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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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Developing a delivery mechanism for anti-methanogenic supplements in grazing livestock
Develop and evaluate a delivery mechanism for anti-methanogenic supplements in grazing beef cattle.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sarah Meale
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Practice change initiatives to improve the care of frail inpatients
Study the relationships between frailty and treatment outcomes, explore barriers to and enablers of integration of frailty information into clinical practice and help create resources for patients and carers.
- Supervisor
- Dr Kristiana Ludlow
- Location
- Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Bionic sensory insole technology for optimising sport performance and injury prevention in netball
Investigate the effects of bionic insole technology on neurophysiological factors and sport-specific skills in netball and understand the role of plantar sensory stimulation for enhanced athletic performance.
- Supervisor
- Dr Anna Hatton
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Crop improvement and drought tolerance: the roots of the solution
Overcome the field phenotyping bottleneck for impactful root traits that limit the capacity of breeders and agronomists to achieve step gains in crop productivity.
- Supervisor
- Dr Dongxue Zhao
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Developing National Infrastructure for Federated Learning in Digital Health - NINA
NINA addresses an urgent unmet need in chronic disease, requiring fresh approaches to research and health care. Federated Learning will facilitate data integration across organisations and geography.
- Supervisor
- Professor Clair Sullivan
- Location
- UQ Herston Campus
- Research areas
- Health sciences, Information and computing sciences
Digital Deterrence: Exploring innovative social media interventions to curtail youth vaping
Understand how pro-vaping content influences young people’s attitudes towards vaping and develop a social media intervention to support vaping cessation using mixed methods approach (quantitative and qualitative).
- Supervisor
- Dr Carmen Lim
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences, Psychology
Eliminating harm from devices across the life span in critical illness: The DEFENCE study.
Device-related pressure injuries (DRPI) are a constant threat when patient are critically ill. This project uses a hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation design to test an intervention to eliminate DRPI.
- Supervisor
- Professor Fiona Coyer
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Epigenetic regulation of learning and memory
Understand a novel molecular mechanism in neurons that underpins brain plasticity, particularly in learning and memory.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jocelyn Widagdo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Expanding the scramjet operating envelope through oxygen enrichment
Experimentally explore oxygen enriched scramjet performance in the T4 Shock Tunnel and map engine performance at high altitudes and Mach numbers.
- Supervisor
- Professor Vincent Wheatley
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Genetic and ecological bases of shoot branching divergence across Arabidopsis species-wide accessions
Dissect features of the genetic architecture of shoot branching and to reveal its relationships to environmental conditions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Yang Liu and Professor Mark Cooper
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences, Environmental sciences, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences