Our research focus areas

Our research responds to the complex challenges facing society today through three interconnected domains: thriving communities, equitable futures and transformative technologies.

These domains are underpinned by five focus areas that reflect the faculty's commitment to creativity, education and social justice:

  • Empowering children and young people.
  • Fostering community resilience and wellbeing.
  • Designing for impact.
  • Shaping our understanding of media, technology and society.
  • Creating sustainable futures.

Together, these focus areas guide our interdisciplinary research efforts, enabling us to collaborate across disciplines and sectors to deliver real-world impact.

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Our centres

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

We integrate research into child health, education, and digital and social connectedness. Our vision is for Australian children to be healthy, educated and connected in a digital world.

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Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC)

We provide a stimulating and supportive research training environment, where research students from around Australia and the world work alongside senior researchers to address emerging challenges and help solve practical problems.

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QUT Centre for Justice

Our vision is to democratise justice by improving opportunities for health and well-being and enhancing the inclusiveness of work and education while widening access to justice.

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QUT Design Lab

As our world gets increasingly complex, volatile and uncertain, we need ideas, innovative collaborations and imagination – the ability to reshape what is and conceive, create, and design things that don’t yet exist.

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Centre for Inclusive Education

The Centre for Inclusive Education (C4IE) at QUT contributes to genuine inclusive education by conducting high-quality research.

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

We are a cross-disciplinary, national research centre which aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making.

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Our research projects

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Co-creating Cultures of Inclusion

The Co-creating Cultures of Inclusion project, led by Associate Professer Janice Rieger, will improve access to museums and galleries for people with disabilities.

Combating modern slavery with ethical consumerism

Studying the role of civil society in mobilising ethical consumerism and investor activism to combat modern slavery.

Creative Placemaking for Social Impact

We are a research group examining the crucial role of arts, culture and place-based creativity in community recovery and resilience.

Creative Research in Development

Our vision is the creation of a peaceful and inclusive society that promotes diversity of knowledges to support real world opportunities. Our purpose is to promote creative research approaches as innovative pedagogies in co-creation, content sharing and real-world problem solving.

Designing tangible technologies for distanced intergenerational interaction

This website provides participants with updates, information, and resources for the Designing Distanced Intergenerational Interaction with Tangible Technology research project. The project explores how tangible and digital technologies can help young children and geographically distant older relatives stay emotionally connected. The site serves as the main communication platform throughout the study, offering details about participation, timelines, instructions, project updates, and opportunities for feedback.

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Research news

QUT fashion students visit Hope Vale for continued collaboration
16 Jul 2026

QUT fashion students visit Hope Vale for continued collaboration

Four QUT fashion students visited the Indigenous community of Hope Vale in Far North Queensland this month to continue a collaboration that began in 2018 and will shortly be celebrated in a QUT Art Museum exhibition.

QUT and Doomadgee community build foundations for ongoing collaboration
10 Jul 2026

QUT and Doomadgee community build foundations for ongoing collaboration

A group of QUT academics and students have this week visited the Queensland outback town of Doomadgee in a step towards future closer connections by first immersing themselves in culture to gain a greater understanding of community priorities.

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