School of Languages and Cultures

2023 Winter Research Program

Engage in a formal research project over the summer semester with the UQ Summer Research Program.

The UQ Winter Research Scholarship Program offers scholarships to students wishing to gain experience working alongside a researcher in a formal research environment in their area of interest at UQ.

Applications have closed

Each project will be offered for a period of four (4) weeks between Monday 26 June – Friday 21 July 2023.

Participation is open to undergraduate (including honours) and master by coursework students who are currently enrolled and will remain at UQ for the entirety of the research program.

Discover more about the Winter Research Program

  1. Memory discourses in letters to women who were executed and disappeared in Chile.
  2. How accurate is professional Mandarin/English interpreters' real-life telephone interpretations?
  3. Translating Testimony from Survivors of Enforced Disappearances in the Algerian War
  4. Multimodal public health communication
  5. Eye tracking in bilingualism research with less-commonly researched languages.
  6. Potential impact of learner background factors on their communication in a second language - Part 2
  1. Language use and story structure: Analysis of stories told by Russian-English bilingual children
  2. Socio-pragmatic understanding of (im)politeness in Korean discourse
  3. ChatGPT for schools – Curating a prompt taxonomy for AI in F-10 Education.
  4. Border-Crossing Australian and Japanese Literature: Literary Exchange as Cultural Diplomacy
  5. Empowering Asian language speakers to become language teachers in Australian schools

10. Border-Crossing Australian and Japanese Literature: Literary Exchange as Cultural Diplomacy

Project title: 

Border-Crossing Australian and Japanese Literature: Literary Exchange as Cultural Diplomacy

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

One student

20 hours per week for 4 weeks

Offered through a hybrid arrangement.

Description:

This project aims to produce a book proposal (edited collection) based on the symposium Border-Crossing Australian and Japanese Literature: Literary Exchange as Cultural Diplomacy to be held on 29 and 30 June 2023. The project explores the recent surge of interest in contemporary Australia-Japan literary exchange in three types of literary border crossing: Japanese literary works with Australia-related themes; Australian literary works with Japan-related themes; and Australian literary works in Japanese translation. In addition to providing some basic support to organise the symposium, applicants are expected to collect relevant research materials and produce an annotated bibliography to support the preparation of the book proposal and a couple of sample chapters.

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

Applicants can expect to gain skills in research materials collection, including how to organise the collected materials, and become familiarised with the process of writing a book proposal.

Suitable for:

This project is open to applications from students with advanced proficiency in the Japanese language as well as interest in Australian and Japanese literature and research. Experience in translation between English and Japanese is desirable.

Primary Supervisor:

Dr Akiko Uchiyama

Further info:

Please contact a.uchiyama@uq.edu.au for further information.