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.

Bold ideas, real impact

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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Energy Transition Centre

The QUT Energy Transition Centre brings together researchers from multiple disciplines to collectively solve the most pressing challenges faced in transitioning our economy to net zero emissions.

GenAI Lab

Focused on addressing the emerging social and cultural challenges and possibilities of Generative AI

Grief Guide

We are developing a \"Grief Guide\" app to help people when professional counselling is not available (such as the middle of the night).

HEAL

The Health Excellence Accelerator Lab (HEAL) in the QUT Design Lab is working with Clinical Excellence Queensland (CEQ) to bring design thinking to wicked problems across Queensland Health, with eighteen projects during 2020-2021.

Home Languages in Schools: Students, Families and Teachers Learning Together (HLinS)

Home Languages in Schools: Students, Families and Teachers Learning Together (HLinS)

Housing, Homelessness, and Older Women: Evaluation, Engagement, and Arts-Based Knowledge Translation

This project brings together evaluation and creative storytelling to better understand how housing support programs can meet the needs of older women at risk of homelessness.

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Research news

QUT researchers awarded more than $15 million in ARC Future Fellowships
11 Sep 2026

QUT researchers awarded more than $15 million in ARC Future Fellowships

QUT researchers have secured more than $15 million in Australian Research Council Future Fellowship funding, with 13 researchers awarded support for projects spanning renewable energy, robotics, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, education, environmental science and disaster resilience.

Too much emotion in digital marketing reduces sales: QUT research
8 Sep 2026

Too much emotion in digital marketing reduces sales: QUT research

PhD researcher Sichen Meng has won the QUT 2026 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition with her presentation “More Likes, Fewer Sales: Helping Small Sellers Turn Attention into Purchases”, which found more attention did not equal more sales.

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