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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Convergence of virtual reality (VR) and digital twin technologies to enhance energy resilience
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 …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
Building with Biomass
This project is part of the recently established global interdisciplinary network “Building with Blue Biomass” that enables collaborations between leading experts from Academia and Industry in Australia, Denmark, and the UK. The network connects Australian Researchers and designers from QUT and UQ to Danish partners: Royal Danish Academy (RDA), Technical University of Denmark (DTU), 3XN/GXN; UK Partners: University College of London (UCL), and international partner Arup. The network shares local insights and solutions between countries rich in regenerative blue biomass …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Architecture and Built Environment
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Centre for a Waste-Free World
Trust in Artificial Intelligence
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 …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
PSYC01 Biological basis of experimentally induced fear and intrusive memories in humans
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.
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Psychology and Counselling
What TikTok recommends to Australian audiences
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.
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Communication
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- Digital Media Research Centre
Victimisation, Safety, and Mass Events
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 …
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Justice
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- Centre for Justice
BIOM08 Validating novel therapeutic targets for neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease
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 …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
BIOM03 Discovery and validation of new treatments for Motor Neuron Disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also called Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is a devastating and fatal neurodegenerative disorder for which there are currently no effective treatments to slow or stop disease progression after diagnosis. The prevalence of ALS is increasing rapidly in Australia and this takes an enormous socioeconomic toll on people diagnosed with the disease and their families. Thus there is urgent unmet medical need to discover and validate new treatments for ALS that can slow or prevent loss of …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
The Impact of Virtual Environments and Body Posture on Relaxation in Virtual Reality
This interdisciplinary project explores the psychological and physiological impacts of various virtual environments and body postures on relaxation, utilizing principles from psychology, human-computer interaction, and kinesiology.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
Supported decision-making in health care – healthcare providers as supporters?
One of the most important movements in international disability law is the move towards ‘supported decision-making’. With supported decision-making, people with cognitive disabilities are given support to make their own decisions or actively participate in decision-making, rather than decisions being made on their behalf. Historically, the default has been someone else with legal authority making a ‘substitute decision’ in a person’s ‘best interests’; little was done to maximise a person with a cognitive disability’s autonomy.Decision-making supporters would usually be taken …
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Advancing Precision Control in Atomic Force Microscopy
This project offers students an immersive experience in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), a high-resolution imaging technique used in nanotechnology, materials science, and biology to visualise surfaces at the atomic and molecular levels.You will focus on enhancing precision control techniques through the instrumentation of an 800×800 µm XY positioning table. This table comprises two piezoelectric actuators responsible for precisely moving a sample under the microscope. The actuators must undergo comprehensive characterisation, including frequency response analysis and model identification, to establish a …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
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- Centre for Robotics
Decentralised computation on the electricity grid
Distributed energy resources are growing quickly on the electricity grid, yet the current management architecture for the grid is centralised, potentially creating scalability, security, and privacy challenges. This project will explore the tradeoffs involved in decentralising management of the electricity grid.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
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