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Technoeconomic and Social Life Cycle Analysis of novel environmental technologies for decarbonization
Conduct a cost-benefit analysis of emerging technologies for decarbonisation, including electrochemical technologies, by taking into consideration the social, economic and environmental aspects of these technologies by applying the triple bottom line approach.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Simon Smart and Honorary Professor Saleem Ali
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Built environment and design, Chemical sciences, Earth sciences, Economics, Engineering, Environmental sciences, Human society, Physical sciences
Food and Beverage Accelerator - Training Centre PhD
UQ's Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) is a $160 million initiative aimed at boosting growth and innovation in the food and beverage manufacturing sector.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Nidhi Bansal
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Chemical sciences, Economics, Engineering
Business and democracy: Power, profit and participation
Explain how business influences democracy.
- Supervisor
- Professor Daniel Nyberg
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Commerce, management, tourism and services, Human society, Philosophy and religious studies
Big-data challenges in empirical asset pricing
Develop new frameworks to rigorously evaluate multiple hypothesis testing in asset pricing models, provide reliable price-of-risk estimates, and improve related decision-making.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Min Zhu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Commerce, management, tourism and services
Health Transformation in Rural Health Care
Focus on the application of health economic methods to understand the cost-effectiveness and benefits associated with innovative models of health service delivery in rural areas.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Srinivas Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan
- Location
- Rural Clinical School
- Research areas
- Economics, Health sciences
Paris-compliance: assessing companies and portfolios using data science
Turn the tide on misleading corporate climate pledges and systematise the assessment of companies' climate performance using a science-based approach.
- Supervisor
- Dr Saphira Rekker
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Commerce, management, tourism and services, Environmental sciences, Information and computing sciences
Privacy, Data Protection and Competition Policy
Microeconomic analysis of incentives to provide data protection and privacy in the digital economy.
- Supervisor
- Dr Heiko Gerlach
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Economics
Understanding and controlling Australia's illicit tobacco market
Develop new regulatory options for tobacco to minimise the legal market while avoiding the adverse societal and economic impacts of transferring consumer demand to illegal tobacco products.
- Supervisor
- Professor Coral Gartner
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Economics, Health sciences, Law and legal studies, Psychology