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Our centres

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

We integrate research into child health, education, and digital and social connectedness. Our vision is for Australian children to be healthy, educated and connected in a digital world.

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Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC)

We provide a stimulating and supportive research training environment, where research students from around Australia and the world work alongside senior researchers to address emerging challenges and help solve practical problems.

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QUT Centre for Justice

Our vision is to democratise justice by improving opportunities for health and well-being and enhancing the inclusiveness of work and education while widening access to justice.

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QUT Design Lab

As our world gets increasingly complex, volatile and uncertain, we need ideas, innovative collaborations and imagination – the ability to reshape what is and conceive, create, and design things that don’t yet exist.

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Centre for Inclusive Education

The Centre for Inclusive Education (C4IE) at QUT contributes to genuine inclusive education by conducting high-quality research.

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

We are a cross-disciplinary, national research centre which aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making.

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Research groups

XR Screen Futures

We bring together cutting-edge digital capabilities, technology and research for immersive digital screen and digital performance futures.

Group leader: Professor Damian Candusso

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More than Human Futures (MTHF)

We lead a proactive, creative response to the unfolding planetary ecocide.

Group leader: Associate Professor Jen Seevinck

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Centre for Child and Family Studies

We offer research and consulting services to government, industry and community partners to understand and address real-world issues affecting children and families.

Group leader: Associate Professor Maryanne Theobald

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Teachers and Teaching Research Group (TTRG)

We address the multitude of issues related to teachers' work with our research.

Group leader: Professor Martin Mills

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TextileR

Our focus is on solving critical sustainability issues faced by the textile and fashion industries globally.

Group leader: Associate Professor Tiziana Ferrero-Regis
Co-leaders: Ms Kathleen Horton and Dr Madeline Taylor

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STEM Education Research Group

We seek to invigorate and build and sustain strategic relationships that improve Australia's STEM education.

Group leader: Associate Professor Bronwyn Ewing

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Education Policy and Evaluation Lab (EPEL)

Group leader: Dr Anna Hogan

Digital Learning for Change (DL4C)

We connect researchers, developers, designers, industry, teachers and learners so that they can co-design, implement and use research about digital learning.

Group leader: Associate Professor Kate Thompson

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Our research 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.

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.

Private Literacy Tutoring

A sociology of shadow education

Strengthening Student Assessment

This site has links to resources and professional development materials that are designed to support teachers and schools as they strengthen the links between their assessment systems and student learning.

ABLES Research Hub

There is a growing need to support the teaching of students with disabilities and additional learning needs. This site provides teachers with access to Abilities Based Learning and Educational Support tools.

Preventing Gender Violence

This site shares the research outcomes of a world first study into how women’s police stations in Argentina respond to and prevent gender violence.

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Be a part of a more progressive, collaborative approach to research and contribute to your field, progress into academia or grow your career.

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Work with our students

Research student internships bring a fresh perspective, new skills and innovative approaches to your workplace.

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Research news

18 Jun 2024

GenAI ‘moment’ sets new course for digital communication and media scholars

AI, streaming services, disinformation on social media and the changing media landscape are topics being addressed by members of QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at the Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference this week.

23 May 2024

Australian TV drama on the ropes: QUT study

Australian television drama hours have dropped 55 per cent since their early 2000s peak and the drama that is made is letting down the community thanks to inadequate government policies says a new report from QUT.

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