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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Understanding and Modelling Financial Literacy and Behaviour Among Young Adults
Suboptimal financial decision-making is associated with low life satisfaction and poor physical and psychological health. This research aims to gain an understanding of how engagement with personal finances and financial literacy are related to young adults’ financial behaviours. This project is funded by the Financial Planning Education Council and can span personal finance, behavioural psychology, and statistical data science.
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Accountancy
Programming polymers
Radical polymerisations play a key role in both commercial and fundamental research with it being in 45% of international polymer production at 100 million tons per year.However, radical polymerizations still suffer from synthetic drawbacks like all-carbon polymer backbones, which largely prevent their (bio)degradability.In this project, we will develop novel polymers which can be programmed towards a controlled degradability. Towards this goal, you will develop a polymerization technique that allows to incorporate small natural building blocks (i.e. peptides) or photodegradable units …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Chemistry and Physics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Materials Science
Design, Use and Trust in Space Related Citizen Science Projects
This research focuses on the design and/or development of a collaborative knowledge network platform that integrates Information Technology and design in the fields of Biology and Aerospace Engineering. The aim is to create an innovative system for managing and visualising data related to the viability of various biological species in extraterrestrial environments. The project will utilise a design science approach to prototype solutions that enhance scientific understanding and educational engagement in collaborative innovation challenges and citizen science initiatives.This project is …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
Data-driven and process-aware workforce analytics
odern information systems in today’s organisations record massive amount of event log data capturing the execution of day-to-day core processes within and across organisations. Mining these event log data to drive process analytics and knowledge discovery is known as process mining. To date various process mining techniques have been developed to help extract insights about the actual processes with the ultimate goal to organisations' workforce capability and capacity building.As an important sub-field of process mining, organisational mining focuses on discovering …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Mettle Forge: Building Resilience Through Play
This project will explore literature around grit, mastery, resilience, and anti-fragility, and seek to link these constructs to player experience phenomena.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
Explainable AI-enabled Predictive Analytics
Modern predictive analytics underpinned by AI-enabled learning (such as machine learning, deep learning) techniques has become a key enabler to the automation of data-driven decision making. In the context of process monitoring and forecast, predictive analytics has been applied to making predictions about the future state of a running process instance - for example, which task will be carried out next, when and who will perform the task, when will an ongoing process instance complete, what will be the outcome …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Player Perspectives: Topic Trends in Steam Reviews
This research project will apply topic modelling techniques to analyse player-written reviews on the digital distribution platform Steam. Through this analysis, we hope to identify player experience phenomenon associated with mental health disclosures.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
Building Interactive Data Visualization for Process-Aware Workforce Analytics
Process mining is a field that researches the development of data science methods to address key challenges in organizational management. Recent literature demonstrates the enormous potential of process mining to support workforce analytics (aka HR analytics) in a business process context. A key enabler is the systematic use of interactive data visualization, which offers a guided way to navigate and extract workforce-related insights from event data --- a form of multidimensional, timeseries data recording the reality of business process execution.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Modelling of porous biomass dewatering
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 mechanical and permeability flow processes are seen as a way forward to improve the performance, for example by reducing the final bagasse …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy
Validation of a novel 3D scanner and pressure sensor for podiatry applications
The Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology (BTM) research group, within QUT's Centre for Biomedical Technologies, is developing new technologies to detect and monitor foot disease. Advanced manufacturing, coupled with 3D scanning, 3D printing, and pressure sensing technologies, is enabling the development of new approaches to managing foot disease, offering better outcomes for patients, while reducing costs.In a collaboration with industry partners iOrthotics and Healthia we have developed a custom 3D scanner for podiatry. In this project, you will work with our …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Lithium Battery Safety and Testing - A Hot Topic
The very same thing that makes lithium batteries (LIBs) so attractive in modern society - the amount of energy they can store in a neat small package - can also make them dangerous. This creates a huge demand for understanding their safe use across their increasingly wide range of applications; from small things in your pocket, to big things parked underneath an apartment complex. Making batteries safer requires an understanding of how they fail. We can achieve this through deliberately …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Chemistry and Physics
Examination of 50 Cents Fare Trial in Brisbane on Public Transport Ridership
Australia is facing an unprecedented challenge in guiding travel demand so that the society is not overwhelmed with more road, traffic and the associated health burdens. The mobility culture of Australia is dominated by private car accounting for more than 80% of the trip share. Rapid growth in urbanization and higher motorized travel activities in Australis has brought increased safety, efficiency and environmental concerns. Australian commuters spend almost an hour per day on road resulting in a 23% rise of …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology
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