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Using systems thinking methods to understand how climate change will impact Australia’s health workforce
Explore the impact of climate change on Australia's health workforce, using systems science to inform future policy actions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Adam Hulme
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences
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
Co-designing healthy food retail best practice actions with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Work with Indigenous storeowners and retailers to translate new evidence into healthy food actions in stores and define systems and policy to ensure these are implemented in all remote Australian stores.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Megan Ferguson
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
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
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
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
Improving Quality of Survival for Women with Gynaecological Cancer
Focus on improving quality of life, health & function during & after gynaecological cancer treatment, with a focus on biomarker research, implementation research and cancer survivorship.
- Supervisor
- Professor Andreas Obermair
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Monitoring illicit tobacco in Australia
Apply an integrated wastewater-based epidemiology approach to improve our understanding of the impact of tobacco control and tax policies on illegal tobacco markets in Australia.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Phong Thai
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences
Nanoarchitectonics of Magneto-plasmonic Mesoporous Materials for Sensing Applications
This project aims to develop mesoporous magneto-plasmonic nanostructures and films and their integration into nano-electromechanical systems to achieve portable and sensitive sensors
- Supervisor
- Professor Yusuke Yamauchi
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering