Curtin University

Family and Domestic Violence Discretion and Decision-Making Through the Perspectives of Social Workers and Victim-Survivors

Social workers (SWs) employed in family and domestic violence (FDV) roles use their discretion and make decisions that impact victim-survivor (VS) outcomes and well-being. However, when working alongside VSs, discretion and decision-making remain unexplored in existing literature...

Reimagining Voices: A Case‐Based Exploration of Imagery‐Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Distressing Voices (IE‐CBTv)

Distressing voices (auditory verbal hallucinations) are frequently accompanied by emotional mental imagery, the nature of which often amplifies the associated distress. Mental imagery can be experienced across any of the sensory modalities and can reflect memories of past events...

Assessing the Prevalence and Impact of Allied Health Disciplines in Hospital in the Home Services: A Scoping Review

Importance Hospital in the Home (HITH) is a model that delivers inpatient-level care within the patient’s home, substituting bricks-and-mortar hospital bed occupancy and the associated costs. HITH models have rapidly expanded internationally throughout the past five years. With t...

Playworld Translanguaging: A place-based approach for translanguaging play pedagogy in early childhood

Conceptualised from a vision to honour children’s languages, agency and cultural ways of knowing, this research presents findings from a place-based translanguaging play pedagogy for early childhood called Playworld Translanguaging. In the remote Kimberley of Western Australia, r...

Variable resistance to spot form net blotch disease at a barley chromosome 7 H locus

Five genetically diverse barley lines were crossed to a modern susceptible cultivar to investigate resistance genes and their allelic variation in response to spot form net blotch. Doubled haploid populations were phenotyped at three growth stages, revealing quantitative trait lo...

North to south or south to north: what was the dispersal direction of two Mesozoic mammal groups?

Numerous mammalian biogeographers since the late 19th Century have envisioned that major mammalian groups originated in the Northern Hemisphere and subsequently dispersed to the Southern Hemisphere. A small number of Mesozoic mammalian fossils reported from the Southern Hemispher...

Trajectory of macrotroponin in a community cohort

BACKGROUND: Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is a biomarker for myocardial injury. However, macrotroponin, a complex of cTnI and endogenous cardiac troponin autoantibodies, may artefactually elevate cTnI levels with potential to mislead clinicians, leading to inappropriate investigation...

Ancient DNA preservation in the Caribbean

Abstract Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis has transformed how we study human migration, species dispersals and environmental change, but poor preservation remains a major challenge. This is especially true in tropical settings, where hot and humid conditions accelerate DNA decay. Beca...

Advances in Organoid Technology: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Therapy

Organoids Are Us is a symposium series that provides a snapshot in time of the latest and emerging developments in organoid technology [...]

Buried fragments reveal a “Greater Gondwana” supercontinent

Profound global biogeochemical shifts marked the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition [550–500 million years (Ma)], a phenomenon often ascribed to the dynamics of supercontinent cycles. However, Gondwana is frequently denied supercontinent status due to its perceived spatial deficit (∼6...

Deliberate prehistoric sourcing of the Devil's Arrows, Britain's tallest stone row

Abstract How prehistoric societies selected and transported megaliths remains poorly understood because the geological sources of many monuments are unresolved. The approximately 7 m tall and 25-tonne Devil's Arrows are Britain's tallest surviving standing stone alignment, yet th...

Flourishing Childhood Frameworks: A Scoping Review

OBJECTIVES: Experiences in early life impact childhood, lifelong flourishing, and overall well-being. Yet a framework to guide promoting and measuring flourishing in early childhood has not emerged. The objective of this study was to identify frameworks and measures related to pr...

Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy for Feeding and Swallowing in Children From Four to 12 Years: What Does the Evidence Show? A Systematic Review

ABSTRACT Background Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMT), a subtype of oral motor therapy, applies neuromuscular re‐education techniques to address orofacial myofunctional disorders impacting breathing, sleeping, speaking, eating and swallowing due to atypical orofacial muscle f...

Unilateral Hearing Loss: Listening Ability, Social Participation and Adaptive Strategies to Challenges in the Real World

Background: Unilateral hearing loss (UHL) is associated with speech-in-noise difficulties, impaired spatial hearing, and reduced social participation, yet conventional audiological assessments may not capture these real-world consequences. This study characterised the multidimens...

Rethinking Post-Disaster Shelters: An Integrated LCA of Environmental, Techno-Economic and Resilience Across Three Modern Methods of Construction

The increasing frequency and severity of natural and human-induced disasters are intensifying the need for post-disaster shelters that can be rapidly deployed while delivering low environmental impact, affordability and acceptable occupant comfort. Modern Methods of Construction...

Integrating Satellite Data with Ground-Based Low-Cost Sensors for Hourly Fine-Scale Land Surface Temperature Mapping: A Case Study in Bentley, Western Australia

Climate change and rapid urbanisation are intensifying the urban heat island effect, increasing thermal stress, degrading air quality, and leading to rising energy demand. Monitoring neighbourhood-scale heat requires Land Surface Temperature (LST) observations at fine spatial and...

Implementing univerSal TeleprehabiliTation into cAnceR caRe pathwayS (STTARRS Trial): protocol for a hybrid type 1 multi-centre randomised controlled trial and nested sub study

Abstract Background Postoperative complications are common after major cancer surgeries, occurring in 25–50% of patients. They delay recovery and adversely affect both cancer-free and overall survival. Intervention to optimise patients’ physical and psychological wellbeing before...

Trends in Emergency Department Use by Older People in the Western Australian Community and Residential Care

Objectives The number of older people in Australia living with disability has grown disproportionately compared with growth in aged care services. We aimed to determine secular trends of emergency department (ED) use of older people in Western Australia (WA) who are living in the...

A qualitative analysis to identify implementation strategies for a deprescribing clinical practice guideline using the CFIR-ERIC Matching Tool: perspectives from consumers and professional stakeholders

Abstract Introduction Deprescribing is the planned withdrawal or dose reduction of medicines when harms outweigh benefits or when they are no longer required. Following publication of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Deprescribing in Older People in September 2025, supporting...

Rethinking Environmental Impact Assessment for nature positive development

Achieving nature positive development within existing regulatory frameworks will be challenging. Halting and reversing biodiversity loss requires restoration and enhancement of ecosystems alongside a fundamental shift in how we value biodiversity and assess quantifiable improveme...