Research Showcase - 2010 section

Advanced Training

The University is helping to increase medical support in rural communities through its new $4.2 million advanced clinical training facility. UQ’s Rural Clinical School, the biggest in Australia, has added a Teaching and Learning Centr...

CAAS Opens

The Queensland Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries, Tim Mulherin, recently opened the final stage of a $33 million Centre for Advanced Animal Science at the University’s Gatton campus. CAAS is a joint project between the Queensland D...

Claw Clues

University researchers have clipped the wings of the idea that the ancestors of modern birds were tree dwellers. Exhaustive work by PhD student, Chris Glen, and Associate Professor Mike Bennett, from UQ’s School of Biomedical Sciences, studyin...

Dinosaurs Down Under

Outback Queensland has become the focus of an international research project helping to decipher the evolution of Australian dinosaurs and their relationships to those of other southern continents. In a unique Australian–American proj...

Fertile Ground

A research agreement signifying a valuable collaboration between the University and a Japanese power company to test a new fertiliser for forestation was endorsed last year.   Representatives from the Japanese Hokkaido Electric Pow...

Global Ventures

Australian businesses are taking advantage of information technology and freer capital flows to expand globally in far more innovative ways than simply placing goods on a ship for export. This is according to a new report released by the UQ...

Helping Yourself

Recent figures from the Queensland Household Survey of Gambling reported that 230,000 Queenslanders had experienced negative consequences as a result of their gambling. To help reduce this alarming statistic, psychologists from the...

Mine Monitoring

Researchers from UQ’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining have developed a new framework that can be used to monitor and report on a company’s community engagement strategies. Developed by CSRM’s Director, Professor David Br...

Planning For The Future

A team of researchers from UQ’s Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) has proved you don’t have to be psychic to predict the future. Led by Professor Bob Stimson, and funded through an ARC Linkage Project grant, the research group has developed a s

Prime Candidate

University researchers are among an international team to have made the first-ever execution of a quantum calculation, a major step towards building the first quantum computers. Professor Andrew White, from the University’s Centre for...

Shrimps In Sights

University research has identified a completely new type of vision never seen before in the animal world – and it is probably all about sex. Professor Justin Marshall, from the University’s School of Biomedical Sciences and the Queenslan...

Soldier Health

The Centre for Military and Veterans’ Health has launched its largest study into the health of returned Australian troops. CMVH researchers will use a survey to examine the physical, emotional and environmental effects on 12,000 curre...