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.
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BIOM06 Identification and investigation of novel genes and genetic variants involved in migraine.
Migraine is a debilitating neurogenetic disorder which can be caused by genes related to ion channel function. The Genomics Research Centre performs diagnostic testing for migraine-related disorders in Australia and we have recently developed a NATA accredited Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) approach for molecular testing. However, as only ~20% of patients referred to our laboratory for genetic testing have pathogenic mutations in the known genes, we have undertaken whole exome sequencing (WES) to identify novel genes and variants involved in …
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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
BIOM02 Improving and benchmarking software tools for microbiome data
This is an interdisciplinary topic, at the intersection of bioinformatics and microbiome sciences.Microbiome data is complex, high-volume data and keeps evolving, requiring novel computational method development as the wetlab approaches changes and databases grow. Thus, novel computational methods are required to take advantage of them. We have already developed several methods that are already widely used: SemiBin, macrel, NGLess, argNorm, and others. However, we also have several needed improvements to these that we wish to implement and test.Specific projects can …
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
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Centre for Microbiome Research
NURS02 Growing health literacy in rural and regional health care sectors.
High levels of health literacy where a person is able to proactively self-manage their health care needs, is well recognised as a valuable commodity for both the person seeking health care and the health care system in general (Pailaha, 2023). The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has identified 2 dimensions of health literacy which will influence a person’s ability to self-manage their health care needs (Health Literacy. AIHW, 2022). These dimensions include the individual’s capabilities but reinforce the environmental …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
NURS06 Current evidence on the effectiveness of care bundles in reducing surgical site infections among adults following surgery
A surgical wound is an incision in the skin that is made during a surgical procedure and generally expected to heal within 2 to 4 weeks by primary intention in an orderly manner through the normal wound healing process. However, this process can be disrupted by many factors, leading to complications such as wound dehiscence, non-healing wounds, surgical site infections and sepsis.Surgical site infections (SSIs) are defined as infections that occur within 30 days following surgery or 90 days in …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
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- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
QIMR03 Metabolism of endometrial cancer
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecologic malignancy in developed countries. While often caught early due to symptomatic bleeding, advanced or recurrent endometrial cancers have limited treatment options and poor outcomes. In contrast with many cancers, the incidence and mortality of endometrial cancer is steadily increasing, largely due to increasing rates of obesity, the strongest risk factor for this disease. However, the specific metabolic alterations, their functional roles in tumour progression, and potential as druggable targets remain poorly characterised.Endometrial cancers …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
NURS05 Identifying the priorities for research in child and adolescent cancer
This project is an opportunity to work on a collaborative national project to identify the research priorities in child and adolescent cancer. These research priorities are those identified by young survivors of cancer, their families and the health professionals who care for them. The research priorities are being collected through surveys and focus groups between August and October 2024.More information is available on the project website:https://www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/priority-setting-partnerships/australian-child-and-adolescent-cancer.htm
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
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- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre
Statistical Modelling of Rating of Perceived Exertion Data
Rating of perceived exertion (RPE) is a subjective scale that is commonly used to measure an athletes tolerance to training. There are several versions of RPE scales, ranging from 10- to 100-point indices, which can make statistical modelling of such data challenging. Many studies in sport science and sport medicine assume a normal distribution for RPE, which is often inappropriate, and may lead to invalid conclusions from study results. This research project will develop more appropriate statistical models for RPE, …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
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- Centre for Data Science
NURS01 Medication and dietary supplement use and symptom severity of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is highly prevalent and clinically problematic, occurring in up to 60–80% of people receiving chemotherapy. Despite the high prevalence and significant patient and healthcare burden of CIPN, treatment options are limited.This project will explore the association between medication and dietary supplement use and symptom severity of CIPN to identify factors that might worsen or improve CIPN symptoms.You will be involved in the preparation and analysis of a sub-set of baseline data from a large randomised controlled …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
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- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre
Engaging children in outdoor learning using IoT, sensors, and the natural environment.
Our project seeks to explore and prototype novel technologies for young children to use to explore and learn about the natural world around them. It engages with the Early Childhood Learning framework to help children to become confident and involved learners. By situating this learning outdoors, this project seeks to engage children through novel combinations of their senses, natural materials, networked sensors, and computing.This project is connected to a larger program of research funded by the Centre for the Digital …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child
ENS01 Is markerless video analysis accurate and reliable for assessing biomechanical performance of functional tasks?
Being able to assess the effectiveness of an exercise intervention for a clinical population is a corner stone of clinical practice. Whilst exercise physiologist can assess changes in some outcomes using functional tests, the sources of impairment (e.g. strength or power of particular joints, imbalances) is often hard to diagnose and difficult to monitor if this changes with exercise prescription. Biomechanical measures can achieve better resolution, but often require extensive setup. However, advances in computer vision now allow complex biomechanical …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
CLIN05 Enhancing Clinical Practice through Audit: Defining Medical Imaging Protocols for Upper Limb and Shoulder Evaluation
Medical imaging plays a pivotal role in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of upper limb and shoulder pathologies. Clinically, the imaging protocols can vary significantly depending in the clinical site requirements. The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA, 2017) state there are three principles of radiation protection, being: justification (that any activity involving radiation should do more good than harm), optimisation (that actual exposure, likelihood of exposures and number of exposed persons should be as low as reasonably …
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- School of Clinical Sciences
QIMR01 Iron deficiency and implications for healthcare costs
Iron is an essential mineral nutrient for human health. Iron deficiency occurs when the body does not have enough mineral iron and this can be caused by inadequate dietary intake of iron, malabsorption, increased iron requirements (such as in pregnancy) or as a comorbidity to an underlying condition. Untreated, iron deficiency is associated with impaired development in children, adverse effects on cognitive and physical performance in adults, and poorer maternal and infant outcomes in pregnancy. Very little research is available …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Public Health and Social Work
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- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation
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