Research areas

Education: Developing educational physics experiments.

Astronomy: Stellar photometry, flare stares, stellar magnetic fields, fireballs and meteors.

Medical physics: Ultrasound characterization of articular cartilage, measurement of limb volumes Technology transfer from astronomy to medicine.

Hughes, Stephen, Barry, John, Russell, Jeremy, Bell, Robert, & Gurung, Som (2016) Neck length and mean arterial pressure in the sauropod dinosaurs. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(8), pp. 1154-1161. Boatwright, Adrian, Hughes, Stephen W., & Barry, John (2015) The height limit of a siphon. Scientific Reports, Article number:-16790. Stephen, Hughes (2015) A journey from Lake Bonney to Bhutan. International Water Power and Dam Construction, December, pp. 16-18. Number of full-text downloads 15 Hughes, Stephen W., Cowley, Michael, Powell, Sean, & Carroll, Joshua (2015) The atmospheric extinction of light. European Journal of Physics, 37(1), 015601. Hughes, Stephen W., Hosokawa, Kazuyuki, Carroll, Joshua, Sawell, David, & Wilson, Colin (2015) In the red shadow of the Earth. Physics Education, 50(6), pp. 741-749. Number of full-text downloads 5 Hughes, Stephen W. (2015) How yak farmers can hold back a glacial tsunami. Australasian Science, 2015(Oct), pp. 34-36. Number of full-text downloads 23 Hughes, Stephen W. & Pearce, Darren John (2015) Investigating sea level rise due to global warming in the teaching laboratory using Archimedes’ principle. European Journal of Physics, 36(6), pp. 1-9.