Past Projects
- Behavioural pathways to obesity: Understanding the role of physical activity and nutrition in weight gain among Australian adults
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Kylie Ball (Deakin University), supervised by David Crawford - Palliative Care practices in high intensive transplant care units
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Cecelia Boyd - Learning Improves in Networking Communities (LINC)
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Dr Joanne Deppeler - The role of control in determining subjective well-being among obese women and women self-reporting disturbed eating behaviour
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Sasha Gardiner-Crossley (Deakin University) - Quality of life within the community - A focus on Neighbourhood Watch
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Kathryn Heily (Supervised by Dr. Sandra Tunley) - Impact of the Limbs of Hope Prosthetic Program on the Physical and Psychosocial Function of Victims of Uppere Extremity Amputation in Sierra Leone, West Africa
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Jeffrey Johnson MS, Kim Kargbo RN, Matthew Oakes MS, Stephanie Oakes MS - Quality of life for people with multiple sclerosis
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Professor Marita McCabe (Deakin University) - Children of chronically ill parents
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David Morley (Institute of Neurology, University College London), supervised by Dr Marjan Jahanshahi - Seeking a Good Life: Human Goods and Sexual Offending
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Mayumi Purvis (University of Melbourne), supervised by Professor Tony Ward - Social, cultural and environmental determinants of the burden of disease
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Dr Daniel Reidpath (Deakin University), Dr Aka Kouamé (IFORD, Cameroon), Dr Pascale Allotey (University of Melbourne), Professor Robert Cummins (Deakin University) - Daily Hassles & fear of crime: Its impact on the quality of life among Adult population of Karachi City
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Haider Rizvi (University of Karachi), Dr.Nazre Khalique (University of Karachi) - The quality of life of Mental Disability Patients
- Researchers: Sonia Soto (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
- To characterise the influences of a wilderness experience on the individual health and wellbeing among tour guests on Fraser Island
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Miss Belinda Warren, Honours Research Student at University of the Sunshine Coast. Supervised by Dr Anne Neller and Dr Ron Neller - Improving the Contribution of Protected Areas to Quality of Life in Rural and Regional Communities
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Matthew Wolnicki, principal supervisor Robyn Bushell - Talking to The Animals: matters of affect, attachment and bonding
- Graduate Diploma Project, 2001. MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Sydney
- The Impact of Huntington's Disease on the Quality of Life of Family Caregivers
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Aimee Aubeeluck (University of Derby), supervised by Dr. Heather Buchanan - The impact of various forms of insecurity on personal well-being in the Australian population
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Professor Alan Black (Edith Cowan University), Professor Robert A. Cummins (Deakin University), Dr Peter Kaldor ( NCLS Research), Keith Castle (Anglicare NSW), and Rev Dr Philip J. Hughes (Christian Research Association) - A new direction for Quality of Life: Evaluating the Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale as a measure of satisfaction and depression
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Vanessa Cook, supervised by Professor Robert Cummins (Deakin University) - Subjective Quality of Life and Perceived Control in Carers of people with mental illness: Pre and post participation in an educational course
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Rachel Cousins (Deakin University), supervised by Professor Robert Cummins - Relationships between self-esteem, control and optimism
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Catherine Croft (Deakin University) - The role of the homeostatic model of subjective well being in individual's participating in a community-based methadone program
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Rachael Freeland (Deakin University) - Off to a Healthy Start: A longitudinal ethnographic study of health and settlement amongst newly arrived refugee youth
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Professor Sandy Gifford (Deakin University), Dr Ida Kaplan (Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture), and Dr. Daniel Reidpath (Deakin University) - The Quality of Life of People with MS and their Partners
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Kylie King (Deakin University), supervised by Professor Robert Cummins - Rating Quality of Life in young children (3-8 years): evaluating the appropriate presentation and response formats
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Miss Jo Lawford, supervised by Professor Christine Eiser - The relationship between primary and secondary control strategies and job satisfaction for people with low and high job control
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Elise Maher (Deakin University) - Spirituality and well-being: A comparative study between university and theological college students
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Wenda McPherson (Deakin University), supervised by Professor Robert Cummins - Determinants to the employment and retention of people with disabilities in the Western Australian Public Sector
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Tulip Penney - Quality of life and health: A comparative study on Australian and Croatian people
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Gorka Vuletic (Deakin University) - Development of a quality of life scale for dogs
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Janina Wojciechowska, Caroline Hewson, Vianne Timmons, Norma Guy, Gary Patronek (University of P.E.I)