Research
Using research to improve lives, communities and industry
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.
Explore this site to discover our expertise and how we may help you find opportunities in the challenges you face.
A word from one of our partners
“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
all our disciplines.
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
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- REPORT | Foundations have a long and rich history of supporting and driving significant and global “impact for good”. Tried and tested methods have left a legacy to be proud of, and new ones are showing promise as Foundations adapt to a rapidly changing world.
- ARTICLE | Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Australian news cycles were dominated by facts, figures and statistics – case numbers, vaccination targets and death tolls.
- ARTICLE | For a legal expert with no formal scientific training, Justine Bell-James is certainly at ease discussing the intricacies of climate science.
- ARTICLE | Could Australia soon have a form of emissions trading? Yes, if Labor’s much-anticipated paper on fixing Australia’s mediocre emissions-reduction framework, released today, is any guide.
- ARTICLE | On August 9 2022, Australia’s COVIDSafe app was officially decommissioned, and all its features removed. People were encouraged to uninstall the app. Reports of its closure have made international news.
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