Why we cheer louder for homegrown heroes

Recognising outstanding performance with sports awards is a question of identity, not just ability, UQ researchers have found.

3 July 2025
A gold trophy being help un in a stadium.

Rewriting the rulebook on schizophrenia meds: why it’s time to rethink clozapine protocols

The most effective antipsychotic drug for people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia is clozapine. Yet, across the world, it remains underused – largely due to fears about serious side effects and burdensome monitoring requirements.

3 July 2025
Stethoscope and stylised human head and brain on pink background.

With the bill for the 2011 floods and Cyclone Yasi running into billions of dollars, a group of researchers from UQ Business School is urging businesses to consider relocation as a way to avoid future disasters.

29 May 2012
Dr Daniel Angus.

Healthcare professionals may soon be able to truly see the benefits of their talks with patients, thanks to an automated computer visualisation measurement technique called Discursis.

29 May 2012

Children with cerebral palsy and acquired brain injuries across Queensland will be the first in Australia to experience the pioneering new program, eBRAIN.

29 May 2012

The University of Queensland Gatton campus embraced Diversity Week through the UQ Gatton Photo Competition –Behind Every Pair of Shoes is a Story.

28 May 2012
Happiness levels over a lifetime in Australia, Britain and Germany.

People are at their happiest at retirement age and their most miserable in their geriatric years, a new study has found.

28 May 2012

The University of Queensland’s (UQ) main research commercialisation company, UniQuest Pty Limited, will promote more than 20 "cleantech" innovations at two major international water industry events over the coming weeks.

28 May 2012

The responsibility for choosing which Australian native species survive – and which go extinct – may ultimately fall to ordinary Australians.

28 May 2012

The University of Queensland acknowledged the significant contributions made by staff, students and alumni to equity and diversity at the Vice-Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Awards held on Thursday, 24 May 2012.

25 May 2012

The University of Queensland invites parents and professionals who work with children and families to have their say in the development of a resource that promotes children’s resilience to natural disasters

25 May 2012

Students from Downlands College in Toowoomba have broken a 13-year old record to win UQ’s annual Sunflower Competition.

25 May 2012

Cycling has had a boost this week at The University of Queensland, with the opening of the Bike Box facilities.

24 May 2012