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Partner on a Student-Staff Partnership (SSP) project to transform the UQ experience.

Collaborate with students and staff on a project in one of the following areas:

  • Student experience
  • Teaching and LearningGovernance and Strategy

By joining a project team you can grow your network, develop your professional capabilities, and contribute to the听UQ Employability Award.Students also receive a student partner grant to support their engagement in the project.

Watch the video听below to learn more about being a student partner and how the partnership experience can enhance your employability.

听Student partner applications for Round 2 projects open on 25 May 2026 and close 26 June 2026. Read the information below and听听before the due date.

How to apply

Eligibility

Any student currently enrolled at 糖心logo入口 can apply to become a student partner.

Check key dates

Projects are offered in two rounds per year and听run for a minimum of 15 weeks and a maximum of 18 weeks.

You can expect to commit between 60 to 65 hours for a project and receive a $1500 grant.

Please review the project timelines to plan your engagement.

View project timelines

Find a project and apply

Projects are listed on StudentHub when Student Partner applications are open for each round.

Find a project you are passionate about from current open opportunities below. Select the project for more information and link to StudentHub project listing and application form.

In your application you will need to address why you want to partner on this project and your suitability. You can access resources to help prepare your application below.听

You may apply for a maximum of three (3) projects per round.听

Once applications close, the project instigator will assess and select student partners to form the project team. You may only participate in one (1) project per round.

