We invite you to meet our PhD candidates. From the wards of the Royal Melbourne Hospital through to the fields of Papua New Guinea, eight PhD candidates at various stages of their PhD, their supervisors and research participants share their experiences. How do these students choose their topic, develop a good relationship with their supervisor, stay motivated during both the challenges and the highlights of their candidature, what have they learnt and what is their vision for the future?
To hear more from our PhD candidates and their supervisors, listen to The PhD experience: Episode 1 and The PhD experience: Episode 2.
Click on the audio players under the images below to hear the profiles.
 Podcast will appear here... Slave Petrovski |  Podcast will appear here... Prof Terry O'Brien |
 Podcast will appear here... David Williams (via IDD call) |  Podcast will appear here... Dr Ken Winkel |
 Podcast will appear here... Dr Andrew Hill |  Podcast will appear here... Emma Toulmin |
 Podcast will appear here... Rebecca Nisbet |  Podcast will appear here... Amanda Cooklin |
 Podcast will appear here... Sze-Ee Soh |  Podcast will appear here... Siok Bee Tan (via Skype) |
 Podcast will appear here... Sophie Yeo |  Podcast will appear here... Wayne |
Slave Petrovski: Bioinformatics: Application of pharmacogenomics to predict epilepsy treatment outcomes
Dept: Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Supervisor: Professor Terry O’Brien
Sophie Yeo: Exercise and Glut-4 expression in health and disease
Dept: Department of Physiology
Supervisor: Professor Mark Hargreaves
Rebecca Nisbet: Investigating the role of the GPI anchor in prion disease
Emma Toulmin: Investigating the role of neuronal PrP in Prion diseases
Dept: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Hill
David Williams: Snakebite morbidity and mortality in Papua New Guinea: a prospective clinical and epidemiological study of the clinical syndromes of envenomation and the determinants of poor clinical outcomes
Dept: Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology
Supervisor: Dr Ken Winkel
Sze-Ee Soh: Health-related quality of life in people with Parkinson's Disease in
Australia
Dept: School of Physiotherapy
Supervisor: Professor Meg Morris
Siok Bee Tan: Quality of Life and Coping in patients with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers in Singapore
Supervisors: Dr Allison Williams and Prof Meg Morris
Dept: Nursing and Social Work
Amanda Cooklin: Mothers’ paid employment after childbirth
Dept: Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society at the Melbourne School of Population Health
Supervisors: Professor Jane Fisher and Dr Heather Rowe
The pathway to a PhD is generally via an Honours degree. Find out more about Honours , Research Higher Degrees or the Faculty’s Research Domains.
