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VRES: The High Court and the legal treatment of blockchain in the Block Earner case
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
VRES: Blockchain as an archive fairy tale.
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
Local positioning system field trials and demos
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
Coastal habitable water infrastructures
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
Physics-informed diffeomorphic image registration
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
Does winning breed winning? Winner–loser effects in professional doubles tennis
Athletes, fans and commentators often believe that success generates momentum: winning a crucial point, game or set may increase confidence and make subsequent success more likely. This idea is commonly described as the “hot-hand” effect. However, decades of research have produced mixed findings. Some studies suggest that streaks are largely perceived rather than real, while others find evidence that previous success can influence later performance through confidence, strategic adjustment, physiological responses or changes in risk-taking.This project investigates winner–loser effects in …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Economics and Finance
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology
Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology
When football wins move people: sport, mobility and COVID-19 compliance around the world
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that the effectiveness of public-health rules depends not only on what governments require, but also on whether people change their everyday behaviour. Lockdowns, gathering limits and movement restrictions were intended to reduce contact and transmission, yet compliance varied widely between countries, regions and moments in time. One potentially important but underexplored source of behavioural pressure is sport. Football victories can create strong emotions, collective identity and incentives for fans to gather, celebrate and travel, even when …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Economics and Finance
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology
Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology
Reinventing the Academy: Innovation, Strategy, and Change in Universities
Universities are among the most enduring institutions in society, yet they now face an unprecedented combination of pressures — from financial constraints and geopolitical tensions to the rise of generative AI and growing expectations around societal impact. Despite their well-documented role in driving innovation for others, how universities innovate themselves as organisations remains surprisingly understudied. This creates a timely and important opportunity for scholarly inquiry into the drivers, barriers, and processes of innovation within higher education institutions.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Management
AI in Entrepreneurship
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming entrepreneurship in profound and far-reaching ways, yet our scholarly understanding of this transformation remains nascent and uneven. AI is not only reshaping how entrepreneurs create and grow ventures, but is also challenging the very foundations of how we study entrepreneurship — questioning long-held assumptions about agency, creativity, opportunity, and what it even means to be an entrepreneur in an AI-driven world.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Management
Mathematical and statistical methods for change point detection in precision fermentation
Precision fermentation uses microorganisms such as yeast to produce valuable biological products for food, biotechnology and synthetic biology. A major challenge is that microbial growth and production can change when cells switch between different metabolic regimes. These changes may occur because of nutrient depletion, stress responses, dilution conditions, or shifts in how cells allocate resources between growth and product formation.This PhD project will develop new mathematical and statistical methods for detecting these metabolic change points from experimental data. The project …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Mathematical Sciences
Smart electrochemical aptamer biosensors for continuous monitoring cell health and function
Microphysiological systems including organ-on-chip platforms and 3D tissue models are transforming how we study human biology, enabling advanced in vitro models for tissue regeneration and drug testing that are far more physiologically relevant than conventional cell culture. However, a critical gap remains in how we monitor these living systems: current approaches rely on destructive or invasive methods that require cell sacrifice or physical sampling. Even the least invasive options are endpoint-based, capturing only a single snapshot in time making continuous, …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Detecting metabolic regime switching using dilution-resolved growth data: mathematical modelling, statistical inference and uncertainty quantification
Microbial populations rarely grow according to a single fixed physiological program. As nutrients are consumed, waste products accumulate and environmental stress changes, cells can transition between distinct metabolic regimes associated with growth, maintenance, fermentation, respiration and survival. These transitions are biologically important and industrially relevant, but they are often difficult to detect directly from standard growth curve summaries such as maximum growth rate, lag time, carrying capacity or area under the curve.This project will develop new mathematical and statistical methods …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Mathematical Sciences
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