Professor Maree Smith . . . has two game-changing pain therapies close to being available on the global market

A vaccine against cervical cancer, a global parenting program, new forms of pain relief, better yielding crops and improved medical imaging are some of many high-impact outcomes of University of Queensland research.

19 September 2013

The University of Queensland’s Dr Nicole George and Dr Andrew Phillips from the School of Political Science and International Studies have received awards in the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Scheme.

8 November 2012
Renee Zahnow and Andrew Clarke have both won School of Social Science prizes for their Honours theses

University of Queensland Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), assistants Renee Zahnow and Andrew Clarke have both won School of Social Science prizes for their Honours theses.

21 March 2012

Jenny Max, a University of Queensland Masters of Communication (Communication for Social Change) student, has received a Prime Minister's Pacific-Australia (PMPA) Award in recognition of her leadership potential and academic achievements.

20 December 2011

Mr Kerry O’Brien has been recognised variously as Australia's pre-eminent television journalist; one of the country’s most respected journalists; one of the best and most formidable interviewers.

5 December 2011

Associate Professor Katharine Gelber, from UQ's School of Political Science and International Studies, has been awarded the Sydney PEN Keneally Award for her contribution to the Protection of the Freedom of Expression.

15 November 2011
Ali Rae (right) meeting the Sheikh during the opening gala of Festival of Thinkers

Ali Rae, 23, from the School of Journalism and Communication (SJC), is one of three UQ coursework masters' students selected to fly to Abu Dhabi in November to take part in the prestigious United Arab Emirates Festival of Thinkers.

15 November 2011

UQ's performance in the highly competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) funding arena has gone from strength to strength with the announcement of successful Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) yesterday (...

15 November 2011

Professor Helen Edwards OAM will be presented with the 2011 Psychology Distinguished Alumni Award at a ceremony later this month, said Professor Bill von Hippel, Head of the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland.

10 November 2011
Professors Robert Lingard, Mark Western, Stephen Bell and Andrew McLennan

Four of Australia's leading social scientists, have been elected Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia – one of the highest honours for individual contributions to the social sciences awarded in Australia.

2 November 2011

As part of World Teachers' Day celebrations, two University of Queensland teaching graduates were recently nominated for a Queensland College of Teachers excellence in teaching award.

27 October 2011
Bruce Redman (centre) films Family First candidate John Lewis during the 2004 Federal Election campaign

Life is often stranger than fiction, just ask Dr Bruce Redman.

20 July 2011

ANALYSING techniques used in the theatre to keep audiences spellbound led a University of Queensland psychology lecturer to change his own teaching style, with amazing results.

1 November 2010

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences celebrated the outstanding achievements of some of its top teachers at its annual faculty Teaching and Learning Awards ceremony today.

1 November 2010

An innovative, Australian-first project conducted at The University of Queensland (UQ) will provide new insights into language disorders.

28 September 2010

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (SBS) and the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) has celebrated the achievements of their emerging researchers at the annual Research and Innovation Awards ceremony on Wednesday, September 22.

21 September 2010