Students who have completed a PhD at NDARC:

Students who have completed a MD at NDARC:

• Completion Year  

  2024

  First Name  

  Christel

  Surname

  Macdonald

  Thesis

  The factors influencing court diversion of individuals with a drug/alcohol-related mental illness under s.32/33 of the Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act.

• Completion Year  

  2024

  First Name  

  Madeline

  Surname

  News

  Thesis

  Closing the Gap? Critical Perspectives on Health Policy and Indigenous Self-Determination

• Completion Year  

  2024

  First Name  

  Liam

  Surname

  Acheson

  Thesis

  Pilot randomised controlled trial of lisdexamphetamine for the treatment of methamphetamine withdrawal

• Completion Year  

  2024

  First Name  

  Nicole

  Surname

  Snowdon

  Thesis

  AOD interventions in headspace centres

• Completion Year  

  2024

  First Name  

  Daisy

  Surname

  Gibbs

  Thesis

  Improving the evidence base for services working with people who are at high risk of re-offending after release from prison

• Completion Year  

  2023

  First Name  

  Chrianna

  Surname

  Bharat

  Thesis

  Data-Supported Decision Making: optimising substance dependence treatment using linked data

• Completion Year  

  2023

  First Name  

  George

  Surname

  Economidis

  Thesis

  Evaluation of Functional Family Therapy - Child Welfare (FFT-CW) and Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN) in NSW

• Completion Year  

  2023

  First Name  

  Ria

  Surname

  Hopkins

  Thesis

  Identifying and addressing issues in access to health services among people using opioids for chronic pain.

• Completion Year  

  2022

  First Name  

  Samantha

  Surname

  Colledge

  Thesis

  Increasing Global Knowledge of Physical and Mental Health Harms among People who Inject Drugs

• Completion Year  

  2022

  First Name  

  Rebecca

  Surname

  Bosworth

  Thesis

  Reduction of drug-related harm in prison: A global assessment of the current situation and evaluation of specific programs.

• Completion Year  

  2022

  First Name  

  Thomas

  Surname

  Santo Jr

  Thesis

  Drug & Alcohol Research- Comorbidities (mental and physical health)

• Completion Year  

  2022

  First Name  

  Skye

  Surname

  Trudgett

  Thesis

  Evaluation of nation-wide programs for high-risk young people

• Completion Year  

  2022

  First Name  

  Wing See

  Surname

  Yuen

  Thesis

  Alcohol Use and Mental Health Problems Among Young People

• Completion Year  

  2021

  First Name  

  Douglas 

  Surname

  James

  Thesis

  Examining treatment outcomes for Aboriginal clients of Indigenous drug and alcohol residential treatment services in NSW

• Completion Year  

  2021

  First Name  

  Lisa

  Surname

  Hilder

  Thesis

  Maternities complicated by mental illness and substance use in the information age

• Completion Year  

  2021

  First Name  

  Bonita

  Surname

  Byrne

  Thesis

  Cultures within culture: exploring the influence of Aboriginal clan, family and community relationships in responding to alcohol related harms in Aboriginal communities in NSW.

• Completion Year  

  2020

  First Name  

  Philip

  Surname

  Clare

  Thesis

  Methods of Adjusting for Exposure-affected Time-varying Confounding.

• Completion Year  

  2020

  First Name  

  Richard

  Surname

  Mellor

  Thesis

  Advancing understandings of remission and approaches to treatment through an examination of untreated remission from alcohol problems.

• Completion Year  

  2019

  First Name  

  Shann

  Surname

  Hulme

  Thesis

  The diversion and supply of pharmaceutical drugs for non-medical use.

• Completion Year  

  2019

  First Name  

  Kerryn

  Surname

  Butler

  Thesis

  Hepatitis C testing and treatment among people who inject drugs.

• Completion Year  

  2019

  First Name  

  Vivienne

  Surname

  Moxham-Hall

  Thesis

  Investigating the utility of indexes in comparative drug policy analysis.

• Completion Year  

  2019

  First Name  

  Amanda

  Surname

  Roxburgh

  Thesis

  The epidemiology of opioid overdose mortality in Australia.

• Completion Year  

  2018

  First Name  

  Rachel

  Surname

  Sutherland

  Thesis

  New psychoactive substances in Australia.

• Completion Year  

  2018

  First Name  

  Matthew

  Surname

  O'Reilly

  Thesis

  Understanding how high-level synthetic stimulant traffickers in Australia adapt to changes in their drug supply.

• Completion Year  

  2018

  First Name  

  Sonja

  Surname

  Memedovic

  Thesis

  Substance use disorders and depression: An examination of their relationship and the role of repetitive negative thinking as a shared risk factor.

• Completion Year  

  2018

  First Name  

  Erin

  Surname

  Kelly

  Thesis

  Tackling adolescent bullying head on: Victimisation, perpetration and targeted intervention.

• Completion Year  

  2018

  First Name  

  Veronica

  Surname

  Boland

  Thesis

  "I'm not strong enough, I'm not good enough, I can't do this, I'm failing": barriers, facilitators and future directions for smoking cessation among low-socioeconomic status Australian smokers.

• Completion Year  

  2018

  First Name  

  Bianca

  Surname

  Hoban

  Thesis

  Associations between multiple medication use and medication-related problems among people with chronic non-cancer pain who are prescribed opioids.

• Completion Year  

  2018

  First Name  

  Alice

  Surname

  Munro

  Thesis

  Healing together: Identifying the value of partnerships between rural Aboriginal communities, services and researchers to co-design, implement and evaluate programs to reduce drug and alcohol harms.

• Completion Year  

  2018

  First Name  

  Alice

  Surname

  Knight

  Thesis

  Improving the evidence-base for third sector delivered programs working with high-risk young people.

• Completion Year  

  2018

  First Name  

  Katrina

  Surname

  Prior

  Thesis

  Substance use disorders, depression and social phobia: An examination of co-occurring disorders.

• Completion Year  

  2017

  First Name  

  Mieke

  Surname

  Snijder

  Thesis

  Maldahnalanga: Integrating rigorous research and community participation in Aboriginal community-based research.

• Completion Year  

  2017

  First Name  

  Louise

  Surname

  Birrell

  Thesis

  Untangling co-morbidity: substance use and mental health in young Australians.

• Completion Year  

  2017

  First Name  

  Elizabeth

  Surname

  Whittaker

  Thesis

  Housing the ‘hard-to-house’: Examination of homelessness and the impact of Housing First programs in Australia.

• Completion Year  

  2017

  First Name  

  Lucy

  Surname

  Albertella

  Thesis

  Cannabis use, schizotypy, and attentional inhibition: a longitudinal study.

• Completion Year  

  2016

  First Name  

  Thu

  Surname

  Vuong

  Thesis

  Economic evaluation comparing the cost-effectiveness of center-based compulsory rehabilitation (CCT) and voluntary community-based methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in Hai Phong City, Vietnam.

• Completion Year  

  2016

  First Name  

  Larissa

  Surname

  Rossen

  Thesis

  Prospective predictors of bonding and emotional availability: A longitudinal study of pregnancy and the first year of life.

• Completion Year  

  2016

  First Name  

  Clare

  Surname

  McCormack

  Thesis

  Prenatal alcohol exposure and infant cognitive development.

• Completion Year  

  2016

  First Name  

  Kari

  Surname

  Lancaster

  Thesis

  Problematising the 'evidence-based' drug policy paradigm

• Completion Year  

  2016

  First Name  

  Katrina

  Surname

  Champion

  Thesis

  Paying attention to prevention: An Internet-based framework to address alcohol, cannabis, ecstasy and new psychoactive substance use.

• Completion Year  

  2016

  First Name  

  Gabrielle

  Surname

  Campbell

  Thesis

  Complexities and comorbidities in patients with chronic non-cancer pain: Suicidal behaviours and pharmaceutical opioid use.

