Meet our students!
We are proud to have our higher degree students’ knowledge and expertise contribute toward our CRE’s goals and aspirations.
Our students are core members of our CRE and we are dedicated to supporting their research passions and pursuits by offering scholarship opportunities and enabling their leadership, collaboration and professional growth.
Learn more about our students and their projects below.
Petrea Cahir
PhD Candidate
The Storytelling Study
Our Students
Rowena Coe
Honours
Refocus (Refugee background women for cultural safety): A photovoice study exploring equity-oriented pregnancy care in Victoria, Australia
Mercy Lilian Gichuki
PhD Candidate
Afrocentric Praxis: New insight into healthcare and social service responses to intimate partner violence among African, Caribbean, and Black women in Ontario Canada
Jordan Gibbs
PhD Candidate
A grounded theory to understand complex trauma, healing, and wellness for Aboriginal men who experience incarceration
Anaita Kanga-Parabia
PhD Candidate
Toward culturally safe perinatal genetic screening for migrants in Victoria
Helen Kennedy
PhD Candidate
Aboriginal Kinship Care: understanding the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal children, young people, and their carers
Brooklyn Mellar
PhD Candidate
Causal pathways between mothers' experiences of socio-economic disadvantage, adverse physical and mental health outcomes, and the health of their children
Aishah Jameel
PhD Candidate
Towards transformative maternity care: Exploring equity-oriented maternity care for women of refugee backgrounds
Shiva Pourali Roudbaneh
PhD Candidate
An exploration of the menstrual needs and unmet needs for Afghan refugee background women living in Melbourne: a qualitative study
Madison Schulz
PhD Candidate
Intimate partner violence and social functioning during middle childhood
Arwen Nikolof
PhD Candidate
Moving house: impacts on Aboriginal children’s health and wellbeing
Emily Munro-Harrison
PhD Candidate
Re-storying place, culture and belonging: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people making space and creating futures in Narrm
Yordanos Gizachew Yeshitila
PhD Candidate
Addressing the reproductive health needs of women from refugee backgrounds: effectiveness and economic evaluation of maternity care models in Victoria, Australia
Shadow Toke
PhD Candidate
Unravelling the threads of trauma-informed and culturally safe maternity care for Karen women of refugee background