To celebrate Research Week 2018, UQ is proud to share how UQ research is creating change, right across the world, every day. Find out how our researchers are collaborating with research partners both in Australia and abroad to develop aerospace technology for tomorrow.
To celebrate Research Week 2018, UQ is proud to share how UQ research is creating change, right across the world, every day. Discover how our researchers are collaborating with research partners both in Australia and abroad to tackle substance abuse head-on.
UQ researchers have discovered strong links between a mother's level of education and whether or for how long she breastfeeds her children, posing important questions about the barriers to breastfeeding and how best to overcome them.
UQ researchers are working hard to help our daughters in the battle against endometriosis, a crippling disease that affects 10 per cent of women of child-bearing age.
Myanmar’s Muslim minority, the Rohingya, are often referred to as the most persecuted people on Earth. With support from a UQ researcher, a Queensland NGO is now working with a refugee football team to better integrate Rohingya youths into Malaysian society, one goal at a time.
By bringing communities, schools and law enforcement together, a UQ researcher’s new approach to tackling truancy is exciting law enforcement bodies in Australia and internationally.
By creating the world’s first molecule bank, UQ scientists are working with industry and institutional partners to crowdsource antibiotic compounds, aiming to seek out new antibiotics and prevent the proliferation of drug-resistant superbugs.
To reduce the risk of road and traffic accidents, UQ researchers are training drivers to take a more hazard-conscious approach at the steering wheel, potentially saving countless lives in the process.
A team of UQ researchers has developed a biodiversity offset assessment calculation approach that mitigates the toll that development takes on our environment – which is now being used around the world.