Vacation Research Experience Scheme student topics

Acute wounds, including surgical wounds, such as orthopaedic wounds, account for about 40% of the total wounds. Generally, acute wounds are expected to progress through the normal sequential stages to achieve healing within a timely manner. However, the progression of wound healing in acute wounds is often affected by multiple factors, causing delayed healing. Infection is a leading contributor to delayed wound healing and prolonged hospitalisation in patients with wound/s. Surgical site infections (SSIs); classified as superficial wound infections, deep …

Faculty

Faculty of Health

School

School of Nursing

Research centre(s)

Centre for Healthcare Transformation

This project is related to industry projects for exotic mushroom production and bioactive extracts from avocado and chillie tissues.

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Biology and Environmental Science

Research centre(s)

Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy

This sub-project aims to publish on the feasibility and technical implementation for EEG acquisitions in the emergency prehospital setting during the management of patients with a traumatic brain injury. This sub-project will be attached to the current EEG in Traumatic Brain Injury (EnTRAIN) study recruiting participants within the Brisbane region in partnership with the Queensland ambulance service and funded by the Emergency Medicine Foundation.Traumatic Brain injury causes significant morbidity and mortality. The primary insult can only be prevented through strategies …

Faculty

Faculty of Health

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School of Clinical Sciences

Erstwhile is an interdisciplinary research project led by creative practice. It focusses on writing songs about places and recording them in those places, exploring the connection between site, sound and song. It explores the influence of unusual antique spaces on composition, playing and recording, and how accounts of how the music was made may frame the music for the listener. Songs written about particular places will be recorded onsite (as audio/video) in that same space, by two award-winning songwriter/musicians (Dr …

Faculty

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

School

School of Creative Arts

The topic, "Exploring the Role and Challenges of Pharmacists in Providing Comprehensive Healthcare Services at Australian Airport Pharmacies," is an interdisciplinary project that intersects pharmacy, public health, and travel medicine. The project aims to explore how pharmacists operate within the unique environment of airport pharmacies to address the health and medication needs of Australian travelers.The study seeks to understand and enhance the healthcare services provided by pharmacists in airport settings, taking into account the specific challenges and opportunities they encounter.

Faculty

Faculty of Health

School

School of Clinical Sciences

News shapes our perception of social reality and is a crucial piece in understanding the problem of political or social polarisation. The way stories are told in the news impacts our lived realities. News reporting can be partisan; indeed, it can be a driver of social polarisation. This project contributes to defining, conceptualising, and measuring polarisation within news content. Using media coverage of two issues (the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, climate change), students will be involved in applying …

Faculty

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

School

School of Communication

Research centre(s)

Digital Media Research Centre

Ecosystem networks in nature, in which all species coexist, are often simulated using generalised Lotka-Volterra (GLV) equations. The equilibria of GLV are readily calculated using linear algebra, but for large networks, this set of equations suffers from difficulty in sampling parameter values that yield coexisting species. Such theoretical work has contributed to the ecological "diversity-stability debate" which questions why large ecosystem networks can easily exist in nature?A recently proposed model published in Science, the "sublinear model", suggests that this debate …

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Mathematical Sciences

Research centre(s)

Centre for Data Science
Centre for the Environment

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are automating service delivery in many sectors. Businesses have shown interest in using these technologies for delivering complex services in a way that meet the unique needs of customers. The technology gained more popularity particularly during Covid-19 outbreak, as it helped organisations to become more efficient in service delivery and increased service availability for customers / service applicants. However, gaining managers’ and users’ trust in these systems has always been a significant challenge. Particularly, managers and …

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Information Systems

This project will examine the relationship between endocannabinoids and stress hormones in blood, saliva, and hair samples.  This project is interdisciplinary and will support eligible students to gain knowledge and experience working in a laboratory environment as well as working with data relating to human psychology.

Faculty

Faculty of Health

School

School of Psychology and Counselling

TikTok is a highly personalised media platform where all user experiences are unique. However, while this is the case, in this project you will be using an innovative approach to establish a common "baseline" of the content that TikTok presents to its Australian audiences. The project combines communication studies and computer science and we are interested in students both with and without skills in data analytics.

Faculty

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

School

School of Communication

Research centre(s)

Digital Media Research Centre

Mass events such as concerts and sporting gatherings provide numerous social, economic, and cultural benefits to communities. While such events bring people together for entertainment and community engagement, they also present unique challenges related to security and safety. The purpose of this project is to explore the current state of knowledge about victimisation, safety and fear of crime at mass events. This project seeks to bring together knowledge from criminology, psychology, tourism and sports management. Findings of the scoping review …

Faculty

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

School

School of Justice

Research centre(s)

Centre for Justice

Parkinson’s disease is the fastest growing neurological disorder globally, for which there are currently no effective treatments. Our group is focused on identifying and validating novel therapeutic targets to slow progressive neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s and other brain diseases. Neurodegenerative disease exhibits the presence of Lewy bodies in the cerebral cortex, which are composed of α-synuclein (αSYN) or Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, as well as hyperphosphorylated tau (P-tau) tangles in various forms of dementia. The exact pathological mechanisms underlying this disease are …

Faculty

Faculty of Health

School

School of Biomedical Sciences