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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Sampling large ecosystem network structures using ODEs and linear algebra: mathematically exploring the ecological "diversity-stability debate"
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 …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
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- Centre for Data Science
Centre for the Environment
Understanding psychosocial factors for addressing mental health concerns in the construction industry
Construction workers are at an increased risk of suicide and experience higher rates of poor psychological health. This research investigates the many psychosocial factors that can contribute to worker psychological (and general) wellbeing. This includes social support, social capital, personal networks, work-related conditions, and work-life-balance. Managing the psychosocial wellbeing of workers is as critical to addressing physical risks associated with construction work.
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Management
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Improving safety behaviours for respirable crystalline silica in construction work
Respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is a major health and safety concern, particularly in construction work processes. This project is aimed at understanding worker risk perceptions, attitudes, and safety behaviours towards the control measures used in workplaces to help minimise risk related to RCS. The overall intention of the project is to help ensure effective compliance is maintained when managing RCS in the workplace and to prevent silicosis in workers.
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Management
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Literature review on including sustainability in property valuation
Sustainability principles have been around for a while, but it has been included in property valuation as mandatory features. The increase of interest on including sustainability in property valuation. In the future, the inclusion of sustainability features will be compulsory features in the valuation reports.
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Economics and Finance
A changing chorus for urban bushland: an ecoacoustic examination of the effects of urbanisation and restoration on birds.
Increasing urban expansion in south-east QLD is resulting in wide-scale habitat loss and fragmentation, and this can lead to loss of biodiversity. Previous research has shown that bird assemblages may change in composition as a result of urbanisation leading to a dominance of urban tolerant and exploitive species. In this project, those species most at risk - urban sensitive bird species - will be examined in urban remnant and restored patches using existing acoustic recordings.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science
Yesterday's Future, Today: Regulation of AI through the lens of the Cultural Imaginary of AI.
Most jurisdictions are proposing or enacting AI laws and regulation. In doing so there is a sense of the possibly benefits and dangers of AI. This has often involved a speculation about what AI might become or how it might be developed to be deployed in specific contexts. Informing this speculative project is the cultural imaginary of AI, the collective narratives, tropes and memes that circulate in popular culture about artificial entities. This project involves a connecting between the AI …
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Justice
Precision fermentation for microbial oils
This project is part of a large interdisciplinary effort to convert low-value agricultural residues into high value bioproducts, in particular converting waste from the sugar industry into edible oils.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science
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- Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy
Novel physics in one-dimensional nanostructures
Low-dimensional systems are materials where particle motion is constrained in one or more directions - for example, bismuth nanolines on Si(001), which are two atoms wide but can extend microns in length. Due to quantum confinement effects and reduced dimensionality, these types of systems can exhibit novel behaviour not observed in bulk systems. In the case of bismuth nanolines, recent theoretical work has predicted that they should host a one-dimensional topological phase as well as tuneable soliton states. The combination …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Chemistry and Physics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Materials Science
Detecting the threatened Julia Creek dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) using alternative techniques such as remote camera trapping and Eastern Barn Owl (Tyto delicatula) dietary pellets.
The Julia Creek Dunnart, Sminthopsis douglasi, is a species of small, carnivorous marsupial believed to be restricted to north-west Queensland, where it inhabits tussock grasslands on cracking clay soils. The species is threatened and listed as Vulnerable under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and Endangered under the Queensland state Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NC Act).In the past, S. douglasi has been successfully detected using live capture (Elliott) traps. While this traditional detection technique is …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science
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Centre for the Environment
BIOM09 Studying the small proteins of the global microbiome
As part of an ARC Future Fellowship project awarded to Luis Pedro Coelho, we aim to study small proteins with the aim of better understanding them and laying the groundwork for exploiting them for biotechnological purposes. Small proteins (up to 100 amino acids, but often much shorter) have vital roles in all areas of life, but have been neglected in research due to lack of methods.Particular projects in this topic include developing methods for determining function based on genomic context, …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
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Centre for Microbiome Research
Trust in IOT: A Theoretical Framework
Many organisations have shown an increasing interest in deploying Internet of Things (IOT) systems. However, most of them and their stakeholders are new to these systems, and it is difficult for them to trust the technology. What are the technological, managerial or societal aspects that contribute to trust in IOT systems? What can we do to improve the level of trust and increase adoption of the technology?
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
NewsPol: Measuring and Comparing News Media Polarisation
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 …
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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
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