Policy Implications Summaries

Students are required to complete a Policy Implications Summary at the conclusion of their research, identifying potential links to policy development from their research outcomes.

The following is a list of the Policy Implications Summaries received to date from students who have completed their PhD with the support of the Growing the Smart State PhD Funding Program:

Mentoring Agency	Thesis Title	Author and University
Department of Communities	Practicing Self-Determination: Participation in Planning and Local Governance in Discrete Indigenous Settlements	Mark Moran University of Queensland
Department of Education, Training and the Arts	A Study of Queensland's Cultural Heritage Process	Melanie Rush Griffith University
	Students at-risk: a bioecological investigation	Helen Boon James Cook University
	The evaluation of a social skills program for preschool children in a disadvantaged area	Rosie Teague Griffith University
Department of Natural Resources and Water	Mending Fences: An Analysis of cross cultural mediation in Australia's rangelands	Craig Jones University of Queensland
Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries	A smart approach to monitoring urban pressures on esturaine fish habitats	Ruth Young Griffith University
	Mitigation of estuarine dredging impacts through 'habitat exchange' - are created sandbanks created from dredge spoil effective in replacing damaged fisheries habitats?	Samantha Miller University of Queensland
Department of State Development	Development of Real Time Monitoring System for Aluminium Pulse Gas Metal Arc Welding Process	Praveen Posinasetti Queensland University of Technology
	Electronic properties of diamond-like carbon for applications in planar optical waveguides	Maksym Rybachuk Queensland University of Technology
	What drives biotechnology?	David Ireland University of Queensland
	Isolation and structural elucidation of cytotoxic agents from marine invertebrates sourced from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia	Madhavi Agrawal James Cook University
	Marine natural products and their supply from the tropical sponge Luffariella variabilis	Piers Ettinger-Epstein James Cook University
Environmental Protection Agency	Ecological Effects of Rainfall Seasonality on Rainforest Insectivores and their Prey	Jeffrey Middleton James Cook University
	Development and application of a chemical tracer to determine sources of nutrition supporting animals in estuarine and coastal habitats	Joanne Oakes Griffith University
	Population structure in the spectacled flying fox, Pteropus conspicillatus: A study of genetic and demographic factors	Samantha Fox James Cook University
	Indicators of coral reef health: ecological and perceptual assessments of anchor damage	Elizabeth Dinsdale, James Cook University
	Phylogeography and Population Ecology of Mixophyes fleayi	Naomi Doak, Griffith University
	Fish health and water quality in agricultural landscapes	Nicole Flint, James Cook University
	Effectiveness of marine reserves in Moreton Bay Marine Park	Suzanne Pillans University of Queensland
	Visible light sensitisation for hydrogen fuel generation from waste effluent	Gregory J Wilson Queensland University of Technology
	Impacts of coastal waterway condition on human well-being	Melanie Cox University of Queensland
	The ecology and migrations of green (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) post-hatchling turtles	Michelle Boyle James Cook University
	The Latitudinal Distribution of Chytridiomycosis in Frogs of Eastern Queensland	Kerry Kriger Griffith University
Queensland Health	The use of transcriptional profiles to predict adult mosquito age under field conditions	Peter Cook University of Queensland
	The development of vaccines, coupled to fats and other molecules, in order to address difficulties associated with vaccine administration through increasing nasal and oral absorption, stability to intestinal contents and immune system response to vaccines.	Peter Moyle University of Queensland
	Negotiating healthy eating for management and prevention of type 2 diabetes among some urban Indigenous Australians	Wendy Foley University of Queensland
Queensland Transport	Cessation of driving older people: Assessment of impact and development of resources to promote adjustment	Jacqueline Liddle University of Queensland

NOTE: The Policy Implications Summaries represent the views and opinions of the PhD student authors and do not represent the views or policy positions of the Queensland Government or its agencies.

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