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With more than 4000 research staff and students working together, University of Adelaide generates outcomes that makes our world better. From more sustainable food production to a healthier climate. From improved health and wellbeing to cleaner energy sources. From our own backyard to the farthest shores.
As a member of the Group of Eight, a coalition of Australia's most research-intensive institutions, the University is a destination of choice for highly talented researchers, students, government and industry partners.
Outstanding research universities share some common characteristics. They respond to emerging global and national priorities, they have access to high-quality facilities and they are surrounded by highly talented researchers and higher degree students. From excellent international rankings (which see us placed in the top 1% of universities worldwide), through to research income success, great people and structure make us outstanding.
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The time you invest in a PhD at the University of Adelaide is an investment in yourself and your future. It will accelerate your personal development, professional capabilities and career opportunities in ways no other experience can.
Key Research Areas
- Agriculture, Food and Wine
- Defence, Space and Cyber
- Health and Biotech
- Energy and Sustainability
Top Research Centres
- Waite Research Institute
- Australian Institute for Machine Learning
- Robinson Research Institute
- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing
- Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources
- South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute (SAIGENCI) and Environment Institute
Top 5 Research Achievements
- The UofA's AI technology, based on computer vision and machine learning, is a leader in the world for space application such as space junk pose estimation. The work also includes developing robotic manipulation technology to acquire space debris once located.
- The UofA leads research into a new plasma-based, space-ready process for the production of agriculture fertiliser. The process will help space travellers to grow their own food.
- The largest study into meningococcal B vaccination and herd immunity conducted by UofA has global importance for vaccination programs and policy.
- The UofA is developing new tools and strategies to help grape growers and winemakers avoid, or mitigate smoke taint which is highly relevant due to the increased risk of bushfires expected to increase with climate change.
- The UofA has lead collaborative efforts with the Kaurna Australian Aboriginal people to successfully revive their language. The Kaurna language - unheard for nearly 160 years - is now back in daily use.
Numbers
- Over 50 Research Centres
- About 2300 Research Students
- About 2000 Research Staff/Supervising academics
Funding
- The GOstralia! Research Centre in cooperation with University of Adelaide award exclusive PhD full tution fee scholarships open to all faculties. More information
- More funding information and application deadline available here.
Interviews
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Research Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/02/2024 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Arvid Hoffmann, arvid.hoffmann@adelaide.edu.au |
| Contact for Project Details: | graduate.research@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Consumer financial decision-making is an area of growing academic and policy relevance, given the increasing self-responsibility for making consequential financial decisions affecting consumers’ immediate and future financial well-being. Unfortunately, many consumers seem either ill-prepared or unable to take on increased financial responsibility. Consumers’ financial decisions can be better understood by examining their psychological characteristics, such as susceptibility to interpersonal influence, risk aversion, consideration of future consequences, or money attitudes. Accordingly, there is an increasing research tradition in marketing and consumer behaviour looking at how to reduce consumers’ financial vulnerability and improve their financial outcomes, taking into account their psychological characteristics. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Business |
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/02/2024 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Alex Belli, alex.belli@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Although much is known about the effects of scarcity on purchasing behaviour, little research has investigated the effects of feelings of scarcity and wealth on consumers' psychological ownership and sustainable consumption behaviours (e.g., recycling, sharing, disposing of products). For example, there is anecdotal evidence that consumers sometimes engage in environmentally unfriendly behaviours, e.g. wasting, to signal status, so finding actionable interventions to prompt sustainable behaviours among them becomes pivotal. This project aims to investigate these aspects through a mixed-method approach, including, but not limited to, experiments, surveys, and meta-analyses. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Business |
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Lisa Hill, lisa.hill@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | The state of Victoria's informal vote rate is high and rising. In order to combat the problem of hundreds of thousands of 'lost votes' at Victorian state and local government elections we must first understand it. This collaboration with the Victorian Electoral Commission addresses the problem at both state and local levels over 3 election periods using 4 distinct studies. We combine experimental data, aggregate-level data and individual-level data to provide a thorough and multi-dimensional picture of informal voting. We will then propose remedies to be trialled and assessed. Taken together, our studies will represent the first multi-dimensional analysis of informality to be conducted in any Western democracy. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | A background in quantitative political /social science methods is desirable but not essential. An interest in electoral studies is also desirable. |
