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We’ll empower you with training and support to complete your research degree, while building the knowledge and skills to accelerate your career possibilities.

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Higher Degree by Research (PhD)

Our Graduate Centre is home to a thriving research community. We give you the opportunity to maximise your research potential and take your research further.

We have over 50 PhD candidates working on a range of research projects. See theses from our graduates at UQ eSpace .

At the University of Queensland, PhD students are called Higher Degree Research Students (HDRs).

HDR students in our School Graduate Centre receive a number of benefits including:

• dedicated and experienced academic staff who are able to supervise across a number of fields
• postgraduate workshops and dedicated training
• a thriving research culture in one of the world's best schools in the discipline

If you have any queries, please contact our HDR Liason Officer at  [email protected] .

Potential PhD projects

As a PhD student you will have the opportunity to contribute to research on important issues through your candidature. Potential PhD projects may include:

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• PhD project areas

Childhood Anxiety

To be conducted in collaboration with the Rheumatology Department at the QLD Children’s Hospital. Aims: examine the prevalence of anxiety disorders; and implement and evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of a parenting program for anxiety in children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.

Parenting in the context of childhood anxiety and evaluating parenting intervention to assist in managing anxiety.

Project Supervisor: Vanessa Cobham

Parenting and the development of gender roles

Gender role stereotypes play an important role in all areas of human development. They affect our emotions, choices, and behaviours in multiple contexts, and set the stage for prejudice and discrimination. While adult gender roles may have changed over the last few decades, most children are exposed to a continuing barrage of stereotyped gender roles from birth: from parents, the media, and peers, and these stereotypes have not changed significantly over time. Many parents express an interest in raising their children in a way that deemphasizes gender, yet there no existing evidence-based approaches focused on minimising the effects of gender role stereotypes in early childhood. This research aims to: 

• Provide a longitudinal description of the early home environment and its influence on infants’ gendered development, with a particular emphasis on the role of parents and specific parenting strategies.
• Assess the efficacy and mechanisms of change of a brief parenting program delivered prenatally in promoting an early learning environment that deemphasises the role of gender via a randomised controlled trial evaluating proximal program outcomes in the first year of life.

Project Supervisor: Alina Morawska

Healthy habits: Parenting and the development of health behaviours in the first years of life

Parents’ ability to guide their children in developing ‘healthy habits’ is key to supporting children’s short- and long-term health and wellbeing. Establishing healthy behaviours in early childhood can lay the foundation for a lifetime of healthy habits and may have greater impact on long-term health than attempting to change entrenched adult behaviour. This program of research aims to establish the key facilitators and barriers to for children and their parents to engaging in healthy habits, and evaluate interventions to promote the development of early health behaviours in young children.

Project Supervisor: Alina Morawska

Evaluation of Family Life Skills Triple P

This project will evaluate Family Life Skills Triple P (FLSTP). FLSTP is a variant of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program focusing on assisting vulnerable parents with trauma history including family of origin adverse childhood events. The project will used mixed methods including a randomised trial methodology and qualitative methods to explore the effects of a 10 module program on child, parent and family level outcomes.

Project Supervisor: Karen Turner

Development and testing of online professional training

Continuing education and training for professionals working with parents and families are critical to ensuring evidence-based practices are effectively used and disseminated. Typically, such training is offered in single or multi-day face-to-face workshops or training courses. Following the pandemic, and with ongoing technological advancements there has been increasing recognition of the value of online learning environments and opportunities. This series of projects will investigate how elements of professional training courses can be most effectively delivered online. The research will involve reviewing existing online professional training courses as well as designing and testing elements of online training, within the context of the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program. A series of experiments will test the effectiveness of the developed online training elements in terms of practitioner consultation skills and self-efficacy.

Project Supervisor: Dr. April Hoang, Dr. Cassandra Tellegen

Children and sustainable living

The Children and Sustainable Living Project is centred on examining protective factors that enhance children's readiness for the future, addressing critical issues like climate change, mental health, inequity, and discrimination. This multifaceted project encompasses two research streams. Stream 1 looks into individual, interpersonal, community, and societal factors contributing to children's thriving. Stream 2 explores innovative methodological approaches for societal change, aiming to mobilize collective efforts toward creating a nurturing and supportive environment for children. This involves the application of implementation and prevention sciences. PhD candidates will engage with one of these two Streams, where their research will contribute to shape the literature in child development and sustainability.

Project Supervisor: Dr. April Hoang

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PhD Students

Both domestic and international students enrolled at QBI play a vital role in research efforts at the Institute.

Find out  about:

• the benefits of doing a PhD project with us
• the process to  apply  
• what PhD projects are currently open for applications.

PhD students enrolled at QBI are eligible to receive:

• $1,500  travel allowance
• Top-Up Scholarships
• Computer with appropriate software and internet access
• Photocopying and scanning facilities.

How to apply

To express your interest to undertake a PhD at QBI, please do the following:

• Visit the  UQ Graduate School website  to review information about the PhD program including entry requirements, application procedures, and scholarship information and deadlines. 
• Academic CV  with hyperlinks to your published work, and the Impact Factor of the journal if relevant
• Academic transcripts for all tertiary level study showing a list of courses, grades achieved, and the grading system used at the institution of study
• Information on how you would meet UQ’s  English language proficiency  requirement
• After you have received confirmation from a Group Leader agreeing to be your proposed Principal Advisor, you and/or the Group Leader should email the QBI Student Office at  [email protected]  to confirm that they are able to support your application. The Student Office will send you detailed information and instructions to help you apply via the  UQ Graduate School website .

When the QBI Student Office receives your online application, they will request referee reports from your listed referees via the online application system. They will also check your application documents; if they require any further information or documents they will send you a request via the online application system.

