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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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Environmental and Social Governance Research Group

Climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction, extreme weather events, marine pollution and desertification are impacting on communities. The Ecological Justice Research Group will articulate and transform law and governance in ways that encourage and support human beings to live more sensitively and attentively in what is a more-than-human world.

Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology

The Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology group is a world-class multidisciplinary research team focused on embedding biofabrication into routine clinical use.

Thriving in Vertical Schools

Planning for the design and education of high density urban schools (ARC Linkage Project)

XR Screen Futures

QUT XR Screen Futures Hub is an exciting facility with cutting-edge digital capabilities for immersive digital screen and digital performance futures.

Stakeholder Engagement Research Group

Our researchers offer expertise in stakeholder engagement.

Medicinal Molecules and Materials Group

The Medicinal Molecules and Materials Group is a collaborative team of organic, medicinal and polymer chemists, looking to understand how precision chemistry can be used to solve clinical health problems. We create new synthetic strategies, design new functional molecules and materials, and develop structure-function relationships using in depth chemical characterisation and biological evaluation.

Law research

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Research news

17 Dec 2024

Surgeons hesitant to adopt medical innovations for bone defects

Two million bone transplants are performed worldwide yearly, including half a million in the United States alone. Yet, a QUT-led study has found surgeons are slow to adopt newly developed biomaterials or tissue-engineered solutions.

10 Dec 2024

QUT advertising educators get a gong in inaugural advertising educators awards

Two QUT advertising academics were recognised in the inaugural National Advertising Educators Awards at the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) conference.

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

10 Dec 2024

2024 Business and Law Recognition Program Winners Announced

The Faculty of Business and Law is thrilled to announce the recipients of its 2024 Faculty Recognition Program.

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.

31 Jul 2024

Picture-perfect day at our 2024 QUT Open Day

QUT opened its two beautiful campuses in inner Brisbane to thousands of people on July 28 for the university’s 2024 Open Day.

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