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 cell interactions on curved interfaces
Biological tissues such as epithelia are composed of many adjacent cells that interact with each other mechanically, and that may proliferate, die, and move around. Our group is developing discrete and continuum mathematical frameworks to model these types of tissues and investigate the strong interplay between tissue geometry, tissue mechanics, and cell biology in many experimental situations, including tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, bone formation, tumour growth, and wound healing. Several important generalisations of these existing models and their link …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
Biofilm buckling on curved substrates
Biofilms are a biological material formed by a mixture of bacteria embedded in the extracellular matrix that they produce. Biofilm growth can be fast and vary widely depending on the type of bacteria used and substrate on which the biofilm grows. There is growing interest in being able to control properties of biofilms for bioengineering applications. Recent experiments show that buckling-induced folds of biofilms growing on corrugated substrates occur preferentially at peaks of the interface rather than at its troughs.This …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
Work Piece Discretisation and Task Distribution for Mobile Manipulators for Additive Manufacturing in Construction.
This project aims to explore the application of in situ additive manufacturing (AM) using a team of autonomous mobile manipulators and investigates the opportunities of these systems in architecture and construction.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Research centre
- Centre for Environment and Society
Biobased adhesives using agricultural waste
This project aims to produce wood adhesives using alginate, a polysaccharide from seaweed.
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- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Chemistry and Physics
- Research centre
- Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy
Optimising bone shape with embedded control networks
Bone is a dynamic tissue that optimises its shape to the mechanical loads that it carries. Bone mass is accrued where loads are high, and reduced where loads are low. This adaptation of bone tissue to mechanical loads is well-known and believed to be due to a network of cells living within bone tissues, the osteocyte network. The osteocyte network is similar to the neural network in the brain. It is plastic, which enables learning new mechanical states; and it …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
Investigating the application of imitation learning in construction
Imitation learning is a rapidly emerging multidisciplinary research topic that is transforming how robots learn from human demonstrations. Such technology can address labour shortages, and enhance efficiency, safety, and innovation in construction, paving the way for robotic technology to amplify human effort and tackle pressing global challenges. The aim of this project is to develop new robot imitation learning algorithms to efficiently learn from human demonstrations and explore their potential applications in construction.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Research centre
- Centre for Robotics
On the synergy between Agentic AI and Robotic Process Automation: A systematic review and analysis
Recent years have seen the increased uptake of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, fueled by the successful research and applications of large language models. Among others, an emerging paradigm, Agentic AI, aims at the development of a goal-driven, autonomous software system of AI “agents”, capable of perceiving natural language instructions and completing complex tasks with limited human supervision. These unique features make Agentic AI a promising solution for organizations in use cases such as customer service and financial risk monitoring, which …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
- Research centre
- Centre for Data Science
Attitudes Towards and Participation in Voluntary Assisted Dying: A Pilot Study of Queensland Hospices
Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) became legal in Queensland in January 2023. The governing legislation contains provisions requiring institutions to facilitate access to VAD services, including in some instances to allow assisted dying to occur on the premises.The aim of the project is to investigate the impact of these laws on Queensland hospices and palliative care institutions. This includes preparation for a survey of hospice staff and collection of data including institutional policies on VAD.
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
- Research centre
- Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Signal processing with small bill of material (BOM)
This project will investigate the feasibility of RADAR, electronic surveillance, and custom communications systems using commodity digital signal processors (DSP) designed for telecommunications market.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
A calculus driven approach to modelling lung inflammation in preterm newborns.
Understanding how inflammation spreads through the lungs of preterm newborns is critical for improving clinical care in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Unfortunately, current experimental techniques do not provide sufficient spatial detail to capture the complex dynamics of inflammation and tissue damage.In this project, we will use mathematical modelling—specifically advection-diffusion-reaction equations—to simulate how inflammation develops over space and time in the underdeveloped lungs of preterm infants. The model will account for key physical processes such as fluid movement (advection), diffusion …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
Material reuse: Extraction of BIM information and creation of material passports: BIM-to-MP
According to the recent Australian government report entitled 'The Circular Advantage', the built environment accounts for roughly one-third of all resource consumption, with construction waste alone making up 38% of Australia's landfill. Furthermore, the built environment accounts for 40% of Australia’s energy-related carbon emissions – approximately 25% of which stems from the manufacture of materials and construction processes used. And, the trend is going in the wrong direction; construction and demolition waste has surged by 61% over the past 13 …
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- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Research centre
- Centre for Environment and Society
Material reuse: Conversion of scan data into useable information: Scan-to-BIM
According to the recent Australian government report entitled 'The Circular Advantage', the built environment accounts for roughly one-third of all resource consumption, with construction waste alone making up 38% of Australia's landfill. Furthermore, the built environment accounts for 40% of Australia’s energy-related carbon emissions – approximately 25% of which stems from the manufacture of materials and construction processes used. And, the trend is going in the wrong direction; construction and demolition waste has surged by 61% over the past 13 …
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Research centre
- Centre for Environment and Society
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