| Additional Information: | The student will have privileged access to unprecedented data sets due to the co-operation of one of Australia’s largest electoral commissions (the VEC). The student will join an active research group (which includes the VEC, Prof. Hill, A/Prof. Rodrigo Praino and Katharina Kretschmer). The group will offer a lovely, supportive and collegial environment. |
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PhD Law |
PhD Humanities |
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/01/2024 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | George Opie, george.opie@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Given their physiological and functional importance, an extensive literature has investigated the utility of modulating oscillatory activity in order to influence function. Transcranial alternating current stimulation is one example of a tool that has been commonly used when attempting to achieve this. However, the waveform implemented by existing interventions is not reflective of endogenous oscillatory activity, which may influence the effectiveness of existing interventions. Consequently, this project will investigate how the stimulus waveform influences the response to neuromodulatory interventions targeting neuronal oscillations. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Chris Boyle, Chris.boyle@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project aims to better understand the lived schooling experience of people with disability. This project expects to generate new knowledge about the lived experiences of schooling from people with a disability across generations. The expected outcome will be a detailed understanding of the effects of inclusive education policy reform. The benefits include an enhanced capacity by governments to build world-leading reform of inclusive education and better educational and social outcomes of students with disabilities. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | Education/psychology background. Candidates who have already published would be highly regarded |
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PhD Humanities |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Melissa Nursey-Bray, melissa.nursey-bray@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | In the light of the climate crisis, adaptation to its impacts will be increasingly urgent. Adaptation programs are being implemnted the world over, often led by local government. However, there is a gap in knowledge about the extent to which adaptation programs fulfil their objectives, and to what extent they are successfully building long term community resilience to climate change. This project, which can either be a Australia/Germany comparative case study, or one country focussed, seeks to document the history of, and then assess the effectiveness of local government led climate adaptation. How does adaptation policy translate in practice? Results will offer pathways for more effective adaptation practice as well as insights into case studies, and development of a methodology by which to evaluate adaptation over time. Suitable for candidates with backgrounds in history, politics, environmental science, public and other policy, conservation and environmental management. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Earth Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Megan Warin, megan.warin@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | The project aims to drive an urgently needed shift from top-down interventions that focus on obesity as an individual problem of diets and exercise, to collective solutions of care generated by families for families, empowering social change at a local, community level. In collaboration with Australia’s leading designers of social innovation, this anthropology project expects to generate new knowledge about care and food practices in disadvantaged communities, and to construct new digital, policy, and program frameworks for broader adaptation. The advances are likely to have a strong bearing on how obesity interventions, and more equitable health policy and practice, evolve in Australia and internationally. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | A background in anthropology, sociology, gender studies or Science and Technology Studies. Knowledge of ethnographic fieldwork is desirable. |
| Additional Information: | This PhD student will be able to develop a project tailored to their skills and interests, but will involve fieldwork with industry partners and in differing community locations in Adelaide. The successful candidate will work closely with a postdoctoral fellow, Chief Investigators on the project (Dr Tanya Zivkovic) and our industry partners. |
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PhD Health Sciences |
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Ed Palmer, edward.palmer@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project aims to create training scenarios that can be dynamically generated through AI with parameters that vary according to trainee behaviour. It will generate new knowledge in the collection and analysis of data necessary to create immersive 3D objects in VR. These objects would be intended to create deeper and more meaningful learning opportunities for users of VR. The benefits of the project would be directly relevant to the training industry as it will allow for the design of specifically tailored learning at a level appropriate for the user for less cost than current VR scenarios. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | Virtual reality, AI and computer science background. Candidate who have already published or presented would be highly regarded. |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Engineering |
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Peng Shi, peng.shi@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project aims to develop novel detection, decision-making, and control technologies for multi-agent autonomous systems (MAAS) composed of agents such as drones, robots, unmanned vehicles, UAVs, UGVs, UUVs and software. The purpose of the project is to enhance the effective collaborations of MAAS to achieve desired goals in a faster and more accurate manner in complex environments with incomplete information, unreliable networks, and potential cyber/physical threats. This project will also develop testbed platforms to evaluate its theoretical discoveries by practical examples in the areas such as transportation and manufacturing. |