Applications are considered complete when we have received both referee reports and any extra documents or information that we requested. Note: If the proposed principal supervisor would like to consider your application in more detail prior to making a decision, you may be nominated to the QBI HDR Committee for participation in QBI’s Graduate Research Internship (GRI) Program. If approved by the Committee, this will provide you with an opportunity to spend 4 to 6 weeks undertaking full-time research experience working on a project already underway in the proposed supervisor’s lab group. Financial support for candidates is available during the Program, co-funded by The Donald and Joan Wilson Foundation and QBI. If your complete application is supported by the proposed Principal Advisor, and the QBI Higher Degree by Research Committee, a School Recommendation Form will be prepared at QBI. A detailed project description will also be completed at this time; the proposed Principal Advisor will liaise with you about your project. 

When the School Recommendation is finalised, your complete application will be forwarded to the UQ Graduate School for formal assessment. The QBI Student Office will notify you when this has been done and your application will change to ‘in process’ in the online application system.

From this point forward, the UQ Graduate School admissions team will communicate with you via the online application system and your assessment outcome will be sent via this system as well. Applicants must be assessed as ‘eligible for admission and scholarship’ to be considered in the next available UQ scholarship round.

Current PhD projects available

We update this page as new PhD projects become available. Check back soon to find new projects. 

Investigating corticostriatal networks and their regulation of reversal learning

Reversal learning provides a rich inspection of cognitive flexibility, and performance is often impaired in people with schizophrenia and psychosis. However, we still do not understand the roles of corticostriatal networks in reversal learning and what alterations to these systems underly the impairments observed in schizophrenia.

Project aim

The proposed PHD will focus on how striatal dopamine release and corticostriatal glutamate inputs drive reveral learning and what manipulations can produce schizophrenia relevant phenotypes. These studies will use behavioural and viral approaches paired with fibre photometry and optogenetics. Studies are primarily in mice, but avenues for human testing are also available.

The prospective student will gain comprehensive skills in behavioural neuroscience, rodent surgery, photometry/optogenetics/chemogenetics, immunohistochemistry, data analysis (primarily in R), and gain an understanding of translational neuroscience approaches.

Supervisor: Dr James Kesby   Email: [email protected]

Lipidomics of cognitive retention during ageing

Brain cells (neurons) communicate with each other by exchanging neurotransmitter molecules across the synapse, in a process called neuroexocytosis, involving fusion of neurotransmitter vesicles with the synaptic membrane. The composition of phospholipids which comprise vesicular and cellular membranes is dynamically regulated, and phospholipid metabolites such as free fatty acids (FFAs) and lysophospholipids (LPLs) generated during this regulation are emerging as key players in neurotransmission, learning and memory. The goal of this PhD project is to understand the roles of these lipids in learning and memory and establish how they are affected during ageing.

Our  laboratory  has contributed to the burgeoning field of neurolipidomics through the development of novel and sensitive targeted lipidomics workflows for analysis of FFA, LPL and phospholipids in cultured neurons and animal brains. We recently published a groundbreaking study correlating increases in the saturated FFA myristic acid with memory, and have strong preliminary evidence correlating this FFA with retention of cognitive ability in ageing mice. The project aims to build on these findings by establishing whether dietary supplementation can affect the brain lipidome and alter the trajectory of cognitive decline during ageing.

The successful candidate will join the lipidomics team in the lab and will use our in-house and collaborative mass spectrometry based lipidomics workflows to assess how dietary FFA supplementation alters the brain lipidome, and whether these changes correlate with improvements to cognitive ability in ageing mice. The candidate will ideally have a background in neuroscience, cell biology or analytical biochemistry. Familiarity with Python, data analysis and informatics will further help the candidate to carry out their role (but is not essential).

Single Molecule Neuroscience Laboratory

 Group leader:  Professor Frederic Meunier      [email protected]

Unraveling the nanoscale organisation of the synapse in live neurons

Brain cells primarily communicate with each other through the release of neurotransmitters (chemical signals) across the synapse. The sequence of molecular interactions involved in neurotransmitter release is largely unknown. Super-resolution microscopy techniques provide unprecedented quantitative information on the dynamics of individual molecules in living cells. This interdisciplinary PhD project aims to use super-resolution imaging experiments to understand the molecular mechanisms controlling the neurotransmitter release in health and disease.

Our  laboratory  has contributed to the rapidly emerging super-resolution field by providing a means of visualizing single molecule behaviour in living neurosecretory cells and presynapses to unravel dynamically regulated molecular binding events at the level of the synapse. The successful candidate will join the established laboratory group of  Professor Frederic Meunier  at the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland and will use super-resolution microscopy to detect and track individual molecules in live cultured neurons. The project will look at decrypting the complex behaviour of single molecules in terms of nanoscale organisation and molecular kinetics to better understand their role in physiology and pathology.

Expressions of Interest are invited from outstanding and enthusiastic, international and Australian, science graduates ideally with a background in engineering, biophysics, cell biology, neuroscience or any other relevant scientific discipline. Candidates will have a First Class Honours degree or equivalent and should be eligible for  UQ scholarship  consideration. Previous experience with microscopy, image analysis, and cloning is desirable, but applicants with no background in biology are also encouraged to apply for this position.   Applicants must fulfill the  PhD admission criteria  for the University of Queensland, including meeting English language requirements and demonstrating excellent capacity and potential for research. Demonstration of research ability through publication output in peer-reviewed international journals is desirable.

Identifying molecular signalling networks governing synapse formation

The  Neural Migration Laboratory  is headed by  Professor Helen Cooper.  Professor Cooper’s research investigates the molecular signalling pathways regulating neural stem cell activity, neuronal differentiation and migration, and synapse formation in the developing brain. A major research theme is the identification of the molecular mechanisms underpinning neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. The laboratory uses developmental mouse models, in vitro stem cell culture systems and state-of-the-art molecular/cellular biological approaches and super-resolution microscopy.

 Learn more about the  Cooper Lab .

Abnormal synapse formation leads to diminished synaptic transmission and impaired cognitive function. The goal of this project is to identify the molecular pathways that govern synaptic connectivity. This research will not only provide key insights into the fundamental principles guiding the establishment of complex neural circuits, but will also shed light on the aberrant processes contributing to autism and schizophrenia.

The Cooper lab has identified several autism genes predicted to play a central role in building the actin cytoskeleton - an essential requirement for synaptic development and synaptic transmission. This project will investigate how mutations in these genes impacts actin remodelling and synaptic function. To address these questions the successful candidate will utilize the following experimental tools: developmental mouse models, in vitro neuronal culture systems, state-of-the-art molecular and imaging approaches, including super-resolution microscopy.

Neural Migration Laboratory

 Group leader:  Professor Helen Cooper      [email protected]

Can platelet factor 4 reverse neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease?

There is overwhelming evidence that regular physical exercise can counteract cognitive decline in both healthy aging and in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD).  However, it is often not practical to prescribe to the elderly, making the development of a pharmacological intervention that could mimic the cognition-enhancing effects of exercise an enticing prospect. In a major advance towards deciphering how exercise affects brain function, we found that platelets are activated by physical exercise and release factors, including platelet factor 4 (PF4), that promote hippocampal precursor proliferation and neurogenesis. 

This project will investigate the therapeutic potential of PF4 administration on AD progression using a transgenic mouse model of AD. In addition, it will address whether platelets, or their released factors, can mediate blood-brain barrier permeability to facilitate the delivery of systemic exercise-released neurogenesis-promoting factors to the neural stem cell niche.

The student who takes part in this project will perform experiments, including mouse behavioural testing, histology, microscopy, and a range of molecular biology techniques, under the supervision of Dr Odette Leiter and Dr Tara Walker. All training in the relevant techniques will be provided. This project will likely generate data that will be included in an associated manuscript on which the student will be an author.

Dr Tara Walker laboratory  

 Group leader:  Dr Tara Walker      [email protected]

The development of precision medical care for the use of ketamine as a treatment for Australian Veterans with TRD and PTSD

Depression is among the top public health concerns worldwide, and the third highest burden of all diseases in Australia. For decades, pharmacotherapy for depression has focused narrowly on enhancing monoaminergic neurotransmission resulting in more than 30 approved treatments. Yet, rates of remission are low for any given drug. Recently, ketamine, an approved dissociative anaesthetic, has demonstrated therapeutic efficacy in MDD and PTSD via its action on the glutamate system by potently blocking ionotropic glutamate NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors. Ketamine exerts a rapid onset of positive clinical effects in severely refractory depressed patients consistent across numerous randomised trials, which distinguishes it from conventional slow-acting therapeutics. In the past decade, off-label prescribing of ketamine infusions to patients in Australia and worldwide for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) has increased.

The therapeutic potential of ketamine (i.e., rapid symptom relief and response in treatment-resistant patients) has stimulated considerable interest in the psychiatric community, and the clinical use of ketamine infusion for the treatment of depression is now an intense focus of research worldwide. However, this further progress is challenged by the absence of reliable and valid predictors of antidepressive response to ketamine.

The study aims to identify subpopulations of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or treatment resistant depression) are more likely (or less likely) to benefit from ketamine treatment using multiple modalities including neuroimaging, blood, cognitive and clinical biomarkers. The study will leverage efforts from the Australian Defence Force, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense- Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (DOD-ADNI) database. The study will collect data from patients as part of their standard of care treatment for analysis. Structural and functional 3T-Magnetic Resonance imaging, markers of brain dysfunction, and clinical/cognitive/psychological assessments will be collected from 300 Australian Veterans. This work will be the first of its kind, in Australia and worldwide, to determine at a large scale, predictors of ketamine efficacy in patients with PTSD/TRD.

The student who takes part in this project will have the opportunity to engage in data collection and interacting with patients at Zed Three Specialist Centre under the supervision of Dr. Alex Lim who is the clinical lead on this project. This will expose the students to the clinical environment should their interest lie in undergoing a clinical role in the future. They will also have the opportunity to collect data, analyse data from multiple modalities such as blood biomarker assays, magnetic resonance imaging data and clinical/cognitive data. This training will be provided to the students on this project.

Functional neuroimaging and brain injury laboratory

 Group leader:   Dr Fatima Nasrallah         [email protected]  

Tackle concussion: Targeting amateur concussions using key longitudinal neuroimaging and biomarker data for enhanced diagnosis and prevention

Concussion is difficult to diagnose and the current technology lacks reliability to detect the brain damage associated with such injury. Evidence suggests that brain recovery goes beyond the resolution of clinical/cognitive symptoms and existing biomarkers lack specificity and require validation.

In this work, we have partnered with:

• World Rugby
• Rugby Australia
• Greater Public Schools (GPS) association.

We will study concussion in teenage athletes who have sustained a sports-related concussion, using:

• novel blood-based biomarkers
• cognitive data
• advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

The innovative data will allow precise diagnosis of concussion and explicit accuracy to inform recovery. The added benefit of advanced MRI will be explored.

The overall objective is to investigate advanced neuroimaging methods to enhance the diagnosis of concussion:

The aims are to:

• study the structural changes that are induced by a concussion
• investigate more advanced MRI methods for diagnosis of outcome
• determine the temporal profile of neuroimaging changes over time.

The results from this study will provide objective information that will inform policies and guidelines for diagnosis of concussion.  

To take part in this project you'll need a background in:

• neuroscience
• biomedical engineering
• sports medicine, or
• any other relevant discipline.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• learn image processing methods
• take place in fieldwork with adolescents at GPS schools
• build communication skills.

You also engage with schools and other stakeholders and industry partners including World Rugby and Rugby Australia.

 Group leader:   Dr Fatima Nasrallah        [email protected]  

Fundamental neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning creative thought

This Earmarked Scholarship project is aligned with a recently awarded Category 1 research grant. Creative thought is fundamental to human advances throughout history and scientific discovery. It is also needed in daily life to adapt behaviour and solve everyday problems. The cognitive and neural bases of creative thought have not been explored in detail. Most past work in cognitive science has drawn a consistent distinction between needing a knowledge system to generate possibilities and an evaluation system to analyse and refine these ideas. The interplay between these two distinct systems results in productive creative thought. However, the knowledge source and the evaluation mechanisms, and their neural bases, are under-specified (e.g., what are the knowledge sources, how are they evaluated, etc).

This project aims to understand the behavioural and brain bases of creative thought by using a novel approach at the intersection between executive control operations and semantic cognition. In brief, executive functions such as response initiation and inhibition, strategy application and flexibility play a critical role in everyday life because they enable individuals to adapt to circumstances, exhibit self-control and to solve new problems as they arise. Semantic cognition refers to our ability to flexibly retrieve and manipulate our generalized knowledge, which is acquired over the lifespan, to support verbal and non-verbal (multimodal) behaviours. In this project both executive control and semantic cognition will be investigated using behavioural and neuroimaging techniques in individuals that are healthy and those with focal brain lesions due to neurological disorders. The focus of the PhD could be on any of these aspects of the project, depending on the candidate.

Your suitability

A working knowledge of cognition, experimental psychology and statistical analysis and a keen interest in neuropsychology would be of benefit to someone working on this project.

The applicant will demonstrate academic achievement in the field(s) of psychology and the potential for scholastic success.

A background or knowledge of cognition and statistical analysis is highly desirable.

You will be supervised by both Prof Gail Robinson (UQ) and Prof Matt Lambon Ralph (University of Cambridge). You will have opportunities to work with a team of cognitive neuroscientists and clinicial researchers, learning neuropsychological, experimental psychological and neuroimaging methods.

You need to apply for this project as part of your PhD application.

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Cognitive and clinical neuropsychology lab

 Group leader:  Professor Gail Robinson     Email:  [email protected]

Understanding waste clearance and brain network dysfunction in dementia

Neurodegenerative diseases, such as dementia, are irreversible and generally incurable. Recent studies suggested that impairment of a major waste clearance pathway – the glymphatic system – in the brain can lead to the pathology, including amyloid plaque and tau tangle, of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, how glymphatic system is regulated and why it is damaged in AD are still unknown. Furthermore, efficient clearance of metabolic waste and toxin is critical for brain health. As proper brain network function underlies our cognitive performance, whether and how deficient waste clearance could also impair cognition remains unclear. Understanding how glymphatic system is regulated and its role in maintaining brain network function will be fundamental for developing novel intervention to improve waste clearance and cognitive health. 

We recently discovered a neural pathway could affect glymphatic function in AD. Interestingly, the same neural pathway plays an important role in modulating brain networks important for cognition.

We aim to further understand the mechanisms of the regulatory pathway of the glymphatic system and how it affects brain network function. We will assess glymphatic function using human brain imaging data and test hypotheses in animal models. We will further identify cellular targets of this pathway for developing new interventions. This translational study will provide new ways for improving brain function by facilitating waste clearance.

You learn how to conduct animal experiments and use advanced MRI techniques to measure glymphatic flow and brain network function in mouse models of AD and how modulating glymphatic pathway affect the network function. Behavioural tests will then be used to determine the effects of glymphatic regulation on learning and memory. This will help to establish intervention for the glymphatic system.

You will also develop novel MRI analysis methods to process human MRI data to understand the translatability of the glymphatic regulation pathway in patients.

Functional and Molecular Neuroimaging lab

 Group leader:  Associate Professor Kai-Hsiang Chuang     Email:  [email protected]

Neural Mechanisms of Drosophila locomotion

As animals walk, run, or hop, motor circuits in the spinal cord convert descending “command” signals from the brain into the coordinated movements of many different leg muscles. How are command signals from the brain deconvolved into the appropriate patterns for motor neuron activity?

We aim to answer this question for Drosophila by studying the functional organization of leg motor circuits in the ventral nerve cord, the fly’s analogue of the spinal cord. In Drosophila, individual neuronal cell types can be reproducibly identified and manipulated using genetic reagents that have been developed to target specific descending neurons, interneurons, or motor neurons.

In your thesis project, you will learn a range of methods including genetics, multiphoton imaging, optogenetics and quantitative behavioural analysis, and use these methods to elucidate the structure and function of the motor circuits controlled by a specific class of descending neuron. This may be, for example, a descending neuron that, when activated, causes the fly to walk backwards (see Bidaye et al, Science 6179:97), or one that elicits turning. Understanding the circuit mechanisms behind those simple actions will shed light on general computational principles of neural networks, and may even help us to design smarter robots.

Locomotor Circuits in Drosophila lab

Group leader:  Professor Barry Dickson    Email:  [email protected]

Molecular regulation of interneuron function involved in the pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Background :.

Disruption of the activity of the interneurons, cells that are fundamental for neuronal circuit function, is thought to underlie the emergence of symptoms that characterise Autism Spectrum Disorder. Yet, the molecular mechanisms which control interneuron electrical activity in autism are still largely unknown. Our data indicates that specific modulation of interneuron activity during brain maturation considerably alters adult function and triggers autism -like symptoms in wild-type mice. We show that the pattern of expression of specific molecules is significantly changed in autism , in the prefrontal cortex, a brain structure linked to the core symptoms. We also discovered that specific regulation of the interneuron activity restores normal brain function and behaviour in autism models.

