Summer research projects

Supervisor: Dr Adriana Penman (adriana.penman@uq.edu.au) and Dr Freyr Patterson (f.patterson@uq.edu.au)

Duration: 6 weeks

This research project involves analysing interviews/focus groups with students, simulated patients and educators who have experience in participating in feedback opportunities within simulation-based learning environments. Using qualitative data analysis, key themes and relationships relevant to the exploration of feedback practices in simulation will be identified. 

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Supervisor: Dr Asmita Manchha (a.manchha@uq.edu.au )

Duration: 6 weeks

The research project involves conducting a scoping review to identify types of training interventions that have addressed stigma associated with aged care and outcomes applicable to the aged care workforce, health students, care recipients & family members. You will have the opportunity to be mentored and contribute to a peer reviewed publication. 

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Supervisor: Dr Manuela Besomi m.besomimolina@uq.edu.au

Duration: 6 Weeks

The aim of this study is to identify biological, psychological, and social risk factors for LBP flare using a case-crossover design. Testing will be conducted online, in person and through mobile apps and using wearable devices (e.g., smartwatches).

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Supervisor: Dr Dianna Vidas (d.vidas@uq.edu.au)

Duration: 6 Weeks

This project aims to investigate how hearing loss impacts music listening, specifically considering how challenges with emotion identification may play a role.

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Supervisor: Dr Felipe Retamal Walter (f.retamalwalter@uq.edu.au). 

Duration: 6 Weeks

In this project, you will work closely with the research team to better understand father involvement in the disability sector, and healthcare professionals’ preparedness and readiness to engage fathers effectively. You will assist with database searching, data extraction, management, and analysis. You will also contribute to the writing of a scholarly paper relevant to father involvement in paediatric healthcare services and the professional education of health and allied health students.

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Supervisor: Dr Hannah Gullo  (hannah.gullo@uq.edu.au)

Duration: 6 Weeks

This project invovles conducting a scoping review of the literature to understand people's lived experiences of recovery and the rehabilitation journey following acquired brain injury. There may also be opportunity to learn how to analyse existing qualitative data exploring patient and clinician experiences of a novel upper limb rehabilitation program using the latest technology in practice. 

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Supervisor: Dr Jade Dignam j.dignam@uq.edu.au

Duration: 6 weeks

This research project will evaluate the process and outcomes of implementing the Comprehensive, High-dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) program into the clinical speech pathology service at the Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service. 

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Supervisor: Dr Jeanne Marshall (j.marshall@uq.edu.au) Dr Rebecca Packer

Duration: 6 Weeks

Students will have the opportunity to code transcription data against ICF codes, and develop a manuscript regarding this topic. This is new research that has not been explored previously with this population. 

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Supervisors: Dr Roma Forbes (r.forbes2@uq.edu.au) and Dr Alana Dinsdale (alana.dinsdale@uq.edu.au)

Duration: 6 Weeks

Physiotherapists often face challenging situations in their daily work, including helping patients understand the information they find online, like on social media. However, there has been little research on how physiotherapy students can learn to navigate and handle these conversations in practice.

In this project you will work closely with the research team who include academics from UQ and Queensland Health to explore how physiotherapists manage misinformation that patients are exposed to and how they can be better prepared for practice. You will help with data, writing and discussing findings with the research team. You will gain interesting insight into the areas that physiotherapists work in and the way they work.

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Supervisor: Dr Tomomi McAuliffe (t.mcauliffe@uq.edu.au)

Duration: 6 weeks

This project aims to investigate the experiences of parents of children with disability or chronic illness. The students may work with a research team to investigate parental experiences of NDIS management, school transition process among children born preterm or parental perspectives of their own mental health issues. The summer scholarship student will contribute to the project by being involved in the research process, including systematic review (title/abstract review, reviewing and synthesising literature), data collection and analysis.

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Supervisor: A/Prof Stephen Wilson (smwilson@uq.edu.au)

Duration: 6 weeks

Aphasia (loss of language) is one of the most common and debilitating consequences of stroke. Fortunately, most individuals with aphasia experience some degree of recovery over time. However, there is great variability in terms of the extent of recovery. The overall goals of this project are (1) to describe the nature of recovery from aphasia in the first year after stroke; (2) to identify neuroimaging, behavioral, and patient-related predictors of recovery; and (3) to characterize the neural correlates of recovery using functional and structural imaging.

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Supervisor: Dr Wei Qi Koh (weiqi.koh@uq.edu.au)

Duration: 6 weeks

Robotic pets are a type of social robots that look and behave like animals. They provide technology-based simulations of interactions with pets. This research will explore the use of robotic pets to support residents with dementia in aged care. Students will be involved in part of the data analysis process (such as transcribing interviews, analysing survey data), part of the writing for a scholarly paper (e.g., introduction section, literature review, method section), and/or part of the writing for an ethics application process

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