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Scholarship-funded research projects
Explore our research projects with funded living stipend scholarships. You can filter by program type, research area and scholarship type, or use the keyword search field to find projects that suit your interests.
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Achieving equity in cancer screening for First Nations peoples
Develop culturally sensitive cancer screening programs for First Nations peoples by exploring their perceptions, trialling interventions, and co-designing strategies.
- Supervisor
- Professor Gail Garvey
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences, Indigenous studies
An integrated approach to achieve net-zero operation in wastewater resource recovery facilities
This PhD project aims to develop models and strategies to reduce the process greenhouse gas emissions from full-scale wastewater systems, supporting Australia's net-zero target by 2050.
- Supervisor
- Professor Liu Ye
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Augmented Human Operations: Using XR and AI in Remote Challenging Environments
Develop immersive systems for enhanced decision-making, situational awareness & remote control in extreme Earth/space environments.
- Supervisor
- Dr Maxime Cordeil, Dr Jarrod Knibbe and Associate Professor Chelsea Dobbins
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Co-designing an education package for healthcare professionals to optimise medicine use for people living with dementia
Guidance regarding how to collaboratively navigate deprescribing decision-making in people living with dementia is lacking. This project aims to develop evidence-based deprescribing training for clinicians.
- Supervisor
- Dr Nagham Ailabouni
- Location
- UQ Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Developing novel hydrogen storage using hydrogen hydrate
Develop a novel method of hydrogen storage by physically locking hydrogen in regular cavities of solid water to form a hydrogen-carrying solid structure of water (called hydrogen hydrate).
- Supervisor
- Dr Ngoc Nguyen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Development of Biomass-Derived Nanocatalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting
This project aims to develop new highly active and stable non-precious metal nanocatalysts from agricultural waste for enhancing hydrogen production in electrochemical water splitting or water electrolysis.
- Supervisor
- Dr Yusuf Kaneti
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Effect of Magnetic Field Deflection on Magnetohydrodynamic Heat Shield
Experimentally reproduce and characterise MHD heat shield concept in hypersonic ground test experiments.
- Supervisor
- Dr David Gildfind
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Physical sciences
Engaging consumers in frailty and ageing research
Explore methods for engaging consumers in frailty and ageing research, evaluate consumer engagement in existing research trials and develop a consumer engagement model for a national clinical/research network.
- Supervisor
- Professor Ruth Hubbard
- Location
- Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Expression of therapeutic peptides in plants
Make peptide-based drugs in plants. Plants offer the possibility of producing drugs in a sustainable, eco-friendly way, avoiding harsh chemicals used in traditional drug manufacture.
- Supervisor
- Professor David Craik
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
How blood factors regulate adult neurogenesis and memory in mice
Understand the underlying mechanisms of exercise-induced adult neurogenesis to counteract age-related cognitive decline, and to understand how blood-borne factors are involved in this process.
- Supervisor
- Dr Odette Leiter
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences