THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Finding the genetic variants influencing antidepressant withdrawal... Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Portable Electromagnetic Torso Scanner Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Intestinal Biofilms "“ New opportunities in diagnosing and treating gut... Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Minimally-Invasive Electromagnetic Haemoglobin Sensing Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Understanding microtubule-dependent cell invasion to develop... Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

PBIAS: A Principled Approach to Data Bias Management in Data Pipelines Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Novel antibacterials from nature targeting the bacterial cell envelope Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Disruptive technologies for targeting tyrosine kinase substrate sites Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Symmetry in geometric differential equations Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Epithelial Surveillance against apoptosis: a novel neighbourhood watch... Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

PBIAS: A Principled Approach to Data Bias Management in Data Pipelines Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Assessing the mineral security dimensions of multi-dimensional poverty Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Optimising an antibody for clinical trials in cancer patients Category: Medical Research

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Understanding the vaping epidemic through novel integrative monitoring tool. This project aims to pioneer an innovative strategy for timely insights into vaping epidemic, intergrating wastewater analysis and human biomonitoring. The project expects to generate systematic evaluation of vaping biomarkers, a retrospective analysis of vaping patterns within communities, at daily resolution and across distinct age groups, and integrate vaping data with diverse regulatory frameworks. The expected outcome is a robust evaluation of existing vaping control measures, furnishing policymakers with evidence-based insights to shape future vaping policies. This provides significant economic and social benefits by helping authorities navigate the dynamic landscape of vaping including its swift market shifts and legal intricacies. Field of research: 4202 - Epidemiology This proposed DECRA project aims to develop a novel integrative monitoring tool that combine wastewater analysis and human biomonitoring to investigate vaping prevalence across diverse populations and assess the effectiveness of vaping regulations on specific age groups. Vaping has emerged as a significant concern in Australia, yet our understanding of its prevalence is limited, hindering effective control measures, particularly among the youth. The research carries dual benefits for Australia, contributing significantly to both economic and social benefits. By supporting public health measures against vaping, this DECRA hold the potential to enhance community well-being nationwide. Moreover, the research directly supports the Australian Government effort in addressing illicit vaping, offering valuable insights in border control that can revolutionize law enforcement. The evidence generated across various regions of Australia can transform strategies for combating the illicit vaping market by enabling more strategic resource allocation and targeted activities, thereby advancing the effectiveness of regulatory measures. The research will be promoted to key government stakeholders via our existing relationships with the ATO, ABF. This will include technical reports, meetings and workshops to ensure the data produced it delivered to maximise understanding and adoption in government policies and practices.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Charge carrier behaviour in organic semiconductor optoelectronic devices. The project aims to develop universally applicable techniques for studying charge carrier behaviour in organic semiconductor devices. The project also aims to apply these techniques to provide key insights into charge generation, transport, and recombination processes, which determine organic semiconductor device performance. Expected project outcomes include the development of cutting-edge measurement techniques, and identification of and methods to advance the performance of state-of-the-art organic semiconductor devices. The benefits of this project are expected to include high-performance organic semiconductor devices and techniques that can underpin basic research as well as translation of technologies to market. Field of research: 4018 - Nanotechnology The generation of affordable as well as efficient use of energy is critical to all sections of society, from industry to domestic use. Technologies that can generate, use energy efficiently, and/or have low embedded manufacturing energy costs are therefore critical. Organic semiconductor technologies have the capability of contributing to improving energy efficiency. For example, organic photovoltaic solar cells are expected to play a role in future power generation and organic light-emitting diode-based lighting has the potential to have double the efficiency of fluorescent lighting. However, to enable such devices to contribute to energy efficiency requires that all facets of their device properties are understood. This project aims to provide techniques that will give information on the fundamental characteristics of the charges that are used in organic solar cells and light-emitting devices, which is an area that is often overlooked. It is expected that the methods developed and understanding gained will be broadly applicable across next generation thin film solar cell technologies such as perovskites and kesterite devices, and photodiodes that can be used in imaging and autonomous systems. The former technologies have the potential to help Australia meet its carbon neutrality target through translation to industry before 2050, while the latter can provide pathways to improving our defence and security personnel and provide a safer society.

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Assessing the mineral security dimensions of multi-dimensional poverty Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

The psychedelic revival in addiction science: A social and policy analysis. This international comparative project will explore the policy and social implications associated with the use of psychedelics as potential treatments for addiction in Australia and the UK. The project aims to: (1) explore how psychedelics are framed in drug policy for the treatment of addiction; (2) explore consumers, researchers, and policymakers’ perspectives on psychedelics; and, (3) explore how psychedelics might be implemented within addiction policy and practice in the future. The benefit of the project will be to ensure that the future translation of psychedelics to practice is done in a responsible way where consumers and experts are consulted about their preferences for translation within policy and practice. Field of research: 4410 - Sociology Psychedelic therapies have been labelled as a potential breakthrough future treatment for alcohol and other drug addiction. Although Australia has moved to fast track the translation of psychedelics to clinical practice, concerns have been raised about how psychedelic treatments impact the lives of people seeking treatment, and how they might benefit or harm different groups in society affected by addiction. One in four Australians will experience alcohol and other drug addiction in their lifetime and many will access treatment for alcohol and other drug addiction. There is an urgent need to ensure that the translation of psychedelics to practice is conducted in an ethical way that promotes the wellbeing of a large cohort of Australians seeking treatment for addiction. This innovative project will explore the views of consumers, clinicians, researchers and policymakers on how to translate psychedelics to practice in an ethical and socially beneficial way. The project will have economic and social benefits to Australia by improving the way psychedelic treatments for addiction are translated to healthcare and reducing the chance of unexpected harms associated with their translation. The expected outcomes of the project include helping to inform policy guidelines on psychedelic treatment, clinician education resources, and information the general public can access to understand psychedelics and addiction treatment.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

The psychology of everyday resistance. Public protests and social movements garner attention, but they represent only one form of dissent. This project aims to investigate the crucial yet overlooked phenomenon of everyday resistance: individuals routinely and quietly opposing injustice in daily life. Using innovative mixed methods, comprising qualitative, experimental, longitudinal, and cross-national surveys, it will examine resistance across diverse contexts and populations. This project expects to generate new knowledge on why people resort to everyday resistance, its impact on wellbeing, and its link to overt protests. This should benefit society by informing pathways to social change and guiding effective responses to community needs, fostering more equitable societies. Field of research: 5205 - Social and Personality Psychology When social movements and public protests erupt, they sometimes seem to emerge suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere. However, these actions may have roots beneath the surface and are likely to manifest following periods of more hidden and routine forms of protests in response to unfair treatment, known as everyday resistance. Examining the psychology of everyday resistance contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of protests, a core feature of democracy with implications for political stability and social cohesion in Australia and beyond. This project will create a paradigm shift by moving beyond relying solely on visible protests as the indicator of societal discontent and dissent. This can have downstream benefits to practitioners and community leaders by informing effective responses to the needs of diverse groups. Recognising subtle forms of dissent can help policymakers create initiatives that are more attuned to concerns of communities, ultimately fostering more inclusive and responsive governance structures. Moreover, insights on the psychological consequences of engaging in daily acts of resistance can contribute to the development of support systems and interventions that promote individual wellbeing. To support pathways to broad societal applications of this knowledge, the project involves plans to disseminate findings to public audiences and leverage outreach opportunities with key stakeholders interested in social equality, democracy, and social change.

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Symmetry in geometric differential equations Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Lost in translation: why flaviviruses induce cleavage of tRNAs Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

A universal aphasia battery for assessing language disorders in... Category: Medical Research

