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Research strengths

Centre for Future Enterprise

Our research brings together world-leading academics with CEOs, founders, policy makers and industry leaders. We help current and future leaders to navigate a fast-emerging new world and to differentiate requirements from distracting noise.

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Australian Centre for Health Law

We are a group of transdisciplinary researchers who conduct innovative research at the intersection of law, health, ethics, and policy. We aim to generate new knowledge to inform reforms to law, policy and practice.

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Centre for Decent Work and Industry

We progress social change by critically examining the nexus of business, work, education and society.

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Our research groups and projects

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Institutional quality assurance of WIL

QUT has been a leader on a grant in partnership with RMIT University and the University of Sydney to develop a framework for institutional quality assurance of work integrated learning (WIL). This site provides a repository of resources which have been developed from this project, namely the framework itself, and for the ongoing inclusion of additional / support resources which will be developed post project.

Building Healthy Communities

Research that supports building resilient communities in Queensland that are healthy, innovative and diverse

Structural Engineering

Structural engineering

Australian ePortfolio Project

The project seeks to enhance the use of ePortfolios in Australian universities to benefit individual students, the quality of learning and the value of higher education outcomes, thereby contributing to the competiveness of Australian graduates in a global employment market.

Biofuel Engine Research Facility

Australia's largest biofuel production testing facility, specialising in engine performance testing and biofuels emissions testing.

Net Lenses

Using a phenomenographic approach, doctoral research (2000-2004) has revealed that university students have varying ways of experiencing web-based information searching.

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Law research

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Research news

13 Feb 2025

Made with Love: QUT researchers question how much shoppers care

Love might be in the air for Valentine’s Day, but QUT researchers have found not all consumers are smitten with handmade products at the point of purchase, especially if they like to shop at speed.

6 Feb 2025

We love luxury goods, as long as you don’t tell us they're sustainable

Marketers promoting circular luxury products should discard words like ‘recycled’, ‘sustainable’ and even ‘eco-friendly’, say QUT researchers who found consumers prefer a combination of ‘sustainable’ and ‘progress-focused’ action words when considering sustainable luxury buys.

9 Sep 2024

QUT project helps regional teens be ‘esports-able’

QUT will develop and host an inclusive esports program for regional Queensland high school students, with the support of a $1.19 million grant from the Australian Government.

Law research news

20 Feb 2025

2025 John Koowarta Reconciliation Law Scholarship recipient announced

Christine Conn, a 4th year Business and Law student at QUT and proud Wiradjuri woman, was awarded the 2025 John Koowarta Reconciliation Law Scholarship during the Law Council of Australia’s Gala Dinner late last year

18 Dec 2024

Magnificent seven: Meet our New Colombo Plan scholars for 2025

Seven QUT students have been awarded prestigious New Colombo Plan Scholarships by the Australian Government to study overseas in 2025 and do internships and language training in their host country.

27 Aug 2024

QUT experts - The Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, is one of the world's seven natural wonders, a UNESCO World Heritage Area, and can be seen from outer space.

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