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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.

If you'd rather bring your own project, explore our scholarships (including top-up scholarships) and find a supervisor to support your project.

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First Nations perspectives: Curse and cure of deadly venoms

Engage with First Nations communities to discover and exchange Traditional Knowledge and management of envenomation.

Supervisor
Dr Jared Miles
Location
Dutton Park
Research areas
Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Indigenous studies, Language, communication and culture
First Nations perspectives: Curse and cure of deadly venoms

Co-developing solutions to address climate-driven loss and damage in the Pacific

Climate impacts are accelerating. Partner with Pacific communities to co-develop, implement, and evaluate locally grounded solutions to loss and damage, informing policy and practice.

Supervisor
Professor Karen McNamara
Location
St Lucia
Research areas
Human society, Indigenous studies
Co-developing solutions to address climate-driven loss and damage in the Pacific

Investigating training population designs to enhance genomic prediction accuracy

Using genotype and phenotype data for flowering and branching traits, measure for a large Arabidopsis Nested Association Mapping experiment. Opportunities to jointly optimise training population designs and genomic prediction models will be investigated for the potential to enhance within and between cross genomic prediction accuracy.

Supervisor
Professor Mark Cooper and Dr Pushpavalli Raju
Location
St Lucia
Research areas
Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences, Mathematical sciences
Investigating training population designs to enhance genomic prediction accuracy

Novel electronic interconnects for reliability under extreme thermal cycling

This project aims to design and characterise novel interconnect alloys capable of withstanding extreme temperature fluctuations, ensuring reliability for next-generation electronic applications.

Supervisor
Dr Xin Fu Tan and Professor Kazuhiro Nogita
Location
St Lucia
Research areas
Engineering
Novel electronic interconnects for reliability under extreme thermal cycling

CSIRO Industry PhD - Investigating the potential applications of biomass and waste gasification by-products in other industries

This project will investigate challenges and potentials of biomass and waste gasification by-products such as ash, slag, and biochar for alternative applications

Supervisor
Dr Jeff Chen
Location
CSIRO Pullenvale
Research areas
Chemical sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
CSIRO Industry PhD - Investigating the potential applications of biomass and waste gasification by-products in other industries

Improving selection decisions through weighted hybrid relationship matrices: simulation and real‑data evidence

Evaluate how different weighting schemes for hybrid pedigree–marker matrices affect genetic parameter estimation and prediction accuracy, using simulation and real plant‑breeding data.

Supervisor
Dr Vivi Arief Noviati and Dr Alan Huang
Location
St Lucia
Research areas
Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Mathematical sciences
Improving selection decisions through weighted hybrid relationship matrices: simulation and real‑data evidence

Atomic-scale scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for decarbonisation

This project deploys atomic-scale STM/AFM imaging and spectroscopy of MOFs to pinpoint binding sites and pathways relevant to decarbonisation.

Supervisor
Dr Peter Jacobson
Location
St Lucia
Research areas
Physical sciences
Atomic-scale scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for decarbonisation

Performance-based fatigue assessment of concrete bridges incorporating high-performance materials

Develop a performance‑based framework to assess fatigue damage and remaining life of concrete bridges by integrating fracture mechanics, numerical modelling and monitoring data, including UHPC and FRP systems.

Supervisor
Professor Rebecca Gravina and Dr Yanlin Wang
Location
St Lucia
Research areas
Engineering
Performance-based fatigue assessment of concrete bridges incorporating high-performance materials

Shared-volume antennas

Investigate novel design techniques for antennas sharing a single volume, either in multi-port 3D configurations or as planar shared apertures. Various decoupling or controlled coupling methods will be considered for implementation as single-element or in arrays. The project aims at future communications systems.

Supervisor
Professor Christophe Fumeaux and Dr Sasan Ahdi Rezaeieh
Location
St Lucia
Research areas
Engineering
Shared-volume antennas

On the Transferability of Machine Learning Models

Improve safety, transferability, and robustness in deep learning models.

Supervisor
Dr Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
Location
UQ St Lucia Campus
Research areas
Information and computing sciences
On the Transferability of Machine Learning Models