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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CLIN04 Exploring the role and challenges of pharmacists in providing comprehensive healthcare services at Australian airport pharmacies.
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.
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Clinical Sciences
Burgers' equation complexified
Burgers' equation is a nonlinear second-order pde (partial differential equation) that acts as a model in fluid mechanics and other systems such as traffic flow. This pde is special because we can solve it exactly using a Cole-Hopf transformation, as described in MXB325, whereas most second-order nonlinear pdes do not have exact solutions. Therefore much is known about solutions to Burgers' equation.This project involves revisiting Burgers' equation but allowing the spatial variable to be a complex number, instead of a …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
BIOM07 Exploring allele-specific effect of a coding SNP in prostate cancer using CRISPR
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most heritable of all major cancers, with 57% driven by genetic factors. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a PCa-risk associated non-synonymous rs17632542 (Ile163Thr substitution) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), in the crucial kallikrein-3 (KLK3) gene. Prostate-specific antigen (encoded by KLK3) is the standard biomarker for PCa. Our fine-mapping studies through the PRACTICAL PCa consortium in 82,591 PCa cases and 61,213 matched controls, reported, this coding rs17632542 SNP significantly predisposes patients to present with aggressive PCa …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
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- Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health
NURS08 Diagnosing infection in chronic vascular leg ulcers: a narrative literature review of current practice
Up to 50% of leg ulcers fail to heal within 6-12 months, despite evidence-based care, and 24% of patients are hospitalised. The prevalence of infection in chronic vascular leg ulcers (VaLUs) ranges from 13% to 55%. Infection occurs when the host loses its ability to fight against the microbial virulence. Infection increases costs and resource consumption, and has a deleterious effect on physical, mental, social and financial aspects of patients’ lives. Failure of early identification of infection can lead to …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
NURS07 WOUNDED – Improving WOUND outcomEs for people with Dementia
Wound care research informing EB practice and clinical guidelines has largely excluded older adults with dementia. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) in aged care facilities are comprised mainly of nurses and carers, who have been identified as lacking EB wound care knowledge and skills. Thus, there is an urgent need for EB resources to be translated to this specific population to guide wound care practices for older adults with dementia.The issue of wound care in aged care is an urgent need as …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
NURS10 International interprofessional wound care Master class
IPE occurs when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care (ANMAC, 2012). It is necessary for future health practitioners to learn with, from and about each other with the goal of improving health outcomes through more effective IPE (World Health Organisation, 2010). The preparedness of health professional graduates to engage in interprofessional practice has been identified as essential to designing and delivering health services that is person centred …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
NURS03 Identifying consensus items for a data-driven infection risk assessment tool (DiRAT) for surgical site infections following weight-bearing joint replacement
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 …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
Creating fortified food products with mushrooms avocados and chillies
This project is related to industry projects for exotic mushroom production and bioactive extracts from avocado and chillie tissues.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy
CLIN01 A Pilot Study on the Feasibility and Technical Implementation of Quantitative EEG in Ambulance-Based Management of Traumatic Brain Injury
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 …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Clinical Sciences
Erstwhile: Site, Sound and Song
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 …
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Creative Arts
Climate justice: Analysing eco-equity in the energy market
Climate justice aims at sharing the benefits and burdens of climate change equitably between individuals and communities, regardless of their socioeconomic status, geographic location, or other demographic factors (Upham et al., 2022). Yet, ethnic minority populations are disadvantaged, for example, with rising energy costs and limited access to renewable energy sources, such as African Americans in the United States (Nature Energy Editorial, 2020) or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia (Cain, 2024).In this project, we analyse eco-equity as a …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
Customer messaging for energy behaviour change in smart homes
Queensland has committed to the rapid transformation of its energy systems in the coming years, with the 2022 Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan targeting 70% renewable energy usage by 2032 (Queensland Government, 2022). While the implementation of the plan has the potential to deliver major environmental and economic benefits for the state, it carries significant technological and social challenges.Critically, it requires effective communication with customers to ensure uptake of target consumer energy resources (CERs) like electric vehicles, home battery storage, …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
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