The Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES) provides eligible students with the opportunity to participate in a research project. If you're interested in research and thinking of pursuing a research degree the scheme is an opportunity to see if research is right for you. Further information about the scheme is available on HiQ.
QUT offers a diverse range of student topics for VRES. Search to find a topic that interests you.
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Mechanical metamaterials with adaptive stiffness
The topic is interdisciplinary, not yet externally funded (future fellowship application on the same subject is under consideration)
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
NURS03 - The Registered Nurses’ Health Education Role in the provision of Clinical Care: A Scoping Review of Perceptions, Preparation, and Professional Development.
Health education provided by the Australian registered nurse to the people in their care must be person-centred with a collaborative approach to practice that embodies culturally safe and equitable practices. This educational role is as broad as patient care itself, with the health care context and individual patient needs directing the nurses' educational responsibilities. It has been noted however that nurse to patient health education is undervalued (Bergh et al 2015) and overshadowed by the educational role of nurse educators …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
CLIN03 - Adapting Medication Use for A Warming World: A Pharmacy Counselling Guide for Consumers
Medications commonly prescribed for various health conditions can increase a patient’s vulnerability to heat. Many of these drugs disrupt the body’s thermoregulatory processes by altering heat production, heat loss, or central temperature control. Currently, there is limited guidance available to help pharmacists provide appropriate counselling on how medications may affect thermoregulation. This research aims to develop a pharmacy counselling guide to support consumers with comorbidities who are taking medications, helping them adapt to a warming climate. This topic is not …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Clinical Sciences
OVS03 - Evaluation of novel motion perception tests under different lighting conditions
Perceiving and interpreting motion in the visual world is an important and complex visual process involved in activities such as driving, which involves the motion of both the driver’s own vehicle and that of other road users. Research has explored the association between tests of motion sensitivity and a range of indices of driving performance and safety, to better understand the role of motion sensitivity in driving and its ability to predict driving performance and safety. Collectively, the findings suggest …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Clinical Sciences
- Research centre
- Centre for Vision and Eye Research
See Like a Robot: Multimodal AI with Images and LiDAR
How do robots understand the world when conditions keep changing? Like humans, they use multiple sources of information captured from different sensors to build a more complete and reliable understandng of their surroundings.In this project, you will build AI models that combine camera images and LiDAR data to understand 3D environments. You will investigate how to fuse these data sources and develop methods that remain reliable when environments change.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
ENS01 - Digitalising the food literacy tool for people living with type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a major public health challenge worldwide. Although diet is important for diabetes management, many people experience difficulties following dietary advice within their everyday lives. Food literacy refers to the knowledge, skills, and behaviours required to plan, select, prepare, and eat food in ways that support food intake.A novel food literacy tool has been developed through a co-designed approach to identify individual circumstances, and food literacy support needs among people living with T2DM. This project …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Engineering yeast cell factories for sustainable biomanufacturing
Yeast is widely used in biotechnology because it is safe, genetically tractable, and able to convert simple carbon sources into useful molecules. Through metabolic engineering, researchers can redesign yeast metabolism so that more carbon flows towards target products rather than only supporting cell growth.This project will introduce the student to yeast metabolic engineering for sustainable biomanufacturing. The broad research area spans the production of industrial chemicals, agricultural chemicals, flavours, fragrances, and natural products, including isoprenoids and other high-value compounds. The …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science
- Research centre
- Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy
AI Decisions in Practice: Do We Need to Understand AI to Trust It?
Many modern AI and machine learning models are “black boxes”: they can make accurate predictions, but we often don’t understand how they arrive at their decisions. This lack of transparency matters because AI is increasingly used in high‑stakes settings such as healthcare, finance, and public policy. Without clear explanations, it can be difficult to trust a model’s output, justify decisions, or identify and correct errors or bias. Many post hoc explainable AI (XAI) techniques have been developed to address this …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
- Research centre
- Centre for Data Science
AVR301 - Understanding Drivers’ Eco-Driving Knowledge, Confidence, and Misconceptions Across Real-World Driving Scenarios
This project examines drivers’ knowledge, confidence, and misconceptions about eco-driving across different real-world driving situations. The study will use a scenario-based survey to assess whether drivers can correctly apply eco-driving principles in contexts such as urban stop–start traffic, highways, roundabouts, intersections, uphill/downhill driving, congestion, following distance, idling, and acceleration behaviour. The topic is interdisciplinary, combining psychology, driver behaviour, human factors, road safety, sustainable transport, and emerging AI-based driver coaching. The findings will support the development of context-specific feedback strategies for …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Psychology and Counselling
- Research centre
- Centre for Future Mobility
CLIN02 - Knowing when it is good enough: how sonography students learn to judge their own scanning
In sonography a diagnostic image is not found so much as produced. The sonographer sweeps a probe across a moving, three‑dimensional organ and from that continuous act, builds a diagnostic record. Doing this well takes two kinds of developing skill. One is the physical craft of scanning, the hand control, the optimisation, the systematic interrogation of an organ in real time. The other is evaluative judgement: the capacity to decide the quality of one's own work and the work of …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Clinical Sciences
Predicting the impact of individaul researchers
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
OVS02 - The Living Eye Under the Microscope: Tracking Corneal Nerves and Immune Cells in Real Time
Have you ever wondered what happens beneath the surface of the eye? This project offers a rare opportunity to explore a microscopic world that few people ever get to see.Using state-of-the-art imaging technology, we can visualise tiny nerves and immune cells in the living eye and follow their behaviour over time. By tracking these structures in real time, we hope to uncover how they communicate, adapt and respond to change, providing new insights into eye health and disease.This project sits …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Clinical Sciences
- Research centre
- Centre for Vision and Eye Research
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