Research Fellows

Early childhood educators’ well-being: Local data, international perspectives and multi-disciplinary translations.

Aims:

• Continue program of research investigating educator well-being holistically.
• Investigate ways Danish educators use the concept privat, personlig, professionell (private, personal, professional) (Jappe, 2010) to manage emotional demands in their work.
• Translate findings from Parts 1 and 2 to other human services contexts via collaboration with colleagues in the CSU Workplace Wellbeing Research Unit.

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Research webpage

Resilient people through development of molecular therapies

Aims:

• Pursue a research program in target characterisation and validation for breast cancer therapies using structural, kinetic, biophysical assays and structure-guided mutational analysis.
• Delineation/validation of virus-host nuclear import receptor interfaces as targets for therapeutic approaches.
• Develop and test innovative approaches to tackling extensive drug resistance in pathogenic bacteria by co-targeting multiple enzymes of essential pathways.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
CSU webpage
Research webpage

Application of metabolomics to human diseases

Aims:

• To develop methods for the metabolomic screening of human biological samples from participants with complex diseases specifically Coeliac disease and heart disease to better understand the impact of treatment and monitor patient recovery.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
CSU webpage

Resilient communicators

Aims:

• Increasing his personal and groups’ research output, quality, external funding and impact. He is supporting his colleagues through his current role as the Director of the Data Science Research Unit (Unit) that has five different research groups on Cyber Security, Data Mining, Imaging and Sensing, Machine Vision, and Networking.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
CSU webpage
Research webpage
YouTube Channel

Social Media, Policy and Coexistence

Aims:

• To expand the cases and contexts of use of qualitative social media attitude analysis, and to include cases of human/human conflict (eg road users).
• To develop more sophisticated approaches to supporting policy makers.
• To develop insights that help to go beyond description of conflict positions and improve coexistence.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)

Leading research excellence and community engagement in social work and the human services.

Aims:

• The overarching aim of the fellowship is to provide dedicated research leadership in the social work and human services discipline. The fellowship is driven by a central research project focusing on international mobility programs – new international partnerships, their sustainability, community engagement and unique educational benefits to students.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
CSU webpage

Protecting Australia’s fastest growing primary industry from the spread of harmful parasites

Aims:

• To identify potentially harmful parasites in aquatic systems;
• To determine the extent of parasites entering the country, the risk and the main pathways for their spread;
• To develop advanced diagnostic tools for diagnosis of these parasites;
• To identify gaps of information to accurately estimate the risks posed by parasites.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
CSU webpage
Research webpage

Plant analysis by machine learning and image processing

Aims:

• To utilise advanced machine learning and image processing techniques for smart agriculture. By detecting diseases of leaves and identifying the weed variety from captured images, the outcomes will assist growers and advisors to make better decisions and reduce their negative impacts on yields.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
CSU webpage

Informed conservation management of threatened island birds

Aims:

• To develop long-term conservation strategies that facilitate an increase in genetic diversity and population growth of currently threatened island birds.
• To bridge the gap between scientific knowledge gained through research and the application of this knowledge to solve conservation problems and restore ecosystems.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
CSU webpage
Research webpage

Resilient communicators

Aims:

• To support researchers, students/postdocs, professionals, children, families and the public to be effective communicators (by speaking, listening, reading, writing) using evidence-based practices to promote equality, resilience and participation.
• To promote communication as a human right and the 70^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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CSU Research Outputs
VietSpeech (ARC Discovery Grant)
CSU webpage
Multilingual Children’s Speech (ARC Future Fellowship)

Consolidating the future of wine chemistry research at CSU/NWGIC:
Development of a track record in applied wine aging and stability studies.

Aims:

• To provide improved understanding of the underlying chemical mechanisms relevant to wine aging, and thereby promote more efficient wine production approaches.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
Research webpage

Innovative Vaccine development

Aims:

• Development and testing of innovative virus like particle (VLP) vaccine formulations to provide protection against Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (PBFD). Vaccines are a major focus of Animal health, contributing also to Agribusiness & agriculture by collaborating with Tréidlia Biovet) as well as Biodiversity and socio-ecological systems by mitigating a key threatening process to endangered birds.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)

Resilient communicators

Aims:

• The aim of the fellowship is to develop video/image analytic tools to understand the video content using artificial intelligence as the video has the highest capability to engage with human-being compared with any other media and it consumes more 80% global Internet traffic. The applications of the research in the area of virtual reality, augmented reality, data compression, health, agriculture, security, etc.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
Machine Vision and Digital Health Research Group webpage
CSU webpage
Research

Comparative Studies in Indigenous Self-Determination

Aims:

• I will publish a book, several journal articles and book chapters on political theories of self-determination. In 2020 ANU Press will publish my book ‘We Are All Here to Stay’: sovereignty, citizenship and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
• I am contributing to public debate through regular radio commentary, occasional television interviews and writing for public audiences through outlets such as the Conversation and Oxford Human Rights Hub.
• I am helping to add to CSUs research through staff training and mentoring and working with new research groups to develop their research focus and skills.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)
CSU webpage
Linkedin

“Technology is not value neutral, and technologists must take responsibility for the ethical and social impact of their work” (DeepMind).

Aims:

• Building communities where assistive technology connects people in way which is coherent with their individual values
• Reducing inequalities and increasing physical and mental health through translational research with different people groups
• Improving regional and rural Australian communities through smart community technology.

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CSU Research Outputs (CRO)

CSU webpage