College of Nursing and Health Sciences (Optometry, Exercise & Sport Science, Midwifery, Palliative & End of Life Care)
Tuesday 14th 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 |
|---|---|
| Mieka Cowling | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE AND SPORT SCIENCE |
| Kelsie Mansfield | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE AND SPORT SCIENCE |
| Britt Baks | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE |
| Kurtis Gerlach | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE |
| Sophie Lorraine | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE |
| Liam Martin | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE |
| Erin Mcsorley | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE |
| Harrison Shean | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE |
| Tiyarna Stone | BACHELOR OF LETTERS (HEALTH) |
| Renad Abdulmunem A Al Hajji | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Nadine Ashton | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Isabelle Augur | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Kiesha Bartlett | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Sian Beecher | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Kelly Benson | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Hannah Blake | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| René Coetzer | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Ava-Bian Colwell | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Courtney Connell | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Georgie Davis | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Charlotte Dirk | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Amelia Esposito | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Jana Bernice Estopa | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Eva Falzon | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Cassandra Fazzalari | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Sophie Field | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Kara Flynn | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Laura Gregory | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Caitlin Harrington | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Jessica Harvey | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Paige Hull | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Katelyn Jenneys | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Casey Johnson | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Zoe Koutroumanidis | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Georgia Lienert | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Brooke Lindquist | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Alanis Little | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Demi Mckay | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Katherine McKechnie | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Bronwen Minchin | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Zara Olds | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Brianna Oxenham | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Nikita Paley | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Molly Rogers | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Tara Rohan | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Ruby-Joan Schipp | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Tayla Sellick | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Amy Shearer | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Bridget Sherlock | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Maya Thamm | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Emma Tomkinson | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Amanda Tuckwell-White | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Leah Walker | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Chantelle Wall | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Gemma Williamson | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Nicole Wojnar | BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY |
| Tammie Hiatt | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN PALLIATIVE AND END-OF-LIFE CARE |
| Katina Saint-Leone | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN PALLIATIVE AND END-OF-LIFE CARE |
| Caroline Ford | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN PALLIATIVE CARE |
| Lauren Henson | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN PALLIATIVE CARE |
| Angela Hodgson | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN PALLIATIVE CARE |
| Madeline Williams | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN PALLIATIVE CARE |
| Puspa Basnet | GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PALLIATIVE CARE |
| Avalon Olsen | GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PALLIATIVE CARE |
| James Byrne | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Calvin Cornish | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Ellie Francis | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Ellen Gray | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Elisa Karas | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Rhett Lambell | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Sienna Lemmey | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Zak Muirhead | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Aarya Pala | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Thi My Sieu Michelle Thach | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Matthew Thomas | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Eduard Van Den Berg | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Lachlan Williams | BACHELOR OF EXERCISE SCIENCE AND MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Isaiah Bencetti | MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Jorja Eldridge | MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Jackson Emery | MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Nicholas Furtak | MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Phoebe Goode | MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Genevieve Zlatkovic | MASTER OF CLINICAL EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY |
| Feyai Banyankindagiye | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Juliette Cayoun | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Ellie Cheung | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Brendan Chong | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Beth Ciccocioppo | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Emily Craggs | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Phillip Dang | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Raghad Dib | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Anna Doan | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Xinyue Duan | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Jae-Marie Elliss | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Jordan Ferraro | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Hannah Greer | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Diana Huang | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Cindy Huynh | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Prabhleen Kaur | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Julie Kim | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Tayla Kirk | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Kieran Kumanan | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Aliyah Kuo | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Kham Liankar | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Matthew Lin | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Chen How Clement Liow | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Bao Yen Luu | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Vishnu Manoj | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Hasna Muhammad | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Celena Nguyen | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Emma Olsen | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Jann Onglao | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Kevin Patel | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Joshua Ponniah | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Luke Quadros | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Ali Sina Rahimi | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Jacinta Rossi | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Roopatinder Sandhu | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Sania Sharma | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Kumpa Solien | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Bokki Son | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Jeremy Talbot | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Ashley Tan | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Gabriel Chi Chuen Tan | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Maimuna Tasnim | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Celina Tchia | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Foteini Theodorakou | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Lina Trang | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Linh Ai Truong | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Jayden Vu | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Amy Wang | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Timothy Wigglesworth | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Jessie Wu | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Steven Yin | BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (VISION SCIENCE) AND MASTER OF OPTOMETRY |
| Rachael Kubeil | MASTER OF PALLIATIVE AND END-OF-LIFE CARE |
| Jane Farrow | MASTER OF PALLIATIVE CARE |
| Melinda Hartley | MASTER OF PALLIATIVE CARE |
| Lisa Knight | MASTER OF PALLIATIVE CARE |
| Georgia Taylor | MASTER OF PALLIATIVE CARE |
| Carolina Blessie Gilbolingo Tesoro | MASTER OF PALLIATIVE CARE |
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