Get tips on writing applications

Check current opportunities

Applications for Round 1 projects open on 8 December 2025 and close 23 January 2026.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This SSP project will identify threshold concepts in ELEC3004 and co-design ways to make learning, expectations, and skill progression more transparent. Motivated by the need to move students beyond procedural completion toward conceptual understanding, it aims to reveal conceptual bottlenecks, clarify successful learning, and strengthen links to later courses. Outcomes include practical recommendations and prototype supports that make ELEC3004 more achievable, coherent, and transferable.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The Integrated Pathology Learning Centre, based on the Herston campus, is a museum displaying human pathology specimens. This project aims to improve the museum鈥檚 accessibility and inclusivity by evaluating its current displays and offerings. Ultimately, ensuring that the IPLC is a welcoming space for all visiting students. The potential outcome may be a list of recommendations and strategies on how to implement them. For example, creating a guide to support visitors with diverse needs.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    UQ provides individual supports for neurodivergent students, however, barriers remain in learning design and delivery. This project addresses the gap between accommodations and accessible teaching by co-designing practical, neurodiversity-inclusive resources. Using PSYC1100 'The Psychology of Communication' as a pilot within the School of Psychology, it aims to identify barriers in course design begin to close gaps between available accommodations and the accessibility of learning environments.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project will co-design a rotation-based radiology resource guide to improve how medical students access and use existing UQ radiology learning materials. Motivated by strong resources but inconsistent student uptake, the project will identify barriers to use, map relevant content, and develop and pilot a concise guide for a selected clinical rotation. Outcomes include improved student preparation, a reusable template for other rotations, and a sustainable plan for ongoing maintenance.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Medical students often struggle to interpret and communicate visual medical information essential for clinical reasoning and procedural competence. This Student鈥揝taff Partnership project brings together students, staff, and an art museum curator to integrate Visual Thinking Strategies into medical education. The initiative strengthens visual literacy, observation, evidence鈥慴ased interpretation, and shared dialogue to support confident clinical decision鈥憁aking in clinical practice contexts.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The project aims to co-design curriculum improvement by partnering students and staff to analyse authentic hospital stakeholder data on graduate readiness. It addresses gaps in clinical decision making, prescribing and system navigation provided by the data, and empowers Year 4 students to translate real world feedback into evidence-based recommendations that could potentially strengthen curriculum relevance with clinical expectations and improve graduate capability and confidence.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    In previous SSPs centred on neurodivergent wellbeing, we found that making fulfilling social connections is vital to the academic experience. My hope is that this design concept would address all of the issues hampering ND social integration and wellbeing at university as it relies on lived experience, interactive and contextually-relevant learning, and alleviating the anxiety of entering social situations without a frame of reference.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Using the research gathered from students, alumni, industry and UQ staff in the first SSP as well as initial design ideas, this phase will finalise the design and begin to develop new modules for Bachelor of Advanced Business (Hons) students. Using the MBACareer Milestones as a model, these BAdvBus(Hons)-specific modules will sit alongside the curriculum and aim to build leadership skills and prepare students for their future careers.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Continuing the SSP project from Round 1. The aim for Round 1 is to identify the key challenges and opportunities within the current transition and orientation framework. Round 2 would continue building on the aim with a tangible product at the end as well as encompassing the other parts of the transition framework. This student-staff partnership project will co-create a suite of transition activities informed by student feedback gathered through forums, surveys, and engagement sessions.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This SSP project will evaluate the early implementation of the UQ Law School鈥檚 AI literacy curriculum and develop recommendations to inform its ongoing design. It will explore how the curriculum shapes student learning, engagement, and readiness for professional practice in an AI-enabled world. Student partners will co-design and lead data collection to capture peer experiences and identify strengths, gaps and opportunities, informing recommendations to strengthen AI literacy across the program.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The world currently faces rising geopolitical tensions, escalating conflict, instability & deepening humanitarian crises. Advancing peace is vital for creating just, sustainable futures that today鈥檚 students will inherit and lead. This proposed SSP project seeks to co-design activities and resources that build student awareness, understanding, and agency around peace, creating student-informed pathways for meaningful connection, while developing transferable skills and fostering collaborations.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    One pillar of our work in the Social Change Lab focuses on environmental sustainability, a global challenge that will undoubtedly shape the futures of coming generations. While today's youth are perhaps more aware of this issue than ever before, contextual issues are complex & progress is still needed to increase positive engagement. This proposed project seeks to co-design activities & resources that encourage interdisciplinary students' positive engagement with environmental sustainability.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Co design and pilot a student led Design Futures Forum that helps design students explore career pathways, connect with industry, and build community beyond traditional networking. The project will create a repeatable model with structured engagement formats and a growing archive of insights and pathways. Designed for continuity, it will establish a lasting platform that evolves across cohorts and strengthens long term student experience and employability.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project is motivated by the experience of a final year Occupational Therapist students undertaking a 6-week role-emerging placement and insights from academic staff. These experiences highlighted common challenges, including limited role modelling, and difficulties in developing professional identity. This project aims to address these challenges by developing a toolkit and the outcome is to enhance student confidence learning and success in role-emerging placement.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project establishes a new student/staff partnership approach to improving a core digital service that directly connects us to UQ鈥檚 physical environment. Outcomes include improved accessibility and inclusivity in the digital environment, guidance for improvements in the physical and service environment, and a template for student to professional services collaborations.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project addresses disconnection among Provisional Entry to Medicine students at 糖心logo入口 prior to the MD program. Through student鈥搒taff partnership, it will co-design initiatives to improve engagement, belonging, and connection, integrating student experience and staff insight. The outcome is a set of actionable recommendations to inform a Student Engagement Strategy within the Medical School and potentially other relevant Schools and Faculties, developed through collaborative, adaptable process.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project aims to enhance physiotherapy learning by addressing key challenges identified in the first year. Partnering with students across years 1鈥�4, the project will evaluate learning needs and co鈥慸esign improved learning materials which will be embedded in PHTY1200/7803. Expected outcomes include clearer scaffolding, better alignment with physiotherapy practice and more engaging resources, ultimately supporting student success and strengthening the first鈥憏ear learning experience.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This is an opportunity to join in a team that plan and deliver unique learning experiences in Queensland. You will help develop the Business Regional Immersion Program (BRIP) which provides Business School students with an opportunity to engage with a range of regional organisations to learn first-hand about the complexity of regional business systems. You will play an integral role in developing a student-centred experience & make recommendations for coursework associated with the experience.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The project aims to co-design two new topics for FINM2412 tailored to first-year Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) students. The first topic will support students鈥� transition to university by introducing key UQ resources, outline future finance courses, and highlight finance-related career opportunities. The second will develop essential research skills in both academic and industry settings. Expected outcomes include improved student experience and enhanced employability.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    As AI becomes embedded in higher education, students require support to use these tools in ways that enhance, rather than replace, learning. This partnership will co-design online modules that develop students鈥� self-regulated learning skills when using AI. This is a cross-institutional project which will include friendly staff partners from different universities and disciplines.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Indigenous Australians are chronically under-represented in Physiotherapy Programs at 糖心logo入口, with less than 1% of enrolments from students identifying as Indigenous. The Queensland Commitment seeks to increase enrolment of this cohort to a level that represents population parity (~4.6%). This project aims to explore strategies to increase the recruitment and retention of Indigenous Australians to physiotherapy programs at 糖心logo入口 to create a cultural safe learning environment for all.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project addresses the need to integrate post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into cybersecurity education, aligned with the Australian Signals Directorate post-quantum roadmap. It co-develops with students accessible, practice-oriented learning resources that demystify PQC concepts without requiring advanced mathematics. Outputs include interactive visualisations and hands-on exercises embedded into CYBR7001/CYBR7002, preparing students for the quantum transition in real-world security practice.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This partnership project addresses persistent challenges in MATH1040, where students often struggle to develop conceptual understanding. Staff and student partners will co-design a series of two-hour active learning workshops incorporating group work, real-world applications and peer review. Drawing on student learning experiences and staff expertise, the project aims to enhance engagement, strengthen reasoning, and improve student outcomes, with benefits extending into subsequent courses.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Sharper Minds: University Simplified is a self-paced wellbeing module co-designed with UQ neurodivergent students. It offers tips to make university life more accessible and help neurotypical peers and staff understand neurodiversity. Feedback from HDR students suggests that, although the module is comprehensive, it does not fully address their needs. This project will adapt the existing module to better serve the needs of HDR students before integration into the neurodivergent hub offerings.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project aims to explore student and staff perspectives on campus food options at St Lucia, with a focus on affordability, accessibility, and diversity. Through surveys and targeted consultation, the partnership will identify key needs and gaps in current food services. The project will co-develop an evidence-based report with practical recommendations to support future vendor planning and enhance the overall student experience at 糖心logo入口.