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Student name	Working thesis title	Fields of research
Tazin Abdullah	Language barriers to accessing domestic violence support services	Linguistics (4704) Sociolinguistics (470411)
Manar Almalki	A corpus-based cross-cultural pragmatic analysis of newspapers editorials written in English case study: The Australian and Arab news	N/A
Madison Brown	Association between speech in noise and reading in school-aged children: A behaviour and electrophysiology study	N/A
Chenghong Cen	Enhancing health communication: A digital communication strategy for health literacy and behaviours among newly arrived CALD migrants in Australia	N/A
Xiaoyue Chen	Managing intersubjectivity in dysarthria intervention	Speech pathology (420110) Discourse and pragmatics (470405)
Conor Clements	The acoustics of /l/ in Australian English	Phonetics and speech science (470410) Sociolinguistics (470411)
Jacqueline Collins	Cross domain impact of intervention for concurrent stuttering and speech sound disorder	Speech pathology (420110)
Zixia Fan	How tonal systems are organised and coordinated by bi-tonal bilinguals	N/A
Xinyu Guo	Realistic assessment of hearing ability and device benefit	N/A
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	N/A
Eunjin Heo	Language anxiety and coping strategies among international interpreting students	N/A
Ashleigh Jones	Simultaneous production as an interactional phenomenon in cross-modal bilingual conversations	N/A
Sunjoo Kim	Underuse of healthcare interpreting services in Australia: A comparative study of perspectives from healthcare providers and professional interpreters	N/A
Alice Kneipp	The usage of singular they pronouns across varieties of English over time	Sociolinguistics (470411)
Paula Korczynska	Auditory processing and spatial listening in adults with ADHD: Electrophysiological, behavioural and subjective perspectives	N/A
Haiting Lan	How do we read and comprehend conversational subtitles in interactive multimodal environments? An eye-tracking study in video games	N/A
Lilly Leaver	Plasticity in the auditory brain	N/A
Zhenyi Liao	Phonetic and social factors in sound change: Insights from Jin Chinese	Phonetics and speech science (470410) Sociolinguistics (470411)
Pongsakorn Lorprasert	Optimising early hearing detection and intervention programs implementation across Thailand	N/A
Ponsuang Luengtaweekul	The impact of rise time discrimination on speech understanding in noise and reading ability in Australian and Thai school-aged children	Audiology (420102)
Oonagh Macken	Hearing loss and its correlates in Australian older adults	Audiology (420102) Public health (4206)
Paul McGuire	Articulating sustainability: Preserving the sound patterns of Scottish Gaelic	Linguistic structures (470409) Phonetics and speech science (470410)
Andrew Morrison	The acquisition of predicates of personal taste	N/A
Anita Morrow	What 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?	N/A
Sophie Munte	Educational governance in linguistically diverse schools: On the significance of (child) language brokering in Australia and Germany	N/A
Kai Nash	Using systems thinking to improve ear and hearing care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children	N/A
Minh Nhut Nguyen	Interlanguage variability: A study of Vietnamese ESL and EFL learners	Linguistics (4704)
Emily Pacheco	The intersection of sign language brokering and heritage language maintenance among hearing children of migrant deaf parents	Sociolinguistics (470411) Applied linguistics and educational linguistics (470401)
Kriengkrai Puripanyo	Refining the assessment framework of auditory functioning in the Thai Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program	Health systems (420311) Audiology (420102)
Brynn Quick	Language policy vs practice in Australian hospitals	Linguistics (4704) Public health (4206)
Mitchell Robinson	The acquisition and development of recursion in children's grammars	N/A
Timothy Shea	Ethnicity and sexuality in Australian English: A sociophonetic examination of men's speech	N/A
Li Shi	The utilisation of hearing aids among older population in China: Challenges and barriers in accessing hearing assistance services	N/A
Joon Shin	Evidence-based approaches for treating normal-hearing adults with self-reported listening difficulties in complex listening environments	N/A
Sarah Steele	Optimising transcranial magnetic stimulation for the auditory cortex	N/A
Hui Tao	Training evaluation for interpreter-mediated aphasia assessments for people from different cultural and language backgrounds	N/A
Elise Tobin	Sociophonetic variation in Australian English-speaking children: Gender, community diversity and individual change over time	Phonetics and speech science (470410) Child language acquisition (470402)
Jing Yi Yang	Conversational repair in adult-child interaction: A descriptive study	Discourse and pragmatics (470405)
Qianxi Yu	From input to learning: Understanding factors associated with language outcomes in children with hearing loss	Child language acquisition (470402)
Xindong Zhang	Neural mechanisms of cross-language tone processing: Evidence from MEG studies	N/A

Student name	Working thesis title	Fields of research
Wala Al Amiri	Arabic-speaking parents: A NSW pilot study on parental involvement and home-school communication	Applied linguistics and educational linguistics (470401) Sociolinguistics (470411)
Jasmine Bouhali	TBC	Applied linguistics (470401) Cognition (520401)
Yiqiu Cao	Working with hearing loss: Employment gaps and workplace barriers in multicultural Australia	N/A
Do Yen Nhi Dong	A systematic review of educators’ beliefs and practices in multilingual higher education within the Anglosphere	N/A
Yi Dong	The impact of foreignising and domesticating translation strategies on character construction and reception: Responses by Australian readers to English translations of a Chinese short story	Translation and interpreting studies (470321)
Darby Durbin	Neural encoding of speech under adverse listening situations in individuals with hearing impairment	Audiology (420102) Neuroscience (3209)
Megan Gradden	Addressing hearing loss and listening difficulties in acquired brain injury	N/A
Sumyia Khizar	Enhancing 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	N/A
Alice Kneipp	The use and evaluation of specific singular they in Australian English	Sociolinguistics (470411)
Hoi Teng Lao	The impact of accent familiarity on film subtitle processing	Translation and interpreting studies (470321)
Sohrab Nowroozi Nasab	Coupled vocal–autonomic responses during conversation in noise in cochlear implant–hearing	N/A
Amber Richardson	“The attempt and not the deed confounds us” - Analysing the translation of Shakespearean metaphors into Auslan	N/A
Hannah Tay	Predicting and optimising speech perception outcomes in cochlear implantation using brain-imaging techniques	Computational neuroscience (320904) Sensory systems (320907)
Luke Thompson	The realisation of power and solidarity in technology-mediated dialogic peer feedback	N/A
Hai Trang Tran	Differentiated writing instructions in EAP classrooms	N/A
Jie Yang	Automatic speech recognition for simultaneous interpreting: Current state and evaluation of available tools	Translation and interpreting studies (470321)