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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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Novel genomic assessments for finding true DNA variants contributing to the difference in beef cattle fertility
Use long-read Oxford Nanopore sequencing to uncover structural variants affecting cattle fertility, improving genomic prediction and accelerating genetic gains in northern beef production.
- Supervisor
- Dr Loan Nguyen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
Optimising physical environments in early childhood services for children’s development
Explore how the places and physical environments of early childhood services, from green sites to multi-storey centres, shape children’s development and wellbeing.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sally Staton
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Education, Health sciences, Psychology
Profiling Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Immunity
Develop immunity-guided strategies to evaluate/develop AML mRNA vaccine discovery pipelines.
- Supervisor
- Dr Kelvin Tuong
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
ROIDCheck: Reducing illicit steROID harms through drug Checking services
Work alongside the world’s first steroid and enhancement drug checking program (ROIDCheck) to study illicit steroid markets, health risks, and co-designed harm reduction interventions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Timothy Piatkowski
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Understanding threats to native stingless bees
Study Australian stingless bees using an interdisciplinary approach of ecophysiological, genetic and social/philosophical methods to understand threats and ethical research on culturally significant species.
- Supervisor
- Dr Coen Hird
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Environmental sciences, Indigenous studies, Philosophy and religious studies
Universal Learnt Representations in Artificial Intelligence
We attempt to unravel universal ideas in artificial intelligence (AI), such as why human vision use the same functions that neural networks learn independently despite not knowing them beforehand.
- Supervisor
- Dr Shekhar Chandra
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
ARC Laureate PhD scholarship: Transforming understanding of cognitive ageing
This Laureate will use groundbreaking methods to assess the cognitive function of older adults in real world scenarios in a manner previously considered intractable.
- Supervisor
- Professor Julie Henry
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Psychology
Co-designing digital frailty education with health consumers and caregivers
Educate and empower healthcare consumers and caregivers to prevent and manage frailty.
- Supervisor
- Dr Kristiana Ludlow
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Decarbonising Australia's foodservice industry with sustainable foods
Understand how consumers make food choices in different contexts, design behaviour change interventions to promote sustainable foods, and test their impact through field experiments.
- Supervisor
- Dr David Fechner
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Commerce, management, tourism and services, Psychology
From error-prone human driving to error-free superhuman-like self-driving
Rigorously assess AV interactions with human drivers and vulnerable road users, by simulating dangerous traffic dynamics through augmented virtual testing.
- Supervisor
- Professor Zuduo Zheng
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering