Summer and Winter research projects
The UQ Research Program provides UQ students with an opportunity to gain research experience working alongside some of the university’s leading academics and researchers.
Program details
Applications for the Winter 2026 Scholarships will open Monday 23 March 2026 and close at 11:59pm Sunday 12 April 2026.
Research projects will run for 4 weeks between 29 June–24 July 2026..
All successful scholars will receive a $2,000 scholarship.
Eligibility
To be eligible, you need to be enrolled in an undergraduate, honours, or postgraduate coursework program at UQ at the time of application, and to maintain enrolment throughout the program.
You can view the full eligibility criteria on the Employability website.
How to apply
For more details about the program including how to apply go the UQ Research Experience page.
| Project name | Supervisor | Full details |
| Beyond Professional Practice: Understanding how speech pathology students become reflective practitioners and lifelong learners | Dr Adriana Penman adriana.penman@uq.edu.au Dr Felipe Retamal Walter f.retamalwalter@uq.edu.au | View the project details (DOCX, 20.3 KB) |
| Mapping Australian Health Research: A Scoping Review of Research Priority Setting | Dr Bec Jenkinson | View the project details (DOCX, 28.8 KB) |
| Identifying key barriers and facilitators for Participation in Physical Activity for Females Living with Epilepsy: An exploratory study | Mrs Brittany Williams | View the project details (DOCX, 19 KB) |
| Understanding the natural trajectory of tendinopathy and tendon tear | Dr Brooke Coombes | View the project details (DOCX, 23.3 KB) |
| Understanding balance, physical activity and gait with age and in neurological conditions | Dr Christopher P Mackay | View the project details (DOCX, 19.9 KB) |
| Improving physical activity and gait in stroke and Parkinson’s disease | Dr Christopher P Mackay | View the project details (DOCX, 19.8 KB) |
| Neural correlates of speech subsystems and their relation to speech production | Dr Elaine Kearney | View the project details (DOCX, 20 KB) |
| Codesign of an interdisciplinary intervention to support text-messaging for adults with post-stroke aphasia: The SMS study. | Dr Jade Dignam | View the project details (DOCX, 19.1 KB) |
| Understanding caregiver experiences to improve feeding and oral care support in congenital bulbar palsy | Dr Jeanne Marshall | View the project details (DOCX, 19.6 KB) |
| CommuniKey - Evaluation of a new web browser extension to improve web accessibility for people with aphasia | Dr Jennifer Lee | View the project details (DOCX, 20.9 KB) |
| Student experiences and perspectives on the development of a student-led occupational therapy paediatric special interest group. | Mrs Jessica Thackeray | View the project details (DOCX, 19.5 KB) |
| Medical practitioner insights on the care pathways and management practices of migraine | A/Prof Lucy Thomas | View the project details (DOCX, 21.3 KB) |
| Hearing aid banks in Australia | Dr Mansoureh Nickbakht Prof Piers Dawes | View the project details (DOCX, 19.9 KB) |
| Shaping the Future of Home Modification Practice: Developing an International Competency Framework for Occupational Therapists | Dr Melanie Hoyle | View the project details (DOCX, 22 KB) |
| Factors Influencing Engagement in Early Intervention Services: A Scoping Review to Inform Paediatric Hearing Service Modelling | Dr Monique Waite | View the project details (DOCX, 20.7 KB) |
| Adaptive Trail Running Taxonomy: A Scoping Review and Conceptual Framework for Para-Trail Sport | Dr Raimundo Sanchez | View the project details (DOCX, 18.5 KB) |
| Legal Vocabulary and Youth Justice: Developing an Evidence-Informed Tool | Dr Rebecca Armstrong | View the project details (DOCX, 18.8 KB) |
| What drives clinical decision making for speech pathologists in Education? | Dr Rebecca Armstrong | View the project details (DOCX, 18.9 KB) |
| Understanding Late Treatment Effects and Swallowing Challenges After Head and Neck Cancer | Dr Rebecca Packer & A/Prof Laurelie Wishart | View the project details (DOCX, 18.4 KB) |
| Scanning for disasters: cataloguing local councils' disaster management plans for disbility inclusion | Dr Sam Harvey | View the project details (DOCX, 20.4 KB) |
| Let's go global: Getting aphasia therapy tools into the hands of under-resourced clinicians | Dr Sam Harvey | View the project details (DOCX, 20.4 KB) |
| Neural correlates of recovery from aphasia after stroke | A/Prof Stephen Wilson | View the project details (DOCX, 18.8 KB) |
| The experiences of parents of children with disability when accessing mental health services | Dr Tomomi McAuliffe | View the project details (DOCX, 18.6 KB) |
| Sound Intolerance in Migraine: Laboratory Assessment and Threshold Quantification | Dr Zhiqi Liang | View the project details (DOCX, 29.4 KB) |
| Sound Intolerance in Migraine: Development and Validation of a Field-Based Self-Assessment Tool | Dr Zhiqi Liang | View the project details (DOCX, 29.5 KB) |
| Application of virtual reality in technology ehanced rehabilitation | Dr Robert Cuthbert | View the project details (DOCX, 19.1 KB) |
2026 Winter Research program
Applications open: Monday 23 March 2026
Applications close: Sunday 12 April 2026
Program commences: Monday 29 June 2026
Program concludes: Friday 24 July 2026