Research Stories

New anthropology research from The University of Queensland is assisting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with their native title and water right's claims.

A partnership between public and not-for-profit agencies has adopted a proven strategy to permanently end homelessness for people sleeping rough in Brisbane.

However an increase in the supply of social housing in the city is needed to ensure the strategy reaches its full potential, according to University of Queensland researchers.

A global study on mental health has found approximately one in five teenagers experience thoughts of suicide or anxiety.

Digital contact tracing solutions for COVID-19 must offer exceptional speed and achieve high take-up rates to be useful, according to a working paper released by The University of Queensland's Institute for Social Science Research and the Centre for Social Data Analytics (Auckland University of Technology).

How UQ research is helping design social housing that better meets the needs of older residents.

The recent discovery of stone tools in India has revealed that humans survived and coped with one of the largest volcanic events in human history.

The intensity and impact of the historic Toba super-eruption in Indonesia sparked a long-running debate among researchers involving climatic, geological, archaeological and genetic evidence, until now.

Restricting where and how social security payments can be spent does more harm than good, according to the first large, independent study into Compulsory Income Management (CIM) policies in Australia.

Adolescent boys from lower socio-economic backgrounds are most likely to be the victims of bullying, according to the first comprehensive study of school bullying around the world.

Research to help Australian families break the cycle of disadvantage and stop the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ widening will continue at The University of Queensland.