Research
PhD/MA Research Students and Topics
Recently Completed PhDs 2005-2010
Submitted Under Examination
Research Grant Successes
Discovery Project QEII Fellowship Dr Yan Tan
Climate change and migration in China: theoretical, empirical and policy dimensions
Prof Graeme J Hugo, Dr Yan Tan, Prof Guishan S Yang, Prof Naiang A Wang
Amount awarded 2011 - 2015 : $710,000
Project Summary
This project will analyse the complex relationship between climate change and migration by focussing in depth on two areas in China anticipated being major hotspots of Climate change impact. It will provide insight into national and international policy development in Climate change mitigation and adaptations.
Discovery Project (including an Australian Professorial Fellowship)
Circular Migration in Asia, the Pacific and Australia: Empirical, Theoretical and Policy.
Amount awarded 2010-2014: $844,000
Project Summary:
Few issues have been more significant in contemporary Australia than international migration. It is of fundamental importance to Australia's future as it faces the global economic downturn, ageing, climate change and an ever changing relationship with its Asia Pacific neighbours. In the past Australia's migration relationship with its region has been almost totally seen as a source of skilled settlers.
However this relationship is increasingly a more complex one. Migration will continue to be fundamental to the nation's economy, society and security and this study seeks to provide an evidence base for better policy and practice in immigration and development.
Dr Jennie Fluin (Geology & Geophysics) and Dr John Tibby (Geography, Environment & Population)
Linkage Project
Establishing baseline ecological conditions for the Lower Lakes, South Australia: the applications of palaeoecology to sustainable resource management.
Total awarded: $145,000
Partner Organisations: SA Department of Environment and Heritage & South Australian Murray Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board
Summary:
The Lower Lakes of the Murray River are in a critical ecological state due to record low water levels. Management of these lakes needs to integrate water security demands with maintaining healthy ecosystem functions. Proposed management options such as allowing seawater incursion and the construction of a weir to impede freshwater flows are based on assumptions about what the Lakes were like naturally (pre-European). This study will reconstruct environmental variability within the Lower Lakes over the past 7000 years, concentrating on salinity to document the extent of marine incursion, and pH to examine the impacts of acid sulphate release from exposed sediments during low flow events.
PhD/MA Research Students and Topics
Abel Agung Urban Population Vulnerability To The Impact of Natural Disaster in Indonesian Cities
Mohana Raj Balasingam The Locational Influence on the Settlement Experiences of Humanitarian Entrants in South Australia
Balambigai Balakrishnan International Migration in Malaysia
Charlotte Bedford Seasonal labour needs of the Vitaculture Industry in NZ and SA
Jennifer Buckley Baby Boomers: Preferences for Housing in Retirement
Christopher Button Coastal Vulnerability Assessment
Justin Civitillo Ethnicity in Soccer Leagues in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales
Neil Coffee Measuring Urban Walkability
Pam Coutts Aged and IT
Judith Coxell Caesarean Birth Rates in South Australia
Helen Feist Community Connectedness and the Social Networks of Older People in Rural Communities: Four South Australian case Studies
Natalie Fuller Retention of Skilled Migrants
David Goodwins GIS and Organisational Models to support sustainable development planning
Kristine James The recent evolution of the Younghusband Peninsula, South Australia
Syeda Ifteara Khanum Pre-impact baseline condition of River Murray wetlands: Chowilla and Pike floodplains
Ron Layton Contesting the peri-urban environment - case study of the Adelaide Hills
Che Kiong Lim Accessibility of Aged Care Services in Malaysia
Angus MacGregor A palaeoecological reconstruction of the Snowy River floodplain: environmental response to climate change, land use and river regulation
Patrick Maiden Devising nutrient and salinity guidelines for streams using diatoms
Anthony Melhuish Population modelling- urban planning
Caven Jonathan Napitupulu Transit migration in Indonesia
Patricia Nukji African migrant women
Nicole Pelton Effectiveness of governance for integrated coastal management in Australia
James Redden Trade reform and labour mobility in pacific island countries
Madhumita Sarma
Syed Sayed Mahadi Indonesian labour migration in Sabah since 1990: trend, impact and changes
Andi Setyawan International migration and its impacts on community development: a case study of Riau Islands.
