The school offers a diverse range of research topics for prospective students to study. Research students have the opportunity to work with academic researchers, some with significant research grants. Honours and PhD students are supported with modern computers and research facilities; office accommodation and research funding are provided. The school regularly hosts a range of diverse research seminars presented by local, interstate and international speakers.
PhD students
PhD students
- Lee Barber
- Morphological and mechanical properties of normal and spastic muscle in children, adolescents and young adults.
Email address:l.barber@griffith.edu.au - Paul Barber
- Skills/characteristics of effective work-based educators.
Email address:p.barber@griffith.edu.au - Robyn Bellet
- Fast-track versus traditional cardiac rehabilitation: clinical outcomes and the use of the 6-minute walk and timed up and go tests.
Email address: r.bellet@griffith.edu.au - Boris Budiono
- Engineering an optimal heart through acitivity and diet.
Email address:b.budiono@griffith.edu.au - Praline Choolun
- Tracking changes in scapula position in acute post-stroke hemiplegia patients.
Email address: - Maria Constantinou
- Neuromechanics of hip joint osteoarthritis.
Email address: m.constantinou@griffith.edu.au - Troy Cross
- Elucidating the mechanisms behind the respiratory compensation threshold.
Email address: t.cross@griffith.edu - Mathew Haycock
- Cardiovascular function and the exercise dose-response relationship in women aged 65-74 years.
Email address:m.haycock@griffith.edu.au - Andrew Hirschhorn
- The effects of pre- and post - intubation interventions on exercise capacity following coronary artery bypass surgery.
Email address: a.hirschhorn@griffith.edu.au - Sean Horan
- A comparison of swing kinematics between elite male and female golfers.
Email address: s.horan@griffith.edu.au - Sarah Joyce
- The effect of oral contraception on responses to exercise.
Email address: s.joyce@griffith.edu.au - Leanne Kenway
- Does motor unit recruitment variability following stroke affect the duration and quality of movement recovery?
Email address: l.kenway@griffith.edu.au - Ania Kutek
- The effect of adenosine and opiod receptors on mitochondrial stability.
Email address: - Sharon Kwiatkowski
- Investigation of home-based exercise for severe COPD.
Email address: - Ravin Lal
- Effects of doxorubicin on skeletal muscle relating to body composition, body weight and exercise ability in breast cancer survivors.
Email address: r.lal@griffith.edu.au - Aderson Loureiro
- Effect of resistance training on pain and function in midstage hip osteoarthritis.
Email address: a.loureiro@griffith.edu.au - Nicole Sabapathy
- Exercise therapy in the management of multiple sclerosis.
Email address: n.stroud@griffith.edu.au - Pramod Sharma
- The fatigue during exercise at moderate to high altitudes.
Email address: - Graham Smith
- The effect of an environmental stressor on the physiology of developing juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).
Email address: graham.smith@griffith.edu.au - Glenn Stewart
- The effect of training volume and intensity on autonomic cardiac control.
Email address: - Pamela Teys
- The effects of a manual therapy technique on pain limited shoulders.
Email address: - Barbara Tobin
- An examination of intermittent hypoxia training on key biochemical and haematological parameters.
Email address: b.tobin@griffith.edu.au - Nicolas West
- Innate immunity: illness and performance in competitive rowers.
Email address: Nicholas.West@ausport.gov.au -
Honours students
Exercise Science - 2012
- Daniel Cordoba
David Lewis
Luke McDonald
James O'Connor
Meredith Purvis
Daniel Poke
Danielle Royston
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Physiotherapy - 2012
- Erin Isaac
Amelia Samuels
Sarah Williams