College of Nursing and Health Sciences (Health Sciences, Audiology, Disability & Community Inclusion)
Wednesday 15th April 2026 - 5:00pm
Live stream
Program
Entry of Academic Procession
The Chancellor, Deputy Chancellors, Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, members of the University Council and staff of the University will enter in academic procession.
Australian National Anthem
Indigenous Opening
Opening of Proceedings
Presentation of Graduates
Closing of Proceedings
Departure of Academic Procession
The Chancellor, Deputy Chancellors, Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, members of the University Council and staff of the University will exit in academic procession.
Officers of the University
Chancellor
Mr John Hood
Deputy Chancellors
Ms Elizabeth Perry AM
Mr Douglas Gautier AM
President and Vice-Chancellor
Professor Colin J Stirling
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Professor Romy Lawson
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Professor Ray Chan
Vice-President (Corporate Services)
Mr Mark Gregory
General Counsel & University Secretary
Mr Marc Davies
College Vice-President and Executive Deans
Business, Government and Law
Professor Michael Gilding
Education, Psychology and Social Work
Professor Deborah West
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Professor Peter Monteath
Medicine and Public Health
Professor Jonathan Craig
Nursing and Health Sciences
Professor Michelle Miller
Science and Engineering
Professor Alistair Rendell
PHD Students
| Name | Supervisors | Thesis | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca Francis | Professor Sebastian Doeltgen & Associate Professor Stacie Attrill | Exploring the interaction between cognitive and behavioural changes and dysphagia in Motor Neurone Disease management. | This program of research evaluated the impact of swallowing impairment, and cognitive and behavioural changes on people living with Motor Neurone Disease and their families. This interaction has not been previously explored and is important to understand as people with MND commonly develop swallowing difficulties and cognitive changes. This thesis contains six qualitative studies, including two published reviews. This research showed that cognitive and behavioural changes can have a profoundly negative impact on a family’s quality of life. This research also showed that clinicians feel under-prepared and under-supported in discussing and managing cognitive and behavioural changes in MND. Therefore, the outcomes of this research are a call to arms to work with families experiencing MND to find out their preferences for managing cognitive and behavioural changes and then apply these findings to develop resources and frameworks to support clinicians and improve care. |
| Jill Patricia Garner | Associate Professor Maayken van den Berg, Associate Professor Belinda Lange & Professor Sheila Fraser | Understanding Assessment and Clinical Reasoning in Neurological Physiotherapy: Bridging Practice and Education. | Neurological conditions represent a leading cause of disability and hospitalization worldwide, significantly impacting quality of life and community participation. Physiotherapists play a pivotal role in managing these complex conditions, beginning with assessment. However, limited evidence supports what and how of assessment and clinical reasoning in neurological physiotherapy, both in clinical practice and in pre-registration university education.This thesis aimed to comprehensively explore assessment and clinical reasoning in neurological physiotherapy, relating to clinical practice and teaching, through five complementary studies.Thesis findings revealed that physiotherapists' assessment of individuals with neurological conditions in clinical practice frequently encompasses five essential domains, approached with flexibility. Clinical reasoning was found to be integral to this process. A significant finding of the research was the disparity between clinical assessment practices and what students are taught or experience. This highlights a gap in the nexus between clinical practice and education in neurological physiotherapy. |
| Diana Ignatius Khanna | Professor Julie Ratcliffe, Professor Jyoti Khadka, Professor Christine Mpundu-Kaambwa & Ray Russo | Investigating agreement in Proxy and Self-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life in children for informing Economic Evaluation and Quality assessment | Do children and parents agree? This thesis explored this question in the context of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measurement in children by comparing children's self-reports with their parents' reports. Measuring HRQoL in children is challenging because children might not fully understand or accurately report their health status. The research found frequent discrepancies, particularly in areas like emotional well-being. Younger children struggled more with understanding and reporting HRQoL accurately. These findings highlight the need for better tools and age-appropriate methods to measure children's HRQoL, ensuring that health assessments and decisions truly reflect children's health experiences. This is crucial for making informed decisions in paediatric healthcare, ultimately aimed at improving children's overall health and quality of life. |
| Annemarie Murphy | Professor Joanne Arciuli & Professor Benjamin Bailey | Supporting Literacy Skills for Children with Developmental Disabilities | Children with developmental disabilities are often underestimated in terms of their capacity to develop reading skills and are more likely to experience poorer literacy outcomes than their typically developing peers. This is, at least in part, due to the quality of literacy instruction they receive. Comprehensive literacy instruction, incorporating five key skills, is widely regarded as evidence-based, though is relatively underexplored for children with disabilities. This research investigated such instruction for children with cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, or autism. Specifically, this research investigated the effects of a freely available, comprehensive literacy web-application, delivered via telepractice and supplemented by shared book reading, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research contributes original empirical evidence indicating that children with developmental disabilities can make meaningful gains in their reading skills when provided with high-quality, evidence-based, literacy instruction. Findings show that remote delivery of high-quality literacy instruction was feasible and effective for children with developmental disabilities. |