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PhD Engineering |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Katie Barclay, Katie.barclay@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Today many children and young people are experiencing distress as they try to imagine a future in challenging environmental conditions. However this is not the first time people have experienced living ‘at the end of the world’. This project explores how early modern Europeans created the conditions to feel safe and to imagine new futures during crisis, including wars, environmental change, and revolution. We are particularly interested in deploying methodologies from the History of Emotions to consider how people ‘feel’ during such experiences and how they promote resilience in children and families. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Humanities |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Jack Evans, j.evans@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Incorporating dynamic features into porous frameworks has the potential for enhanced molecular transport and nano actuation. Recent studies have even inserted molecular motors into organic and metal-organic frameworks. Advanced simulations are needed to understand their structural and dynamic properties. This project will develop simulation methods using electronic structure and classical potentials to study the dynamic motion of emerging porous materials. The aim is to examine these materials as new dynamical catalysts. |
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PhD Engineering |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.07.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Haobo Li, haobo.li@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project aims to design alloy-thin-film catalyst deposited on 2D materials for value-added chemical products. The design strategy is to first evaluate stability of the catalyst by investigating interaction between alloys and 2D materials, then find descriptors for catalytic reactions to screen optimal catalyst compositions and contents. The research methodology is to develop a workflow to realize atomic-level engineering of catalytic active-sites through quantum chemical computational modeling. The major innovation is to combine machine learning to solve the complexity multi-metallic catalyst surface structures, thereby accelerating the research process and deepening the understanding of relationship between physical properties and catalytic performance. |
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| Additional Information: | Dr Haobo Li is an outstanding early-career scientist working on artificial-intelligence assisted theoretical design of catalysts for energy conversion. She has received a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2018-2021) in recognition of her research excellence and worked at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Fritz-Haber Institute (FHI). scholar.google.de/citations |
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PhD Engineering |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.07.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Ley Chen, Ley@mecheng.adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Unbalanced vibrations, which occur every cycle whenever there is a broken liner, could be detected and applied to monitor Autogenous grinding/Semi-autogenous grinding(AG/SAG) mills liner health conditions. A significant problem for the current industry is that the health conditions of specific liners could not be achieved online. A potential solution is to find the relationship between the operating angular positions and unbalance vibrations during every cycle under varying mill operating loads and speeds. Therefore, besides collecting vibration emissions with accelerometers, an optical encoder is equipped in this Magotteaux-sponsored research to measure the operating angular positions of the liners in a laboratory-scale SAG mill. A novel model between unbalanced vibrations and angular positions will be presented aiming to diagnose the AG/SAG mill liner health. It is expected that the accelerometer-encoder multi-sensor system could provide a robust real-time monitoring approach for the health conditions of specific liners inside AG/SAG mills. |
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PhD Engineering |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.07.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Ley Chen, Ley@mecheng.adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Ultrafine solids online detection and corresponding particle-size-distribution (PSD) analysis at hydrocyclones, being essential to energy-efficient comminution, has been challenging due to operation condition variation with time and between individual hydrocyclones, and also has been costly given the large number of hydrocyclones to be monitored. Combining sensor fusion technique with both force and acceleration measurements, the new approach allows ultrafine particles detection in real time, with wide-spectrum capability to handle coarseparticle contamination, delivering enhanced robustness and accuracy in PSD approximation. This method will avoid over/under grinding and directly contribute to significant reduction in comminution energy consumptions. |
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PhD Engineering |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.07.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Eric Hu, eric.hu@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Maisotsenko-cycle indirect evaporative air cooler is able to provide sub-wet-bulb cooled air (not possible in neither direct-evaporative cooler nor conventional indirect-evaporative cooler). M-cycle required power is only around 10% of consumed power by the compressor-based air conditioner. Contrary to the direct-evaporative cooler, M-cycle does not add any moisture to the product air (another positive feature of M-cycle technoilogy). This thesis provides two quick-solving high accurate experimentally-validated analytical models for M-cycle cooler which can be employed for design/operation and optimization processes in both academic and industrial sectors. A novel unique application of M-cycle for gas turbine pre-cooling is also provided. |
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PhD Engineering |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Katie Barclay, Katie.barclay@adelaide.edu.au |
