Supervisors
Anwen Thistlewood
Anwen Thistlewood researches how boards actually make decisions under regulatory pressure, with a focus on disclosure regimes in listed Australian companies. She convenes the faculty research seminar and has supervised eighteen doctoral candidates to completion.
- Board accountability and disclosure regimes
- Corporate insolvency and director duties
- Regulatory design for listed companies
- Comparative company law
Currently accepting research students
Hamish Ardagh-Bell
Hamish Ardagh-Bell researches procurement and risk allocation on large public infrastructure projects, and why cost overruns recur in programs that have already been reformed once.
- Risk allocation in public infrastructure procurement
- Cost overrun in reformed programs
- Contract design for major projects
- Productivity measurement on site
Not currently accepting new research students
Ingrid Solvang
Ingrid Solvang researches the behaviour of timber and hybrid structures under long-term load, and the retrofit of mid-century concrete frames. Her recent work concerns engineered timber in mid-rise construction.
- Engineered timber in mid-rise construction
- Retrofit of mid-century concrete frames
- Long-term creep behaviour in hybrid structures
Currently accepting research students
Marisol Okonjo-Vance
Marisol Okonjo-Vance researches clinical handover and the communication failures that cluster around shift change, and works with regional hospitals on practical redesign.
- Clinical handover and shift-change communication
- Nursing workforce retention in regional services
- Simulation-based clinical education
Currently accepting research students
Nkechi Adaobi-Lomax
Nkechi Adaobi-Lomax studies how preventive health programs succeed or fail once they leave the trial and meet a real health service, with particular attention to regional and rural delivery.
- Implementation of preventive health programs
- Rural and regional health service delivery
- Chronic disease surveillance methods
- Evaluation design for public health interventions
Currently accepting research students
Priyanka Raghunathan
Priyanka Raghunathan works on the security of operational technology — the industrial control systems behind water, power and transport — and on how incident response actually behaves under time pressure.
- Security of industrial control systems
- Incident response under time pressure
- Threat modelling for critical infrastructure
- Secure protocol verification
Currently accepting research students
Rafael Quintanilla-Vey
Rafael Quintanilla-Vey works on machine learning systems that must explain themselves — model interpretability, and the gap between a model that scores well and a model a clinician or a regulator can act on. He leads the applied AI reading group.
- Interpretable machine learning
- Representation learning for time series
- Human-in-the-loop model evaluation
- Applied AI in regulated settings
- Fairness auditing of deployed models
Currently accepting research students
Tobias Fenwick-Marr
Tobias Fenwick-Marr researches decision-making under measurement error — what happens to a business decision when the metric it rests on is noisier than the people using it believe.
- Decision quality under measurement error
- Forecasting in supply networks
- Analytics adoption in mid-size firms
Not currently accepting new research students
Yusuf Berhane-Cole
Yusuf Berhane-Cole researches causal inference from observational data, especially where the data were collected for administration rather than for research.
- Causal inference from administrative data
- Missing data and selection bias
- Bayesian hierarchical modelling
- Statistical methods for linked records
Not currently accepting new research students
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