Our graduate research program nurtures and develops the sustainability leaders of tomorrow, whose diverse interests are matched to supervisors from our transdisciplinary team of academics.

Our graduate research program nurtures and develops the sustainability leaders of tomorrow, whose diverse interests are matched to supervisors from our transdisciplinary team of academics.

In 2020, 61 doctoral and masters by research students participated in our program, working on projects addressing themes from ‘Flexing Our Energy System to Deliver Clean, Affordable, Reliable and Equitable Energy’ to ‘The Politics of Regenerative Agriculture in Australia’.

See the breadth of projects our students are investigating here.

 
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Bronwyn Cumbo's PhD thesis, about children’s participation in the design of new technologies, was on the 2020 UTS Chancellor’s list. Read about her work here.

 

2020 Graduates

PhD in Sustainable Futures

Bronwyn Cumbo, Child Participation Beyond the Adult Realm: Participatory Design in Nature-play Contexts

Tani Shaw, Pressing the Case for Wider Economic, Social and Environmental Measures of Progress: A Case Study of the OECD Global Project

Reba Paul, Energy Sensitive Urban Water Planning in Developing Countries: Unlocking the Potential of Distributed Recycled Water Systems to Reduce the Overall Energy Intensity for Urban Water Services

Lily Huang, Analysis of the Embodied Carbon Emissions Flows in China: Applying a Network Perspective to Sectors, Provinces, and Carbon Communities Within the Chinese Economy

Kate Hughes, The Socially Literate Expert: A New Model of Risk Communication and Social Engagement Bridging Content and Bridging Process

Simon Wright, A State of Innovation – The Role of Government in the Design and Orchestration of Sustainability Transitions

Jack Thomson, The First and Last Mile: Rural communities’ management of evolving disaster risk and the implications for preparedness in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

Judy Friedlander, A Meaty Discourse: Raising the agenda of an inconvenient message

Masters in Sustainable Futures

Mathew Hounsell, Using Big Data from TOTOR ETS to optimise public transport operations

 

Find out more about our graduate research program here