After a $2.1 million overhaul, the Boilerhouse at UQ’s Ipswich campus is running research projects driving positive change in the city.

Built in 1913, the Boilerhouse, with a 24-metre-high chimney, is one of Ipswich’s most visible landmarks.  It is now home to the UQ Boilerhouse Community Engagement Centre.

Its researchers are using higher education community engagement principles to develop a strong relationship with Pacific Islander communities living in the Inala–Ipswich corridor.  The project aims to develop outreach activities into the communities so they, with the help of UQ, can identify, nurture and support students with the potential to enter higher education.

The 360-degree after school hours care program provides adolescent school students with quality programs that are safe, well supervised and appropriate for the ages concerned.  It gives young people of diverse cultural, economic and academic backgrounds an opportunity to develop a broad range of skills in multimedia, communications, IT, creative design and personal leadership.

Boilerhouse researchers are also working with government and community stakeholders in southeast Queensland on the Integrated Social Planning and Infrastructure Assessment project (inSPIA) that aims to develop an integrated social development framework for Queensland.   This framework will consider legislative, policy, planning and operational requirements for building socially sustainable Queensland communities and will then develop guidelines, tools and responses.

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