PhD student Kate Williams – Values as predictors of well-being in emerging adulthood

PhD student Kate Williams

Values are stable, general beliefs about what is desirable; goals are the specific objectives towards which our values guide us. Asking people to clarify and act upon their values can improve outcomes in public health, education and clinical psychology.  But are all values equally beneficial?  One view is that success at any personally important goal will improve well-being.  Others argue that it doesn’t matter what one aims for, as long as one does it for the ‘right’ reasons.

Research Associate Nick Hardcastle researches prostate cancer treatment

Nick (left) with Dr. Michael Lerch

Prostate immobalisation device

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting Australian males with over 16,000 new cases diagnosed each year.

A common treatment for prostate cancer is Radiotherapy. Radiotherapy can be delivered externally using high energy x-rays generated from a medical linear accelerator or by implanting radioactive sources into the prostate. During radiotherapy delivery, the prostate (the target) can move around due to internal rectal and bladder filling.

Honours student Sally Evans – authorship in poetry

Honours student, Sally Evans

I completed Honours in Creative Writing in 2009, graduating with the University Medal for the Faculty of Creative Arts. My thesis examined the notion of authorship in poetry, and the individual, intentional and experiential basis that a reader presumes to govern a text. In essence, I argued that the authorial figure in a text is constructed from the text itself, not the other way around – that a collaborative text could still use the first-person ‘I’ or a computer-generated text can refer to human experiences that the program could never have. Ironically, the other component of my Honours project – a major collection of poetry – was hugely personal: a collection of short, observational relationship poems.

PhD student Blake Cochran researches molecular and cell biology

Blake Cochran is completing his PHD in Biology and currently works at the University of Wollongong as a Researcher. He has always been interested in what actually constitutes something being alive. Molecular Biology and Cell Biology has allowed him to explore this area.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Blake by commenting on this blog post.

Interview and slide show by Melissa Coade.

Economics PhD student Yu Zhang researches inter-firm collaboration in telecommunication market

UOW PHD student Yu Zhang

The aim of my research is to find the main determinates of a successful inter-firm collaboration in telecommunication market in Australia and China. The telecommunication market is one of the most rapid developing and most dynamic markets in the world. My research focuses on the Australian and Chinese telecommunication markets - the motives, benefits, types, and key determinants for successful collaboration based on real business collaborating cases.

PhD student Stephen Dowdell researches proton radiotherapy for tumours

 

Stephen Dowdell researches tumour cases involving children

I  completed a Bachelor of Science Advanced (Honours) degree with a major in Physics in 2007 at the University of Wollongong.

I commenced studying a PhD in 2008 in the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP) under the supervision of Prof Anatoly Rosenfeld and Prof Peter Metcalfe. My research focuses on proton radiotherapy for tumours located in or near the brain, with a particular emphasis on cases involving children. Proton radiotherapy is not currently available in Australia, but previous research has shown potential improved benefit, particularly for children, compared to X-ray radiotherapy treatments currently available to Australian patients.