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From science and sustainability to health and humanities, UQ research has impact. Find out more, be inspired, and learn how we create change – right across the world, every day.

  • A rocket flying through the sky

    Need for speed

    Published on: 3 January 2018
    UQ scientists are taking giant leaps in hypersonic flight research. And while travelling between Sydney and London in two hours may be off in the horizon, rumblings about UQ’s plans for small satellite launches using scramjet engines are being felt across the globe.
  • An airplane flying above city buildings

    Sky's the limit for voluntary carbon offsetting

    Published on: 3 January 2018
    UQ Business School researchers are partnering with a major airline to educate travellers on the benefits and positive impact of offsetting.

  • Not such a pain

    Published on: 3 January 2018
    Chronic pain is very hard to live with but, thanks to the perseverance of UQ pharmaceutical research, help may soon be at hand for the millions of people around the world in desperate need of respite.
  • Inside of a sewer pipe

    Save our sewers

    Published on: 2 January 2018
    UQ sewer corrosion and odour research has revolutionised sewer management practice in Australia and will have an enduring effect on the worldwide water industry – its impact is mammoth, with documented savings to date already amounting to $400 million.
  • People in court

    Bringing the law into order on domestic violence

    Published on: 1 January 2018
    The TC Beirne School of Law's bench book project is providing tools to help the judiciary better protect victims of domestic violence.
  • Illustration of a woman in a business suit walking of a cliff

    The invisible perils of female success

    Published on: 1 January 2018
    Women appointed to precarious leadership positions can suffer from being placed on a 'glass cliff' – UQ Professor Alex Haslam helped identify the phenomenon, and has spent over a decade researching its causes and ways to combat it.

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UQ research has impact

UQ research creates value that translates into impact – for our local community, Australian society, and in far-reaching places around the globe.

Our researchers work closely with local communities all the way up to global partnerships with government and business partners, to solve the world’s most challenging problems. We are also commercialising their research ideas through licensing and creating start-up businesses.

At UQ, we connect the brightest minds to find solutions to the world’s biggest challenges.

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