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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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New metrics to measure and track bird community condition in Australia
Develop new indicators of the health of Australian bird communities, and metrics to measure the health of the communities, and track how they are trending through time.
- Supervisor
- Professor Martine Maron
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences
Optimising medicine information handover after discharge (OPTMED-D)
Improve patient outcomes and reduce avoidable medication-related hospital readmissions by optimising medicine information handover during transition of care through a randomised controlled trial.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Laetitia Hattingh
- Location
- Woolloongabba
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Soil pathogen management in allium vegetable production on tropical upland acidic soils
Improve understanding of soil pathogen complexes and develop strategies to reduce the impact on crop yields.
- Supervisor
- Dr Stephen Harper
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics
Explores microbial genomes for novel chemical diversity, in particular antibiotics. This is achieved through genome mining and metabolomics to find more effective antimicrobial agents.
- Supervisor
- Dr Zeinab Khalil
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Understanding how blood vessels in the brain are formed
Use biochemistry and structural biology to understand how the brain takes up dietary choline from the blood, and uses it to drive blood vessel growth.
- Supervisor
- Dr Rosemary Cater
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences
Unpacking lived experience of time in the digital world
Work on a project about the temporal dynamics of digital experiences in Asia or elsewhere, using media and cultural studies approaches.
- Supervisor
- Dr Giang Nguyen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Language, communication and culture
Why certain viruses don't get along in mosquitoes: Dissecting the mechanism of superinfection exclusion
Reveal how insect-specific flaviviruses prevent mosquitoes from transmitting diseases. It will dissect the intricate mechanisms of virus-mosquito interactions using state-of-the-art methods.
- Supervisor
- Dr Andrii Slonchak
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
3D Shock Boundary Layer Over a Heated Plate
Undertake research examining the interaction region between two crossing shocks (induced by fin like wedges) over the hypersonic boundary layer on a flat plate model.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Anand Veeraragavan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Autonomous insect-machine hybrid robots
Develop new hardware and stimulation protocols that enable cyborg insects to autonomously perform exploration tasks in complex environments such as those found in disaster scenarios.
- Supervisor
- Dr T. Thang Vo and Professor Ross McAree
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering, Physical sciences
Characterization of blood-brain barrier nutrient transporters
Use structural biology and biochemistry to understand how transporters at the blood-brain barrier allow for selective entry of molecules into the brain.
- Supervisor
- Dr Rosemary Cater and Dr Anne Lagendijk
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences