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We offer a diverse range of postgraduate research projects that come with living stipend scholarships.
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.
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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
Identify the mechanochemistry of chromium steel grinding media
Investigate the chemical reactions triggered by the impact and abrasion of chromium steel grinding media and the subsequent modification of solid surface properties.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mingxing Zhang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Identifying the drivers of environmental dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in urban water ecosystems
Assess universal indicators for emerging pollutants to spread antimicrobial resistance, and investigate the in-situ impacts of emerging pollutants on the dissemination of antibiotic resistance in ecosystems.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ji Lu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Improving control options for leucaena
Improve control options on coal mines and land used for other uses.
- Supervisor
- Dr Shane Campbell
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Improving services for people with aphasia through development of an implementation toolkit
Develop and evaluate components of an implementation toolkit to improve speech pathology provision of evidence-based aphasia services.
- Supervisor
- Dr Kirstine Shrubsole
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Mapping the psychology of accent-based discrimination
Accentism is common, but our understanding of why people discriminate against certain accents is limited. The project will examine conditions under which accentism is most pronounced, and develop interventions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Kana Imuta
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Psychology
Mechanisms and functions of reasoning about possibilities
Establish how people imagine and reason about alternative possibilities, and examine how this process aids decision-making.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jonathan Redshaw
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Psychology
Microbial Ecology of Extreme Tailings Environment
Discover extremophiles sourced from tailings and study their genetic makeup and metabolic pathways to unlock their potential for environmental bioremediation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jing Zhao
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences
Microbiota-immune interactions during the development of type 1 diabetes
Investigate how the gut microbiota influences mucosal and immune homeostasis, and the underlying molecular mediators of this interaction during development of type 1 diabetes.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Emma Hamilton-Williams
- Location
- Dutton Park Campus
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Multimodal Representation Learning for Responsive Video-sharing Services
Design novel algorithms to effectively predict and leverage changes, optimise the value of changes, and extract insights from changes for downstream applications of video-sharing platforms.
- Supervisor
- Professor Helen Huang
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences