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
The sandstone buildings of UQ's Great Court with people wandering in the background.

The University of Queensland has been ranked in the top 50 in the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU).

15 August 2022
Black and white image of Professor C. Paul Bonnington. Supplied.

The University of Queensland has appointed Professor Paul Bonnington as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research Infrastructure).

12 August 2022
An adult hand holds a bandaged child's hand in the foreground, the child lays in a hospital bed.

Stopping children undergoing chemotherapy from feeling pain and other debilitating side-effects is the focus of research underway at The University of Queensland.

12 August 2022
A diagram with a brown sauropod showing the how soft tissue allowed large dinosaurs to walk on land

Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs – like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus – supported their gigantic bodies on land.

11 August 2022
Industrial plant on the water

University of Queensland, Oxford and Princeton researchers have developed a “test” to measure if businesses are on track to meet Paris Agreement climate action goals, and so far the results are not promising.

11 August 2022
Research assistants Mia Johnston, Alana Pettigrew, Rebecca Flanaghan and Michael Cox (L to R), with Assoc. Prof. Rhonda Faragher and Dr Jan Lloyd (behind). Supplied.

Young adults living with Down syndrome have high aspirations and a great zest for life according to an Australian first study by researchers from The University of Queensland.

10 August 2022

​​​​​​​The University of Queensland has jumped five places to be ranked 33rd in the world in the National Taiwan University (NTU) Ranking.

5 August 2022
A child blowing nose

University of Queensland-led research has found the lining of children’s noses is better at inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infections than adult noses.

4 August 2022
A group of teenage girls next to a smaller group of young girls. The teenagers are wearing pale blue short pleated skirts, red hats, red shirts with tassels, mid-length white socks, and white shoes. The younger children are wearing white dresses, hats, socks and shoes.

At a time when Aboriginal people’s lives were controlled – including what language they spoke, where they could go and who they could marry – Aunty Lesley Williams was marching outside these restrictions.

3 August 2022
A woman stands in a freshwater swamp holding a bundle of long straight reeds.

Weaving is part of Sonja Carmichael’s cultural inheritance, but despite always living on Country, she only arrived at it by chance.

2 August 2022
Students walking through the Great Court at UQ St Lucia, which is surrounded by sandstone buildings

Learn how insects are used to solve crime, walk through a replica Stonehenge and see wearable technology as fashion at this year’s University of Queensland Open Day.

2 August 2022