Evi Sofiyah Coastal management of Jakarta Bay
George Tan Overseas student migration
Danielle Taylor A GIS Approach to small-area spatial epidemiology in Australia
Deborah Van Gaans Spatial modelling of accessibility to cardiovascular rehabilitaion of services
Panwad Wongthong Management of tourism impacts on coral reef: a case study of Koh Tao, Thailand
Marcia Walton Understanding the new paradigm of migration in Cambodia
Michael Wege Zewdu The post migration settlement experience of Horn of Africa migrants in South Australia and Victoria and their impact on their community back home
Dandong Zheng Demographic impacts of future sea-level rise on Adelaide: A case study for Australian populations
Recently Completed PhDs and MAs 2005-2010
Eric Achankeng Sustainability in Municipal Solid Waste management in Bamenda and Yaounde, Cameroon 2005
Trudy O’Connor Birds in Sumatran Coffee Agroforests 2005
Debbie Faulkner The Spatial Dynamics of Fertility in South Australia 1976-1996 2005
Sasikamon Thamrongvoraporn Explaining Patterns of Public participation in Bangkok: Case Analysis of Recycling in Bangkok, Thailand 2005
Lareen Newman Explaining fertility and family size in contemporary Australia 2006
AKM Rafique Ahammed The Role of Monitoring and Auditing in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Process in Australia 2007
Sarah Goodall From Plateau pastures to Urban Fringe: Sedentarisation of Nomadic Patoralists in Ladakh, North-West India 2007
Julia Hinsliff Resettlement and Adjustment of Recently Arrived Refugees in Adelaide 2007
Valerie Kupke Housing Market 2007
Thirumurugan Ponnusamy Knowledge-based Expert System for Agricultural Landuse Planning MA 2007
Louise Mutton Diatoms, their taxonomy and use as biological indicators of mine pollution in the tropical regions of the Northern Territory 2008
Mosharefa Shahjahan Integrated River Basin Management for the Ganges: Lessons from the Murray-Darling and Mekong River Basins 2008
Le Phu Vo Developing a Sustainable Strategy for Urban Water Use and Management in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2008
Tony Lockwood Formulation of residential real estate sub-market spatial boundaries 2008
Xoan Nguyen Adaptation of young migrants in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam 2008
Vigya Sharma Conceptualising and operationalising sustainability 2008
Emily Moskwa Ecotourism as a means of encouraging ecological recovery in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia 2008
Andrew Fyfe Gender, mobility and population history: exploring material culture distributions in the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea 2009
Kelly Parker Temporary migration from the United States to Australia 2010
Bemen Win Keong Wong MA Socio-economic impacts of new logging road from Miri to Marudi: A case study in Marudi Town, Sarawak 2010
Julie Franzon Obesity, Place and Environment. The spatial distribution and correlates of weight status in South Australian pre-school children. 2010
Swarna Ukwatta Economic and Social Impacts of the Migration of Sri Lankan Transnational Domestic Workers on Families and Children Left Behind. 2010
Cameron Barr - Droughts and flooding rains: a fine-resolution reconstruction of climatic variability in western Victoria, Australia, over the last 1500 years. 2010
Karen Cosgrove Bridging the Gap - Engaging Rural Communities for Sustainable Development 2010
Jillian Marsh - 2010
Sau Chun Yip Australian multiculturalism in the workplace (MA) 2010
Md Aboul Fazal Younus Community-based autonomous adaptation and vulnerability to extreme floods in Bangladesh: processes, assessment and failure effects 2010
Submitted / Under Examination
Natasha Howard A spatial analysis of the socioeconomic influences on obesity and chronic disease in the north west region of Adelaide.