Project Aim:

The proposed PhD project will focus on a molecule the Dehorter lab discovered as a key regulator of interneuron development and autism. Together with the PhD candidate, we propose to investigate the molecular pathway of this new target for the treatment of the most deleterious symptoms of autism (e.g. working memory, social impairments, epilepsy). It will combine electrophysiology, imaging, genetics and molecular biology to precisely characterise how the activity of cortical interneurons underlies brain function and behaviour. By uncovering the cellular and molecular substrates of neuronal dysfunction in mice and in human cell cultures, this research will open new perspectives for identification and use of neurobiological targets amenable to therapy in patients.

PhD Student’s Profile

  The Dehorter lab is seeking enthusiastic Australian and international graduate students, with a background in biophysics, cell biology, neuroscience or any other relevant scientific discipline. Candidates will have a First-Class Honours degree or equivalent and should be eligible for  UQ scholarship  consideration. Previous experience with electrophysiology, molecular biology and/or microscopy is necessary. Applicants must fulfill the  PhD admission criteria  for the University of Queensland, including meeting English language requirements and ideally, demonstrating excellent capacity and potential for research (e.g. publication output in peer-reviewed international journals).

  https://www.dehorterlab.com/   Email: [email protected]

Transition from Primary to Secondary School: Supporting Successful Education Pathways of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students

Background:.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students face significant challenges throughout their schooling experience. The Closing the Gap report (2020) identifies persisting gaps in numeracy and literacy attainment, most likely as a consequence of persistently lower rates of school attendance. Year after year, across school levels, average attendance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students remains under the critical rate of 90%. Data has shown that the disparity in attendance starts in early primary school and evidence a significant drop at the transition to secondary school.

In collaboration with industry partners, communities and schools, this project aims to: -    understand and document reasons behind the average precipitous drop in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students’ educational outcomes once they transition to secondary school ( Why? ), -    identify effective culturally-led support strategies during the school transition period ( What? )

Primary supervisor – Azhar Hussain Potia

Associate supervisors – Dr Kai Wheeler and Prof. Karen Thorpe

Azhar Hussain Potia – [email protected]

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QAEHS PhD Scholarships

About this scholarship.

The Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) is a multidisciplinary research Centre committed to world-class research across the environment health sciences. These include environmental toxicology, epidemiology, microbiology, health risk assessment and communication, and state-of-the art monitoring and analytical technologies to quantify emerging environmental health risks.

QAEHS is funded by Queensland Health and The University of Queensland and works closely with Queensland Health to develop the Centre’s research directions. QAEHS pursues research excellence through competitively funded research, as well as government and industry consultancies, and has a successful track record in interdisciplinary collaborative research with international and other Australian institutions.

Available PhD opportunities at QAEHS

Advisory team.

Principal Supervisor - Professor Kelly Fielding

Associate Supervisor - Dr Jagadish Thaker

Project description

There is growing recognition of the fundamental threat that climate change poses to human health. Increases in extreme weather and climate events such as storms, extreme heat, floods, droughts and bushfires will affect health both directly and indirectly. International agencies like the World Health Organisation forecast that climate change will be associated with increased risk of morbidity, noncommunicable diseases, infectious diseases and health emergencies. Although the impacts of climate change for health is garnering research attention, little is known about the communication of this issue and how the public perceive and responds to it. The current PhD project therefore applies a communication lens to the health impacts of climate change. The PhD project will provide important information that could help to develop community resilience and adaptive responses to the health effects of climate change.

Research Environment 

This PhD project is within UQ’s defined strength of environmental science (the top 20 in the world). QAEHS has student support programs such as scholarship top-up. The PhD student will be situated in an interdisciplinary environment and will have the opportunity to collaborate with students from a range of disciplines.

Preferred educational background

Your application will be assessed on a competitive basis.

We take into account your:

• previous academic record
• publication record
• honours and awards
• employment history.

A working knowledge of social science quantitative and/or qualitative methods would be of benefit to someone working on this project.

You will demonstrate academic achievement in the fields of social science including communication, psychology, sociology, or public health and the potential for scholastic success.

Questions about this project should be directed to Professor Kelly Fielding  [email protected]

Advisory Team

Principal Supervisor - P rofessor Jianhua Guo

Associate Supervisor - Dr Casey Huang

Opportunistic pathogens (OPs) such as Legionella spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are major causes of waterborne disease outbreaks. These pathogens are particularly concerning as a cause of hospital and healthcare facility acquired infections and disease outbreaks, linked to the persistent biofilms that present in premise plumbing systems (i.e. taps and showerheads). The project will involve developing and applying a range of antimicrobial agents/treatments to assess their effectiveness for the selective removal of opportunistic pathogens in biofilms, such as Legionella spp. and NTM. These will be applied on various biofilm models, ranging from constructed biofilms in reactors to real mature drinking water pipe biofilms. This project expects to further improve the understanding of OPs, their occurrence and microbial ecology in drinking water systems. Findings from this project would improve on existing water treatment strategies and management in healthcare facilities

This multi-disciplinary project intersects the reserach fields of microbiology, environmental engineering, and environmental biotechnology. These are areas of research strength at UQ. In all three ERA assessment rounds, UQ was ranked first in the nation in Environmental Engineering and Environmental Biotechnology.

The successful applicant will be based at the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, located at The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus. ACWEB at UQ is one of the top research centres worldwide in innovative water science and technology. ACWEB has an annual budget of $8-10M with the majority of funding sourced from competitive schemes including the ARC. ACWEB publishes 100+ papers annually in high quality international peer-reviewed journals, including Science and Nature.

The successful applicant will have access to the research facilities in ACWEB’s PC2-certified Environmental Microbiology Laboratory. They will also have access to complementary facilities at St Lucia, such as flow cytometry, confocal laser scanning microscopy and electron microscopy.

A working knowledge of practical experience in bacterial or protozoan cultivation skills and techniques, molecular biology, microbial ecology, environmental engineering would be of benefit to someone working on this project.

You will demonstrate academic achievement in the fields of environmental microbiology, microbiology, molecular biology, environmental engineering or science and the potential for scholastic success.

