Research centres
Our world-class research is creating change in Queensland and around the world.
Our centres offer diverse capabilities across research areas, supporting UQ's research excellence. Centres are grouped by faculty and institute.
Faculty centres
Business, Economics and Law
- ARC COE for Indigenous Futures
- Australian Centre for Private Law
- Australian Institute for Business and Economics
- Centre for the Business and Economics of Health
- Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences
- Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
- Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law
Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
- ARC COE for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide
- ARC Research Hub to Advance Timber for Australia's Future Built Environment (ARC Advance Timber Hub)
- ARC Training Centre for Bioplastics and Biocomposites
- Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology
- Baosteel Joint Research and Development Centre
- Centre for Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing (AMPAM)
- Centre for Hypersonics
- Centre for Multiscale Energy Systems
- Centre of Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History
- Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation
- Future Autonomous Systems and Technologies
- HBIS-UQ Innovation Centre for Sustainable Steel
- Nanomaterials Centre
- Nihon Superior Centre for the Manufacture of Electronic Materials
- UQ Gas and Energy Transition Research Centre
Health and Behavioural Sciences
- Centre for Business and Organisational Psychology
- Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing
- Centre for Health Outcomes, Innovation and Clinical Education (CHOICE)
- Centre for Hearing Research (CHEAR)
- Centre for Neurorehabilitation, Ageing and Balance Research
- Centre for Orofacial Regeneration, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation (COR3)
- Centre for Perception and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Centre for Psychology and Evolution
- Centre for Research in Social Psychology (CRiSP)
- Centre for Research on Exercise, Physical Activity and Health
- Centre for Sensorimotor Performance
- Centre for Sport and Society
- Early Cognitive Development Centre
- Health and Wellbeing Centre for Research Innovation
- Minderoo Centre for Plastics and Human Health
- National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research
- Parenting and Family Support Centre
- Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
- Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences
- Queensland Aphasia Research Centre (QARC)
- RECOVER Injury Research Centre
- Social Identity and Groups Network (SIGN) Research Centre
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- ARC COE for Children and Families Over the Lifecourse
- ARC COE for the Digital Child (UQ node)
- Centre for Communication and Social Change
- Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
- Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
- Centre for Policy Futures
Medicine
- Australian Women's and Girls' Health Research Centre
- Centre for Clinical Research
- Centre for Extracellular Vesicle Nanomedicine
- Centre for Health Services Research
- Centre for Online Health
- Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame
- Child Health Research Centre
- Dermatology Research Centre
- Ian Frazer Centre for Children's Immunotherapy Research
- Queensland Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation and Research Centre
- Queensland Digital Health Centre
Science
- ARC COE for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS)
- ARC COE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
- ARC COE for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology
- ARC COE in Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC)
- ARC COE: Future low energy electronics technologies (FLEET)
- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE)
- Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science
- Centre for Geoanalytical Mass Spectrometry
- Centre for Marine Science
- Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics
- Earth Observation Research Centre
- Queensland Centre for Population Research
Institute centres
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
- ARC Centre for Innovation in Biomedical Imaging Technology
- ARC Research Hub for Advanced Manufacture of Targeted Radiopharmaceuticals
Institute for Molecular Biosciences
- ARC COE for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science
- ARC Training Centre for Environmental and Agricultural Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance (CEA-StAR)
- Centre for Cell Biology of Chronic Disease
- Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery
- Centre for Population and Disease Genomics
- Centre for Superbug Solutions
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
- ARC Research Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection
- Centre for Animal Science
- Centre for Crop Science
- Centre for Horticultural Science
- Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
Queensland Brain Institute
- Asia-Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation
- Centre for Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Centre for RNA in Neuroscience
- Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research
- Queensland Brain Injury Collaborative
- Science of Learning Centre
Sustainable Minerals Institute
- Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation
- Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
- Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry
- Global Centre for Mineral Security
- Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre
- Leading for High Reliability Centre
- Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre
- W.H. Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre