Partner with Global Change Scholars
Collaborate with PhD students to develop solutions to your industry challenges.
Global Change Scholars Program
The Global Change Scholars Industry Challenge offers a unique opportunity for public sector organisations to partner with PhD students to research and respond to an important issue.
Each year, PhD students from across UQ’s faculties and institutes engage in the Global Change Scholars Program. The program cultivates future leaders, experienced in transdisciplinary research to make a real-world impact.
The Industry Challenge provides an opportunity for scholars to collaborate with people and organisations that understand the problems intimately.
Why partner with us
Partnering with PhD students from the Global Change Scholars Program provides the following benefits.
Leaders in research
Unlock world-class research expertise at UQ, with scholars supported by our Graduate School and the Global Change Institute.
Real-world issues
Address long-standing, imminent or unique industry challenges by collaborating with PhD students.
Research potential
Engage with scholars who apply their diverse perspectives, expertise and life experience to complex issues.
Strategic planning
Implement recommendations for action or use findings to support and inform policy submissions and future planning.
Become an industry partner
Global Change Scholars work in small transdisciplinary teams to address issues identified by our partners. Throughout the program teams work with organisations to understand issues, develop a project plan, and deliver a report.
We call for projects in July each year. To learn more about partnering with us, contact:
Dr Skye Doherty
Global Change Scholars Program Coordinator
Email gcsp@uq.edu.au
Call +61 7 3346 0503
Industry partner topics
In 2021-22 our Global Change Scholars delivered reports on:
- how to support engagement with environmental health, with Healthy Land and Water
- how to make second-hand shops more sustainable, with YMCA Social Impact
- how to implement micro-food production in remote communities, with RAPAD, the Remote Area Planning and Development Board
- how to attract younger audience to the theatre, with Queensland Theatre
- how to use technology to monitor large-scale restoration, with Queensland Trust for Nature
- what forces will drive migration over the next decade, with Multicultural Australia.
Partnership success stories
Hear from previous partners involved in the Industry Challenge.
Multicultural Australia
Scholars addressed the question: What are the global forces of change driving forced migration over the next 5-10 years?
Queensland Trust for Nature
Scholars addressed the question: How can we monitor our impact at scale, as we protect and enhance Queensland’s biodiversity?