A background or knowledge of microbiology is essential, and a background or knowledge of environmental microbiology with a focus on water is highly desirable.

Questions about this project should be directed to Professor Jianhua Guo [email protected]

Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Gilda Carvalho

Associate Supervisor - A ssociate Professor Sarit Kaserzon

Freshwater harmful cyanobacteria are a growing concern in Australian drinking water supply, which is mostly obtained from surface water sources. Global warming and extreme heavy rainfall events increase water temperature and nutrient inputs, increasing the frequency and extent of cyanobacteria blooms. Cyanobacteria produce toxins that, if present in drinking water can expose the population to a range of adverse health effects, including kidney and liver damage. Conventional drinking water treatment plants are able to remove cyanobacteria and low concentrations of cyanotoxins, but higher concentrations require adjustment of the treatment conditions or the introduction of additional treatment steps. This project aims at investigating the presence of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins detected in Queensland surface waters and their fate in conventional drinking water treatment processes. In addition, novel and advanced treatment processes will be investigated to improve the efficiency and reliability of cyanotoxins removal in drinking water treatment plants. 

This PhD project is within UQ’s defined strength of environmental science (the top 20 in the world). QAEHS has a particular strength in environmental monitoring, analytical chemistry, and human exposure risk assessment. QAEHS has student support programs such as scholarship top-up. QAEHS has a newly equipped and well-maintained PC2 laboratory with all the advanced equipment and other resources this project needs. These include 13 state-of-the-art mass spectrometers – five Sciex LC-MS triple quadrupoles (QQQ), two LC-MS QTOFs, a GC-Orbitrap, a HRGC-HRMS and a GC-triple quadrupoles, and an NCI-GC-triple quadrupoles. ACWEB is one of the top research units worldwide in the field of water and environmental biotechnology. ACWEB has excellent experimental and analytical  facilities, including lab- and pilot-scale reactors and advanced analytical and monitoring tools. ACWEB fosters a thriving research environment and provides exciting opportunities for professional development, both academically and with industry.  

You will demonstrate academic achievement in the field(s) of water chemistry, chemical engineering, biotechnology and the potential for scholastic success.

Questions about this project should be directed to Professor Gilda Carvalho  [email protected]

Principal Supervisor - Dr Richard Bade

Associate Supervisor - Dr Jake O'Brien

In the lead-up to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it is important to understand how large gatherings can impact on the population and the environment. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) or wastewater surveillance has been a crucial tool for assessing community-level chemical and pathogen exposure for more than a decade. As sewage (wastewater) contains the urine from entire communities, WBE extends urine testing of individuals to whole communities. Large events, such as international sporting competitions, festivals or COVID-19, can lead to changes in human activity and use of various substances, resulting in temporary changes in chemical discharges into wastewater. Moreover, an increase in international visitors can also lead to changes in the pathogens, to which the community is exposed. Monitoring this through WBE helps identify potential health risks so that interventions can be implemented and monitored for their efficacy. The student will establish methods for for chemical/pathogen exposures, using samples collected during events. 

Research Environment

This PhD project is within UQ’s defined strength of environmental science (the top 20 in the world). QAEHS has a particular strength in environmental monitoring, analytical chemistry, and human exposure risk assessment. QAEHS has student support programs such as scholarship top-up. QAEHS has a newly equipped and well-maintained PC2 laboratory with all the advanced equipment and other resources this project needs. These include 13 state-of-the-art mass spectrometers – five Sciex LC-MS triple quadrupoles (QQQ), two LC-MS QTOFs, a GC-Orbitrap, a HRGC-HRMS and a GC-triple quadrupoles, and an NCI-GC-triple quadrupoles.

A working knowledge of wastewater based epidemiology would be of benefit to someone working on this project.

You will demonstrate academic achievement in the fields of environmental science, analytical chemistry, or forensic chemistry and the potential for scholastic success.

A background or knowledge of wet chemistry sample preparation techniques and use of analytical instruments is highly desirable.

Questions about this project should be directed to Dr Richard Bade  [email protected]

Principal Supervisor - Associate Professor Nicholas Osborne

Associate Supervisor - Dr Darsy Darssan

A high incidence of asthma, COPD and allergic rhinitis in the Queensland community has the risk of putting high pressure on the Queensland health system on days when exposure to environmental factors is high. These include viral infection, days with high PM2.5 and high pollen days (>50 particles per m3). In the 2022/23 financial year, there were more than 7,300 hospitalisations in Queensland with a principal diagnosis of asthma. This project is multidisciplinary in nature and relates to air quality and health and epidemiological data analysis. In collaboration with the University of Melbourne and AirHealth we will use data collected over the last 10 year to make better predictions on air quality. Potential questions to probe this valuable data set include how grass pollen exposure influences symptoms and hospital admittance, how grass pollen differs from other pollens, how app users respond differently in drought and flood years and how different regions in Queensland and Australia have different responses to high pollen exposure.

A working knowledge of biostatistics; epidemiology; public health; data analysis; mathematics would be of benefit to someone working on this project.

You will demonstrate academic achievement in the fields of environmental health sciences, public health, biostatistics, spatial statistics and the potential for scholastic success.

A background or knowledge of epidemiology; environmental health and biostatistics is highly desirable.

Questions about this project should be directed to Associate Professor Nicholas Osborne [email protected]

Principal Supervisor - Dr Ji Lu

Associate Supervisor - Professor Jianhua Go

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing global challenge, yet its spread in environments outside clinical settings and the impact of associated micropollutants are poorly understood. Our current knowledge is primarily based on single-species responses to individual micropollutants. However, in natural environments, microbes are exposed to multiple micropollutants simultaneously. These combinations may produce effects that are equal to, stronger than (synergistic), or weaker than (antagonistic) the sum of their parts. Understanding these effects is crucial for assessing ecosystem health and recommending pollution mitigation strategies. This PhD project aims to investigate the complex impact of environmental micropollutants on the spread of antimicrobial resistance in environmental microbial communities. By including non-model species that better represent natural microbial communities, we will gain a deeper understanding of micropollutants-microbes interactions.

A working knowledge of bioinformatic analyses, bacterial culturing, bioreactor operation, molecular biology techniques would be of benefit to someone working on this project.

You will demonstrate academic achievement in the fields of microbiology, molecular biology, environmental engineering and microbial ecology and the potential for scholastic success.

A background or knowledge of antimicrobial resistance  is highly desirable.

Questions about this project should be directed to Dr Ji Lu [email protected] 

More information and how to apply

Eligibility

You are eligible if you:

• meet the  entry requirements for a higher degree by research
• are assessed by the UQ Graduate School as meeting all conditions for  admission to the PhD program

How to apply

Before submitting an application you should:

• check your  eligibility for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
• prepare your  documentation
• select the chosen project you wish to apply for – you will need to enter the correct project title into the application

A domestic part-time student with carer’s responsibilities, a medical condition or a disability, which prevents them from studying full time may be eligible for scholarship consideration, on a case by case basis.

You must be willing to undertake part of your study at both institutions (a minimum of 1 year at the host) over the duration of the program.

Students who are accepted into this joint doctoral program are required to fund their own travel to commence at their home university.

UQ  Higher Degree by Research Admission policy UQ Research Scholarships terms and conditions

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

• Springfield
• 3 year(s) (or part-time equivalent)
• Jan, Feb, Apr, May, Jul, Aug, Sep, Nov

Career outcomes

Entry requirements, degree structure, fees and scholarships.

• Do you have a passion for research? The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a research degree available in all study areas and provides you with the skills to become an effective researcher in your previously studied discipline.
• By undertaking a Doctor of Philosophy you will have expansive intellectual freedom to be able to make an original and substantial contribution to your area of study.
• UniSQ academics are recognised throughout the world for their excellence in research. Some of the projects you can tap into are at the forefront of cutting edge research.
• As a research student you will have the commitment and support to make a difference to society in a meaningful way. UniSQ is committed to excellence in research training and provide a quality research training experience for our students. We maintain our relevance in research by linking with industry and business through local and international research networks.
• Our research extends across all of the Schools and Centres in the university. Within the Division of Research and Innovation it is focused across three research institutes and nine research centres , reflecting a wide array of research excellence.
• To start your PhD you need to clarify your research topic and seek an academic staff member to be your supervisor. This can sometimes take time so it is wise to allow several months for discussion with potential supervisors and for consideration of your application.
• Graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy is ideal if you wish to pursue a career in industry, academia or government with specialisation in your chosen field.

Applicants must have one of the following:

• an Australian-university Bachelor honours degree with First Class Honours or Second Class Honours (Division A) or equivalent (with a thesis comprising at least two units), or
• an Australian-university Masters degree (with a thesis comprising at least two units) or equivalent, or
• other qualifications and/or experiences equivalent to First Class or Second Class Honours (Division A).

English language requirements

You are required to satisfy the applicable English language requirements  and this degree requires a minimum of IELTS 6.5 or equivalent . If you do not meet the English language requirements you may apply to study a University-approved English language program .

UniSQ offers a number of masters degrees  for you to study to help you meet the entry requirements for your chosen degree.

The Doctor of Philosophy comprises a minimum of 16 independent research units, although students would normally complete 24 independent research units, with the option to extend to 32 independent research units if needed.

Refer to the UniSQ Handbook for courses to be studied and recommended enrolment patterns.

Your actual fees may vary depending on the courses you select. We review our fees annually so these may be subject to change.

1 These are indicative annual fees for 2024. 

Grant to help you pay your fees

All Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents, and New Zealand citizens commencing a Higher Degree by Research (HDR) degree will have their tuition fees paid by the Australian Commonwealth Government under the Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset scheme. The RTP Fees Offset scheme covers program fees for an HDR student up to a maximum period of four years for full-time study or up to eight years part-time study for a Doctoral degree, and up to a maximum period of two years for full-time or four years part-time for a Masters by Research degree.

As part of the enrolment process, students are required to submit proof of citizenship or permanent residency status and transcripts of all previous academic study. This documentation enables the University of Southern Queensland to determine eligibility for an RTP Fees Offset place.

• have not used RTP Fees Offset funding in the previous three years; or
• have already used RTP Fees Offset funding and have successfully completed an HDR degree. Once a student completes an HDR degree, full entitlements of RTP Fees Offset are restored.

If a student's RTP Fees Offset entitlement expires before completion of the degree, the student will be required to pay full tuition fees, or if meeting the eligibility criteria be able to apply for a FEE-Help loan . 

Scholarships

At UniSQ, we offer a range of scholarships to support your success at university. Find a scholarship  that works for you.

How to apply

Complete your online application directly to UniSQ.

Applications may be submitted at any time, but it is ideal to allow a minimum of 25 working days between when you submit your application and the start of your requested study period.

Select to start in one of the following intakes:

Further information

To learn more about the application process and how to find and connect with a research supervisor please visit the Graduate Research School  website.

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PhD is short for Doctor of Philosophy – a globally recognised research qualification. Traditionally, PhD students completed a substantial piece of original research which is presented as a thesis or dissertation. This research is conducted under the guidance of at least one expert supervisor.

Discover more about higher degrees by research  at UniSQ.

If you have a passion for research and want to expand your knowledge in your choose field beyond a masters degree, a PhD might be for you. Other reasons to study a doctorate degree include:

• Expanding your career prospects with the highest achievable postgraduate qualification.
• Become an expert – after your PhD you will be considered an expert in your choose area of research.
• Showcasing your transferrable skills. Achieving a PhD degree involves more than research – your qualification demonstrates your work ethic, problem solving skills, commitment, communication skills and much more depending on your choose research topic.

