Strategies needed to support ethnically diverse patients with hearing loss

Hearing clinics are not identifying the language needs of ethnically diverse patients with hearing loss, creating a concerning impact on their quality of care, a UQ-led study has found.

24 June 2025
A audiologist inserting a stethoscope into a elderly patient's ear

Dairy tech moves from the lab to industry

Dairy products made using precision fermentation are a step closer with Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator transferring new technology to an industry partner.

24 June 2025
a man in a white lab coat and glasses adjusts a glass cylinder surrounded by stainless steel equipment

Using Uber-like technology to increase the rate of community volunteerism is the aim of a University of Queensland graduate.

12 May 2017
Award winners Sam Walpole and Priam Rangiah

Almost 200 students from Queensland’s oldest law school have been recognised for their diverse achievements at an award ceremony at Brisbane’s Customs House.

11 May 2017
The research vessel JOIDES Resolution, photo by Arito Sakaguchi, IODP/TAMU. Wikipedia Creative Commons.

Climate change around Antarctica can severely affect Australia’s rainfall and even influence the distribution of wet and dry zones across southeast Asia, an international study has revealed.

11 May 2017
Professor Milburn ... has made a sustained contribution to physics at the highest level

University of Queensland School of Mathematics and Physics quantum physics researcher Emeritus Professor Gerard Milburn has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

11 May 2017
UQ students and staff are being advised not to replicate the combination of their UQ email address and password across multiple platforms

The University of Queensland is working to assist students and staff who could be caught up in the ‘exploit.in’ online data breach which has affected 593 million people worldwide.

11 May 2017
The federal budget may deliver short-term gain, but long-term repercussions

A budget that could return to bite us on the backside – that’s what a senior University of Queensland economist and political scientist makes of the Australian Government’s 2017/18 financial strategy.

10 May 2017
UQ Adjunct Professor and former High Commissioner to PNG Ian Kemish AM (centre) at a Kokoda ceremony with the late Ben Moide (right), a WW2 veteran

A website hosting interviews with prominent Papua New Guineans on the period leading up to and following that nation’s independence from Australia in 1975 has been launched today.

10 May 2017

A range of University of Queensland experts is available to comment on issues around the Federal Budget. Journalists can search by topic or name at UQ Experts or contact the following experts.

10 May 2017
UQ graduate Emilee Cherry competing at the Rio Olympics. Credit: Karen Watson, ARU Media.

Olympic gold medallist and University of Queensland graduate Emilee Cherry is one of two Australian representatives named to represent Team UQ in the 2017 AON Uni 7s Series.

10 May 2017
Personal preferences or beliefs can steer clinicians towards continuing to deliver care that robust evidence has shown to confer little or no benefit.

Doctors have been warned to be aware that psychological factors could lead them to suggest medical interventions of little or no value to patients, despite campaigns aimed at eliminating unnecessary tests and procedures.

8 May 2017
A review of the key genes affecting pigmentation could be the first step towards incorporating genomics into clinical practice to identify patients at high-risk of skin cancer. iStockphoto

Dermatologists may need to look further than red hair and freckles when identifying patients who might be genetically predisposed to skin cancer.

8 May 2017