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project responds to the growing challenge of teaching skills that students can easily outsource to AI, often without enough foundational knowledge to judge quality or demonstrate genuine learning. In a computing-focused context, the aim is to explore how AI can be used productively without undermining capability or critical thinking. The project will seek to develop an adaptable framework of practical strategies for more meaningful AI use across different courses.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (BCCJ) and BCCJ/BA degree programs commenced in 2022 and is now undertaking its first Academic Program Review (APR). This project seeks genuine collaboration with student partners to co-develop methods for capturing student experience across the program. Student partners and project staff will co-design, collect, and interpret peer feedback, ensuring the review is grounded in authentic student voice and lived curriculum experience.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This partnership project integrates human cadavers into histopathology education to provide authentic, hands-on learning. It addresses the need to improve gross tissue recognition and dissection skills, bridging theory with practice. Outcomes include enhanced student competency in specimen handling, a deeper understanding of pathological anatomy, and the development of a scalable, evidence-informed model for pathology teaching.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project will redesign Control Engineering 2 to address rapid enrolment growth and support a highly diverse student cohort. Staff, demonstrators, and students will co-create online pre-work, scaffolded practicals and assignments, and targeted resources for international learners. The new structure will enhance preparedness, build capability progressively, and enable more interactive workshops, improving engagement and clarity of learning pathways.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The BlackWords in Real Life series will showcase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors through moderated discussions and audience Q&A at 糖心logo入口. The series will create a space to recognise, value, and celebrate Indigenous storytelling, while providing meaningful engagement for students, staff, and the wider community and promoting BlackWords.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project engages student partners to work with a diverse group of international students to co鈥慸evelop a student panel for the UQ Academic Language Forum in September 2026. Partners will ensure a breadth of voices across disciplines and language backgrounds, identify key themes with the project lead, and support students to communicate their insights. The panel and accompanying vox pop videos will provide professional learning for staff and extend impact beyond the event.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Using the research gathered from students, alumni, industry and UQ staff in the first SSP as well as initial design ideas, this phase will finalise the design and begin to develop new modules for Bachelor of Advanced Business (Hons) students. Using the MBACareer Milestones as a model, these BAdvBus(Hons)-specific modules will sit alongside the curriculum and aim to build leadership skills and prepare students for their future careers.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This SSP project will evaluate the early implementation of the UQ Law School鈥檚 AI literacy curriculum and develop recommendations to inform its ongoing design. It will explore how the curriculum shapes student learning, engagement, and readiness for professional practice in an AI-enabled world. Student partners will co-design and lead data collection to capture peer experiences and identify strengths, gaps and opportunities, informing recommendations to strengthen AI literacy across the program.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The world currently faces rising geopolitical tensions, escalating conflict, instability & deepening humanitarian crises. Advancing peace is vital for creating just, sustainable futures that today鈥檚 students will inherit and lead. This proposed SSP project seeks to co-design activities and resources that build student awareness, understanding, and agency around peace, creating student-informed pathways for meaningful connection, while developing transferable skills and fostering collaborations.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This is an opportunity to join in a team that plan and deliver unique learning experiences in Queensland. You will help develop the Business Regional Immersion Program (BRIP) which provides Business School students with an opportunity to engage with a range of regional organisations to learn first-hand about the complexity of regional business systems. You will play an integral role in developing a student-centred experience & make recommendations for coursework associated with the experience.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The project aims to co-design two new topics for FINM2412 tailored to first-year Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) students. The first topic will support students鈥� transition to university by introducing key UQ resources, outline future finance courses, and highlight finance-related career opportunities. The second will develop essential research skills in both academic and industry settings. Expected outcomes include improved student experience and enhanced employability.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    As AI becomes embedded in higher education, students require support to use these tools in ways that enhance, rather than replace, learning. This partnership will co-design online modules that develop students鈥� self-regulated learning skills when using AI. This is a cross-institutional project which will include friendly staff partners from different universities and disciplines.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This partnership project addresses persistent challenges in MATH1040, where students often struggle to develop conceptual understanding. Staff and student partners will co-design a series of two-hour active learning workshops incorporating group work, real-world applications and peer review. Drawing on student learning experiences and staff expertise, the project aims to enhance engagement, strengthen reasoning, and improve student outcomes, with benefits extending into subsequent courses.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    One pillar of our work in the Social Change Lab focuses on environmental sustainability, a global challenge that will undoubtedly shape the futures of coming generations. While today's youth are perhaps more aware of this issue than ever before, contextual issues are complex & progress is still needed to increase positive engagement. This proposed project seeks to co-design activities & resources that encourage interdisciplinary students' positive engagement with environmental sustainability.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Co design and pilot a student led Design Futures Forum that helps design students explore career pathways, connect with industry, and build community beyond traditional networking. The project will create a repeatable model with structured engagement formats and a growing archive of insights and pathways. Designed for continuity, it will establish a lasting platform that evolves across cohorts and strengthens long term student experience and employability.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    As AI becomes embedded in higher education, students require support to use these tools in ways that enhance, rather than replace, learning. This partnership will co-design online modules that develop students鈥� self-regulated learning skills when using AI. This is a cross-institutional project which will include friendly staff partners from different universities and disciplines.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project addresses the need to integrate post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into cybersecurity education, aligned with the Australian Signals Directorate post-quantum roadmap. It co-develops with students accessible, practice-oriented learning resources that demystify PQC concepts without requiring advanced mathematics. Outputs include interactive visualisations and hands-on exercises embedded into CYBR7001/CYBR7002, preparing students for the quantum transition in real-world security practice.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This partnership project addresses persistent challenges in MATH1040, where students often struggle to develop conceptual understanding. Staff and student partners will co-design a series of two-hour active learning workshops incorporating group work, real-world applications and peer review. Drawing on student learning experiences and staff expertise, the project aims to enhance engagement, strengthen reasoning, and improve student outcomes, with benefits extending into subsequent courses.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project responds to the growing challenge of teaching skills that students can easily outsource to AI, often without enough foundational knowledge to judge quality or demonstrate genuine learning. In a computing-focused context, the aim is to explore how AI can be used productively without undermining capability or critical thinking. The project will seek to develop an adaptable framework of practical strategies for more meaningful AI use across different courses.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project will redesign Control Engineering 2 to address rapid enrolment growth and support a highly diverse student cohort. Staff, demonstrators, and students will co-create online pre-work, scaffolded practicals and assignments, and targeted resources for international learners. The new structure will enhance preparedness, build capability progressively, and enable more interactive workshops, improving engagement and clarity of learning pathways.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This SSP project will identify threshold concepts in ELEC3004 and co-design ways to make learning, expectations, and skill progression more transparent. Motivated by the need to move students beyond procedural completion toward conceptual understanding, it aims to reveal conceptual bottlenecks, clarify successful learning, and strengthen links to later courses. Outcomes include practical recommendations and prototype supports that make ELEC3004 more achievable, coherent, and transferable.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    UQ provides individual supports for neurodivergent students, however, barriers remain in learning design and delivery. This project addresses the gap between accommodations and accessible teaching by co-designing practical, neurodiversity-inclusive resources. Using PSYC1100 'The Psychology of Communication' as a pilot within the School of Psychology, it aims to identify barriers in course design begin to close gaps between available accommodations and the accessibility of learning environments.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    In previous SSPs centred on neurodivergent wellbeing, we found that making fulfilling social connections is vital to the academic experience. My hope is that this design concept would address all of the issues hampering ND social integration and wellbeing at university as it relies on lived experience, interactive and contextually-relevant learning, and alleviating the anxiety of entering social situations without a frame of reference.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The world currently faces rising geopolitical tensions, escalating conflict, instability & deepening humanitarian crises. Advancing peace is vital for creating just, sustainable futures that today鈥檚 students will inherit and lead. This proposed SSP project seeks to co-design activities and resources that build student awareness, understanding, and agency around peace, creating student-informed pathways for meaningful connection, while developing transferable skills and fostering collaborations.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    As AI becomes embedded in higher education, students require support to use these tools in ways that enhance, rather than replace, learning. This partnership will co-design online modules that develop students鈥� self-regulated learning skills when using AI. This is a cross-institutional project which will include friendly staff partners from different universities and disciplines.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Sharper Minds: University Simplified is a self-paced wellbeing module co-designed with UQ neurodivergent students. It offers tips to make university life more accessible and help neurotypical peers and staff understand neurodiversity. Feedback from HDR students suggests that, although the module is comprehensive, it does not fully address their needs. This project will adapt the existing module to better serve the needs of HDR students before integration into the neurodivergent hub offerings.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (BCCJ) and BCCJ/BA degree programs commenced in 2022 and is now undertaking its first Academic Program Review (APR). This project seeks genuine collaboration with student partners to co-develop methods for capturing student experience across the program. Student partners and project staff will co-design, collect, and interpret peer feedback, ensuring the review is grounded in authentic student voice and lived curriculum experience.