Externally funded projects

Ready to take your study of the history of philosophy to the next level, and join the debates shaping the field?

The Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHOP) offers one of Australia’s most dynamic environments for graduate research in the history of philosophy. We support PhD, MRes, and MPhil candidates whose projects engage with philosophical traditions across cultures, eras, and religious contexts. Graduate researchers are fully embedded in CHOP’s scholarly life—participating in seminars, masterclasses, reading groups, and international collaborations.

Reducing the burden of injury in Australian police force recruits

This project aims to show how Aristotle’s theory of virtue can guide our individual and collective attempts to live good human lives in challenging times. Learn more.

Principal investigator: Myles Murphy
Funded by: NHMRC (Investigator Grant)
Funding: $

Co-designing and implementing a sustainable injury prevention program for Police Force recruits

This project will provide the first sustained historical study of nature-culture continuities in medieval Latin philosophy and theology, examining the areas of: cognition, language, semiotics, ethics and politics, animality, ecology, metaphysics, and God. Learn more.

Principal investigator: Myles Murphy
Funded by: NHMRC (Partnership Project)
Funding: $1,224,607.31

Co-designing and implementing a sustainable injury prevention program for Police Force recruits

This project analyses the conceptual history of zeal in European philosophy and religion, with the aim of clarifying the contemporary meaning, value and risks of zeal today.

Principal investigator: Myles Murphy
Funded by: WA Department of Health (Major Research and Innovation Application Scheme)
Funding: $600,000

Harnessing 'brainpower' to reduce the burden of hip osteoarthritis.

This project aims to show how Aristotle’s theory of virtue can guide our individual and collective attempts to live good human lives in challenging times. Learn more.

Principal investigator: Myles Murphy
Funded by: Raine Medical Research Foundation
Funding: $238,000

Improving outcomes in women and girls following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction

This project will provide the first sustained historical study of nature-culture continuities in medieval Latin philosophy and theology, examining the areas of: cognition, language, semiotics, ethics and politics, animality, ecology, metaphysics, and God. Learn more.

Principal investigator: Myles Murphy
Funded by: Orthopaedic Research Foundation of WA
Funding: $84,000

Blinded by gender: Are our assessments of perceived risk of injury influenced by knowledge of participant gender?

This project analyses the conceptual history of zeal in European philosophy and religion, with the aim of clarifying the contemporary meaning, value and risks of zeal today.

Principal investigator: Daniel Kadlec
Funded by: Exercise and Sport Science Australia
Funding: $25,000

Neural motor drive impairments following hamstring and calf injury.

This project analyses the conceptual history of zeal in European philosophy and religion, with the aim of clarifying the contemporary meaning, value and risks of zeal today.

Principal investigator: Molly Coventry
Funded by: Australian Physiotherapy Association
Funding: $11,936

Contact us

For enquiries about the externally funded projects in the Centre, contact ihr@nd.edu.au.