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Respect and cultural difference in maternity care
This an ARC-funded anthropology project exploring women’s birth experiences in Fiji. You will investigates principles, practices and experiences of maternity care through ethnographic research.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Jenny Munro
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society
Rest and relief: understanding and improving sleep and pain in children with cerebral palsy
Explore the link between pain and sleep in children with cerebral palsy, and develop practical, evidence-based interventions to reduce pain, improve sleep quality, support daily functioning and wellbeing.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Jasneek Chawla
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Value-added sustainable manufacturing of composite bipolar plates for redox flow batteries
Develop composite bipolar plates for redox flow batteries, a critical component in renewable energy storage systems.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Bin Luo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Amplifying Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Western science with language
This research program sits at the intersection of First Nations language and ecology. Please propose projects aligned with linguistic description, computational biology, pedagogy, or creative arts.
- Supervisor
- Professor Felicity Meakins
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences, Indigenous studies, Language, communication and culture
Australian festival ecosystems
Interrogate the role of festivals in cultural ecosystems using digital humanities approaches to explore trends within festival data held within cultural databases such as AusStage and AustLit.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sarah Thomasson
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Creative arts and writing
AVERT-CP Very Early Rehabilitation for young children with cerebral palsy
Co-design and pilot test a multi-modal very early intervention for infants at high chance of cerebral palsy, starting in the first months of life.
- Supervisor
- Professor Roslyn Boyd, Dr Carly Luke and Dr Kath Benfer
- Location
- South Brisbane
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Cell villages to uncover and target genetic drivers of ALS/MND
Combine population-scale genetics, machine learning and patient-derived "stem cell villages" to identify new genetic drivers of motor neurone disease and test antisense therapies that reverse them.
- Supervisor
- Professor Nathan Palpant and Dr Drew Neavin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Investigating genetic drivers of chemical resistance in cattle ticks
ARC-funded project to investigate genetic drivers of chemical resistance in ticks. This project will identify molecular mechanisms and develop more effective and sustainable control strategies.
- Supervisor
- Dr Hannah Siddle
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Learning-based control strategies for personalised and socially aware automated vehicles
Develop learning-based control methods for automated vehicles that tailor driving behaviour to passengers while remaining safe and considerate in mixed human-AV traffic.
- Supervisor
- Dr Weiming Zhao
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Lifestyle, decision-making, and behaviour: econometric analysis and experiments using wearable and online chess data
Study how sleep, exercise, diet and environment affect cognitive performance and behaviour using wearable and online chess data, applied econometrics, behavioural economics and experiments.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor David Smerdon
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Economics