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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Bridging Development and Practicality: A Modular Framework for Deploying Low-Cost Sensors in Environmental Monitoring
This project is a desktop-based literature review and data synthesis study focused on low-cost sensing technologies for environmental monitoring, particularly in the context of water quality. It forms part of a broader research agenda within the IoT for Water Hub, an ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub funded by the Australian Research Council and industry partners.The topic is interdisciplinary, drawing from environmental engineering, information systems, and data analysis. While low-cost sensors have demonstrated promising applications in environmental monitoring, especially for basic …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Human Robot Teaming in the Construction Industry
This project is interdisciplinary and is related to the Australian Research Council Industry Transformation Research Hub - Human Robot Teaming for Sustainable and Resilient Construction (IH240100016) and Construction and Architectural Robotics Lab (CARL) at School of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering. This project aims to conduct a systematic literature review on the adoption of human robot teaming in the construction industry. The objectives include evaluating health and safety risks, trust, level of collaboration, adoption challenges and benefits, governance …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Architecture and Built Environment
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- Centre for Decent Work and Industry
Visual and Computational Analysis of Hybrid Process and Geospatial Medical Data
Modern medical treatment depends on complex sociotechnical networks spread across time, space, machines, and people with different kinds of specialised expertise. This project builds on sophisticated existing geospatial visualisations to add a process perspective.Students will work with data visualisations and process analytics to prototype and build solutions that bring together what sequence of treatments were applied, and where those treatments occurred. New ways to visually display and understand trends across many patient journeys are needed. Quantitative measures used for describing …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
Sign Language Education Tools
There are many technological tools to help people learn spoken and written languages, but fewer tools to help sign language learners. This project seeks to explore how technologies can help sign language learners increase their exposure, potentially through the gamification of learning.This project is attached to the project "Gamifying Auslan learning to foster inclusivity", funded by Google Asia Pacific.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
How do we use AI effectively? Identifying dos and don'ts from real-world AI use
Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making tools are now being used in important areas like healthcare, education, and government services. These systems can offer faster and more consistent decision-making, but they also carry risks. When things go wrong, as in the Robodebt scheme in Australia or the COMPAS system in the US, they can cause real harm to individuals and communities.This project will explore how organisations can use AI responsibly. You will look at real examples of how AI systems …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
- Research centre
- Centre for Data Science
Measuring Privacy Preservation In Transformed Medical Process Data
Modern healthcare systems collect vast amounts of detailed medical data from patients, giving tremendous opportunities for better healthcare through research and more efficient delivery by clinicians and other health workers. At the same time, there is an obligation to protect the privacy of individual patients concerning inherently sensitive data.This project helps understand the strengths and challenges in existing privacy preserving techniques through the lens of process analytics and data science. Working in Python, R, and other data science packages, the …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
Design and Development of a Microgravity Experiment for Drone-Based Platforms
Microgravity offers a unique environment where forces such as buoyancy and sedimentation vanish, and only intrinsic physical interactions remain. This enables scientists to study fundamental behaviors of fluids, flames, biological tissues, or engineered systems. However, access to microgravity is often expensive or logistically constrained.This student project focuses on designing and prototyping a novel scientific or educational experiment suitable for brief microgravity conditions. The experiment will be designed from scratch, starting with a survey of relevant science questions or technologies, followed …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
Development of a Drone-Based Platform for Microgravity Flight
This project is part of a larger effort to democratise access to microgravity, a state where objects experience very low or near-zero gravitational acceleration — typically referred to as “weightlessness.” Microgravity is essential for studying physical, biological, and material phenomena that are otherwise masked by gravity on Earth (e.g., fluid behavior, combustion, material sintering, or even biological cell response).Traditionally, access to microgravity environments requires expensive infrastructure such as parabolic flights in aircraft or drop towers. This project explores an innovative, …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
Alumina concentration estimation in aluminium reduction cells
Aluminium is produced via the electrolysis of alumina. However, the conditions in the electrolysis cell make it difficult to directly measure the alumina concentration in the electrolyte. The alumina concentration is intrinsically linked to the efficient operation of the cell, and the potential for high levels of pollutants to be produced. This project is focused on investigating methods to improve estimation of alumina in aluminium reduction cells.This project is part of the alumina value chain suite of projects currently underway …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
Precipitation of aluminium hydroxide in the Bayer process
In this project we focus on gaining an in-depth understanding of the behaviour of the particle size distribution observed in aluminium hydroxide precipitation. We aim to determine the causes for the dynamic behaviour observed in alumina refineries and develop dynamic simulations for predictive capabilities.This project is part of the alumina value chain suite of projects currently underway at QUT, in collaboration with Rio Tinto. Depending on student background and interests, this project can incorporate aspects of mathematical modelling and simulation, …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
Strong and tough 3D-printed bioactive multilayered ceramics
Bioceramics are stiff, strong, and highly bioactive: they chemically bond to tissues. But they cannot be currently used to reconstruct load-bearing bones such as the mandible, femur, and vertebrae because they are brittle. Metals are currently preferred for the repair of load-bearing bones because they are tough: cracks do not propagate through them easily. But metals do not bind to tissues well, resulting in soft tissue formation and implant failure. This project aims to overcome the brittleness of bioceramics resulting …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Sustainability Governance and Climate-related Reporting: What Do We Know about Governance Practice and What is the Future?
As climate risk becomes a critical concern for businesses, investors, and regulators, Australian companies are now expected to disclose their climate-related risks and actions. Australian companies have a long history of voluntarily engaging in sustainability reporting (as a broader set of disclosures than climate-risk). What governance expertise and mechanisms have Australian companies instigated to ensure integrous control over sustainability practices and reporting? According to PWC (The Rise of the Chief Sustainability Officer, 2024), the position of Chief Sustainability Officer is …
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Accountancy
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