Our schools, institutes and centres
Our schools
The School that changes the way people interpret, make and remake their world.
Share your love of learning with future generations and contribute to teaching best practice.
Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Critically evaluate the theories, arguments, rhetoric and reasoning that have united and divided societies, cultures and civilisations.
Develop the linguistic and intellectual skills for communicating within and across cultures with sensitivity and success.
Develop your musical craft and discover pathways to a creative career.
Political Science and International Studies
Contribute to peace and conflict resolution strategies with an understanding of global issues and intellectual skills that can influence powerful change.
Dig into the contours of culture, across space and through time, to discover what makes societies function, breakdown, adapt and survive.
Our institutes
Queensland’s leading language services provider offering language courses for all in over 30 languages using a communicative approach to teaching and learning.
Institute for Social Science Research
Building the knowledge that will improve economic and social wellbeing for individuals, families and communities.
Our centres
ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course
Transformative research towards breaking the cycle of deep and persistent disadvantage in Australia.
Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies
Digital Cultures and Societies brings together researchers to pose urgent questions about how we build inclusive, flourishing and sustainable societies and cultures using digital technologies and media.
Providing a forum for researchers to inform policy debate and shape public policy by connecting academic research with policy and program development.
Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
A unique regional centre for advancing the responsibility to protect principle through research and policy dialogue.
Centre for Communication and Social Change
Developing communication techniques and technology for social, economic and sustainable development.
Graduate Centre in Governance and International Affairs
Home to postgraduate programs in the School of Political Science and International Studies - areas include Governance and Public Policy, International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies.
ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
Investigating and transforming the science of language: how languages vary, how we learn them, how we process them and how they evolve.
The University of Queensland Rotary Peace Centre
One of six centres worldwide generating and sharing knowledge about international relations, conflict prevention and peace building.
Centre for Western Civilisation
Established in 2020 with funding from the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, the Centre for Western Civilisation delivers a sequence of study in Western Civilisation via an extended major in two programs at UQ.
Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing
The Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing gathers and showcases UQ's research in creativity and the imagination, to connect and collaborate across the spectrum of research into well-being and human futures.
Other units
University of Queensland Art Museum
Connecting each visitor with new ideas in creative practice, and with learning in its many forms. UQ Art Museum offers free exhibitions and public programs, study space, and a range of teaching and learning facilities and resources.
University of Queensland Press
UQP is one of Australia’s leading publishing houses consistently producing culturally significant works across genres such as fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as children's and young adult books.