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The BlackWords in Real Life series will showcase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors through moderated discussions and audience Q&A at 糖心logo入口. The series will create a space to recognise, value, and celebrate Indigenous storytelling, while providing meaningful engagement for students, staff, and the wider community and promoting BlackWords.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    UQ provides individual supports for neurodivergent students, however, barriers remain in learning design and delivery. This project addresses the gap between accommodations and accessible teaching by co-designing practical, neurodiversity-inclusive resources. Using PSYC1100 'The Psychology of Communication' as a pilot within the School of Psychology, it aims to identify barriers in course design begin to close gaps between available accommodations and the accessibility of learning environments.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    In previous SSPs centred on neurodivergent wellbeing, we found that making fulfilling social connections is vital to the academic experience. My hope is that this design concept would address all of the issues hampering ND social integration and wellbeing at university as it relies on lived experience, interactive and contextually-relevant learning, and alleviating the anxiety of entering social situations without a frame of reference.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The world currently faces rising geopolitical tensions, escalating conflict, instability & deepening humanitarian crises. Advancing peace is vital for creating just, sustainable futures that today鈥檚 students will inherit and lead. This proposed SSP project seeks to co-design activities and resources that build student awareness, understanding, and agency around peace, creating student-informed pathways for meaningful connection, while developing transferable skills and fostering collaborations.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    One pillar of our work in the Social Change Lab focuses on environmental sustainability, a global challenge that will undoubtedly shape the futures of coming generations. While today's youth are perhaps more aware of this issue than ever before, contextual issues are complex & progress is still needed to increase positive engagement. This proposed project seeks to co-design activities & resources that encourage interdisciplinary students' positive engagement with environmental sustainability.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project is motivated by the experience of a final year Occupational Therapist students undertaking a 6-week role-emerging placement and insights from academic staff. These experiences highlighted common challenges, including limited role modelling, and difficulties in developing professional identity. This project aims to address these challenges by developing a toolkit and the outcome is to enhance student confidence learning and success in role-emerging placement.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project addresses disconnection among Provisional Entry to Medicine students at 糖心logo入口 prior to the MD program. Through student鈥搒taff partnership, it will co-design initiatives to improve engagement, belonging, and connection, integrating student experience and staff insight. The outcome is a set of actionable recommendations to inform a Student Engagement Strategy within the Medical School and potentially other relevant Schools and Faculties, developed through collaborative, adaptable process.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project aims to enhance physiotherapy learning by addressing key challenges identified in the first year. Partnering with students across years 1鈥�4, the project will evaluate learning needs and co鈥慸esign improved learning materials which will be embedded in PHTY1200/7803. Expected outcomes include clearer scaffolding, better alignment with physiotherapy practice and more engaging resources, ultimately supporting student success and strengthening the first鈥憏ear learning experience.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    As AI becomes embedded in higher education, students require support to use these tools in ways that enhance, rather than replace, learning. This partnership will co-design online modules that develop students鈥� self-regulated learning skills when using AI. This is a cross-institutional project which will include friendly staff partners from different universities and disciplines.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Indigenous Australians are chronically under-represented in Physiotherapy Programs at 糖心logo入口, with less than 1% of enrolments from students identifying as Indigenous. The Queensland Commitment seeks to increase enrolment of this cohort to a level that represents population parity (~4.6%). This project aims to explore strategies to increase the recruitment and retention of Indigenous Australians to physiotherapy programs at 糖心logo入口 to create a cultural safe learning environment for all.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Sharper Minds: University Simplified is a self-paced wellbeing module co-designed with UQ neurodivergent students. It offers tips to make university life more accessible and help neurotypical peers and staff understand neurodiversity. Feedback from HDR students suggests that, although the module is comprehensive, it does not fully address their needs. This project will adapt the existing module to better serve the needs of HDR students before integration into the neurodivergent hub offerings.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This partnership project integrates human cadavers into histopathology education to provide authentic, hands-on learning. It addresses the need to improve gross tissue recognition and dissection skills, bridging theory with practice. Outcomes include enhanced student competency in specimen handling, a deeper understanding of pathological anatomy, and the development of a scalable, evidence-informed model for pathology teaching.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    UQ provides individual supports for neurodivergent students, however, barriers remain in learning design and delivery. This project addresses the gap between accommodations and accessible teaching by co-designing practical, neurodiversity-inclusive resources. Using PSYC1100 'The Psychology of Communication' as a pilot within the School of Psychology, it aims to identify barriers in course design begin to close gaps between available accommodations and the accessibility of learning environments.

