Student topics

Materials play a crucial role in shaping people's perceptions, experiences, and emotional responses to the products they encounter. In automotive design, this significance is particularly pronounced within the interior cabin space, especially in the age of sustainability and electric vehicles (EVs).The materials utilised heavily influence how customers and users perceive the value, quality, and emotional aspects of their interactions. While numerous studies have examined the link between interior materials and traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, the advent of EVs …

Study level

PhD

Faculty

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

School

School of Design

Research centre(s)

Design Lab

Extreme weather events can exacerbate slope and dam stability issues. Risk mitigation, stabilisation works, and engineered solutions to slope or dam failure require detailed site and subsurface characterisation – generally undertaken after a failure, but often resulting in unacceptable delays to remediation, impacting communities, transport, and water resources.This project will develop pre-emptive risk mitigation measures for at-risk sites, utilising remote sensing, geophysical, and monitoring approaches.

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

QUT is involved in the science team for a recently Australian Space Agency-funded mission to Schrodinger crater, to deploy a Fleet Space seismometer. QUT is developing workflows to translate the seismic data into detailed subsurface models for site characterisation, off-world construction, and in-situ resource mapping of materials such as ice.

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Research centre(s)

Centre for Data Science

Decreasing water quality is negativtly impacting coral reefs globally and is a threat that can be actively managed.

Study level

Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Research centre(s)

Centre for the Environment

Coral reefs face cumulative threats from climate change to shipping and the concern is that this can cause reefs to transition from coral to rubble dominated states. The formation of coral rubble is a natural part of the reef cycle, however, too much rubble can decrease the resilience of reefs and prevent recovery. A number of coral rubble stabilisation methods are being utilised globally including Mars Assisted Reef Restoration System of hexagonal metal units that are deployed on reefs with …

Study level

Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Research centre(s)

Centre for the Environment

Cane sugar factories, while producing sugar and molasses, provide their own energy and power from the sugar cane biomass residue, are green house gas neutral and can export renewable electricity to the grid.  The performance of the milling train in extracting juice and dewatering the biomass bagasse residue are key components of the operation.  Understanding and modelling the process are seen as a way forward to improve the performance, for example by reducing the final bagasse moisture below the current levels.

Study level

PhD

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering

Research centre(s)

Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy

Pulse power shows great promise for many applications including air and water purification. Repetitive Pulse Power Generators (PPGs) generate medium frequency power pulses (few kW) with small duration (few us to few ns) and with repetition frequencies of a few hundred Hz to a few kHz (see DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2947632 for more info).The PPGs are constructed from series connected cells often in Marx generator like structures, but with active semiconductor switches such as MOSFETs in place of the traditional spark gaps …

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

The World Health Organisation recently raised the alarm on the critical importance of physical activity and social interactions for mental and physical health, highlighting the need for active environments that support people to engage in healthy activities. In order to address the high-rates of physical inactivity and social isolation, we need additional research evidence to design high-quality public spaces that promote health and wellbeing for all ages. This study lies at the intersection of built environment, human behaviour, and health …

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Architecture and Built Environment

Games have become an integral part of our lives, which is why they are increasingly being used for other purposes than pure entertainment, such as learning, training, informing, or advertising (Degirmenci, 2017). While gamification uses game elements in non-game contexts, serious games are full-fledged games, both aiming to create meaningful engagement and foster desired behaviours (Degirmenci, 2023; Degirmenci and Breitner, 2023).In this project, we investigate how gamification and serious games can help to encourage behavioural change in energy consumption to …

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Information Systems

Research centre(s)

Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology

A convergence of virtual reality (VR) and digital twin technologies can provide multifaceted benefits like digital learning processes, generating a collaborative ecosystem between technological and human assets (Martínez-Gutiérrez et al., 2023). When digital twins are adopted, they can provide sustainable energy solutions, such as energy efficiency optimisation or renewable energy integration (Coelho et al., 2024).In this project we investigate the adoption of digital twins and how this can drive the sustainable energy transition in VR environments from a cognitive computing …

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Information Systems

Research centre(s)

Centre for Data Science

First Nations people experience significant transport injustice. Access to safe and reliable transport is essential for community and cultural health. Further transport is often a vector for the overt policing and criminalisation of First Nations peoples. Projects that engage with transport justice for First Nations peoples from legal, social science or criminology perspectives are strongly encouraged.

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Law

Research centre(s)

Centre for Justice

As AI systems become increasingly prevalent in medical applications, the need for explainable AI (XAI) has become crucial. This research investigates the critical issue of explainability in medical artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This project investigates methods for improving the interpretability and transparency of AI models used in medical diagnosis, treatment planning, and prognosis prediction. Understanding the reasoning behind AI-driven decisions is essential for building trust among healthcare professionals and ensuring patient safety.

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy

Faculty

Faculty of Health

School

School of Public Health and Social Work