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Student name Working thesis title

Tazin Abdullah

Language barriers to accessing domestic violence support services

Manar Almalki

A corpus-based cross-cultural pragmatic analysis of newspapers editorials written in English case study: The Australian and Arab news

Madison Brown

Association between speech in noise and reading in school-aged children: A behaviour and electrophysiology study

Chenghong Cen

Enhancing health communication: A digital communication strategy for health literacy and behaviours among newly arrived CALD migrants in Australia

Xiaoyue Chen

Managing intersubjectivity in dysarthria intervention

Conor Clements

The acoustics of /l/ in Australian English

Jacqueline Collins

Cross domain impact of intervention for concurrent stuttering and speech sound disorder

Zixia Fan

How tonal systems are organized and coordinated by bi-tonal bilinguals

Xinyu Guo

Realistic assessment of hearing ability and device benefit

Luke Halvorsen

Understanding the pathway for ear and hearing care for Australian Indigenous children with otitis media: Pathway mapping and barriers around the provision of the Community Service Obligation

Eunjin Heo

Language anxiety and coping strategies among international interpreting students

Ashleigh Jones

Simultaneous production as an interactional phenomenon in cross-modal bilingual conversations

Sunjoo KimUnderuse of healthcare interpreting services in Australia: A comparative study of perspectives from healthcare providers and professional interpreters
Alice KneippThe usage of singular they pronouns across varieties of English over time
Paula KorczynskaAuditory processing and spatial listening in adults with ADHD: Electrophysiological, behavioural and subjective perspectives
Haiting LanHow do we read and comprehend conversational subtitles in interactive multimodal environments? An eye-tracking study in video games
Lilly LeaverPlasticity in the auditory brain
Zhenyi LiaoExploring the interplay of phonetic underpinnings and cognitive process in sound change: Insights from production-perception link and neurophysiological correlates
Pongsakorn LorprasertOptimising early hearing detection and intervention programs implementation across Thailand
Ponsuang LuengtaweekulThe impact of rise time discrimination, language ability, memory and attention on speech recognition in noise in school-aged children with typical development and reading disorders
Oonagh MackenHearing loss and its correlates in Australian older adults
Graeme Paul McGuireArticulating sustainability: Preserving the sound patterns of Scottish Gaelic
Andrew MorrisonThe acquisition of predicates of personal taste
Anita MorrowWhat is the best-practice model for delivering a connected, community-based, sustainable, culturally-safe and effective approach to ear and hearing care for Aboriginal children in communities in Australia?
Sophie MunteEducational governance in linguistically diverse schools: On the significance of (child) language brokering in Australia and Germany
Kai NashUsing systems thinking to improve ear and hearing care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
Minh Nhut NguyenInterlanguage variability: A study of Vietnamese ESL and EFL learners
Emily PachecoThe intersection of sign language brokering and heritage language maintenance among hearing children of migrant deaf parents
Kriengkrai PuripanyoTBC
Brynn QuickLanguage policy vs practice in Australian hospitals
Mitchell RobinsonThe acquisition and development of recursion in children’s grammars
Timothy SheaEthnicity and sexuality in Australian English: A sociophonetic examination of men’s speech
Li ShiThe utilisation of hearing aids among older population in China: Challenges and barriers in accessing hearing assistance services
Joon ShinEvidence-based approaches for treating normal-hearing adults with self-reported listening difficulties in complex listening environments
Sarah SteeleOptimising transcranial magnetic stimulation for the auditory cortex
Hui TaoTraining evaluation for interpreter-mediated aphasia assessments for people from different cultural and language backgrounds
Elise TobinSociophonetic variation in Australian English-speaking children: Gender, community diversity and individual change over time
JingYi YangPerson reference in Australian aging adults’ conversations
Qianxi YuIrony comprehension and irony production by children with cochlear implants and normal-hearing children
Xindong ZhangNeural mechanisms of cross-language tone processing: Evidence from MEG studies
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WalaAl AmiriArabic-speaking parents: A NSW pilot study on parental involvement and home-school communication
Jasmine BouhaliTBC
Yiqiu CaoWorking with hearing loss: Employment gaps and workplace barriers in multicultural Australia
Do Yen Nhi DongA systematic review of educators’ beliefs and practices in multilingual higher education within the Anglosphere
Yi DongThe impact of foreignising and domesticating translation strategies on character construction and reception: Responses by Australian readers to English translations of a Chinese short story
Darby DurbinNeural encoding of speech under adverse listening situations in individuals with hearing impairment
Megan GraddenAddressing hearing loss and listening difficulties in acquired brain injury
Sumyia KhizarEnhancing auditory processing skills in children with listening difficulties: A comprehensive investigation of dichotic testing scores, dichotic training, speech-in-noise understanding, and implications for real life listening situations
Hoi Teng LaoThe impact of accent familiarity on film subtitle processing
Sohrab Nowroozi NasabCoupled vocal–autonomic responses during conversation in noise in cochlear implant–hearing
Amber Richardson“The attempt and not the deed confounds us” - Analysing the translation of Shakespearean metaphors into Auslan
Hannah TayPredicting and optimising speech perception outcomes in cochlear implantation using brain-imaging techniques
Luke ThompsonThe realisation of power and solidarity in technology-mediated dialogic peer feedback
Hai Trang TranDifferentiated writing instructions in EAP classrooms
Jie YangAutomatic speech recognition for simultaneous interpreting: Current state and evaluation of available tools