| Ting Hui Denise Chantal Ng | Professor Chris Brebner & Professor Joanne Arciuli | Evaluating narrative-level discourse in two languages in Singaporean English-Mandarin bilingual kindergarten children | Bilingualism is increasing around the world, with approximately half of the world’s population speaking more than one language. Language assessments, however, are still mainly produced for monolingual English-speaking populations. Speech pathologists often do not have sufficient information about the language profiles of bilingual children, nor the tools specific to this population of children. This results in misdiagnosis of language disorders. This body of work aimed to fill this knowledge gap by evaluating narrative language skills in both languages produced by Singaporean English-Mandarin bilingual kindergarten children. Findings confirmed a trend towards English-dominance in the sampled population and that these Singaporean bilingual children were observed to use Singaporean Colloquial English at the narrative level. The findings imply that current clinical practices in Singapore, which includes administering Standard English assessments based on monolingual English-speaking children, will have to change to facilitate more culturally inclusive speech pathology practice. |
Graduates (in order of appearance) - published as of 7 April 2026
| Name | Award |
|---|---|
| Laura Smith | ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN DISABILITY AND COMMUNITY PRACTICE |
| Olivia Wright | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND COMMUNITY INCLUSION |
| Tammy Ah Shay | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Kellie Artis | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Amy Brownridge | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Emily Byrnes | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Sharona Davis | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Bethany Fleming | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Gemma Giannes | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| See Hian Charis Goh | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Gwen Humphreys | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Andrew Leane | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Georgia Mcinerney | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Ann Mubinya | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Maddison Newland | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Annabelle Pinchbeck | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Melissa Siegert | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Hei Tung Tsang | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Holly Williams | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Phoebe Wright | BACHELOR OF DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION |
| Pooja Choudary | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES |
| Katrina Lobban | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES |
| Fotini Mazis | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES |
| Lachlan Pattison | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES |
| Daniella Zito | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES |
| Siu Po Mary Roach Wong | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES (AGEING) |
| Rosalind Deller-Johnson | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES (PHYSIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE) |
| Charlotte Mancuso | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES (PHYSIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE) |
| Abbie Mossman | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES (PHYSIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE) |
| Alicia Alderson | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES (THERAPY STUDIES) |
| Chad Spangler | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES (THERAPY STUDIES) |
| Meika Tomney | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES (THERAPY STUDIES) |
| Aastha Vashisht | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES (THERAPY STUDIES) |
| Jason Woodard | BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES (THERAPY STUDIES) |
| Emma Gall | BACHELOR OF LETTERS (HEALTH) |
| Jack Gallagher | BACHELOR OF LETTERS (HEALTH) |
| Eilish Devlin | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES |
| Stacey Hampton | HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES |
| Sarah Bal | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN DISABILITY PRACTICE |
| Simangele Dlodlo | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN DISABILITY PRACTICE |
| Toyin Dare | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Dikchhya Gautam | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Jackline Hislop | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Chelsea Homa | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Wanmei Jiang | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Heather Koufopoulos | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Sally Ndiwa | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Pradhayini Rajabalendran | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Lakmal Randeni Pathiranachchilage | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Julie Rose | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Chelsea Templeton | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT |
| Kaylee Bui | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Kim Cawaling | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Ru Wei Gan | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Jo-Yu Huang | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Isaac Hughes | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Aaliyeh Jaberi | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Shuhui Lin | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Yiran Liu | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Monica Ly | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Alena Ann Madhu | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Faye Ngo | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Isabella Ottaviano | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Vivian Tang | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Krystina Vlachoulis | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Chia-Yin Wang | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| I Gede Adi Wiguna | MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY |
| Maria Mercedes Salazar Quintero | MASTER OF DISABILITY POLICY AND PRACTICE |
| Phoebe Hathway | MASTER OF DISABILITY PRACTICE AND LEADERSHIP |
| Jarrad Reade | MASTER OF DISABILITY PRACTICE AND LEADERSHIP (DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION) |
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