Current Scholarship Recipients
MRIWA funds scholarships for postgraduate research studies at any Western Australian university
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Emad Al-Hemyari
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2024)
Data Processing and Inversion for Seismic While Drilling and Mining Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Machine Learning
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Yamini Kannappan
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2024)
Extraction of Rare Earth Elements (REE) from Sub-Economic Ores and Process Tailings
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Sistine Sun
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2024)
The Unintended Effects of Carbon Emission Policy: International Evidence from the Paris Agreement
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Muzammil Khan
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2024)
Towards decarbonisation in steelmaking: Grey-box modelling for optimisation of green and sustainable metallurgical coke production from biomass
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Michael Ajith
MARS Program PhD Scholarship (2024)
Impact of COVID-19 on the leadership of operational leaders in the oil, gas, and mining sector of Australia.
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Daniel Goldstein
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2023)
Ore Body Characterisation using Machine Learning and Measure-While-Drilling Data
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Nilan Jayasiri Mudiyanselage
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2023)
Accelerating Consolidation of Mine Tailings using Electro‐osmosis Dewatering Technology
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Alex Eves
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2023)
Petrogenesis and metallogenic significance of the Speewah V-Ti Deposit
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Hyunjin Na
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2023)
Development of cementation-magnetic separation method for sulfide mineral processing and AMD prevention
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Bishenka Mahaulpatha
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2022)
Feasibility of effective metal recovery from tailings material via electrokinetic in-situ leaching.
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Alexandra Halliday
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2021)
Integrating field monitoring and numerical modelling to better quantify the stability of tailings storage facilities
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Liz Wall
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2021)
Evaluating the mining industry’s view of their success in delivering a positive legacy for host communities at the time of mine closure.
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Alicja Polewacz
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2020)
Processes at the interface between fluids and lithium minerals
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Tyler Bikaun
ITTC in Transforming Maintenance through Data Science (2020)
Unlocking Knowledge from Technical Texts using Deep Active Learning and Entity Typing
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John Grigson
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2020)
Giant rare-metal pegmatites of the East Pilbara Terrane, Western Australia: Mineral systems analysis and terrane-scale exploration
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Gabriel Gonzalez
ITTC in Transforming Maintenance through Data Science (2019)
Risk-based Inspection Intervals: A Practical Approach
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Xingjie Chen
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2019)
Investigating the underground support provided by shotcrete using tailings and waste rock
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Kudzai Angeline Mchibwa
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2018)
Innovative processes for leach liquor purification and production of battery grade LiOH from Li mineral resources
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