| Contact for Project Details: | graduate.research@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project explores the development of the law around providing redress for emotional injury between the eighteenth century and the present day. It brings together approaches from the History of Emotions, law and legal history, to consider how ideas about emotional harm have changed to reflect evolving ideas about emotion, not least during a period where psychology and related sciences were invented. It considers the relationship between medical and legal authority in shaping knowledge of emotion and in the types of redress the law provides. Working with legal records, the project considers histories of workplaces, family life, and the self. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.10.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Dr Danny Wilson, danny.wilson@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Malaria blood stage parasites grow and replicate within human red blood cells (RBCs). The repeated cycles of blood-stage parasite multiplication cause malaria disease and >600,000 deaths/yr. RBC entry requires coordinated secretion of antigens from two clubbed shaped rhoptry organelles positioned near the parasites apical tip. This project will characterise cytosolically exposed rhoptry interacting proteins (C-RIPs) that have essential roles in rhoptry biology. Using advanced gene-editing, proteomics and quantitative super-resolution microscopy techniques, the project will characterise the role of C-RIPs and interacting partners in rhoptry mechanobiology during RBC entry and define key structural regions that could be targeted by drugs. |
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| Special Requirements: | Experience in one or more of microbiology, molecular and imaging techniques preferred. Experience in a malaria lab desirable. Demonstrated involvement in data generation and writing of a paper also desirable. |
| Additional Information: | Opportunity to also visit and work in collaborators laboratory in Hamburg for periods of time also possible. |
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PhD Bio, Chemie |
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.01.2024 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Carl Spandler, carl.spandler@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | To reach zero net carbon emissions by 2050, consumption of lthium is set to increase twentyfold in the next two decades. This means we urgently need new Li resource discoveries to meet demand into the future. Globally, Li is mainly sourced from granitic pegmatites. This project will collaborate with industry partners to examine the chemical and spectral features of minerals from a range of Li mineralised and unmineralized pegmatites. This combined analytical approach will lead to a step change in understanding of Li ore systems, and to enhanced techniques for discovering the mineralised pegmatites to secure future Li supplies. |
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| Additional Information: | Join a growing team of researchers investigating critical minerals geology at Uni Adelaide. The project will also engage with state geological surveys and Lithium exploration companies. |
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PhD Engineering |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Fran Baum, fran.baum@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project concerns public policies designed to reduce health inequities. It is part of the research program of Professor Baum’s National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Fellowship entitled “Restoring the Fair Go: which policies and practices are likely to reverse growing health inequities in Australia post-COVID-19?”. The project seeks to compare responses to growing health inequities in different OECD countries. This project would consist of a comparison of Germany and Australia in terms of the effectiveness of their public policy designed to reduce health inequities. Analysis of policies and interviews with key actors will be focus of the PhD. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | Understanding of public policy and the social and economic determinants of health equity |
| Additional Information: | The student will join a vibrant and active research group where all researchers focus on health equity and social justice approaches to public health. This group will be a very supportive place to do a PhD. |
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PhD Humanities |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/02/2024 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Prof Brendan Jenkins, brendan.j.jenkins@adelaide.edu.au for details about the project contact: graduate.research@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | We are studying the role of the ADAM and iRhom families of proteases as key oncogenic drivers in the lung. This project aims for the first time to fully elucidate the mechanistic basis by which these protease families can influence lung carcinogenesis, and in doing so also identify how they potentially impact on innate immune responses triggered by pattern recognition receptors. This project employs a combination of in vivo lung cancer mouse models (genetically engineered, xenograft - including patient-derived), CRISPR gene editing and clinical biopsies to foster translation, as well as a vast range of molecular and cellular biological techniques. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.07.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Stephen P. Kidd, stephen.kidd@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project will directly build on our recent research which has uniquely shown that different bacterial species adopt a range of cell types to enable long term survival during human infection, such as when causing relapsing bone infections. Specifically, a bacterial sub-population of cells with a reduced metabolic rate but tolerance to antimicrobials can also live inside bone cells and thereby act as a reservoir for relapsing infections. This project will describe the molecular pathways that drive the change from a disease-causing cell population to one that is inactive but then reverts to cause a relapsing disease. |
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| Special Requirements: | Experience in Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Evolution |
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PhD Bio, Chemie |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.07.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Phill Cassey, phill.cassey@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project will determine the drivers of establishment for alien species in Antarctica, through the combination of species attributes and location (or site) -level attributes, and the driving processes of human activity. Biosecurity management requires a flexible and dynamic approach to multi-species risk assessment. The likelihood of establishment will be modelled as biophysical processes from: (i) species-level traits, (including life-cycle, species limits, and resource requirements of the species) ii) location and site attributes (including physical and biotic characteristics and iii) human activity (including reliability of transport and other activities that promote increased numbers (propagules)). |
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PhD Earth Sciences |
PhD Bio, Chemie |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Adrian Elliott, adrian.elliott@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | In this project, we will explore the impact of left atrial structure and function on outcomes for patients with AF, HF, and stroke. This project will involve interventions focussed on lifestyle modification (i.e. exercise, weight loss) that may modify left atrial function, potentially leading to improved symptoms and outcomes. This project will include multimodal cardiac assessment, including MRI, CT and ultrasound, coupled with invasive haemodynamics and exercise imaging. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Jennifer Stone, j.stone@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Sycophancy and narcissism are common traits seen in the workplace and they have a deleterious impact of workplace culture, including issues of integrity. This project focusses on exploring these impacts broadly and in relation to academic and research settings. The focus will be on systematic reviews. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Health Sciences |
PhD Business |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Simon Barry, simon.barry@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Genetic risk studies have identified snps that are linked to T1D risk, but can’t identify their targets without 3D genomics to connect them. These snps are most frequently found in regulatory regions such as enhancers, and these can alter the expression of many genes in a cell specific manner. We aim to connect the genetic risk to the target genes in T cells, as these are a key driver of the autoimmune defect that leads to insulin dependence, using multi omics single cell approaches. From this we will discover therapeutic targets for future clinical intervention. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Dr Rutger de Zoete, rutger.dezoete@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Healthcare costs associated with the management of neck pain (Australia: >$10B annually) are vastly disproportionate to the limited efficacy of treatments. There is an urgent need to improve the allocation of resources to lessen the burden on the healthcare system. However, it is currently not possible to inform policymakers due to the absence of population-level data. This project captures epidemiological data on the widespread burden of neck pain, informing public health policy with vast potential to improve neck pain management. This project has been designed in collaboration with external stakeholders, including consumers, regulatory bodies and policy makers, and insurers. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Dr Raman Sharma, raman.sharma@adelaide.edu.au & Prof Jozef Gecz, jozef.gecz@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | TIMMDC1 is ubiquitously-expressed gene that encodes an essential component of mitochondrial complex I subunit responsible for ATP synthesis and is critical for neuronal and non-neuronal functions. We identified a deep-intronic homozygous TIMMDC1 variant in two affected children (deceased) and used splice-switching oligonucleotides (SSOs) to efficiently restore normal levels of mRNA, protein, and mitochondrial function in the affected skin fibroblasts. We have generated a humanised preclinical Timmdc1 mouse model that recapitulates human symptoms. This project will determine molecular and cellular consequences of treating the Timmdc1 homozygous mutant mice with SSOs with an aim of developing treatments for human patients with this variant. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Dr Clare van Eyk, clare.vaneyk@adelaide.edu.au & Prof Jozef Gecz, jozef.gecz@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability in childhood, affecting 17 million worldwide. Clinically, CP encompasses a group of diverse and individually rare disorders, more appropriately referred to as the ‘CP spectrum’. Similar to other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) such as epilepsies and autisms, the causes of CP are diverse and include both genetic and non-genetic causes. The Australian CP Biobank (ACPB) is an internationally unique resource, currently holding DNA and patient cells from >500 Australian children with CP along with clinical data (including brain imaging). This project applies multi-omics approaches (exome or genome sequencing, RNA-seq, methylation array) to uncover novel and known genetic causes of cerebral palsies. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Dr Mark Corbett, mark.corbett@adelaide.edu.au & Prof Jozef Gecz, jozef.gecz@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Repeat expansion disorders are caused by expansions of multiple copies of short DNA motifs typically 3 - 7 basepairs (bp) in length. Familial adult myoclonic epilepsy (FAME) is a late onset tremor and epilepsy syndrome caused by non-coding, intronic, repeat expansions composed of two different 5 bp motifs TTTTA and TTTCA, in one of six genes. The molecular mechanisms that lead to epilepsy and tremor in FAME are unknown. The project aims to 1. Identify brain-specific RNA binding proteins that bind to FAME repeats. 2. Use patient-derived induced neuronal cell lines to identify the effect of FAME repeats on RNA splicing in the brain. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Dr Lachlan Jolly, lachlan.jolly@adelaide.edu.au & Prof. Jozef Gecz, jozef.gecz@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Whilst many different types of gene variants can cause genetic diseases, those impacting mRNA splicing among the most difficult to identify. The major approach to assess the impact of a splice altering variants is to analyse mRNA splicing patterns. But >1400 disease genes cannot be robustly assayed in patient-derived blood and skin cells because they are not expressed. This project will develop and apply technologies based on modified CRISPR dCas9 gene editing and cell-reprogramming that enables the study of non-expressed genes in patient-derived cells. The project will lead to new cutting-edge diagnostic and research capacities. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Jordi Fernandez, jorge.fernandez@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project concerns an experience that is normally part of consciousness; the awareness of a conscious state as the subject's own. The main aim of the project is to specify exactly what it is to undergo that experience. This issue is at the heart of a perennial debate about consciousness, that on whether we are aware of our conscious states as our own, or we are merely aware of their occurrence. The anticipated outcomes include a conceptual distinction between two components of consciousness, and an analysis of the nature of three mental disorders in which the two components seem to come apart. These outcomes are expected to constitute a significant innovation in the study of consciousness and, more generally, in the philosophy of mind. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Additional Information: | Project funds are expected to be spent by the end of 2024. However, the research will continue and, with it, a supporting environment for a potential PhD student working on it. |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/01/2024 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Assoc. Prof. Sharyn Gaskin, sharyn.gaskin@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Lung diseases represent almost 50% of the top ten causes of death worldwide. In Germany, every four minutes a person dies from lung or airway diseases while in Australia, 1 in 7 deaths are related to it. Lung disease in occupational settings, however, is often completely avoidable through rigorous hazard monitoring and exposure control. This project will use modern sensor technology and state-of-the-art equipment to assess exposure to respiratory hazards in real-world high-risk settings such as mining and construction. Outcomes from this research will eventually inform policy on best practice for hazard mitigation in occupational settings, which is relevant for disease prevention. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | All experimental work is expected to be published in high impact factor journals. |
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Toward a Female Stoic Tradition: Women's Writings in England, 1600-1800 | The University of Adelaide
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Lisa Hill, lisa.hill@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project aims to investigate the neglected history of women’s engagement with Stoic ideas in early modern England. It expects to generate new knowledge of a distinctive strand of women’s Stoic thought by taking a novel interdisciplinary approach to different genres of early modern writing. The intended outcomes include a new understanding of women’s valuable contributions to philosophy, literature, and politics in the period, as well as a greater appreciation of the gender-inclusivity of Stoic philosophy. This should provide significant benefits, such as the development of Stoic therapeutic techniques informed by women’s experiences, and the promotion of gender equality through the recognition of women’s intellectual history. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | The student will ideally have a background in one or more of the following: history of political thought, intellectual history, political theory, classics or political philosophy. |
| Additional Information: | The student will join a team of leading researchers (Prof. Lisa Hill, A/Prof. Jacqueline Broad and Dr Diana Barnes) and will be mentored academically and professionally by Prof. Hill. |
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ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Assoc. Prof. Sharyn Gaskin, sharyn.gaskin@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Worldwide, an estimated 385 million cases of unintentional pesticide poisonings occur annually in workplaces, claiming around 11000 lives. In Australia, 2.8% of the workforce is exposed to pesticides in their workplace. The skin is the primary route of pesticide exposure in this industry. This project will assess the comparative barrier protection performance of chemcial resistant glove materials against pesticides, and investigate the role of product formulation (co-ingredients) in skin uptake. The outcomes of the work will ultimately assist in occupational risk assessment and hazard managment in the agriculture industry, which is relevant for worker health protection. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.09.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Dr Stijn Glorie, stijn.glorie@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project will apply a range of revolutionary in-situ dating methods (Lu-Hf, Re-Os), which were recently developed at the University of Adelaide, to decipher the timing of hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation in the world-class Olympic Province in South Australia. The development of large iron-oxide copper-gold deposits in this area was a staged process, with an initial event in the early Mesoproterozoic and at least one `upgrading` event in the late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian. The latter event induced fluid flow that might have transported metals from the fertile IOCG basement towards strataboud deposits. The project will assess this temportal link, which will have great implications for future mineral exploration endeavours. |
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| Additional Information: | More info on the novel dating methods can be found in: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254121002436 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ter.12580 |
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PhD Earth Sciences |
PhD Bio, Chemie |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Shervin Kabiri, shervin.kabiri@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Australia is faced with a big contamination problem relating to chemicals used in firefighting foams, called per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances or PFAS. PFAS are a large group of chemicals, with over 5000 different species. Their complexity has posed a challenge with existing remediation approaches based on sorbents, with varying success achieved for different PFAS species. For example, current sorbents available in the market cannot effectively immobilise short-chain PFAS.This project aims to develop remediation materials that will be effective for a wider range of PFAS and allow tailored solutions for PFAS immobilisation in soil. This project will assist the PhD student to develop skills in material and soil science, environmental chemistry, analytical techniques and soil management. It also provides an opportunity for the student to work with the industry. |
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| Special Requirements: | The applicant should have good track record of publication. |
| Additional Information: | The successful student will be located at the University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus, working at CSIROs research facility as well as the School of Agriculture. The in-business component of the degree will be conducted at Rembind’s Head Office (2 Ann Nelson Drive, Thebarton SA 5031), but will also involve some interstate travel to remediation projects and manufacturing facilities. |
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PhD Earth Sciences |
PhD Bio, Chemie |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Cassandra Collins, cassandra.collins@adelaide.edu.au; co-supervisor: Shashi Goonetilleke, shashi.goonetilleke@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Sweet kernel in almond has been found to be a heterozygous trait and the bitter kernel to be recessive. Usually, about 25% of the progeny in the Australian almond breeding program have bitter kernels. Presently, plants with bitter almonds will be discarded once they are found to be bitter after 3-4 years in the orchards. Therefore, sweet almonds remain a major breeding target in almond breeding. The gene encodes the sweetness in almond belongs to linkage group five, however, the precise location is still unknown. The broad objective of this project is to identify the genomic regions that affect bitter kernels and evaluate the potential of CRISPR/Cas9 mediated technologies to eliminate the bitterness in almond kernels. |
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PhD Bio, Chemie |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Dr Stephanie Watts-Fawkes, stephanie.watts-fawkes@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project will investigate the effects of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi on crop nutrition. The mycorrhizal pathway of phosphorus uptake is important for plants, but may lead to increased accumulation of the anti-nutrient compound phytate in grains and pulses. This project will uncover how mycorrhizal fungi affect phytate accumulation in the edible portion of crops, and how this modifies the bioavailability of micronutrients such as zinc and iron for human consumption. The PhD candidate will inoculate plants with mycorrhizal fungi and grow them until maturity. The resulting grain samples will be analysed for bioavailability and bioaccessibility of Zn and Fe. |
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PhD Bio, Chemie |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Matthew Gilliham, matthew.gilliham@adelaide.edu.au and Jenny Mortimer, jenny.mortimer@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project will re-wire plants to optimise their growth in controlled conditions on Earth and in Space. By 2028, humans will have returned to the moon as a precursor to crewed Mars missions but key challenges for mission planners still exist, including: Nutritious, varied foods to sustain physical and mental well-being for humans during long-term Space habitation; and, technology to provide on-demand generation of resources such as pharmaceuticals and construction materials. Space habitation amplifies the multi-faceted sustainability challenges we face in food and biomaterial production on Earth, and can be used to improve sustainable food production on Earth. |
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| Additional Information: | Please see here: www.plants4space.com; this project can be conducted in collaboration with the German Space Agency, and or other international partners, please see web-address above for more details. |
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PhD Earth Sciences |
PhD Bio, Chemie |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Matthew Denton, matthew.denton@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | We are looking to recruit a PhD student to work on this exciting, well-funded, project. The successful applicant will have scope to develop a project that focuses on plant physiology or molecular ecology and/or plant phenomics, in collaboration with supervisors. |
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PhD Bio, Chemie |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Prof. Ivan Nagelkerken, ivan.nagelkerken@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project will use mescosms to study the effects of ocean warming, ocean acidification and species range extensions on temperate fisheries species. Topics include fish behaviour, fish physiology, community ecology, and food web ecology. The project is mainly lab-based (using large mesocosms) with some field work. |
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| Special Requirements: | Snorkelling experience |
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PhD Earth Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Jamie Wood, jamie.wood@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Pathogens are a large and crucial component of global biodiversity. However, changes in pathogen communities and populations caused by climate change have the potential to impact host health and disrupt global ecosystems. Our understanding of how climate change affects pathogens is poor, and lacks a long-term perspective. This project will look to use ancient DNA from animal dung and sediment cores to reconstruct how animal and plant pathogens responded to actual climate change events in the past. These unique ‘real-time’ insights into long-term processes will help answer pivotal questions in pathogen ecology and help inform modelling of emerging pathogen risks. |
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PhD Bio, Chemie |
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