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Carbon accounting for sustainable design and manufacturing in the signage industry
Industry partnership with Diadem Pty. Ltd.
Evaluation of DigitalHealth@Home Remote Patient Monitoring Program
Collaborating with Gippsland Primary Health Network, Royal Flying Doctor Service Victoria, and Monash University to evaluate the implementation of DigitalHealth@Home remote patient monitoring tool in regional Victoria.
Augmented Reality to develop primary school students' balancing skills
Partnership with GymbaROO in Victoria to develop and evaluate augmented reality tools and software for developing balancing skills in primary school children.
City of Casey Citizen Engagement Chatbot and Social Isolation Project
Collaboration with City of Casey Council and interdisciplinary colleagues from Nursing to develop GIS tools for evaluating social isolation epidemic in CALD populations of Casey Cardinia regions of Victoria.
Refining the bidirectional encoder representations from transformer (BERT) model for semantic intent classification using Twitter data
Improve classification accuracy on downstream tasks of BERT model in noisy and low-data regimes like Twitter.
Passive monitoring and intervention for fathers' experiencing perinatal distress
Training and evaluating prediction models on social media for fathers' perinatal depression and anxiety.
Harnessing social media and m-health to predict, monitor and intelligently intervene in paternal postpartum depression
Developing and evaluating predictive models for parents' depression and anxiety on social media, informing the development of chatbots and personalised mobile interventions.
Improving Environmental Outcomes on Conserved and Managed Lands (Old ID 31153)
This project will review private-land conservation programs against the draft Australian OECM framework criteria to indicate the types of programs that are likely to qualify. Based on this review, programs that are near OECM standard but that fall short on key criteria, such as actively managing for biodiversity outcomes, will be considered for place-based research. Within programs, the research will design and deploy interventions to support landholders to manage their land consistent with OECM criteria and track the outcomes of this management over time to demonstrate enduring biodiversity outcomes. The research will demonstrate if the hypothesised benefits to both biodiversity and participants of these programs (e.g. increased nature connectedness) hold true. If our findings are positive, we expect these interventions could be added to private-land conservation programs in other jurisdictions.
Desktop synthesis for the Seagrass Restoration Roadmap for the Great Barrier Reef
This is a short-term consultancy to inform the basis of a seagrass restoration roadmap across the GBR catchment. The consultancy will be a desktop analysis of currently available seagrass literature, with occasional interviews if required. The outcome will be a report used to inform the strategic scaling of future seagrass restoration activities, including opportunities for seagrass nursery locations, Traditional Owner involvement and further details, and an online meeting with GBRF to present the report and key findings.
Novel reproductive approaches to de-risk and transform barramundi breeding (Old ID 31145)
Demand for Australian seafood outstrips supply. Farming of the iconic Australian barramundi is poised to play a major role addressing this shortfall; but innovative methods are needed to de-risk breeding processes and to provide precise control of maturation, spawning and genetic contribution of broodstock. This project, in partnership with the world’s largest barramundi breeding company, will develop, test and apply novel breeding methods to obtain tight control over barramundi reproductive development and spawning. By combining cutting edge genetic and applied breeding techniques, selective breeding programs will be more efficient and the genetic gains from breeding programs will be maximised.