PhD Advisors at University of Western Australia 西澳大学
Quick answer: University of Western Australia has 60 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 11 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-09-17).
Research-focused faculty at University of Western Australia, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
Showing 60 professors at University of Western Australia.
⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (11)
Professors at University of Western Australia with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Erika Techera
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
I am an international and comparative environmental law specialist with particular diverse interests in wildlife law and marine governance. Much of my research explores Indo-Pacific maritime issues: marine environmental law, including marine protected area law and policy, migrato…
Jacinta Dharmananda
Senior Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ She is available to supervise HDR and other postgraduate students in these areas.
PhD (ANU)
Bachelor of Jurisprudence (Hons) UWA
Bachelor of Laws (UWA)
GCERT (Arts) UWA
Admitted in WA, Victoria and New York State.
Dr Jacinta Dharmananda is a nationally recognised scholar on the law governing statutory interpretation, and also researches on legislative draftin…
Jade Lindley
Associate Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects. I welcome students interested in researching topics relating to global challenges of transnational organized crime and its links to internat…
Dr Jade Lindley is an Associate Professor and Director of Criminology at The University of Western Australia (UWA) Law School and is a Member of the UWA Oceans Institute. She is an expert in transnational organized crime and its nexus with international law. Jade teaches and has …
Jamie Walvisch
Senior Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
Dr Jamie Walvisch is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of Western Australia. He is a leading scholar on the intersection between mental health and the criminal law, especially in the sentencing context.
Dr Walvisch completed his Bachelors of Arts and Laws at …
Jessica Kerr
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
I am the editor of the UWA Law Review and the Law School's Research Integrity Advisor, and I teach in the Law and Society and Juris Doctor programmes. My research interests span judicial and sociolegal studies, public and constitutional law, particularly in comparative context.
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Jiufeng (Jeff) Chang
Senior Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
PhD/HDR research projects available:
Insurance Law, Remedies, Law of Contract, Law of Tort, International Commercial law
Jiufeng is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. He was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich (UK) and a Professional Teaching Fellow in Commercial Law (NZ) prior to that. He developed his interest in researching private law during his Ph…
Ling Chen
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
Dr Ling Chen is a Lecturer at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Law School. His current research considers innovative forms of cooperation between governments and corporations in environmental, climate, and energy governance, and how legal institutions and expertise can a…
Marilyn Bromberg
Associate Professor, Dr (she/her) · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
Associate Professor Marilyn Bromberg ("M") is the Deputy Head of School (Community and Engagement) at the UWA Law School. She researches Social Media Law, most types of harm online (e.g. cyberbullying and deepfakes), Body Image Law and Public Health Law. Her research has been quo…
Melanie O'Brien
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects. PhD/HDR research projects available: Feminist legal perspectives in the fields of international criminal law; genocide studies; internationa…
Dr Melanie O’Brien is Professor of International Law & Deputy Head of School (Research) at the University of Western Australia Law School. She is immediate past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) (2022-25). Professor O'Brien was a 2023-24 Visit…
Melissa Strydom
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
Dr Melissa Stydom is a Lecturer in the Law School at the University of Western Australia, where she teaches Land Law and Environmental Law. Before joining the Law School, Dr Strydom worked as a lawyer with more than 15 years of legal sector experience, practising in Public and Re…
Nicki Mitchell
Professor, Deputy Director, Oceans Institute · School pages (profile link sources)
⭐ Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
I completed a BSc with first class honours in Zoology at the University of Tasmania in 1996, and a PhD in Environmental Physiology at The University of Adelaide in 2001. For the next couple of years I was a research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, funded by The Royal…
All Faculty at University of Western Australia (49)
Aasta Abbott
Senior Lecturer · UWA Research Repository (all schools)
Allied Health Clinician and Clinical Educator, Certifed Practising Speech Pathologist, Health Service, Team and Project Management, Research assistance
Health Literacy, Intellectual Impairment, Intellectual Disability, Content Analysis, Healthcare System, Qualitative Study
Aidan Ricciardo
Senior Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Aidan Ricciardo is a nationally-awarded law teacher and legal researcher whose academic expertise covers health and medical law, evidence law, learning and teaching in law, and diversity in law. Aidan is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School, where he teaches into the postgraduate …
Aiswarya Ajith
Clinical Lecturer · UWA Research Repository (all schools)
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alvin Yap
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Alvin is a lecturer at UWA Law School. He also acts as an independent consultant in international law, with more than 10 years of experience representing and advising States in legal proceedings before international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justi…
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Associate Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
I am Aboriginal law academic who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. My work includes transforming teaching and research spaces to be respectful and inclusive of Indigenous peoples.
Research interests include public law, ethics, Indigenous leg…
Amy Thomasson
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Amy is an Associate Lecturer at UWA Law School where she teaches Law for Every Day Lives in the Law & Society Major (Bachelor of Arts) and Torts and Family Law in the Juris Doctor (JD). She was previously an Associate at the Supreme Court of Western Australia (Court of Appeal), p…
Anna Zenz
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Anna is a Lecturer at the UWA Law School where she teaches Property Law, Land Law and Technology Law and Governance in the JD. She was previously the inaugural Executive Officer at the UWA Public Policy Institute. Prior to joining UWA, Anna worked across diplomacy, higher educati…
Brendan Kennedy
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Dr Brendan Kennedy is Professor in the School of Engineering at The University of Western Australia and Head of BRITElab at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. In addition, he is co-founder of OncoRes Medical and served as Chief Scientific Officer from 2017 to 2021. …
Camilla Baasch Andersen
Professor, PhD (Denmark) · School pages (profile link sources)
Camilla Baasch Andersen is a Professor at University of Western Australia. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, a lecturer at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and before that she was a…
Dave Edwards
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
To view a managed list of my publications, please go to Google Scholar. I gained an Honours degree in agriculture from the University of Nottingham and a PhD from the Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge, UK. I have engaged in research in a range of organisms but …
Dougie Nelson
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
I am a Njaki-Njaki man working on Wadjuck Country as an academic for the Law School at the University of Western Australia.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of Western Australia.
I have an interest in Indigenous knoweldges and how that can be inc…
Elise Bant
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Professor Bant holds joint bachelor degrees in Arts and Law (hons) from the University of Western Australia. She also holds the degrees of Bachelor of Civil Laws with distinction and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford, where she was a Clarendon scholar. Elise prac…
Emily Camins
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Emily Camins teaches International Humanitarian Law and Law in Action at UWA Law School. Her PhD on the legal responses to victims of armed conflict (submitted in January 2023) received an Honourable Mention on the Graduate Research School Dean's List. Emily also holds a BA/LLB (…
Fiona McGaughey
Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic Advancement & Diversity · School pages (profile link sources)
Dr McGaughey (she/her) is Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic Advancement & Diversity. Fiona previously worked as an Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law in the UWA Law School where she held several leadership roles including Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching)…
Hadi Afsharan
Dr · UWA Research Repository (all schools)
Dr Hadi Afsharan is an early-career translational research fellow and innovation leader in medical technologies at The University of Western Australia (UWA). He was awarded a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UWA in 2023, where his doctoral work focused on developing polarisatio…
Hairul Ahmad
Senior Lecturer, Clinical Associate Professor · UWA Research Repository (all schools)
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Hayley Passmore
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Dr Hayley Passmore is a Lecturer in Criminology at The University of Western Australia Law School, and a justice health researcher. Hayley's research, translation, and impact has received international recognition in the justice, criminology, health, and disability fields.
Hayl…
Hilde Tubex
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Hilde Tubex is Professor of Criminology at the Law School of the University of Western Australia (UWA). She is a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Prisoner Reintegration, as co-lead for their program on Addressing Community Contexts of Reintegration. Her areas of experti…
Ian Murray
Professor, Law School, Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Ian is a Professor at the UWA Law School where he teaches in Taxation, Corporations and Not-for-profit Law, as well as researching at the intersection between Not-for-profit Law, Tax, Trusts and Corporate Governance. Ian has a number of years’ experience as a practitioner advisin…
Jani McCutcheon
Professor, BA LLB Monash, LLM W.Aust. · School pages (profile link sources)
I teach and research in the areas of intellectual property law. My research focuses on copyright and moral rights, particularly in the context of literature and visual art and how these laws apply in the creative industries. I obtained my LLB and a BA (Hons) in English Literature…
Jill Howieson
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Jill Howieson is the Director of the UWA Mediation Clinic http://www.mediation.uwa.edu.au/ and the unit coordinator of Ethical Dispute Resolution and Mediation Practice and Skills at the University of Western Australia’s Law School. She is the Director of UWA’s Registered Mediato…
Joe Clare
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Professor Clare has experience in Australia and Canada in conducting applied, operations-focused research with emergency first responders and criminal justice agencies. He is committed to helping applied practitioners utilize theory, research, and analysis to enhance the understa…
John Chandler
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
John Tarrant
Professor, BA BSc LLB NE, BCom Melb., GradDipEd Murd., GradDipTax C.Qld, DipFinMgt NE, LLM ANU, SJD W.Aust. · School pages (profile link sources)
John's tertiary qualifications include Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Laws with Honours, Master of Laws, Master of Defence Studies and Doctor of Juridical Science. John also has a certificate in Law Teaching and diplomas in Taxation, Fina…
Julie Falck
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Julie graduated from UWA with a BA(Hons) and LLB(Hons) in 2011, and completed the BCL with Distinction at the University of Oxford in 2013. Her research interests include public law (especially administrative law), legal education, and legal research methodologies. Julie joined …
Kyla Adams
Dr · UWA Research Repository (all schools)
Kyla Adams is a physicist and science communicator who gained her Bachelor of Science (Physics) at QUT. She then moved to Melbourne to do graduate research in gravitational waves and quantum liquids. Throughout her studies she has been involved with various science and math outre…
Marco Rizzi
Associate Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Marco is Associate Professor at UWA Law School where teaches Torts, Law & Power, and Risk Regulation, and he is Co-Director of the Centre for Health Law and Policy.
His teaching experience spans a variety of private law, regulatory and theoretical subjects, across both core cour…
Melissa Dinnison
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
I am a Wiradjuri academic living and working on Noongar boodja. I hold a Juris Doctor (JD) from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame. I have dedicated my career to advocating for Indigenous rights and enhancing the edu…
Meredith Blake
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Meredith Blake is a Professor and the Director of International Partnerships and Exchange in the School of Law at the University of Western Australia.
Criminal Law, Health Law, Ethics and Policy and Human Rights Law
Michelle De Souza
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Michelle is a lecturer at the UWA Law School. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate units, including Introduction to Law (LAWS1104), Health Law and Policy (LAWS5181), International Law and the Sustainable Development Goals (LAWS3214) and Law, Advocacy, Activism and Change (L…
Michelle Wieberneit
Associate Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Dr Michelle Wieberneit is an Associate Lecturer in Criminology at the UWA Law School whose research sits at the intersection of criminology and psychological science. She recently completed her PhD in Law (Criminology) at UWA, examining the cognitive and systemic barriers that sh…
Murray Wesson
Associate Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Dr Murray Wesson is an Associate Professor in the Law School, University of Western Australia, where he teaches and researches constitutional law, human rights law and legal theory. He has published widely on key public law concepts - such as free speech, social and economic righ…
Natalie Brown
Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Natalie lectures property and administrative law at the University of Western Australia. In 2013, Natalie was offered a funded PhD at the UWA after completing her law degree with first class honours in 2011. Natalie’s PhD examined rights to groundwater in the Pilbara iron ore min…
Natalie Skead
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Dr Natalie Skead is Professor in Law and was Dean of the UWA Law School from 2017 to 2023.
