Research for positive impact
Our research strengths address critical real-world challenges of technology and innovation sustainability and diversity and inclusion for a better world.
Our class research centres and groups address national and global challenges through world-class scholarship, authentic partnerships, and collaborative knowledge translation.
Technology and innovation
Through strategic industry and community partnerships, we co-create technology-based solutions, offer forward-looking advice, and directly incorporate real-world insights into our research.
Climate change and sustainability
We focus on innovative research advancing sustainability solutions, exploring concepts like the well-being economy, new governance models, and just transition to a decarbonised economy.
Diversity and inclusion
We recognise the interconnected nature of diverse identification factors and their impact on individual opportunities and experiences related to equity, diversity and inclusion.
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Our research centres
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Centre for Future Enterprise
Our research brings together world-leading academics with CEOs, founders, policy makers and industry leaders. We help current and future leaders to navigate a fast-emerging new world and to differentiate requirements from distracting noise.
Australian Centre for Health Law Research
We are a group of transdisciplinary researchers who conduct innovative research at the intersection of law, health, ethics, and policy. We aim to generate new knowledge to inform reforms to law, policy and practice.
Centre for Decent Work and Industry
We progress social change by critically examining the nexus of business, work, education and society.
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The Training Centre for Behavioural Insights for Technology and Adoption (BITA)
BITA unites industry, government, and leading researchers to tackle societal challenges through expertise in behavioural economics, social marketing, and psychology. We develop innovative solutions, advance research, and deliver training that connects theory with practical application.
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QUT Business School research insights
Do we think and feel alike? Field evidence on developing a shared reality when dealing with service robots
What motivates crypto likes? How assessment regulatory mode increases social media engagement with crypto assets
Examining consumers' perceptions of relationship value with retailers: a multi-method approach
Law, technology and humans
Law, Technology and Humans is an innovative, international, open access journal dedicated to research and scholarship on the human and humanity of law and technology. Supported by the School of Law at Queensland University of Technology, the Journal is indexed in international databases including Scopus and Web of Science, and importantly in the largest open access database DOAJ.
All queries related to the journal can be sent to chief editor Professor Kieran Tranter via email lawtechhum@qut.edu.au.
If government agencies are using computers to automate decisions about citizens, what are the risks?
Is the promise of large language models (LLMs) improving legal practice?
How can we align regulatory technology during active sanctions against countries?
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Research news
Concrete plan needed for Brisbane 2032 housing legacy
New QUT research has called for a formal Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games housing legacy plan to help ease the region’s housing crisis by prioritising increased social and affordable housing before and after the Games.
Seven ARC Linkage projects receive more than $3.6 million funding
QUT is celebrating the success of seven ARC Linkage Projects 2025 Round 2 applications totalling $3,668,784.
QUT researchers identify Australia’s opportunity in the USD $68.56 billion global upcycled food market
QUT researchers have found Australia is well positioned to build a competitive upcycled food sector, turning surplus and byproducts into high-value food products while reducing food waste and supporting growers and manufacturers.
Severe Covid lockdowns cost home sellers and landlords $ millions
Melbourne home sellers and landlords lost up to $55 million a week as sales prices and rents declined after the second severely restrictive COVID-19 lockdown (July 2020) to attract buyers and renters who were relocating to less restrictive lockdowns outside the city, a QUT-led study has found.
Global conference tackles the future of sport
QUT will host the inaugural Future of Sport Conference in Brisbane this March, bringing international and Australian experts together to explore how innovation, technology and research are shaping the future of sport ahead of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
QUT study reveals many SMEs unaware of psychosocial hazard obligations
A national multidisciplinary study has found that many small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) decision-makers remain unaware of their legal obligations to manage psychosocial hazards, posing serious risks to worker wellbeing and compliance with work health and safety laws.