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Thank you to our supporters and collaborators who make our world-class research possible. Through our partnerships with communities, businesses and government, we ensure that our research translates into valuable outcomes for the benefit of all.
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“It all comes down to the values – sometimes unspoken values – that you share. These are the most important building blocks that a relationship like this has to start from.
“You can’t always form these things through contracts and MOUs but if you share implicitly and explicitly a set of values then you will have a good partnership and obviously, that is certainly the case with UQ.”
- Daniel Gschwind, Queensland Tourism Industry Corporation, on QTIC's partnerships with UQ
World ranking expertise in business, economics and law
Excellence in Research for Australia ranks our research above world standard or well above world standard across
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We employ 275 researchers and supervise 160 higher degree research students as part of the wider UQ research community.
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With our world-class facilities, we can capture and predict consumer and citizen behaviour, model and simulate business and economic scenarios, and research law for local and global innovation.
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Find a researcher who is a potential collaborator through their published insights and analysis
- ARTICLE | We can gauge the value of Twitter by observing its share price, but how much is an individual tweet worth? We can calculate the costs involved in producing a handbag, yet how much does a brand name influence its sale price? This concept of value is being further challenged and disrupted by the rising popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
- ARTICLE | While there are benefits to using algorithmic decision-making, including efficiency, cost savings and operational transparency, its use can also have unintended negative consequences. This was the case with Centrelink’s Online Compliance Intervention program – otherwise known as Robodebt.
- STUDY | Women are now more likely to pursue a university degree than men, but the proportion of women graduating in economics has decreased or remained stagnant over the past two decades.
- ARTICLE | Even short-term exposure to air pollution impacts our brain performance and capacity to work, according to researchers from The University of Queensland and Carnegie Mellon University.
- ARTICLE | Professor John Quiggin discusses Australia's feasibility of reaching the net-zero target by 2050
- ARTICLE | Professor Brenda Gannon conducted a longitudinal study of Queensland families and found women on lower incomes are more likely to suffer with pre and post-natal depression.
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