Textile waste in Australia decomposes slowly and releases toxic chemicals. Natural fibres like cotton could be composted, but dyes and treatments hinder breakdown. This PhD develops a new compost-testing method, measures dye impacts, and identifies toxic residues. The work will inform Australia’s first composting standard and help industry choose safer, circular textile dyes.

Bowel cancer kills thousands each year, and current stool-based screening misses many cases. This PhD develops a new non-invasive method that analyzes human cells shed into stool, aiming to detect normal, pre-cancerous, and cancerous changes more accurately. The goal is a more reliable, higher-participation screening tool that could replace the existing national test.

This research investigates unstable lipid oxidation products called epoxides, tracking how different fatty acids form them across various fats and oils. By improving detection and understanding of these pathways, the project supports better quality control in pet food and other lipid-based industries, helping reduce waste, extend shelf life, and promote sustainable practices.

This research examines why Australian truth commissions consistently fail, focusing on deep mismatches between First Nations concepts of justice and Western institutional frameworks. Through interviews with Indigenous community members and past commissioners, the study identifies what First Australians want from truth processes, aiming to design future commissions that governments genuinely support and implement.

This research traces the legislative and accounting history of Australian government spending to uncover how public finances actually work. It shows that the government creates money and spends before taxing or borrowing. The real constraint is not affordability but inflation and resource availability, reframing debates about government spending and economic policy.

This project develops an “Aptamer Express,” a DNA-based Trojan horse designed to bypass the brain’s protective barriers, target tumours, and deliver cancer-killing drugs directly to brain cancer cells. The approach aims to overcome treatment resistance, improve precision, and reduce side effects, offering new hope for patients and their families.

This research explores how hospital kitchen, laundry, and cleaning staff experience mandatory safety training. Through immersive fieldwork, the researcher found that current online modules are irrelevant and ineffective. Workers possess crucial experiential safety knowledge that training ignores. The project will co-design new, practical, worker-centred training to meaningfully improve workplace safety.

This research examines sexual harassment and cyberbullying in online gaming, highlighting how women and gender-diverse players face disproportionate harm. By analysing real player disclosures and addressing the disconnect between gamer experience and research definitions, the project aims to develop accurate, community-informed prevention programs to better protect players and reduce online harassment.

This PhD project investigates why long-life chocolate milk loses its flavour after 28 days. By analysing odor compounds, monitoring flavour changes over six months, and reformulating the product with industry partners, the research aims to create a longer-lasting, better-tasting chocolate milk and a general method for diagnosing and correcting flavour deterioration.

My research develops fault-tolerant, cooperative control algorithms for multi-drone formations carrying shared payloads. By detecting motor failures, restoring lost force, and autonomously reconfiguring drone positions, the system reduces load disturbances by up to 90%. These methods enable safer, more reliable drone-assisted rescue and delivery operations in hazardous conditions.