2025 HDR presentation sessions

Thursday, 17 July 2025

11:00am-12:30pm

Mal Nairn Auditorium
Society & Education
Chair: Adelle Sefton- Rowston, Associate Dean of Research, FAS

15 minutes	Roopali Misra – FAS Customer retention and attrition in higher education: sequential mixed methods investigation at an Australian university
7 minutes	Mfona Nakkazi Pauline – FST Empowering young voices: designing didactic tools for early childhood Mambae literacy in Timor-Leste
7 minutes	Jiajing Lyu – FAS A qualitative study on graduate teachers’ mental health and professional growth in Australian regional secondary schools: applied with GenAI chatbox interventions
7 minutes	Amy Norman – FAS Being, belonging and becoming through PLAY: an affective neuroscience perspective of early childhood social and emotional development
7 minutes	Josh Bilam – FAS GenAI use in university teaching and learning
7 minutes	Ayesha Farhan – FAS A framework for cognitive development: fostering critical and creative thinking skills, using iSTEM approach

Casuarina Blue 5.1.01
Environment & Environmental Sustainability
Chair: Vinuthaa Murthy, Associate Dean Research, FST

15 minutes	Girum Gebremeskel Kanno – FST Does reusable mean less environmental impact? A systematic review of the environmental impacts of medical plastics, challenges, and gaps
15 minutes	Othusitse Lekoko – FST Contemporary fire regimes and elephant impacts in Baikiaea-dominated woodlands of the Chobe region, northern Botswana
15 minutes	Getahun Mengesha – FST Challenges and prospects of cotton farming in the tropics: lessons for northern Australia
15 minutes	Jyothi Bhandari – FST Enhancing the resilience of the Northern Territory’s rain-fed cotton; a comprehensive approach to yield prediction and water management

Casuarina Red 06.1.01
Society & Health
Chair: Abel Dadi, Outstanding Future Researcher, Menzies

15 minutes	Behailu Derseh – Menzies Prevalence of prenatal alcohol use among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory, Australia: estimate from perinatal, emergency, and admission datasets
15 minutes	Alexandra Gregory – Menzies Meaningful measurement: protocol for a scoping review of parenting measures for Indigenous caregivers
15 minutes	Demeke Belay – Menzies Incidence and risk factors for mental health-related hospitalisation within the first postnatal year among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory
7 minutes	Abebayehu Zemedkun – FoH Exploring pain and frailty among older surgical patients in Ethiopia: association, effects on postoperative pain and clinicians’ viewpoints

Thursday, 17 July 2025

1:30pm-3:00pm

Mal Nairn Auditorium
Environment, Systems & Impact
Chair: Matthew Abunyewah, Outstanding Future Researcher, FoH

15 minutes	Candy Duff – FST Predicting precipitation isotope values (δ2H and δ18O) in tropical regions using a discontinuous exponential model.
15 minutes	Vijayasri Sundarapuram Soundayan – FST Machine learning-based optimization of interleaver patterns for parallel concatenated block codes with arbitrary-length message blocks
15 minutes	Porni Mollick – FST Integrating machine learning and traditional ecological knowledge to map wetland dynamics in wet-dry tropics of Australia
15 minutes	Muhammad Umar – FST Parametric optimisation of hydrogen gas (H2) production from gasification of different types of biomasses using artificial neural network

Casuarina Blue 5.1.01
Economy, Production & Consumption
Chair: Michael Erdiaw-Kwasie, Senior Lecturer – Business

15 minutes	Pradipta Chatterjee – FAS Unlocking potential: investigating adoption barriers to metal additive printing using a mixed methodology approach
15 minutes	Pranta Barua – FST Sunlight-powered cleaning: breaking down industrial dyes with nanofibers
7 minutes	Anita Rijal – FAS Investigating internal and external factors influencing the development of circular entrepreneurship: a case of the Northern Territory
7 minutes	Sachini Sugathapala – FAS Towards a global framework: a systematic review of sustainability tourism indicators to inform a performance index
7 minutes	Mingliang Yu – FAS Influence and acceptance of artificial intelligence-driven digital marketing innovations on consumer behaviour in Chinese e-commerce
7 minutes	Chenxiao Yu – FAS The impact of accounting harmonisation on stock market convergence among G20 economies

