THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

ARC Training Centre for Climate-Resilient Water. The Centre aims to skill people, and organisations to make water supply more climate-resilient to new drought, flood and quality challenges. It uses advanced monitoring, adaptive management, and multi-functional precinct design. Creating new collaborative governance approaches, and wide stakeholder and community support, is key to success. Improved economic and energy security, strengthened decision-making, and greater use of recycling and stormwater are key expected outcomes supported by an industry-engaged process and a legacy Knowledge and Training Bank. A national Design Challenge series for water and energy infrastructure seeks to drive collaborative innovation. Multiple sciences come together to impact strategies, policy and thought. Field of research: 4005 - Civil Engineering This project seeks to skill people, and organisations, to manage water security challenges created by climate change. Water supply underpins economic growth, housing development, and energy security. Yet our international water security rating is falling. The Climate-Resilient Water Industry Transformation Training Centre aims to transition Australian systems towards adaptive, reliable, low-emissions water. To achieve this, new collaborations and transformations in governance are needed to mainstream efficiency and recycling. Our approach will use new high-quality monitoring and decision-support to increase water productivity from existing systems. It also introduces collaborative precinct design to achieve circular water, and energy-positive developments that make greater use of wastewater and stormwater. The Australian water sector has revenue of over 22 billion per year and employs over 30,000 people. The Centre will provide knowledge and skilled people to better manage severe droughts, floods and water quality, with the support of stakeholders. This is expected to have wide economic, social and environmental benefits to the community and industry. A wide range of training activities are intended to help partners, representing over 70 utilities, 125,000 professionals, and 250 councils change the way they manage water in the face of climate change in a Net Zero future. The new knowledge and training materials developed aims to provide a generational resource.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

ARC Research Hub for Australian Mass Manufacturing of High Temperature Composites . The ARC Research Hub for Mass Manufacturing of High Temperature Composites aims to pioneer novel mass manufacturing methods, address critical supply chain vulnerabilities and upskill industry to deliver an enduring advantage. In partnership with local and multinational companies, the integrated research program will unlock the disruptive benefits of high-temperature composites for next generation high-speed flight vehicles and rocket boosters with benefits for energy storage and mineral processing. The Hub will break down barriers to widespread use of high-temperature materials and accelerate the transfer of innovations to provide Australian manufacturers with a competitive edge in the defence, space, resources, and energy sectors. Field of research: 4016 - Materials Engineering High-temperature lightweight composite materials demonstrate remarkable performance characteristics in extreme thermal environments and represent a key enabling technology for the defence and space sectors. To this point lengthy manufacturing times and a vulnerable supply chain have limited their widespread use. The Research Hub seeks to overcome these challenges by adapting and transforming mass manufacturing methods from the automotive industry to the production of high-temperature composite materials, while also increasing the proportion of Australian manufacturers represented in the global supply chain. To ensure industry readiness and technology pull-through, the innovative materials and manufacturing technologies developed will be demonstrated by their integration into a next-generation flight test vehicle and rocket booster concept with industry partners. The immediate focus of the Hub is to provide local companies with a disruptive capability advantage in the domestic manufacture of missiles and munitions under the $20B+ Guided Weapons Explosive Ordnance Plan. Using the mass manufacture of high-speed defence systems as a springboard, this initiative will also create significant opportunities for competitive spin-off technologies that open new export markets. Examples include advanced safe materials for lightweight batteries and their enclosures, unmanned aerial vehicle components production, and innovative solutions for resource processing and extraction.

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

How immune cells use metabolism to respond to different threats Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

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

Anaerobic short-chain gaseous alkane oxidation coupled to nitrate... 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

Immune Dashboard Chip (IDC): Single-molecule digital nanotechnology for... Category: Medical Research

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

Enabling precision medicine for oesophageal cancer patients Category: Medical Research

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

Pulse sequence development for ultra-high field Magnetic Resonance... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

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

New diagnostic strategies for antibiotic-resistant infections Category: Medical Research

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

Pulse sequence development for ultra-high field Magnetic Resonance... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

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

Improving frailty knowledge and empowering behaviour change via a... Category: Medical Research

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

Low Temperature Solders for Energy-Efficient Electronics Manufacturing Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

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

Lead-free perovskite materials for solar cells and beyond Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

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

Tracing the emergence of cellular complexity in the phylum... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

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

Mapping the tumour microenvironment in cutaneous scc - dynamic responses... Category: Medical Research

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Mechanisms of Behaviour Change Theory. Triggering behaviour change can benefit individuals (e.g., healthy eating), communities (e.g., protection via vaccination) and humanity as a whole (e.g., emission reduction via electricity saving). Yet the mechanisms by which behaviour change can be triggered are not yet fully understood because the effect of an intervention on latent theoretical constructs (intervention effect) is not routinely isolated from the effect of the construct change on the behaviour (construct effect). This project aims to develop a new theory of behaviour change that disentangles these two aspects (thus elucidating the mechanism), validate it empirically, and compare its performance with current approaches in the context of climate change mitigation behaviour. Field of research: 3506 - Marketing This project aims to develop and validate a new theory to guide the swift design of practical measures that entice people to change their behaviour. Being able to change people's behaviour is critical across many domains, including population health (e.g., mask-wearing) and climate change mitigation (e.g., energy saving). Existing theories are limited in their ability to offer practical guidance for the swift design of behaviour change measures because they do not pinpoint the exact mechanisms that lead to behaviour change. This project aims to develop Mechanisms of Behaviour Change Theory (MeBeC), which simultaneously tests how effective different types of measures are in triggering behaviour change and which mechanisms are responsible for causing this change. In so doing, MeBeC can identify the most promising combinations of practical measures and theoretical constructs to target, thus speeding up the future design of effective behaviour change measures. MeBeC will contribute new knowledge to the behavioural sciences, while also benefitting Australia by enabling policy makers and businesses to swiftly develop effective behaviour change measures to address key environmental and social challenges. MeBeC and all newly developed behaviour change measures targeting two specific climate change mitigation behaviours will be shared with the scientific community, industry, and the public (YouTube videos, social media posts, The Conversation, press releases) to maximise impact.

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

Targetting Prostaglandin D2 Pathway for Enhanced Therapy in Atopic... Category: Medical Research

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

Pulse sequence development for ultra-high field Magnetic Resonance... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

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

Deciphering the gene regulatory code of ageing to set the stage for... Category: Medical Research

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

The brain-immune interface: implications for sleep and mood Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

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

"COVID and; Beyond": Innovative rapid response nanoprobes to detect the... Category: Medical Research

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

Mechanisms and first prophylactic treatments of neurogenic heterotopic... Category: Medical Research

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

Melanoma detection with terahertz quantum technology: accurate early... Category: Medical Research

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

Preclinical validation of anti-tubercular conjugated oligoelectrolytes Category: Medical Research