Honours Project List
Click on the topics below to find available research projects.
Physical Activity and Health
Women's Health: Functional, resistance training and biofeedback for managing pelvic floor health (urinary incontinence)
Supervisor/s: Professor Wendy Brown; Dr Emma Beckman
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: t.shepherd@uq.edu.au
Worldwide gender and socioeconomic differences in physical activity–can the gap be closed?
Supervisor/s: Professor Wendy Brown; Dr Gregore Iven Mielke
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: g.ivenmielke@uq.edu.au
Measuring physical activity in populations: comparisons between mobile device to monitor physical activity and accelerometers
Supervisor/s: Professor Wendy Brown; Dr Gregore Iven Mielke
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: g.ivenmielke@uq.edu.au
Exercise Physiology
Understanding the regulation of brain blood flow during exercise in adults with hypertension
Supervisor/s: Dr Tom Bailey
Contact: tom.bailey@uq.edu.au
Do prebiotics improve high intensity interval training response?
Supervisor/s: Professor Jeff Coombes
Contact: camilla.williams@uq.net.au
Can work and energy expenditure be used interchangeably to match exercise prescription?
Supervisor/s: Marika Carr, Tina Skinner, David Jenkins
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: t.skinner@uq.edu.au
Are common assessment techniques indicative of true health-related body composition?
Supervisor/s: Dr Mia Schaumberg, Grace Atkinson
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: grace.atkinson@uq.net.au
Peer support for the maintenance of long-term exercise and health outcomes in cancer survivors
Supervisor/s: Dr Tina Skinner, Chloe Salisbury
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: chloe.salisbury@uq.edu.au
The relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness, cerebrovascular function and cognition in middle aged adults
Supervisor/s: Dr Tom Bailey, Emily Smith
Contact: emilyclaire.smith@uq.edu.au
The Effects of an Evidence-based Intervention ("Fit for Treatment") on Cardiovascular Function in Chemotherapy-naive Breast Cancer Patients
Supervisor/s: Miss Natalie Vear, Dr Tina Skinner, Professor Jeff Coombes, Dr Tom Bailey
Max No. Students: 3
Contact: n.vear@uq.edu.au
Physiological adaptations to a home-based exercise training program in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Supervisor/s: Jeff Coombes, Trishan Gajanand, Emily Cox
Max No. Students: 1
Contact: emily.cox@uq.net.au
BRAIN training study: vascular function in mild cognitive impairment
Supervisor/s: Jeff Coombes, Emily Smith
Max No. Students: 1
Contact: emilyclaire.smith@uq.edu.au
Sport Science
Assessing muscle strength; can we tell if they're cheating?
Supervisor/s: Emma Beckman, Mark Connick, Sean Tweedy, Emily Paix
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: e.beckman@uq.edu.au
Assessing muscle strength: Can deceptive visual feedback enhance force output?
Supervisor/s: Emma Beckman, Emily Paix
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: e.beckman@uq.edu.au
Towards evidence based classification in Paralympic Sport: Assessing trunk impairment
Supervisor/s: Emma Beckman,
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: e.beckman@uq.edu.au
The ParaSTART project: What are the therapeutic benefits of a longitudinal swimming training program in people with cerebral palsy?
Supervisor/s: Sean Tweedy, Mark Connick, Emma Beckman
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: e.beckman@uq.edu.au
Effects of mental fatigue training through a neuro-performance app on physical performance in a sub-elite netball population
Supervisor/s: David Jenkins, Suzanna Russell
Max No. Students: 1
Contact: suzanna.russell@uqconnect.edu.au
Predicting Muscle Fibre Composition through Wingate Testing
Supervisor/s: David Jenkins, Ricky Dann
Max No. Students: 1
Contact: rick.dann@uqconnect.edu.au
Neuromuscular adaptations of gastrocnemius muscle related with the delayed-onset of muscle soreness (DOMS)
Supervisor/s: Glen Lichtwark, Patricio Pincheira
Max No. Students: 1
Contact: p.pincheiramiranda@uq.edu.au
Motor Control
Motion illusions as a window into the subcortical control of eye movements
Supervisor: Guy Wallis
Number of students: 1
Contact: gwallis@uq.edu.au
Learning to move in a robot-generated force-field
Supervisor: Tim Carroll
Number of students: 2
Contact: timothy.carroll@uq.edu.au
Biomechanics
Muscle-tendon interaction of bi-articular muscles during high power output cycling
Supervisor/s: Ross D. Wilkinson, A/P Glen A. Lichtwark
Max No. Students: 3
Contact: g.lichtwark@uq.edu.au
Gross efficiency and center of mass movement during bilateral and single-leg non-seated cycling
Supervisor/s: Ross D. Wilkinson; A/P Glen A. Lichtwark
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: g.lichtwark@uq.edu.au
Sports Coaching / Development
Cricket Australia elite coach development tour evaluation
Supervisor/s: Dr Steven Rynne
Max No. Students: 4
Contact: s.rynne@uq.edu.au
Indigenous sport programs – an evaluation project
Supervisor/s: Dr Steven Rynne
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: s.rynne@uq.edu.au
Assessing elite sport coaching research
Supervisor/s: Dr Steven Rynne
Max No. Students: 4
Contact: s.rynne@uq.edu.au
Sport History
Scoring goals against racism: The Barcaldine All Blacks versus All Whites rugby league competition
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Gary Osmond
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: g.osmond@uq.edu.au
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Evaluating perceptions and readiness for interprofessional learning in first year students
Supervisor/s: Dr Norman Ng
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: n.ng@uq.edu.au
What is this 'IPE' that you speak of?
Supervisor/s: Dr Norman Ng
Max No. Students: 2
Contact: n.ng@uq.edu.au