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Asymmetric information in social dilemmas
Information about the state of the environment can be critical for promoting environmentally friendly and socially beneficial behaviors when people are facing social dilemma choices. However, it is not clear if individuals will be willing to spread this information for the benefit of everyone else. This project aims to understand how socially beneficial actions propagate when information is asymmetric.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Mathematical Sciences
First Nations transport justice
First Nations people experience significant transport injustice. Access to safe and reliable transport is essential for community and cultural health. Further transport is often a vector for the overt policing and criminalisation of First Nations peoples. Projects that engage with transport justice for First Nations peoples from legal, social science or criminology perspectives are strongly encouraged.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Justice
Critical, historical, social or cultural examinations of law and technology
Continuing my 25 years of researching law and technology and growing an international research community on law, technology and humanities, I strongly welcome PhD students wanting to think more deeply about law and technology. I especially encourage projects drawing upon critical and theoretical perspectives, historical examinations, socio-legal methods, or drawing upon cultural legal studies. In addition to students studying emerging technologies, I also encourage projects looking at legacy or everyday technologies.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Justice
International Trade Law in the Asia-Pacific
This project seeks to map new developments in trade and investment law in the Asia-Pacific
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
- Research centre(s)
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Exploring the potential of M-assisted survey estimators
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) conducts surveys to collect information from individuals, households and businesses in order to produce statistics and data products to help inform decision-making. Unlike a census, in which an entire population of interest is enumerated (e.g., all individuals residing in Australia), a survey collects information from only a sample (subset) of a population of interest. Estimators are then used to estimate quantities related to the population of interest using information from the sample. Currently, the …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Mathematical Sciences
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Multiscale technology assessment of emerging CCUS processes
CO2 capture and utilisation is a promising, emerging climate technology. However, there is a great deal of uncertainty regarding its viability and economic impact. This project will be conducted in collaboration with an industry partner.
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
Advancing precision control in atomic force microscopy
To advance precision positioning control technology through instrumentation of an 800×800 μm XY positioning table, equipped with two piezoelectric actuators to manoeuvre samples under a microscope. Positioning control systems designers struggle with trade-offs between positioning accuracy, actuation range, response time, and cost.Our goal is to enhance the positioning systems, used in atomic force microscopes, to improve their imaging accuracy and resolution while reducing overall hardware costs. By quantising analogue positioning sensors to simulate low-resolution (low-cost) encoders, we will explore new …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Robotics
Developing and evaluating an evidence-based and practical system approach to reduce surgical site infections
A surgical wound is an incision in the skin that is made during a surgical procedure and generally expected to heal within two to four weeks by primary intention in an orderly manner through the normal wound healing process. However, this process can be disrupted by many factors, leading to complications such as wound dehiscence, non-healing wounds, surgical site infections and sepsis. On average, there are 11 surgical wounds infected for every 100 surgical wounds and these surgical site infections …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Nursing
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
A sense of touch for robots
Touch, or awareness of contact, is one of the key challenges in robotics, particularly in the soft and highly deformable environment of the human body. This project will explore the development and use of interferometric filters to quantify contact pressures through spectral changes in reflected light. Thus a quantitative 'image' of force may be created to both characterise and guide robot-tissue interactions.
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Dual mode ultrasonics
This project develops a new approach to ultrasonic sensing, sending and receiving high frequency acoustic pulses from a low frequency platform to modulate spectral content and microscale spatial offsets. In doing so, it will give surgical robotics platforms access to the rich array of physical information in acoustic pulses, which can be used to characterise tissues encountered during surgery and guide the robot in the intervention itself.
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Active stroke rehabilitation orthotic
An active stroke rehabilitation orthotic is needed to assist the multitude of people affected by stroke each year. Several prototype hardware systems have been constructed, so we know the concept is feasible. Development for medical approval and manufacture is needed. Plus, artificial intelligence that adapts the rehabilitation strategies to help users
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Robotics
Tracking small bones for robotic surgery
Robotic knee surgery can perform femoral and tibial resection. Currently it is not possible to use robotic technology for patella preparation; to do so will require miniaturisation of tracking, effective clamping of the patella and controlled use of a saw. This project will aim to develop the technology for any small bone resection with a robot, taking the patella as a test case.
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
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