Australia is spending $31 million a year importing a critical blood product used to treat a range of neurological, hematological and immunological disorders.

5 October 2012

A unique assessment tool which helps identify and build on strengths in young people at risk has been developed by Dr Julie Bower from The University of Queensland's School of Education.

3 October 2012

Could traditional research methods be missing the big picture?

3 October 2012

UQ criminologist Dr Adrian Cherney is heading a research project aimed at examining the factors influencing government legitimacy following post-conflict reconstruction.

3 October 2012

Teaching is no longer restricted just to the classroom, with students now venturing outdoors to learn how to connect with their environment and develop the values, knowledge and practices of environmental sustainability.

3 October 2012

UniQuest Pty Limited, The University of Queensland’s (UQ) main commercialisation company, has appointed Joe McLean as General Manager of its Consulting & Research (C&R) Division.

28 September 2012
UQ Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Education), Professor Cindy Shannon being interviewed in the JacTV mobile studio by journalism student Nicole Rowles.

Eleven UQ journalism student volunteers are reporting the international Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development Network conference on St Lucia campus this week.

27 September 2012
UQ's Dr Genevieve Healy has received a Scopus Award for her research into the health impacts of sitting down.

A University of Queensland (UQ) medical scientist has been recognised as an outstanding young researcher at the 3rd annual Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards 2012.

24 September 2012

The State Government budget delivered recently shows funding will be cut to Queensland Drug Courts, but UQ School of Psychology lecturer Dr Genevieve Dingle believes this will do more harm than good.

24 September 2012

In a world-first, a team of University of Queensland researchers has developed a laboratory aimed at unpacking and understanding the political implications of news television programs.

20 September 2012

Academics in UQ’s School of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), and its Asia- Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, have been helping to improve the diplomacy and conflict resolution skills of our neighbours in Africa.

20 September 2012

At four years old Dr Fiona Barlow told her mother she would make improving race-relations in Australia a priority.

20 September 2012

The long-term adjustment of children and adolescents who sustain burn injuries is being explored by UQ PhD candidate Jessica Maskell.

18 September 2012

Anthropologists from The University of Queensland’s School of Social Science are investigating coal seam gas disputes in the Darling Downs region of southern Queensland.

18 September 2012

Better and more consistent involvement of families in child protection decision-making is a key goal of the research undertaken by Professor Karen Healy from UQ’s School of Social Work and Human Services.

18 September 2012

Using music to engage with and educate young people about their emotions, and how to tolerate and regulate their strong emotional states, is the focus of a new intervention developed by University of Queensland clinical psychologist Dr Genevieve...

18 September 2012

Community can be a formidable force, capable of achieving the seemingly impossible.

17 September 2012

A new University of Queensland study is examining how involuntary mental health admissions are experienced from the perspectives of mental health consumers, families and health care professionals within a recovery framework.

17 September 2012

With an ageing population and the competing interests of the individual, the family, service providers, the market and the state in the use of older people’s financial assets, protection and quality management of such assets has never been more...

17 September 2012

Freedom of speech is a vital democratic liberty that many of us take for granted, with most Australians firmly believing that they have, and that they should have the right to free speech.

17 September 2012