• Completion Year  

  2015

  First Name  

  Michelle

  Surname

  Tye

  Thesis

  Understanding the liability to violent offending among injection drug users: the contribution of predispositional and substance use risks.

• Completion Year  

  2015

  First Name  

  Dam Anh

  Surname

  Tran

  Thesis

  Barriers to antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV in Vietnam.

• Completion Year  

  2015

  First Name  

  Mark

  Surname

  Deady

  Thesis

  Comorbid depression and problematic alcohol use in young people: the development and evaluation of an online intervention.

• Completion Year  

  2014

  First Name  

  Monika

  Surname

  Wadolowski

  Thesis

  Sipping, drinking, and parental alcohol provision: Understanding quantities of early adolescent alcohol consumption in relation to parenting practices, peer influences, and problem behaviours.

• Completion Year  

  2014

  First Name  

  Timothy

  Surname

  McSweeney

  Thesis

  Promoting compliance, 'recovery' and 'desistance': Comparative case studies of pre-sentence diversion schemes for drug misusing arrestees in Australia and England.

• Completion Year  

  2014

  First Name  

  Bianca

  Surname

  Calabria

  Thesis

  Creating partnerships between researchers, health care providers and Indigenous Australians to improve Indigenous health: a demonstration model.

• Completion Year  

  2013

  First Name  

  Melanie

  Surname

  Simpson

  Thesis

  Caught red-eyed and red-handed: an exploration of cannabis use and criminal offending.

• Completion Year  

  2013

  First Name  

  Paul

  Surname

  Nelson

  Thesis

  Drug use and recidivism among young offenders on supervised community orders.

• Completion Year  

  2013

  First Name  

  Lynne

  Surname

  Magor-Blatch

  Thesis

  Intervention for amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) use in the therapeutic community.

• Completion Year  

  2013

  First Name  

  Amy

  Surname

  Johnston

  Thesis

  Suicidality in Australia: prevalence, correlates, trends and health service use.

• Completion Year  

  2012

  First Name  

  Edmund

  Surname

  Silins

  Thesis

  Patterns and correlates of cannabis use in young adulthood.

• Completion Year  

  2012

  First Name  

  Louise

  Surname

  Mewton

  Thesis

  The classification of substance use disorders in young adults.

• Completion Year  

  2012

  First Name  

  Francis

  Surname

  Matthew-Simmons

  Thesis

  Public opinion, the media, and illicit drug policy.

• Completion Year  

  2012

  First Name  

  Briony

  Surname

  Larance

  Thesis

  Non-adherence in opioid substitution therapy in Australia.

• Completion Year  

  2012

  First Name  

  Peter

  Surname

  Gates

  Thesis

  Development and evaluation of a telephone-based intervention for cannabis use disorder.

• Completion Year  

  2012

  First Name  

  Joshua

  Surname

  Byrnes

  Thesis

  The impact of price on alcohol consumption and the cost-effectiveness of a volumetric tax on alcohol in Australia.

• Completion Year  

  2012

  First Name  

  Emma

  Surname

  Barrett

  Thesis

  Hurt people who hurt people: anger and violence among individuals with substance use disorder and post traumatic stress disorder.

• Completion Year  

  2011

  First Name  

  Fiona

  Surname

  Shand

  Thesis

  The latent structure of illicit opioid dependence and comorbid psychiatric disorders.

• Completion Year  

  2011

  First Name  

  Marian

  Surname

  Shanahan

  Thesis

  Assessing the economic consequences of two cannabis policy options.

• Completion Year  

  2011

  First Name  

  Hector

  Surname

  Navarro

  Thesis

  Economic evaluations of interventions for alcohol misuse, dependence, and to reduce alcohol-related violent crime, at a community level in rural Australia.

• Completion Year  

  2011

  First Name  

  Sarah

  Surname

  Larney

  Thesis

  Opioid substitution treatment in prison and post-release: effects on criminal recidivism and mortality.

• Completion Year  

  2011

  First Name  

  Alys

  Surname

  Havard

  Thesis

  Targeting alcohol problems among patients of rural Australian emergency departments: establishing an evidence base.

• Completion Year  

  2011

  First Name  

  Courtney

  Surname

  Breen

  Thesis

  Alcohol consumption and related harms in regional communities: exploring individual and community factors.

• Completion Year  

  2010

  First Name  

  Elizabeth

  Surname

  Conroy

  Thesis

  The importance of child maltreatment as a correlate of mental disorder among opioid-dependent persons.

• Completion Year  

  2009

  First Name  

  Deborah

  Surname

  Zador

  Thesis

  Studies in opioid drug related death.

• Completion Year  

  2009

  First Name  

  James

  Surname

  Shearer

  Thesis

  Modafinil for psychostimulant dependence.

• Completion Year  

  2009

  First Name  

  Nicola

  Surname

  Newton

  Thesis

  The development and evaluation of a school-based prevention program for alcohol and cannabis use delivered via the internet.

• Completion Year  

  2009

  First Name  

  Devon

  Surname

  Indig

  Thesis

  Detection of alcohol-related emergency department presentations.

• Completion Year  

  2009

  First Name  

  Amy

  Surname

  Gibson

  Thesis

  Mortality among the recipients of methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone maintenance for the treatment of opioid dependence: the levels, predictors and causes of mortality.

• Completion Year  

  2008

  First Name  

  Greg

  Surname

  Martin

  Thesis

  Brief intervention for cannabis use among young people.

• Completion Year  

  2008

  First Name  

  Elizabeth

  Surname

  Maloney

  Thesis

  Opioid dependence: Associations with suicidal behaviour and other psychiatric comorbidity.

• Completion Year  

  2007

  First Name  

  Laura

  Surname

  Vogl

  Thesis

  Climate schools: alcohol module - the feasibility and efficacy of a universal school-based computerised prevention program for alcohol misuse and related harms.

• Completion Year  

  2007

  First Name  

  Heather

  Surname

  Proudfoot

  Thesis

  DSM-IV alcohol use disorders in Australia: validity, prevalence and treatment seeking.

• Completion Year  

  2006

  First Name  

  Anna

  Surname

  Williamson

  Thesis

  The effects of cocaine use on outcomes for the treatment of heroin dependence in Sydney, Australia.

• Completion Year  

  2006

  First Name  

  Katherine

  Surname

  Mills

  Thesis

  Post traumatic stress disorder among people with heroin dependence.

• Completion Year  

  2006

  First Name  

  Jo

  Surname

  Kimber

  Thesis

  Role of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in reducing injecting drug use-related harm: evaluating accessibility, utilisation, coverage and selected health impacts.

• Completion Year  

  2006

  First Name  

  Neil

  Surname

  Donnelly

  Thesis

  The use of interrupted time series analysis to evaluate the impact of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme policies on drug utilisation in Australia.

• Completion Year  

  2005

  First Name  

  Peter

  Surname

  Lawrinson

  Thesis

  Development and piloting of a treatment outcome monitoring system for opioid maintenance pharmacotherapy services in New South Wales, Australia.

• Completion Year  

  2005

  First Name  

  Carolyn

  Surname

  Day

  Thesis

  Understanding the relationship between hepatitis C infection and heroin use in Australia: Epidemics, drug markets and methodology.

• Completion Year  

  2004

  First Name  

  Lucinda

  Surname

  Burns

  Thesis

  Comorbidity between alcohol use disorders, anxiety and depression.

• Completion Year  

  2003

  First Name  

  Sharlene

  Surname

  Kaye

  Thesis

  Injecting and non-injecting cocaine use in Sydney, Australia: prevalence, patterns and associated harms.

• Completion Year  

  2002

  First Name  

  Amanda

  Surname

  Reid

  Thesis

  Cannabis use and risk perception among Australian youth.

• Completion Year  

  2001

  First Name  

  Louisa

  Surname

  Degenhardt

  Thesis

  Comorbidity between substance use and mental health in Australia: Relationships of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use with other substance use and mental disorders.

• Completion Year  

  2000

  First Name  

  Catherine

  Surname

  Spooner

  Thesis

  The nature and treatment of psychoactive substance use disorders among adolescents.

• Completion Year  

  1999

  First Name  

  Libby

  Surname

  Topp

  Thesis

  The nature of the amphetamine dependence syndrome.

• Completion Year  

  1999

  First Name  

  Wendy

  Surname

  Swift

  Thesis

  Patterns and correlates of cannabis dependence.

• Completion Year  

  1999

  First Name  

  Joanne

  Surname

  Ross

  Thesis

  Benzodiazepine use among heroin users in Sydney, Australia.

• Completion Year  

  1999

  First Name  

  Rebecca

  Surname

  McKetin

  Thesis

  Cognitive functioning and psychological morbidity among illicit amphetamine users.

• Completion Year  

  1999

  First Name  

  Julie

  Surname

  Hando

  Thesis

  Patterns of illicit psychostimulant use in Australia and correlates of harm.

• Completion Year  

  1999

  First Name  

  Margaret

  Surname

  Cooke

  Thesis

  Barriers to the systematic provision of smoking cessation education during pregnancy.

• Completion Year  

  1997

  First Name  

  Kate

  Surname

  Dolan

  Thesis

  HIV in Australian prisons : transmission, risk behaviours and prevention.

• Completion Year  

  1996

  First Name  

  Jeff

  Surname

  Ward

  Thesis

  Factors influencing the effectiveness of methadone maintenance treatment : change and innovation in New South Wales, Australia 1985-1995.

• Completion Year  

  1996

  First Name  

  Claudia

  Surname

  Sannibale

  Thesis

  An evaluation of Cloninger's typology of alcohol abuse.

• Completion Year  

  1996

  First Name  

  Vaughan

  Surname

  Rees

  Thesis

  Cue reactivity in tobacco smokers : the role of Pavlovian conditioning in drug dependence phenomena.

• Completion Year  

  1996

  First Name  

  Margaret

  Surname

  Kelaher

  Thesis

  Decision-making and HIV risk behaviour among gay men and injecting drug users.

• Completion Year  

  1996

  First Name  

  Amanda

  Surname

  Baker

  Thesis

  Motivational interviewing and relapse prevention interventions for HIV risk reduction among injecting drug users.

• Completion Year  

  1995

  First Name  

  Jan

  Surname

  Copeland

  Thesis

  The development of a model of treatment for women with alcohol and other drug problems.

• Completion Year  

  1994

  First Name  

  Nadia

  Surname

  Solowij

  Thesis

  Event-related potential indices of cognitive functioning in long term cannabis use.

• Completion Year  

  1994

  First Name  

  Lynette

  Surname

  Lewis

  Thesis

  The inner Sydney gay dance party culture in the context of the HIVAIDS pandemic: a qualitative analysis.

• Completion Year

  2008

  First Name

  Adam

  Surname

  Winstock 

  Thesis

  The spectrum of substance use risk among in and out treatment drug using populations and the role of service providers in optimising the potential benefits of treatment through enhancing treatment knowledge, satisfaction and adherence.

• Completion Year

  2012

  First Name

  Bradley

  Surname

  Mathers

  Thesis

  Developing a global perspective on injecting drug use, related harms and responses.

NDARC offers postgraduate research opportunities for students interested in alcohol and other drug research. Visit scholarships at NDARC for more information and scholarship opportunities.  

A number of NDARC staff are available to supervise HDR candidates. Visit find a supervisor for a full list of potential supervisors. 

Visit our students for a list of current NDARC HDR students and their projects. 

If you have any questions or require further information about NDARC’s HDR program please email ndarc.hdr@unsw.edu.au.