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Behind the screens: Interrogating digital service design and delivery
This project aims to investigate how policy-makers in Australia understand digital service delivery, and how this understanding shapes the design and implementation of ethical and effective digital services.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sarah Ball
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society
Building a Trustworthy Information Recommendation System
Build a trustworthy information recommender system by spearheading the design and development of cutting-edge LLM4Rec techniques, misinformation filters, privacy protection mechanisms.
- Supervisor
- Professor Hongzhi Yin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Crystallisation regulation of tin halide perovskites for eco-friendly optoelectronics
This project aims to design novel crystallisation regulation strategies to fabricate high-quality tin-based perovskite thin films, unlocking next-generation low-cost photovoltaic technologies.
- Supervisor
- Dr Peng Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Developing New Polymeric Materials for Manufacture of Computer Chips
Develop new polymers to enable the next generation of computer chips. This exciting project combines advanced chemical approaches with cutting-edge technology.
- Supervisor
- Professor Andrew Whittaker
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Developing peptide-based pain therapeutics
Develop highly selective and potent peptides using a structure-guided approach to target ion channels and receptors involved in pain pathways.
- Supervisor
- Dr Bhavesh Khatri
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences
Disrupting Immune Responses to Reverse Fibrosis
This research aims to elucidate and target the specific immune pathways that drive intestinal fibrosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sumaira Hasnain
- Location
- Translational Research Institute
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Dynamic modelling of agricultural data using functional and statistical methods
Develop advanced functional models and statistical methods for modelling time-series crop traits, including linear mixed models and Ordinary Differential Equations.
- Supervisor
- Dr Slava Vaisman, Dr Javier A. Fernandez and Dr Robert Armstrong
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Exploring the anti-methanogenic properties of Northern Australian feedbase plants for livestock
Identify anti-methanogenic compounds in Northern Australian forage plants, supporting low-emission livestock production through natural product discovery.
- Supervisor
- Dr Natasha Hungerford and Dr Sarah Meale
- Location
- HFSP campus at Coopers Plains
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Chemical sciences, Environmental sciences
Health workforce crisis: understanding political capacity for policy change
Develop new knowledge of the political factors that constrain and enable policymaking to address the health workforce crisis through comparative analysis of health worker interest groups.
- Supervisor
- Dr Adam Hannah
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society
Identify sources of contaminants of concern entering Australian sewers
Map industrial inputs to quantify contaminants in Australian sewers, using systematic sampling and analysis to profile chemicals, and reduce releases into wastewater treatment plants.
- Supervisor
- Professor Jochen Mueller
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences