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We offer a diverse range of postgraduate research projects that come with living stipend scholarships.
Scholarship-funded research projects
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Early blood transfusion to prevent cardiovascular deterioration in preterm piglets
Establish a pre-clinical model to test the efficacy and safety of early transfusion for preventing hypovolemia and maintaining oxygen supply to the preterm brain.
- Supervisor
- Dr Yvonne Eiby
- Location
- UQ Herston Campus
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Effective virus management in grain crops
Investigate the effectiveness of RNAi-based biopesticide as novel viricidal applications to Australian grains industries a potential control strategy for BYDV and TuYV.
- Supervisor
- Dr Karl Robinson
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Eliminating post-processing by designing new titanium alloys for 3D printed medical devices
Understand how micro-alloying affects the properties of Ti-6Al-4V 3D printed medical devices. This is an industry project in partnership with a multinational medical device manufacturer.
- Supervisor
- Dr Michael Bermingham
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Exploring genetic improvement of lodging resistance in Australian rice
Target genetic improvement of lodging resistance in high-yielding Australian rice by exploiting advances in genetics, bioinformatics and crop physiology.
- Supervisor
- Dr Wenliu Gong
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Exploring the triggers of volcanism and mineralisation in subduction zones
This project will use in situ geochemical data from erupted crystals and melts to uncover how magmatic processes lead to copper mineralisation and explosive volcanic eruptions in arc volcanoes.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Teresa Ubide
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Earth sciences
Formation mechanism of reacted magnesium diboride superconducting splices for next generation MRI in persistent mode
This project will fabricate reacted superconducting wires and use them to manufacture splices for persistent current switch to be used in modern MRI system. Splice interface should be investigated in depth.
- Supervisor
- Professor Yusuke Yamauchi
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Foundations of a good egg: correctly transitioning from mitosis to meiosis
Study how germ cells (precursors of sperm and eggs) halt the standard form of cell division, called mitosis, and initiate meiotic division instead with our reproductive developmental biology project.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Josephine Bowles
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Gender inequality over the life course: How do we understand and reduce gender inequality in Australia
Examine gender inequality in Australia.
- Supervisor
- Professor Janeen Baxter
- Location
- Long Pocket
- Research areas
- Human society
Genetics of sensory nutrition – using genetics to understand how taste and olfactory perception influences eating behaviour and health
Develop and apply statistical methods to large-scale genetically informative data to understand the causal relationships between sensory perception, food preference and consumption, and diseases.
- Supervisor
- Dr Daniel Hwang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
Geometric flows with symmetries
You will study the long-time behaviour of Ricci flows on cohomogeneity-one manifolds with nilpotent symmetry.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ramiro Lafuente
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Mathematical sciences