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Scholarship-funded research projects
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If you'd rather bring your own project, explore our scholarships (including top-up scholarships) and find a supervisor to support your project.
Causal and adaptive learning for agronomic decisions and knowledge exchange in sorghum
Develop and evaluate a causal evidence framework to assess when sorghum agronomic recommendations are justified, the conditions under which they are applicable, and how growers and advisers interpret, adapt, and use them in practice.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sudhir Yadav and Dr Joseph Eyre
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Economics
Advancing Reasoning Ability in Diffusion Large Language Models
Investigate the development of enabling diffusion large language models to achieve advanced reasoning ability.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ruihong Qiu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Advancing Recommender Systems with Language Analytics
Investigate the usage of language models for modern recommendations in various online platforms.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ruihong Qiu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Quantum enabled cell imaging
Develop capabilities of our quantum microscopes and apply them to cutting-edge cellular analysis. A range of exciting topical areas are available, from imaging of the flow of information in neuronal networks, to understanding how bacteria respond to anti-biotics, and fingerprinting of cancer cells.
- Supervisor
- Professor Warwick Bowen and Dr Nicholas Mauranyapin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Engineering, Health sciences, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Quantum single molecule science
Develop quantum technologies to measure and laser-control protein motions, revealing how protein dynamics drive biological function while enabling new approaches to protein fingerprinting, proteomics, and biomedical sensing.
- Supervisor
- Professor Warwick Bowen and Dr Sam Scholten
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Engineering, Health sciences, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Biogeochemistry of hybrid nitrogen fertilisers in soil
Investigate hybrid N fertilisers, microbial necromass and soil C stabilisation using isotopes, metagenomics, and field experiments with UQ and DPI Queensland.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Paul Dennis and Dr Matthew Redding
- Location
- St Lucia, Toowoomba
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Environmental 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