A PhD qualification can open up many exciting career paths in a variety of roles and settings including:

• Academica or government
• Postdoctoral positions at a university or research institute
• Graduate lecturer
• Researcher/consultant
• Non-government or private organisations
• Scientific research
• Researcher/consultant in industry or non-for-profit.
• Entrepreneur.

A PhD degree will take you approximately three years to complete. Some students choose to study part-time which increases the time it takes to complete the doctorate.

To start a PhD you need to clarify your research topic and seek an academic staff member to be your supervisor, therefore we recommend allowing several months to consider your application.

Graduating with a PhD is a noteworthy achievement as it is considered the highest postgraduate achievement you can earn. After completing your Doctor of Philosophy you will likely be considered an expert in your field, opening up a variety of new career paths. After completing your PhD, take this unique opportunity to:

• Tailor your resume – showcase the skills and knowledge you learnt during your studies, including transferrable skills. Don’t be modest about your achievement as it is significant and your potential employer may not understand what it took to achieve a PhD.
• Networking – put your newly found expertise to good use by attending industry events and meeting other experts or notable professionals in your field. This will not only expand your horizons but may lead to potential job opportunities.

The cost of a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree will vary depending on the education provider you choose.

When you study with us, your degree will cost approximately AUD 31000 (Domestic full fee paying).

All Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents, and New Zealand citizens commencing a Higher Degree by Research (HDR) degree will have their tuition fees paid by the Australian Commonwealth Government under the Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset scheme.

For further information on Fees, including RTP and scholarships, please view the Fees and scholarships section of this webpage.

The entry requirements for studying a PhD degree can vary depending on your chosen education provider. At UniSQ applicants must hold either a relevant bachelor honours degree, masters degree or other qualifications and satisfy applicable English Language requirements.

For further details please view the entry requirements section of this page.

Get a strong start to your research career:

• Learn from world class researchers – according to the latest ERA  results, UniSQ is rated at world standard or better in 30 areas of research.
• Study for your PhD while balancing your life work and family commitments with flexible online or on-campus study.
• Benefit from our leading research expertise, extending across three research institutes and nine research centres.
• We are proud to partner with industry leaders to drive impactful change, giving our students opportunities to experience research in real-world environments.

Discover the UQ students' voice collection

In 2023, we worked with 3 student partners find out what types of items UQ students would like to see in the Library collection.

Discover the UQ Students' Choice collection and pick out some fresh reading material from the Library!

About the collection

The UQ Students' Choice collection is 54 items (34 physical resources and 20 online resources) carefully selected to have a recreational reading and student life focus. 

It was developed as part of a Student-Staff Partnership Project to bring the student voice into library collections and includes:

• diverse perspectives
• student recommended and selected items.

Visit the UQ Students' Choice collection

Donations to the Library were used to purchase this collection. Thank you to our Friends of the Library for their generous support.

Developed with UQ students

Our student partners Dain, Lucy and Yan Yee helped to find materials and develop the collection. They:

• ran a focus group and online survey to ask UQ students which books they’d like to see in our collections   
• submitted purchase requests with us so we could purchase the agreed items  
• shared their experiences working together to encourage other students to consider Student-Staff partnerships. 

Experiences while building the collection

On students views of the Library and the types of materials they expect to find in the collections:

“We actually find, which is not really surprising, that even though we are a university library students do actually want to see non-academic materials in the Library.”  and “What I find most surprising in that students are quite vocal about what they want to see in the Library. Like they actually have a good idea and the voices are there, the opinions are there. We just have to find the right way to look out for it.”  Yan Yee (student partner) 

“What we’ve noticed is that a lot of students tend to only view the UQ Library as a source of information gathering for their assignments and research, but we want students to know that there’s a lot more available in the Library for them outside of that.” Dain (student partner)

On students feeling connected while at university: 

“I think having a collection curated by students is really important in helping students feel connected to the UQ community. University can be isolating and overwhelming for many students. Having this collection is a way for students to recognise that there are other students that have the same interests or are going through the same challenges.” Lucy (student partner)

On diverse persectives in the collection:

“Another reason why I was really interested in it [the SSP project] was, I’ve been going to international Schools my entire life. I’ve noticed that a lot of libraries tended to have books that were very Eurocentric to follow the international guidelines on books that libraries would require students to read in class. And because of that I often felt very left out because when I was reading these characters I knew they were characters but I never really fully connected to them because they weren’t ‘me’.”  Dain (student partner)

“Having more books available for diversity and different people, and not just teaching and learning staff is quite cool in a way.”  Yan Yee (student partner)

About Student-Staff partnerships 

Student-Staff Partnerships are a great way for students and staff to work together to improve the student experience.

Partnerships help students to get involved, utilise skills learned in their course and gain valuable work experience.

Visit  Become a student partner to learn more.

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PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Queensland

Industrial research in high temperature critical metal production and recycling for bhp olympic dam, phd research project.

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Investigation of Railway Studs and Squats

Identifying individuals at high risk of alzheimer’s disease, competition funded phd project (students worldwide).

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Human neuroimaging and blood biomarkers for inherited neurodegenerative diseases

Mechanistic understanding of how obesity causes cancer – how do physiological stressors affect the tumor ecosystem, modelling brain dynamics across the lifespan, genetics-based approaches to precision medicine for chronic or noncommunicable diseases, developing small molecule inhibitors to target treatment refractory melanoma., machine learning analysis of imaging and sequencing data for cancer diagnosis and prognosis., unravelling the genetic & environmental basis of chronic pain, characterising the genetics and phenotypic diversity of human voice, speech and language, targeting novel eph receptors in solid tumours, car t cells – redirecting t cells for cancer immunotherapy, development of crispr based technology in schistosome bloodflukes, somatic changes to mitochondria dna in cancer development.

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