Real Focus showcases world-changing research news, features and expert commentary.

QUT is a research-intensive university with international reach, based in Brisbane, Australia. We focus on research excellence with real-world impact relevant to our communities.

You'll find a regularly updated mix of stories and opinion pieces to evoke curiosity and stimulate your mind.

Discover how innovative minds are taking on some of the world's big challenges in science, technology, health, the environment, business, the arts and more.

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Articles may be republished in print or online under Creative Commons licence.

Republishing guidelines

Real Focus is an open-access website published by the university to showcase its research activities and real-world impact through stories, images and videos.

You can republish our articles online or in print for free under a Creative Commons — Attribution/No derivatives licence (CC BY-ND 4.0), provided you follow these guidelines.

For print and online

  • You can't edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. If you do wish to make material edits, contact the author or media@qut.edu.au for approval before publication.
  • You must credit the author/s and QUT, ideally in the byline. Include a link back to www.qut.edu.au/realfocus or the article URL in a sentence at the top of the article.
  • You can't sell our material separately, but it's OK to put our articles on pages with ads.
  • You must confirm you're licensed to republish images in our articles. Some images, such as those from commercial providers, don't allow their images to be republished without permission or payment. Copyright terms are generally listed in the image caption and attribution. You are welcome to omit our images or substitute with your own. Charts and interactive graphics follow the same rules.
  • You can't systematically republish all of our articles, nor frame the content of our site.

Special cases

  • You can run extracts by including the first few lines or paragraphs of the article and then say: “Read the full article on QUT Real Focus” with a link back to the article.
  • You can quote authors provided you include a link back to the article URL.
  • Translations are technically a derivative under our Creative Commons licence and so require author approval. Many authors will give approval in good faith.
  • Signed consent or copyright release forms are not required, providing you are following these guidelines.
  • Articles can be published in print under these same rules. We would appreciate it if you would send an image of the republished article to media@qut.edu.au so that we can share it with the author.
  • Videos are also covered by Creative Commons and the same attribution requirements apply.

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