Research centres

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