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2024 Winter Research Program

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Engage in a formal research project over the winter break with the UQ Winter 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.

Each project will be offered for a period of four (4) weeks between 24 June - 21 July 2024.

Successful applicants will receive a $2,000 grant.

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.

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Applications close 21 April 2024

Check out some testimonials from previous scholars.

 

 

  1. Health crisis communication: Multimodal classification
  2. Potential impact of learner background factors on their communication in a second language - Part 4
  3. Voices of Indonesian resilience: Kendal residents’ stories of adaptation to everyday tidal flooding
  1. The impact of learners’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds on their Japanese language learning: a case study of a Japanese university
  2. The investigation of environmental discourse and ruling ideologies in the school textbooks in North and South.
  3. Disrupting Intersectional Exclusion in Language Learning Through OERs

3. Voices of Indonesian resilience: Kendal residents’ stories of adaptation to everyday tidal flooding

Project title: 

Voices of Indonesian resilience: Kendal residents’ stories of adaptation to everyday tidal flooding

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

Winter researchers will be required to spend twenty (20) hours per week for 4 weeks on this project between the 24th of June and the 19th of July 2024. They will meet with Associate Professor Zane Goebel once per week to discuss progress. Meetings will be face-to-face and via ZOOM.

Description:

Tidal flooding is an everyday event that already impacts the lives, livelihoods, and health of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians. Models of land subsidence, sea level rise, and climate change predict that up to 23 million of Indonesia's coastal inhabitants will be severely impacted by tidal flooding in the next few decades. Research on how Indonesians experience tidal flooding adapt overwhelmingly uses focus groups and interviews with community leaders, NGO representatives, and experts. With few exceptions we do not hear about the experiences of community members themselves. This project uses discourse analysis to examine what Indonesians from the Kendal regency have to say about tidal flooding when interviewed by television station staff. The winter scholar will be tasked with doing google searches to find and catalogue audio-visual stories published between January 2021 and June 2024. Once the cataloguing of these stories is complete using a supplied excel spreadsheet, the winter scholar will start to transcribe the stories told by interviewees.

Expected learning outcomes and deliverables:

Scholars will gain skills in data collection, cataloguing, and transcription. Scholars will be a named author on the papers that are published using the data that they have collected, catalogued, and transcribed.

Suitable for:

This project is open to applications from UQ undergraduate or graduate students who are fluent speakers of Indonesian. Students who are also fluent speakers of Javanese are preferred because some of the transcription will be of interviews conducted in a mix of Indonesian and Javanese.

Primary Supervisor:

Associate Professor Zane Goebel

Further info:

Students are encouraged to contact Associate Professor Goebel prior to submitting their application at z.goebel@uq.edu.au