Higher Degree by Research scholarships

Are midwives the global key to life-saving preeclampsia care?

After tragically losing a friend to preeclampsia, Dr Isabella Garti is now working to improve the quality of care for those who develop this dangerous pregnancy complication. She's pursuing a Higher Degree by Research at CDU, supported by world-leading midwifery researchers.

How can we better support First Nations parents in remote communities?

Lexie Gregory's career has centred around supporting parents and families in remote communities, making Charles Darwin University the perfect place to start a Higher Degree by Research. She wants to ensure that parenting programs integrate First Nations worldviews into their design. 

How can we keep humans and crocodiles safe from each other?

Reports of saltwater crocodile attacks on humans have increased dramatically over the past decade, particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia. One CDU Higher Degree by Research student is currently working on reducing the number of attacks without negatively impacting crocodile populations.

Professor Mamoun Alazab

Professor Mamoun Alazab is a full Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, and the Inaugural Director of the NT Academic Centre for Cyber Security and Innovation (ACCI) at Charles Darwin University, Australia.

Opportunity for research projects in:

• Malware Authorship Attribution
• Explaining AI for Malware Detection
• Generating Adversarial Malware
• Access Control and their applications in CPS, ITS, IoT, cloud computing, and Big Data
• Cyber Physical Systems and IoT
• Cyber Criminology
• Privacy-preserving
• Machine and Deep Learning applications for cyber security.
• Digital Forensics
• Organisational Security and cyber risk management

Professor Sue Kildea

Professor Sue Kildea is internationally recognised as a midwifery leader at the cutting edge of Indigenous maternal and infant health and Birthing on Country Service design.

She has strong links with Indigenous researchers and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Organisations across the country, built across a 35-year career in clinical, research, education and policy.

Research interests:

• midwifery (maternal and infant health)
• rural and remote health
• Aboriginal health.

Professor Alan Andersen

Prof Andersen is the author of five books and >250 scientific publications, with an h-index of 76 and >20,000 career citations. In 2018 he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and in 2022 was elected to the Academy’s governing Council. He is Chair of the Academy’s National Committee for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. He is also inaugural Chair of the Territory Science Forum, whose mission to promote an effective enabling environment for science-based innovation in the NT.

Research Interests:

• Ant ecology
• Invertebrate bio-indicators
• Fire ecology and management
• Ecology and management of tropical savannas
• Biogeography