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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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AI in the detection and diagnosis of preclinical and early osteoarthritis
Develop and validate novel AI algorithms for measuring cartilage and detecting early cartilage changes in knee osteoarthritis.
- Supervisor
- Dr Shekhar Chandra
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Assessing the mineral security dimensions of poverty (two scholarships available)
Two PhD Scholarships are available to address a major gap in our understanding of global poverty by assessing for the first time the mineral security dimensions. Outcomes will contribute to policy responses by the United Nations.
- Supervisor
- Professor Daniel Franks
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Earth sciences, Economics, Environmental sciences, Human society
Engineering vessels from blood to predict transplant-associated cardiovascular disease
Study endothelial-hematopoietic crosstalk in stem cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy with Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital and the National Heart Foundation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mark Allenby and Dr Rose Ann Franco
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Engineering
Turbulent flow in canopies of complex geometries
Experimental investigation of turbulent canopy flows for environmental and renewable energy applications
- Supervisor
- Dr Azadeh Jafari and Professor Anand Veeraragavan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Low cost genotyping with ultra-low fold sequencing for tropical cattle
In partnership with Neogen, this project will deliver a highly accurate and efficient genotyping of SNPs and structural variants from ultra-low fold coverage sequence data.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mehrnush Forutan and Professor Ben Hayes
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
The Politics of Development Financing Competition in Asia and the Pacific
Having been closely enmeshed via decades of globalisation, the intensifying 'Second Cold War' between the US and its allies and China is generating serious challenges for state and societies in Asia and the Pacific. This project investigates how they are responding, with a particular focus on development financing.
- Supervisor
- Professor Shahar Hameiri
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society
Agricultural plant disease classification and crop yield prediction
This project aims to develop algorithms to automatically analyse crop diseases’ types and detect diseased plants that would affect the agricultural yield production. Moreover, a crop yield prediction model will be investigated for better crop field management.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xin Yu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Cell-free conversion of sugars to platform chemicals for the manufacture of biofuels and biomaterials
Focus on the optimisation of enzymes for the cell-free conversion of renewable feedstocks into value-added products.
- Supervisor
- Professor Gary Schenk and Professor Robert Henry
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering
Investigation of Railway Studs and Squats
Develop a generalised validated mathematical model for rail studs, and in particular to examine how this mechanism differs from that for rail squats.
- Supervisor
- Professor Paul Meehan and Dr Aditya Khanna
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Investigate genetic disease using the zebrafish model
Investigate disease-causing genetic variants in lipodystrophies and cardiovascular disease, using zebrafish and in vitro models.
- Supervisor
- Dr Thomas Hall and Dr Harriet Lo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences