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.
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
- 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.
- JOURNAL ARTICLE | The Human Rights Act breathes new life into old ethical duties by reminding us of the importance of candour and fidelity. Equally, frank advice and collaboration between lawyers and policy officers breathe life into the ambition of the Human Rights Act.
- JOURNAL ARTICLE | Law scholars identify and map the return of the states and territories — and the retreat of the Commonwealth — in Indigenous law reform and argue for the Commonwealth government to meaningfully engage with the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
- 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
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