Research for the real world starts here

Find out how our collaborative approach to research is helping the world to progress.

Transdisciplinary

We tackle some of the biggest questions facing the planet by combining different disciplines and capabilities. Our transdisciplinary research approach is delivering unique solutions.

Real world partnerships

We work closely with partners across all sectors who will apply our research outcomes to create solutions. We're engaging with government and industry, to translate our research to deliver real-world impacts.

Transformative

We are harnessing our technological strengths across different disciplines to transform research by identifying new opportunities and delivering solutions to real-world problems.

Research by study area

Architecture and built environment

We bring together government, industry and community to create real-world solutions to built environmental problems.

Business and law

Our research brings together world-leading academics with industry leaders, and we help current and future leaders to navigate a fast-emerging new world.

Creative industries, education and social justice

We are a world leader in creativity, teaching, and justice research.

Engineering

We are ranked as the leading research institution in Australia for both robotics and biomedical technology.

Health

Our research improves patient treatment options and increases the world's knowledge of human health.

Science

Be part of scientific research that has real impact and discover the projects establishing our staff as international research leaders.

Making real progress

26 Apr 2024

Global air quality expert elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

QUT Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska, a world-leading air quality expert, has been elected as a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

26 Apr 2024

Preventing high rate of chronic lung disease in world’s Indigenous Peoples begins at pre-conception

Public health strategies must begin at pre-conception and early childhood to attain optimum lung function for the world’s Indigenous Peoples who bear a higher burden of chronic respiratory disease, say an international research team in a review published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

16 Apr 2024

$2.5M Medical Research Future Fund grant to study recurrent wheeze in preschoolers

QUT Professor Anne Chang has been awarded a $2,588,607 Medical Research Future Fund grant to lead a multidisciplinary, multi-institution project. 

Why QUT

Our research is focused on progress, pushing the boundaries and developing new ideas through transdisciplinary thinking.

Why choose QUT?

Our facilities

We're committed to providing high quality infrastructure, professional support and facilities for our researchers.

Our facilities

QUT public statement on research assessment

We are committed to supporting high quality and impactful research through responsible research assessment.

Download the QUT public statement on research assessment (PDF file, 86.1 KB)

Contact us

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