The Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES) provides eligible students with the opportunity to participate in a research project. If you're interested in research and thinking of pursuing a research degree the scheme is an opportunity to see if research is right for you. Further information about the scheme is available on HiQ.
QUT offers a diverse range of student topics for VRES. Search to find a topic that interests you.
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Continual Learning Systems
AI that is pre-programmed is limited on its tasks and human bias. Learning systems offer richer behaviour, where collaborators and I have created the following that need developing (projects bulleted)A symbolic system that works in Boolean and Integer domains without noiseNeed to translate this to real-valued, noisy domains. Code exists, but the data sets do not and integration is still uncertain. Most intriguing is how future use can influence current learning, i.e. "will this be useful in the future?"A lateralized …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Robotics
Race and Representation: Black journalism
Utilising the work of Stuart Hall and proponents of Black journalism, particularly Dr Amy McQuire, this project will examine the regime of racial representation of Indigenous women. The work of key Black journalists will be highlighted with a view examining how racialised representations are contested through an effective politics of representatation.
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Communication
Memory Mosaics: A Meaningful Play project about collaborative memories and fragile stories
Memory Mosaics is one of the QUT Design Lab’s Meaningful Play projects (https://research.qut.edu.au/designlab/projects/meaningful-play/). Using participatory and co-design methodologies, we collaborate with researchers, centres, industry, and other stakeholders to reimagine possibilities for engagement with meaning and playfulness.Memory Mosaics is a project in the Meaningful Play suite. It is a gentle game for families, carers, and people with dementia. The design is based on a notion that memories are personal yet communal, often recalled most vividly through collaborative efforts.This project taps into …
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
Late Quaternary Environments of Southeast South Australia
This topic will focus on reconstructing past environments (+40,000 years) of the southeast South Australia (Mount Gambier) through palaeoecological analysis of wetland and cave sediments. This is supported by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (LP210200704 Deep Time Extinctions and Environments in Australian Underwater Caves).
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Future Enterprise
Studying the Phenomenon of 'Dark Political Communication'
Students will be directly affiliated with the Australian Research Council Discovery Project “Understanding and Combatting ‘Dark Political Communication’” (DP240103362). The project, led by QUT researchers, and including a team based at Deakin University in Melbourne, aims to better understand the rapidly-evolving, and increasingly sophisticated, tactics deployed by political actors to manipulate public attention and opinion.For this project, students will focus on coding and analysing data from a series of sources, including interviews, mainstream newspapers, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter/X. This work …
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Communication
- Research centre(s)
- Digital Media Research Centre
Profiling Aerosol Liquid Water Content over Australia
Aerosol liquid water content (ALWC) is a ubiquitous constituent in atmospheric aerosol particles. The degree of ALWC present in aerosol particles is influenced various factors, including relative humidity, temperature, particle mass, size distribution, and aerosol composition. Comprehensive analyses on ALWC have been conducted in the Northern Hemisphere, but similar work has rarely been done in the Southern Hemisphere due to the scarcity of aerosol particle measurements. In the atmosphere, ALWC scatters radiation and reduces visibility, significantly affecting air quality, weather, …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Rainbow reading: Reviewing queer young adult fiction for use in secondary English in Queensland
In Queensland, lists of texts prescribed for use in high school English are used in conjunction with other curriculum documents to shape the content of study in senior English subjects. Prescribed text lists contain varied representations of what counts as notable and important enough to be worthy of recommendation for use with young adult learners, and research suggests that LGBTIQ+ subjectivities are seldom represented in the current lists. Further research that involves teachers and students in appraising the benefits and …
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Justice
Spectral methods for partial differential equations on irregular domains
Spectral methods are among the most efficient methods for solving many important partial differential equations on regular domains (like a rectangle). However, when the problem domain is not a regular shape there are various ways in which the approach can be adapted, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. This project will explore a semi-novel approach that leads to a very elegant formulation, with ease-of-use for the end user being paramount.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Physics informed neural networks for medical imaging using diffusion MRI
Neural networks are a modern method for machines to learn informative mappings from input data to output data. Physics-informed neural networks supplement the traditional neural network architecture with structure or constraints derived from physical principles. This is known to greatly improve the rate and quality of learning when such physical knowledge is available. In the case of diffusion MRI, the physics knowledge comes in the form of model equations describing the physical process of diffusion. The objective of this project …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Water waves and signal analysis
The classic v-shaped wake pattern behind a ship (or duck) that is moving through the water is familiar to everyone. But did you know that information about the source of the disturbance is encoded in this wake? By sampling the wake at a single (or multiple) points over time, we can learn a lot about the vessel that created it. This project is concerned with deducing properties of vessels from their wakes by analysing the signal generated by sampling the …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Disciplinary Expertise in Accessible Assessment for Learning
CIESJ STEL Seed Grant: Disciplinary expertise in accessible Assessment for Learning
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Research centre(s)
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Centre for Inclusive Education
Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Anti-Racism
This VRES placement explores critical Indigenous Research Methodologies with particular focus on Rigney’s Indigenist Research Methodology. It advances an understanding of Indigenous research methodologies as integral to an anti-racist practice.
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Justice
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