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    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    One pillar of our work in the Social Change Lab focuses on environmental sustainability, a global challenge that will undoubtedly shape the futures of coming generations. While today's youth are perhaps more aware of this issue than ever before, contextual issues are complex & progress is still needed to increase positive engagement. This proposed project seeks to co-design activities & resources that encourage interdisciplinary students' positive engagement with environmental sustainability.

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    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    As AI becomes embedded in higher education, students require support to use these tools in ways that enhance, rather than replace, learning. This partnership will co-design online modules that develop students鈥� self-regulated learning skills when using AI. This is a cross-institutional project which will include friendly staff partners from different universities and disciplines.

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    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This partnership project addresses persistent challenges in MATH1040, where students often struggle to develop conceptual understanding. Staff and student partners will co-design a series of two-hour active learning workshops incorporating group work, real-world applications and peer review. Drawing on student learning experiences and staff expertise, the project aims to enhance engagement, strengthen reasoning, and improve student outcomes, with benefits extending into subsequent courses.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Sharper Minds: University Simplified is a self-paced wellbeing module co-designed with UQ neurodivergent students. It offers tips to make university life more accessible and help neurotypical peers and staff understand neurodiversity. Feedback from HDR students suggests that, although the module is comprehensive, it does not fully address their needs. This project will adapt the existing module to better serve the needs of HDR students before integration into the neurodivergent hub offerings.

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    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    The Integrated Pathology Learning Centre, based on the Herston campus, is a museum displaying human pathology specimens. This project aims to improve the museum鈥檚 accessibility and inclusivity by evaluating its current displays and offerings. Ultimately, ensuring that the IPLC is a welcoming space for all visiting students. The potential outcome may be a list of recommendations and strategies on how to implement them. For example, creating a guide to support visitors with diverse needs.

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    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    In previous SSPs centred on neurodivergent wellbeing, we found that making fulfilling social connections is vital to the academic experience. My hope is that this design concept would address all of the issues hampering ND social integration and wellbeing at university as it relies on lived experience, interactive and contextually-relevant learning, and alleviating the anxiety of entering social situations without a frame of reference.

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    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Continuing the SSP project from Round 1. The aim for Round 1 is to identify the key challenges and opportunities within the current transition and orientation framework. Round 2 would continue building on the aim with a tangible product at the end as well as encompassing the other parts of the transition framework. This student-staff partnership project will co-create a suite of transition activities informed by student feedback gathered through forums, surveys, and engagement sessions.

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    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project establishes a new student/staff partnership approach to improving a core digital service that directly connects us to UQ鈥檚 physical environment. Outcomes include improved accessibility and inclusivity in the digital environment, guidance for improvements in the physical and service environment, and a template for student to professional services collaborations.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    As AI becomes embedded in higher education, students require support to use these tools in ways that enhance, rather than replace, learning. This partnership will co-design online modules that develop students鈥� self-regulated learning skills when using AI. This is a cross-institutional project which will include friendly staff partners from different universities and disciplines.

  • Employer:
    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    Sharper Minds: University Simplified is a self-paced wellbeing module co-designed with UQ neurodivergent students. It offers tips to make university life more accessible and help neurotypical peers and staff understand neurodiversity. Feedback from HDR students suggests that, although the module is comprehensive, it does not fully address their needs. This project will adapt the existing module to better serve the needs of HDR students before integration into the neurodivergent hub offerings.

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    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project aims to explore student and staff perspectives on campus food options at St Lucia, with a focus on affordability, accessibility, and diversity. Through surveys and targeted consultation, the partnership will identify key needs and gaps in current food services. The project will co-develop an evidence-based report with practical recommendations to support future vendor planning and enhance the overall student experience at 糖心logo入口.

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    Application closing date: 26 Jun 2026, 11:59听pm
    Location: Australia
    This project engages student partners to work with a diverse group of international students to co鈥慸evelop a student panel for the UQ Academic Language Forum in September 2026. Partners will ensure a breadth of voices across disciplines and language backgrounds, identify key themes with the project lead, and support students to communicate their insights. The panel and accompanying vox pop videos will provide professional learning for staff and extend impact beyond the event.

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