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Biodegradable scaffolds are increasingly used to treat critical-sized bone defects, yet their in vivo degradation kinetics remain poorly understood. Existing analyses rely on limited morphometric measurements and lack automated computational tools. This project will use a unique longitudinal micro-CT dataset to characterize scaffold degradation over time, providing quantitative insights to support the design of next-generation biodegradable orthopedic implants.

Study level

Master of Philosophy

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering

Research centre(s)

Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Centre for Biomedical Technologies

Contemporary patient care is delivered through complex, multi-step workflows that span triage, assessment, diagnosis, documentation, care coordination, treatment, and follow-up. Many steps in these workflows are repetitive, cognitively burdensome, or prone to delays and errors, and a substantial share of clinicians' time is consumed by tasks that require limited clinical judgement, such as documentation, information retrieval, and administrative coordination. Persistent workforce shortages, rising demand, and clinician burnout have intensified interest in whether some of these tasks can be safely delegated …

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy

Faculty

Faculty of Health

School

School of Public Health and Social Work

Research centre(s)

Centre for Data Science

Ongoing global warming, compounded by local overheating in cities and buildings, poses growing risks to occupant health, comfort, and well-being. Conventional design approaches rely heavily on predictive simulation, where occupant preferences and adaptive responses are typically simplified through assumptions based on average populations. This overlooks substantial individual differences in perception and behaviour, contributing to persistent gaps between predicted and actual building performance beyond simply energy performance. Although virtual reality (VR) is increasingly recognised as a promising tool for pre-occupancy evaluation …

Study level

PhD

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Architecture and Built Environment

Signal processing applications in RADAR, electronic surveillance, and communications systems are regularly developed and deployed on *field programmable gate arrays* (FPGA).FPGAs are common because of their strong computational performance and flexibility.This performance and flexibility comes at a cost.The cost of commonly used FPGA such as Xilinx's Zynq and Ultrascale SoCs range between several hundreds to several tens of thousands of dollars.Complete systems deployed with these chips range from several thousands to several hundreds of thousands of dollars.Such cost is often …

Study level

Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

Communication is an enabling technology for underwater systems such as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), sensor networks, and diver support equipment. These systems cannot use radio frequency (RF) links, because radio waves are heavily absorbed by water, and poor visibility rules out optical links. Only acoustic communication is suitable. The underwater acoustic channel is bandwidth-limited, slow, and degraded by multipath, Doppler, and noise, making underwater modems a demanding signal processing and embedded systems problem.Commercial underwater modems exist but are expensive and …

Study level

Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar systems are widely used in applications such as automotive sensing, robotics, and industrial automation for object detection, range estimation, and velocity measurement.In this project, students will design and implement a complete interface to a commercial mmWave radar module using either an FPGA platform or an NVIDIA Jetson embedded system. The project will include low-level hardware/software interfacing as well as basic radar signal processing to extract meaningful information from the radar data.

Study level

Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

This project explores the growing use of artificial intelligence in the legal profession to create “personas” of judges. These systems are trained on past decisions, legal reasoning, and perceived judicial attitudes to simulate how a judge might respond to a case. Lawyers can then use these simulated responses to test arguments and refine litigation strategy.The project examines how these tools work in practice, what assumptions they rely on, and how accurate or useful they truly are. It also considers broader …

Study level

Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Law

This project examines the High Court of Australia’s decision in ASIC v Web3 Ventures Pty Ltd (Block Earner)—one of the first times the High Court has directly engaged with blockchain-based financial products. In June 2026, the Court unanimously held that Block Earner’s fixed-yield crypto product was a financial product requiring a licence, confirming that existing financial services laws apply to digital assets.This decision raises important questions about how the law understands blockchain technology. The Court emphasised that financial regulation is …

Study level

Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Law

This project explores how blockchain is understood as a new kind of archive. Blockchain is often described as a system that creates trust through secure, unchangeable records. However, this claim is shaped by broader stories and expectations about technology. These stories form what we call the cultural imaginary—a mix of hope and fear that influences how people understand and regulate new technologies.On one hand, blockchain promises transparency and certainty. On the other, it raises concerns about misuse, control, and misinformation. …

Study level

Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Law

The Local Positioning System is a major initiative to provide a global alternative to GPS, that works when and where GPS does not, and enables the tracking of robots, assets, and any thing of interest that moves.

Study level

Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

Research centre(s)

Centre for Robotics

Urban foreshores are increasingly emerging as the first line of adaptation and defence against extreme weather events, including sea-level rise, flooding, and storm surges, while simultaneously becoming sites of urban intensification to accommodate growing populations. Under these pressures, foreshore water infrastructures can no longer afford to segregate habitation from infrastructure. This research reconceptualises foreshores as territories where water infrastructures and human and non-human habitation are intricately entangled in future urban conditions. It explores a new concept of habitable foreshore water …

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Architecture and Built Environment

Research centre(s)

QUT Resilience Centre

Medical image registration is the process of finding a spatial transformation that aligns a medical scan or image (X-ray, CT, MR, US, PET etc.) to another scan or image for comparison. Example use of image registration includes mapping one patient's brain MRI onto another's, or tracking organ motion across breathing cycles in lung CT. Accurate registration is a primary requirement of a wide range of clinical workflows, including disease progression monitoring, treatment planning, and atlas-based segmentation.Diffeomorphic registration methods constrain the …

Study level

PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics