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Bridging Real-World Modelling and Secondary Mathematics Education
This project explores how authentic modelling approaches (for example Bayesian reasoning and systems thinking) can be integrated into secondary mathematics classrooms to enhance engagement and conceptual understanding.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- School of Education
Modelling educational equity and access pathways
This project examines how pathways of disadvantage and success develop across schooling. It focuses on identifying how socio-economic, wellbeing, and contextual factors interact over time to shape outcomes.This project extends ongoing research into student engagement trajectories and aligns with faculty priorities in inclusive and socially just education.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- School of Education
Data-informed decision-making in education systems
This project explores how advanced statistical modelling can support decision-making in complex education systems. It focuses on modelling uncertainty, interdependencies, and policy-relevant insights to guide planning and practice.The project aligns with research applying Bayesian networks to real world decision-making under uncertainty across infrastructure, health, and education contexts
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- School of Education
Modelling student engagement and success using Bayesian networks
This PhD project investigates how academic, wellbeing, family, and school-context factors interact to shape student engagement, retention, and academic success in secondary schooling. Using large-scale longitudinal datasets, the project will develop advanced probabilistic models to identify key predictors and pathways that explain diverse learner trajectories.The research will contribute to evidence-based strategies for improving student engagement and reducing attrition, with strong relevance to policy and practice in Australian and international contexts.This project builds on ongoing work applying advanced statistical modelling to …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- School of Education
Machine Learning for Power Quality Analysis in Low-Voltage Distribution Networks
Two full PhD scholarships are available at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, focusing on machine learning for power quality analysis in low-voltage distribution networks.These PhD projects are part of an Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ITTC), providing students with access to a strong interdisciplinary research environment and collaboration opportunities with leading academic researchers and industry partners.The projects will investigate how solar inverters and electric vehicle (EV) chargers affect harmonic distortion, impedance, and resonance behaviour in the 2–9 kHz range. …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Smart triggered sampling: low-cost devices and intelligent retrofits for capturing the moments that matter
Many water quality issues are event-driven. The most informative signals often appear during short windows associated with storms, illicit discharges, first flush, or operational upsets. Capturing these windows is genuinely hard. Manual sampling is often too slow, especially overnight or during fast-changing events. Conventional autosamplers help, but they are large, power-hungry, and typically deployed only at major assets, leaving smaller drains, tributaries, pump stations, and pollution hotspots without coverage. Even when an event is captured, fixed-interval sampling fills bottles after …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
See it without touching it: low-cost non-contact sensing for our waterways
Many of our most important waterbodies, including reservoirs, lakes, lagoons, wetlands, sedimentation basins, and constructed wetlands, are still monitored using sparse in-water sensors and periodic grab sampling. These methods are costly to maintain, hard to scale across many sites, and often miss spatially variable changes in water quality.Non-contact sensing offers a different approach. Cameras, spectral sensors, radar, thermal imaging, and other sensing modalities can observe water from outside it, reducing fouling, simplifying servicing, improving worker safety, and enabling broader spatial …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rapid pathogen detection in water: from lab prototype to field-ready public health tool
Faecal contamination is one of the most consequential water hazards because it directly affects public health. Beach closures, do-not-drink advisories, and waterway warnings all depend on detecting microbial contamination quickly and reliably. Today, monitoring still depends largely on infrequent sampling and laboratory turnaround times that arrive long after the contamination has come and gone.Direct microbial sensing has advanced through biosensors and microfluidics, but most concepts remain at low technology readiness and are rarely demonstrated as field-usable systems. Reliability in the …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Smart sensing for nutrients in our waterways: low-cost continuous monitoring for pollution tracking and real-time control
Nitrogen and phosphorus are central to the health of stormwater systems, rivers, wetlands, and lakes. They drive algal growth, oxygen stress, and downstream ecological impacts, and they are a key input to environmental reporting and catchment management. Yet most monitoring still relies on infrequent grab samples that miss the short pollution pulses that matter most.The challenge is delivering nutrient monitoring that is affordable, low-maintenance, and reliable enough for continuous deployment across many sites. Existing nutrient sensors are often too expensive …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Designing perception: Investigating gender perception in designed objects through practice-based research
Perceptions of gender are not limited to people; they extend to objects, products, and environments through subtle interactions between form, language, and cultural context. The inclusion and arrangement of specific aesthetic attributes are a primary driver of perceived object gender, interacting with various factors, including cultural and personal individual identity. This creates an opportunity to reframe the question of “object gender” through a design research lens.This PhD project seeks to explore object gender through practice-based design research. It leverages user …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- School of Design
- Research centre(s)
- QUT Design Lab
Design Lab
Learning complex dynamics from multimodal time-series data
Modelling non-stationary dynamics from high-frequency time-series data remains challenging. These signals often exhibit complex temporal and spectral structure, while observations are typically noisy, incomplete, and affected by changing operating conditions, making reliable prediction and representation learning difficult.This PhD project, offered at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in collaboration with industry partners, focuses on learning representations and dynamics from multimodal time-series data.The research will explore deep approaches including sequence models, transformer-based architectures, anomaly detection, graph neural networks, and self-supervised learning, with …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Exploring the accessibility needs of visually impaired peer workers in digital employment support platforms
This project will explore how blind and visually impaired (VI) peer workers use digital platforms in their day to day practice, with the aim of identifying or co-designing a platform that is accessible, JAWS compatible and aligned with the requirements of industry partner Chapter1’s peer-led employment services.
- Study level
- Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Computer Science
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