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Understanding Light, Technology, and Environments of Children. Light (both natural and artificial) is vital. The timing, colour (spectra), and intensity of light exposure has a profound impact on our sleep and wake cycles, alertness, and mood. However, our light environments have changed rapidly with advances in technology and urbanisation. The effect of these changes on children's sleep, cognitive function, and wellbeing is unclear. This study aims to objectively map the artificial and environmental light experienced by children, 5 - 8 years, against their sleep, cognitive function, and wellbeing. This innovative quantification, via novel wearable technology, will advance knowledge to support optimal child development and guide practice and policy around children’s light exposure and environments. Field of research: 5201 - Applied and Developmental Psychology Light allows us to see and function in the world. However, unprecedented advancements in our built and digital environments mean that children are growing up in contexts detached from the natural rhythm of light. Light is critical for the alignment of our internal body clock, which affects sleep, mood, alertness, cognition, and social function. In an international first, this project explores the natural, artificial, and digital lighting environments of early primary school aged children. This project will utilise novel wearable monitoring devices to objectively measure children's light, their environments, and their sleep and activity as they go about their everyday lives. Optimising the resilience, development, and wellbeing of children is critical for a productive and inclusive future for all Australians. This fellowship sits at the forefront of current research, answering national and international calls for in-situ observation of light and its effects on developmental outcomes. The advance in knowledge generated from this study will inform the rethinking of policy and practice in how lighting is incorporated in children’s built environments, their social lives, and their ‘digital childhoods’. Optimised light exposure in the home and at school can help set positive foundations early in life. The goal of this project is to optimise light exposure and built environments to support strong, positive trajectories in education and social participation for Australian children.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Reversible methane metabolism in methanogenic and methanotrophic archaea. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 28 times that of carbon dioxide. Microbial methane metabolism – mediated by methanogenic and methanotrophic archaea - is responsible for controlling methane emissions, as such playing a crucial role in balancing the global methane cycle. However, our current understanding of this process is still poor. This interdisciplinary project aims to enhance our knowledge of reversible methane metabolism in these archaea and will lead to improved techniques for characterizing their physiology. Ultimately, this research will reveal previously unknown metabolic capabilities and pathways, enabling us to make more accurate predictions of global methane emissions in a changing climate. Field of research: 3107 - Microbiology The global methane budget is regulated by microbial methane metabolism. Methanogenic and methanotrophic archaea mediate methane production and oxidation, respectively. This project aims to identify metabolic versatilities and novel pathways of these archaea and understand how these pathways are linked to cryptic parts of the carbon cycle. The study will employ a combination of traditional cultivation techniques and cutting-edge microscopic, spectroscopic, and molecular microbiological methodologies to investigate the reversible metabolic capability and pathways of these novel archaea. By gaining insights into the metabolism of these archaea, we can assess their contribution and impact on global methane cycling and climate change. The outcomes of this project will have significant environmental and social benefits, aligning with Australia’s 2050 net-zero emission goal. Additionally, the research outcomes will aid in predicting the methane budget in geographically distributed subsurface environments, helping to identify methane-emitting hotspots. This will support policymakers in achieving environmentally sustainable management or mitigation of methane emissions, as well as in adapting to the impacts of environmental change on biological systems, urban and rural communities, and industry.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Novel cobalt-free cathode materials for next-generation lithium-ion battery. This project aims to pioneer cutting-edge cobalt-free cathode materials for high-energy-density and cost-competitive lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), leveraging transformative oxygen redox to surpass the capacity limits of traditional counterparts. Expected outcomes include new insights into redox chemistry, functional material design, and advanced material processing for low-cost and durable single-crystalline cathodes. This will enable commercially viable LIB technology for enhancing the affordability of long-range electric vehicles. Thus, the project's success will position Australia at the forefront of energy storage technologies, aligning with the National Electric Vehicle Strategy and contributing to Australia's Net Zero 2050 Commitment. Field of research: 4016 - Materials Engineering Australia's Critical Minerals Strategy 2023-2030 prioritises expanding the nation's influence in downstream processing and fostering high-value projects to establish novel industries, notably in the realm of clean energy technologies. Leveraging its abundant natural resources and advanced mining industry, Australia stands at a strategic vantage point in the lithium-ion battery (LIB) supply chain. Despite this, there lacks value-added battery-grade material producers in the country. This project seeks to bridge this gap by developing innovative and robust cathode materials for next-generation LIBs with high energy density and cost-effectiveness. This initiative will equip domestic manufacturers, including long-standing industry partner Lithium Australia, with a cutting-edge, cost-competitive material process technology. The goal is to facilitate the mass production of top-tier cathode materials using Australian minerals, propelling the nation from being the world's largest low-value lithium mineral exporter to a global leader in manufacturing high value-added battery materials. Beyond economic advantages, the resulting high-performance LIBs hold the potential to enhance the affordability of long-range electric vehicles, contributing to a carbon-neutral future. The success of this project will position Australia prominently in clean energy technologies, aligning with the National Electric Vehicle Strategy and reinforcing the country's commitment to achieving Net Zero by 2050.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Energy saving through flow pulsation in pipelines. This project aims to reduce the costs and environmental impacts associated with transporting fluids such as drinking or wastewater by enhancing our understanding of how turbulence within pipelines drives fluid loss and increases the energy required to maintain flow. Through extensive experiments, this project aims to advance our knowledge regarding the turbulence characteristics of the pulsatile flow and offer crucial insights into how pulsatile profiles can be used to develop turbulence suppression methods. Such progress will contribute to the establishment of methods that could significantly mitigate the environmental impact of pipeline transportation, thus fostering a more sustainable future in Australia. Field of research: 4012 - Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering Pipelines are widely used domestically and industrially in transporting liquids and gases. About 10% of global electricity is consumed to overcome inefficient pipe flow due to viscous losses caused by turbulent flow. Flow pulsation enables an innovative approach to improve pipeline flow efficiency. Imagine the way a heart beats; nature has already shown us how pulsation can be effective. This project capitalises on limited proof-of-concept work and uses extensive experiments to understand pulsating turbulent pipe flows better. This project will develop an innovative method of flow pulsation, which could potentially reduce viscous losses and, as a result, decrease the power needed for pumping by 5-15%. This research holds considerable practical potential for commercial-scale pipe networks, particularly for transporting drinking water, natural gas, and wastewater. Reducing the energy consumed in pipeline transportation can provide significant economic and environmental benefits to Australia. By implementing technology that overcomes viscous losses caused by turbulent flows in pipes, we not only reduce energy costs but also contribute to a more sustainable future by reducing energy and greenhouse gas footprints. Research outcomes will be promoted through open-access platforms, journals, conferences, and social media outlets. To ensure effective translation of the research findings, collaborative efforts will be fostered with technology developers and the pipeline industry.