Our partnership

QUT is a major partner of the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU), creating pathways for Queensland's Super Rugby Pacific and Super W players, and providing work-integrated learning opportunities for QUT students with the QRU at Ballymore.

The partnership will also highlight the possibilities of a university education to remote and rural communities, and will work to increase opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Learn more about QUT's partnership with the QRU

Partnership launch

Reds intern tackles performance analysis

QUT sports science student Natalie Honnery has spent the Queensland Reds’ 2023 season learning how to help maximise the team’s performance as part of her university degree and a QUT-Queensland Rugby Union (QRU) partnership.

Natalie is a third-year Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science student and began a 12-month internship with the QRU last November during the Reds’ pre-season training. The work placement is part of her course and provides credit toward her degree.

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QUT-QRU partnership a career lift for students

He's competed with some of the best weightlifters in the world at the Tokyo Olympics – and now QUT health student Matthew Lydement is learning how to train some of the best rugby players, thanks to a real-world work placement with the Queensland Reds.

The Olympian and final-year Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science student is half-way through a 12-month placement with Queensland Rugby Union (QRU) as part of his studies with the QUT School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences in the Faculty of Health.

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Sport at QUT

Sport at QUT offers opportunities to represent, engage and to connect. Leading the Australian university landscape, QUT Sport enrich the student experience by focusing on the connection we make through sport.

Whether that be through our weekly social sport programs, representation at local or national intervarsity event, commitment to health and wellbeing through partnerships or how we pursue technology in sport.

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