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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.
If you'd rather bring your own project, explore our scholarships (including top-up scholarships) and find a supervisor to support your project.
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
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
Behind the screens: Interrogating digital service design and delivery
This project aims to investigate how policy-makers in Australia understand digital service delivery, and how this understanding shapes the design and implementation of ethical and effective digital services.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sarah Ball
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society
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
Evaluating clinical AI in real-time
Support the real-time evaluation of clinical AI systems so that they are fit for purpose for use in clinical practice.
- Supervisor
- Professor Clair Sullivan
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
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
Low-cost and efficient perovskite indoor photovoltaics for wireless Internet-of-Things devices
Address the key challenge of developing efficient and low-cost power supply for indoor Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices by directly harvesting and converting ambient indoor light energy.
- Supervisor
- Dr Miaoqiang Lyu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering, Physical sciences
Micro- and nanoplastics in drinking water: tracking sources, fate, and removal
Investigate micro- and nanoplastics (<10 µm) in drinking water, their sources, and removal, and evaluate filtration systems to improve water safety and inform policy.
- Supervisor
- Dr Elvis Okoffo
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Environmental sciences
Minerals security for food security: mapping ASM-based agricultural mineral supply chains
First global study linking mineral and food security, exploring how local agromineral supply chains from ASM can reduce fertiliser gaps, improve food security, and support self-sufficiency in poor regions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Fitsum Semere Weldegiorgis
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Earth sciences, Economics, Environmental sciences, Human society