Applications are accepted throughout the year from students wishing to do their HDR with the Institute for Positive Psychology & Education.
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Applications are accepted throughout the year from students wishing to do their HDR with the Institute for Positive Psychology & Education.
We welcome applications from both domestic candidates from Australia and New Zealand, and international candidates. The next round of applications for PhD and MPhil programs closes at 11.59pm Monday 4 December 2023 AEST.
When you study at IPPE you have access to;
For general enquiries about becoming a HDR Student at ACU, please contact Research Candidature services: res.can@acu.edu.au
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Our Virtual Open Day is designed to answer your questions about the IPPE PhD/MPhil experience. If you are interested in applying for one of our funded places for the PhD or MPhil programs, or would like to hear more about what these courses involve, please join us for one of our sessions. Please Click Here for more information on the Virtual Open Day Sessions and Individual Appointments.
The Virtual Open Day Information Sessions is being offered on:
Postgraduate Research Scholarships can be found on the ACU Higher Degree Research Hub:
Applicants must follow the instructions on the ACU Become a Research Candidate page.
Important when Lodging an Application/Query with IPPE
Please ensure that the research proposal is aligned with the 'research interests' of the academic that you intend to carry out your study with and/or the broader 'Research Institute' interests/strategic objectives. Please also ensure that prior to lodging an application/query, the 'English language proficiency' is duly met.
Please see Appendix C in 'Higher Degree Research Regulations' for more detail.
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Exploring gender differences in the effect of social capital on university aspirations |
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Using archival data to explore social class effects in educational attainment across Australian history (1960 to Today). |
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Comparing the effect of gender on psychological skills and academic achievement of urban, farming-Rural, and non-farming-rural children |
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Measurement of mindfulness related constructs and testing the efficacy of mindfulness related interventions |
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Social emotional learning skills for promoting educational outcomes |
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Computational methods for analysing idionomic data |
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Process-based approaches to improving the human condition (e.g. well-being and performance)? |
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Identifying factors that promote positive development? |
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Nonattachment: How do we measure it, how do we promote it |
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Individual and gender differences in academic motivational factors (e.g., task value, self-concept) and educational and career choices particularly in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) |
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How multiple ecological systems (e.g., sociocultural, school, individual factors) shape adolescent social-emotional skills |
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Intervention studies looking into how to promote students' learning motivation (e.g., value, self-concept, mindset) and alter subsequent decision-making in coursework and major selections |
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Can students evaluate the effectiveness of their teachers? How do their ratings compare to how teachers rate themselves, and does student feedback improve teaching? |
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Use of publication citation analysis to evaluate research productivity |
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Academic Selective Schools. Do they help or hinder student achievement, academic self-concept, and long-term educational outcomes? |
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How do we stop school bullying? What makes a difference based on secondary data analysis of international surveys, and what interventions work. |
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| New approaches to factor analysis: Comparing confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM), and using Bayes estimators. | Professor Herb Marsh |
| Gender differences in different school subjects: Relations to academic achievement and academic self-concept. | Professor Herb Marsh |
| The benefits of repeating a year in school. | Professor Herb Marsh |
| School Principals Health & Well-being: What promotes and hinders based on results from our School Principal Health and Well-being Survey. | Professor Herb Marsh |
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A systemic and holistic approach to school wellbeing: 1)The effects of teacher wellbeing on student motivation and achievement. 2)Fostering principals' wellbeing in a digital age |
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Does student achievement really benefit from students attending high achieving groups? |
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What are the determinants of ethical decision-making? |
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How can we enable students to make decisions that are rooted in ethics and morality, rather than personal gain? |
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How can we enable students to extend their moral consideration to people from diverse backgrounds? |
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| What is the relationship between media literacy and wellbeing/mental health? | Dr Chloe Gordon |
| How do we raise the profile of media literacy education in schools? | Dr Chloe Gordon |
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Enabling Indigenous preschool children's self-concept, literacy, and numeracy |
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Enabling Indigenous school children's self-concept, literacy, and numeracy |
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Enabling Indigenous youth attending university voice and agency |
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Factors driving the successful transition, retention, and completion of Indigenous university students |
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Factors driving the successful transition, retention, and completion of Indigenous preservice teacher education university students |
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Positive Parenting in Indigenous Communities |
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| Teaching the Teachers Indigenous Studies | Professor Rhonda Craven |
| Research Synthesis/Meta-Analysis in Indigenous Education | Professor Rhonda Craven |
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Improving the Engagement of Indigenous Students through the implementation of an Autonomy-Supportive Intervention Program for Teachers |
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| Envisioning Success for Remote Communities | Dr Anthony Dillon |
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Conceptions and Drivers of Indigenous Youth Wellbeing and Success |
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Parent-delivered language intervention: Indigenous preschool children |
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Capitalising on character strengths: A cross-cultural study on Indigenous populations |
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Providing a nudge towards success: Evaluating an innovative text messaging intervention to increase educational attainment and academic achievement in high school |
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The influence of different types of electronic screen exposure on children and adolescents' health and wellbeing. |
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Building upon a scalable partnership model for physical activity promotion: Adapting the iPLAY program to improve girls' health |
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A school-based intervention to promote physical activity in children with intellectual disabilities. |
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Quantitative and qualitative studies of late-life adults' well-being and self-determination and how they can be best supported by people and institutions. |
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Studies of people's access to and perceived access to human rights and their associations with well-being. |
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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of self-determination theory. |
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Autonomy-Supportive Teaching Intervention: Improving teachers' classroom motivating styles |
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Understanding Psychological Needs: An exploration of need dissatisfaction |
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| Student Engagement: What exactly do highly engaged students do that allows them to develop (1) greater capacity and (2) improved performance? | Professor Johnmarshall Reeve |
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Understanding Classroom Instructions: Effect of an intrinsic instructional goal on tone of voice |
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Exploring teachers' instructional goals |
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