors: Associate Professor Cassandra Star
Business interests have appropriated sustainable development discourse, leading to negative environmental and economic impacts on communities. The prioritisation of corporate interests in policy has led to an increase in inequality both within and between countries.
Alternative conceptions of `progress´, and `development´ must be considered as they better serve community rather than corporate interests. This project considers the implementation of biocentric alternatives to mainstream sustainable development, including the Latin American concept of buen vivir which translates to ‘living well in community’.
Diogo Quental de Sousa
Project title: Great Power Relations in a Post-Covid World: Exploring Geopolitics of Space
Supervisors: Associate Professor Rodrigo Praino and Dr. Maryanne Kelton
This research proposes an exploratory study on the geopolitics of outer space, particularly focusing on the following great powers: US, China and Russia. The topic of this research proposal is related to Space Politics and Space Policy, which are areas of strategic interest to many state actors. This is a growing field of research with extremely important implications for defence, public policy and international relations. Emerging powers such as Australia may also benefit from the results of this investigation by finding a clearer path to improve their space capacity and autonomy.
Judi Storer
Project title: The Effectiveness of Diffusion of International Environmental Law Sustainable Development Principles into Domestic Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Supervisors: Associate Professor Cassandra Star and Associate Professor Hossein Esmaeili
This research seeks to determine the effectiveness of international environmental law sustainable development principles in driving effective domestic climate change mitigation law and policy, in three case study countries; Australia, Brazil and India. It will explore how governments in case study countries have rationalised conflicts, contradictions, and tensions, between the each of the sustainable development principles, and how this rationalisation has influenced the effectiveness of these countries’ domestic climate change mitigation law and policy.
Joshua Gilbert
Project title: Precarious Transitions: Understanding the impacts of ‘youth precarity’ on young people's end-of-school choices and aspirations in South Australia.
Supervisors: Professor Gerry Redmond, Dr Michael Scott
This project contributes to ongoing policy-orientated research into the lived experiences of young people here in Australia. In the context of increasing youth precarity both in metropolitan and rural settings, the project aims to understand how young people in South Australia frame their end-of-school aspirations in the context of crisis, change, and adversity.
Lachlan Poel
Project title: Defending Democracies from Digital Disinformation: A US/Australia comparative study
Supervisors: Professor Don DeBats, Dr Maryanne Kelton
As democracies find themselves facing increasingly powerful disinformation efforts, governments must ensure that they understand, recognise and respond to these threats. This thesis compares the United States and Australia and highlights how differences in understanding and recognition impact each country’s ability to respond to disinformation.
Yun Seh Lee
Project title: Competing for Influence: The PRC & Taiwan in Kuching
Supervisors: Associate Professor Anthony J. Langlois, Dr Jeffrey Gill, and Professor Guy Robinson (Adelaide)
The PRC and Taiwan governments have been engaged in a global competition to win the hearts and minds of Overseas Chinese for decade, collectively known as Overseas Chinese affairs. This study then aims to map out these Chinese-related activities in a local context through a case study of Kuching City in Malaysia.
Thomas Jupe
Thesis title: The accountability of State crime: An exploration into the human rights violations concerning the Rohingya of Myanmar
Supervisors: Dr Sanzhuan Guo, Associate Professor Marinella Marmo
This project explores the ongoing ‘genocidal violence’ committed against the Rohingya ethnic population of Myanmar by government forces, in an attempt to bring to light the legal and political factors that allow nation states to continue to carry out serious violations of human rights, with no immediate intervention from international law.
Patricia Rushton
Thesis title: Sovereignty globalisation and migration law in Australia since 2000: Hypersovereignty in a land girt by sea?
Supervisors: Assoc Professor Dr Hossein Esmaeili, Dr Maria Giannacopoulos
This research examines Australian migration lawmaking since 2000. The research asks whether Australia is using migration law as a way to express our ‘right to run our own show’ as we fear losing control to multinational companies and international organisations. The research examines what this means for our national values and the rule of law.
Dr Buol Juuk
Status: Completed 2021
Thesis title: Why is my family’s dispute a legal problem? The experience of South Sudanese Jieng families with family law in Australia.
Supervisors: Dr Angela Melville, Dr Dani Milos
This project utilises empirical qualitative research to investigate how disputes related to marriage, divorce and co-parenting are currently resolved or not resolved among the South Sudanese Jieng families in Australia through the family law system. It examines the practice of customary family law among Jieng communities in South Sudan and the changing nature of this practice due to the impact of conflict, the experience of displacement to refugee camps, and of resettlement in Australia.
Abdullah Alshamrani
Thesis title: State Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts for Non-State Armed Actors, (Study of the Syrian Crisis)
Supervisors: Associate Professor Hossein Esmaeili, Dr Sanzhuan Guo
This project explores the responsibility arising from the acts of non-state armed actors in states that are suffering from crises, such as in the Middle East; as the Syrian conflict demonstrates as an international legal dilemma, which makes it essential to clarify the responsibility for supporting or working with non-state groups.
Dr Bosco Opi
Status: Completed 2021
Thesis title: Refugee Coloniality: An Afrocentric Analysis of Prolonged Encampment in Kenya
Supervisors: Dr Maria Giannacopoulos,
Dr Dani Milos
My thesis provides a decolonial critique of ‘prolonged’ refugee encampment in Africa. By foregrounding encampment in Kenya, the thesis demonstrates how the camp, intended as a de facto solution for refugees, has become a permanent institution for the concentration of millions of refugees.
Ahmed Hammad S Alhammad
Thesis title: Obligations of parties in E-commerce Transactions under Saudi Arabian and Islamic law.
Supervisors: Associate Professor Hossein Esmaeili, Associate Professor Vivienne Brand
Nowadays, transactions in e-commerce are one of the most important contracts that need to clarify because there are many parties to these contracts that do not know their rights guaranteed by law for them. An e-commerce contract contains obligations either from its parties, a law, or both, which that some of the obligations to a seller or a service provider and some to a consumer. This thesis will argue and highlight obligations that are demand from parties of e-commerce transactions under Saudi Arabian and Islamic law.
Osameh Gnaei
Thesis title: Temporary migrant workers in Saudi Arabia: Legal system and protection of human rights
Supervisors: Dr Sanzhuan Guo, Associate Professor Hossein Esmaeili
This study considers the rights of temporary migrant workers under the legal system of Saudi Arabia. These rights will be assessed from three perspectives. Firstly, the laws and policies applicable to workers under the Saudi labour code. Secondly, the rules applicable under Islamic law. Thirdly, the rights of foreign migrant workers, articulated under international human rights law.
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