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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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Seeing the Unseen: Imaging Bacterial Infections
Develop radiolabeled imaging agents to detect and monitor bacterial infections using positron emission tomography (PET), assessing their effectiveness in mouse models of infection.
- Supervisor
- Dr Rhia Stone
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Speckle-tracking echocardiography for critical care and cardiac injury
Investigate the application of speckle-tracking echocardiography in assessing cardiac injury and failure in critical care setting.
- Supervisor
- Professor John Fraser
- Location
- Prince Charles Hospital
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Supporting the wellbeing of First Nations youth in Out Of Home Care (OOHC)
Apply a strengths-based approach to co-design culturally-grounded programs to support and improve the wellbeing of First Nations Australian young people in OOHC.
- Supervisor
- Professor Gail Garvey
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
The diversity and fate of organic molecules protected by amorphous phase of minerals in tailing-soils during soil-formation
Understand the diversity and fate of organic molecules associated with minerals in developing tailing-soils.
- Supervisor
- Professor Longbin Huang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Earth sciences, Environmental sciences
Transition from Primary to Secondary School: Supporting Successful Education Pathways of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students
Understand why First Nations students see a steep drop in school outcomes as they transition into secondary schooling. The aim is to develop culturally embedded strategies to support students.
- Supervisor
- Dr Azhar Hussain Potia
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Education, Indigenous studies
Translating RNAi technology for virus and whitefly management in protected cropping systems
Investigate the effectiveness of RNA-based biopesticides as a potential control strategy for viruses and insects of importance to protected cropping production systems.
- Supervisor
- Dr Karl Robinson
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Unclouding the future: Igniting change with an AI-powered social media campaign against youth vaping
Leverage AI to co-design a personalised social media campaign with young people to combat the rise of vaping and test its effectiveness in a randomized controlled trial.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Janni Leung
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences, Psychology
Understanding pathomechanisms in Alzheimer's disease
Combine super-resolution imaging techniques and animal experimentation to uncover the pathomechanisms underlying the loss of neuronal connectivity and cell death in Alzheimer's disease.
- Supervisor
- Dr Pranesh Padmanabhan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Understanding vaping and smoking in Australia and abroad
Explore and understand the factors that drive young people to smoke and use nicotine vaping products.
- Supervisor
- Dr Daniel Stjepanovic
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences, Psychology
Unravelling how epithelial tissues detect and respond to cell death and injury
You will investigate how cells use mechanical communication to identify injury and preserve epithelial health and integrity.
- Supervisor
- Professor Professor Alpha Yap
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences