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Psychological underpinnings and correlates of sex and sexuality

Sex and sexuality have fascinated people throughout the ages. Ample literary works, theological and moral musings, philosophical accounts, social discourse, and popular presentation more...

Supervisor(s): Dar-Nimrod, Ilan (Dr)

Attitudes towards sexuality and disability: A multi-phase study

Members of the general population hold negative attitudes towards the topics of sexuality and disability.  Exploring these attitudes and how to change them can have a lasting i more...

Supervisor(s): Pebdani, Roxanna Nasseri (Dr)

Diet and Cardiovascular Disease

Multiple projects are available targetting diet and cardiovascular disease, with some of these projects focusing on sex differences between diet and prevention. The opporunity inclu more...

Supervisor(s): Zaman, Sarah (Associate Professor)

Sexuality and spinal cord injury

Sexuality and spinal cord injury (SCI) is an important but under-researched body of work.  There are many aspects of sexuality and SCI that need to be addressed, however this p more...

Supervisor(s): Pebdani, Roxanna Nasseri (Dr)

Early processing of emotional faces in dementia

Decoding facial features (identity, sex, emotion) is a complex ability that most humans do effortlessly. This ability is eroded in individuals with frontotemporal dementia and other more...

Supervisor(s): Piguet, Olivier (Professor)

People with intellectual disability as victims or offenders in the criminal justice system

The Centre for Behavioural Sciences invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified graduates who would like to undertake PhD studies particularly in the area of intellectua more...

Supervisor(s): Hayes, Susan (Emeritus Professor)

The influence of seminal plasma on sperm function and fertility

An opportunity is available for an outstanding PhD scholar in the area of reproductive biology. The project will investigate the factors in seminal plasma that influence male fertil more...

Supervisor(s): De Graaf, Simon (Associate Professor)

Investigating the impacts of visual arts on primary chronic pain

This project consists of a series of studies investigating the physiological, social and psychological impacts of visual arts on patients with chronic pain. more...

Supervisor(s): Pourkazemi, Fereshteh (Dr), McKay, Marnee (Dr)

Women’s Heart Disease

Multiple projects are available targetting all areas of women’s heart disease and heart health including female-predominant conditions such as spontaneous coronary artery diss more...

Supervisor(s): Zaman, Sarah (Associate Professor)

Wildlife on the edge: how does personality, behaviour and foraging ecology of possums vary across the urban-woodland boundary?

You will explore the impacts of urbanisation on the foraging and behavioural ecology of our native wildlife, by comparing the personality traits and behavioural responses of individ more...

Supervisor(s): McArthur, Clare (Professor)