Casuarina Red 06.1.01
Society & Life Quality
Chair: David Ompong, Senior Lecturer, Engineering Mathematics

15 minutes	Jonathan Howard – FAS Making sense of multilingual contexts: exploring the views of multicultural staff in a resettlement centre in Darwin, Australia
7 minutes	Alisha Karki – FAS Unveiling the dynamics: a shifting landscape of First Nation women-led enterprise; a case of the Northern Territory
7 minutes	Dejen Getaneh Feleke – FoH Exploring the barriers and enablers of access to child health care services in Debre Tabor, Ethiopia
7 minutes	Hafsa Yousuf Nipa – FST Bushfire emissions: evaluating the impact on air quality and human health in the Northern Territory
7 minutes	Kavini Welarathne – FST Explainable AI in analyzing the nature of Autism and cybercrime conversations on large underground forums

Friday, 18 July 2025

10:30am – 12:00pm

Online
Society & Health
Chair: Devaki Monani, Senior Lecturer – Social Work

15 minutes	Annabel Tafe – FoH Reflective clinical supervision in midwifery
15 minutes	Rachel Buckley – Menzies Using participatory action research to co-design an emergency department model of care for youth in Australia’s Northern Territory
15 minutes	Yuko Matsuoka – Menzies Reflexive adaptations in the field: navigating on-the-ground realities in field research
7 minutes	Ruth Hitchins – Menzies Flying for life in Timor-Leste: characteristics of aeromedical retrievals and model of care
7 minutes	Suellen Skinner – FoH Proposal for a co-designed Tai Chi Intervention for breast cancer patients in regional Australia

Online
Environment & Society
Chair: Milad Bazli, Senior Lecturer – Engineering

7 minutes	Kinley Wangchuk – FAS Addressing Bhutan’s environmental challenges: pursuing climate justice and reparative action from China and India
7 minutes	Maria Sadiq – FAS Promoting sustainable behaviours among internal customers in construction industry of Australia
7 minutes	Maddison Stuart – FST Understanding buffel grass invasion for reptiles
7 minutes	Judy Harrison – FAS Can remote area and rural discrimination be recognised?
7 minutes	Elena Turner – FAS Theoretical framework mapping barriers of passive house adoption in Australia

Friday, 18 July 2025

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Online
Society & Education
Chair: Adelle Sefton – Rowston, Associate Dean Research, FAS

15 minutes	Isabelle Lys – FAS The Australian graduate certificate in higher education: is it more than just a tick box?
7 minutes	Shelly Rampal – FAS Humility in education: professional learning and wellbeing practice
7 minutes	Jonathan Woolven – FAS Education in emergencies: how does game-based learning affect South Korean students taking EFL lessons?
7 minutes	Fahmida Yasmin Chowdhury – FAS Lexical patterns in academic book reviews: a corpus-based study of evaluative language in applied linguistics
7 minutes	Hashani Kodithuwakku Arachchige – FAS The verbotonal method: its development and application in enhancing English fluency among Sri Lankan secondary students
7 minutes	Vanessa Lea – FAS Shining a light on short-lived solar: the lives, lifespans and afterlives of off-grid solar in Madagascar

Online
Communication, Culture & Behaviour
Chair: Steven Greenland, Dean of Graduate Studies

15 minutes	Lucy Stewart – FAS Creative communicators, fostering wider understanding of cultural landscapes in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)
7 minutes	Jessica Conroy – FoH Invisible workers in paradise: mental health and psychosocial safety in island tourism enclaves
7 minutes	Tainah Facanha – FAS Living heritage: between narratives and architectures around St Mary’s
7 minutes	Sidra Munawar – FAS Determinants of hotel guests’ sustainable behaviours: evidence from an emerging economy
7 minutes	Thi Tuyet Anh Nguyen – FAS The impact of ESG practices on corporate valuation: Evidence from annual reports
7 minutes	Xiao Xiao – FAS Visualizing Kakadu national park from the perspective of Chinese landscape painting: a cross-cultural practice

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2025 HDR presentation sessions

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