Category: Graduate Profiles

  1. Philip Patterson

    Philip Patterson, ‘Virtue and the Three Monkey Defence: Regulating Ethical Conduct in the Australian Public Service’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2020) The thesis is an investigation of the efficacy of the ‘values-based’ ethics regulation system … operated by the Australian Public Service (‘APS’). Normative propositions which identify virtue, human character, or dispositions to behave, as determinatively […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/philip-patterson

  2. Fergus Dale Prien

    Fergus Dale Prien, ‘A Reliabilist Strategy for Solving the Problem of Induction’ (MA in Philosophy, 2020) In this thesis I develop a two-stage strategy in which a simple reliabilist theory of knowledge and justification can be employed so as to solve David Hume’s famous ‘problem of induction’. In so doing, the key arguments I make include: (i) […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/fergus-dale-prien

  3. Belle Shapardon

    Belle Shapardon, ‘The Sioni Cultural Complex: Cultural Complexity and Interaction during the Transcaucasian Chalcolithic’ (PhD in Classics & Archaeology, 2020) In the past, the Chalcolithic period (c5000–3500 BCE) in the Transcaucasus represented a poorly defined ‘interlude’ between the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. An understanding of this period was hindered by a lack […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/belle-shapardon

  4. Evan Tindal

    Evan Tindal, ‘Evaluating the Photooxidative Ageing Properties of 3D Printed Plastics: Strategies for Their Use and Conservation in Cultural Heritage Contexts’ (PhD in Cultural Materials Conservation, 2020) 3D printing is a fairly ubiquitous term today, due in part to the dissemination of the manufacturing technique to a wide variety of applications. While initially developed as […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/evan-tindal

  5. John Whitehouse

    John Whitehouse, ‘History Teaching as Conversation’ (PhD in History, 2020). The ability to engage in historical reasoning is fundamental to an education in history. What are the implications for educators? This thesis uses Greek and Roman historiography to discuss the learning and teaching of history. It offers a synthesis of two leading approaches to historical […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/01/john-whitehouse

  6. Lian Zhou

    Lian Zhou, ‘De Se Communication: Language, Thought and Co-aboutness’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2020) This dissertation is about the co-aboutness problem of de se communication. An essential requirement of successful communication is that participants of communication must talk about the same subject matter. I call this requirement the co-aboutness condition of communication. According to the traditional […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/05/20/lian-zhou

  7. Melissa Afentoulis

    ‘Migration from Limnos to Australia: Re-discovering Identity, Belonging and “Home”‘ (PhD in History, 2019). This doctoral dissertation is a case study of migrants coming to Australia in the period 1950s–1970s, from Limnos (otherwise known as Lemnos), an Aegean island of Greece. The thesis explores intergenerational migration experiences by interrogating emerging themes that arise in the […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/08/melissa-afentoulis

  8. Rustam Alexander

    ‘Homosexuality in the USSR, 1956–82’ (PhD in History, 2018). This thesis investigates the history of debates on homosexuality in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Drawing on a range of hitherto unexplored archival and other sources I demonstrate that there was a lively discussion on the subject among various Soviet experts during this period. […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/07/rustam-alexander

  9. Hussam Alganahi

    ‘The Relationship between Law Enforcement and Power in Islam’ (PhD in History, 2019) The rationale behind this study is the turmoil that has taken place in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the terrorist acts that have occurred in the region since the late 1990s. The practices of contemporary extremist groups, […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/07/hussam-alganahi

  10. Elena Balcaite

    ‘Lives of Sports Fans: Meaning in the Face of Inconsequence’ (PhD, 2019). Spectator sport may seem inconsequential to everyday life, yet ordinary people expend intense emotional energy and devote vast amounts of time and money following (and cheering for) their favourites. Emotional whirlwinds and the inevitable suffering that the fluctuating fortunes of sports teams and […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/07/elena-balcaite

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