Natalie is a Fellow and Director of the Australian Academy of Law, Immediate Past Chair of the Australian Law Academics Association and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I…
Nolan Sharkey
Winthrop Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Nolan Sharkey joined UWA in 2014 from UNSW. He has been a full time academic since 2002. He is also a Barrister and is a member of Francis Burt Chambers. Nolan’s research builds on his work in law, accounting and sociology to provide both technical and cross disciplinary perspect…
Nyssa Bull
Associate Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Nyssa is an Associate Lecturer at UWA, where she teaches Intellectual Property Law in the Juris Doctor program and Law and Power in the Law and Society program. She has recently completed her PhD in Law at UWA, focusing on the phenomenon of 'calling out' alleged intellectual pro…
Philipp Kastner
Senior Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Philipp Kastner is a Senior Lecturer in International Law. He joined UWA Law School in 2014. He holds graduate degrees in law from McGill University (LL.M. and D.C.L.) and the University of Innsbruck, Austria (Dr. iur.).
Philipp's main research interests include the resolution of…
Rebecca Faugno
Senior Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer in the UWA Law School where she teaches Corporations Law and Professional and Ethical Practice. Rebecca's research interests lie in the fields of corporate fraud, corporate governance, corporate responsibility and civil remedies. She is currently unde…
Renae Barker
Senior Lecturer · School pages (profile link sources)
Renae Graduated from Murdoch University with a Bachelor’s degree in law with honours and Bachelor’s degree in economics. She subsequently completed her PhD at the University of Western Australia in 2014. Her thesis explored the development of the relationship between the state an…
Rick Krever
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Rick Krever is a leading taxation law and policy expert. He has been closely involved in modern Australian tax reform initiatives for many years, including in his roles as a member of the Commonwealth Government's Taxation Law Improvement Project Consultative Committee and the Re…
Sagi Peari
Associate Professor, SJD (University of Toronto); LLM (University of Toronto) · School pages (profile link sources)
Dr. Sagi Peari is an Associated Professor of Private and Commercial Law and holds the position of Deputy Head of School (Students). He is an author of two research monographs published by Oxford University Press: The Foundation of Choice-of-Law: Choice & Equality (New York: Oxfor…
Sarah Murray
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Dr Sarah Murray is a Professor at the University of Western Australia where she teaches Constitutional Law and researches in public law, electoral law and court innovation. She has published extensively in Australia and overseas and was part of the UWA-led team which was successf…
Sharon Mascher
Professor, Dean and Head of UWA Law School · School pages (profile link sources)
Sharon Mascher is Professor in Law and Dean of the UWA Law School. Sharon Professor and Dean and Head of UWA Law School, Co-Director of the Centre for Mining, Energy and Resources Law, Co-Program 1 Lead CRC Time and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary. She is also C…
Stella Tarrant
Associate Professor, BJuris (Hon) LLB W.Aust., LLM Yale · School pages (profile link sources)
Associate Professor Stella Tarrant is a graduate of the University of Western Australia (B.Juris (Hon) first class) and Yale University (LLM). She began her career as Associate to Justice Toohey of the High Court of Australia and a solicitor in the Land and Heritage Unit of the A…
Stuart Aamodt
Lecturer · UWA Research Repository (all schools)
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Syarif Abdul-Wahed
Research Associate · UWA Research Repository (all schools)
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Tamara Tulich
Associate Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Dr Tamara Tulich is an Associate Professor in the Law School at the University of Western Australia. Tamara researches and publishes in the areas of preventive justice, anti-terror lawmaking and indefinite detention regimes. She is co-editor of the collection Regulating Preventiv…
Thomas Wernberg
MSc RUC, Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
My research covers a broad spectrum of topics, but my primary interests lie in the ecological interactions in and around shallow sub-tidal habitats. Although my interests are broad, and the principles I study general, much of my work has focused on temperate seaweed-dominated hab…
Zach Aman
Professor · School pages (profile link sources)
Zach is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Australia, where he looks after the clathrate hydrates and flow assurance research themes within the Fluid Science and Resources cluster. His research is focussed on gas hydrate kinetics and transportability…
Frequently asked questions
How many professors at University of Western Australia are hiring PhD students in 2026?
As of 2026-09-17, 11 professors at University of Western Australia show active PhD hiring signals in phd-match's faculty database.
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phd-match lists 60 faculty profiles at University of Western Australia, each with research interests, department, and a link to the professor's homepage.
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Data last updated: 2026-09-17 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.