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2025 Summer Research Program

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

The UQ Summer 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 six (6) weeks between 13 January to 21 February 2025

Successful applicants will receive a $3,000 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.

Applications have now closed.

Check out some testimonials from previous scholars.

 

 

  1. Discourse analysis of regional dialects in Korean: Preserving cultural identities
  2. Los latidos de la memoria (The heartbeat of memory): Memory and postmemory in microbiographies of victims of Chilean state terrorism.
  3. Crisis communication in public health
  4. Testimonies of enforced disappearances and torture from Aceh, Indonesia (1976–2005)
  5. The investigation of environmental discourse and ruling ideologies in the school textbooks in North and South.
  1. ‘Talking families into being’: Exploring family discourse in Australia
  2. More than Frills and Ribbons: Japanese Children’s Literature
  3. Potential impact of learner background factors on their communication in a second language - Part 5
  4. Computational Approaches To Complement Conversation Analysis
  5. Role of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in the development of narrative skills in Russian-English bilingual children

3. Crisis communication in public health

Project title: 

Crisis communication in public health

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

The duration of the project is 6 weeks 13 Jan – 21 Feb 2025. Hours of engagement are 20 hours per week. The project can be completed online via Zoom meeting. On-site attendance is not required.

Description:

This project focuses on how health officials in Australia and Taiwan communicated public health information about the COVID-19 pandemic and food-poisoning episodes. The primary data of the project are video recordings of press conferences. We will analyze the recordings by attending to details such as how speech and gesture co-occur to create meaning. The project will contribute to the fields of sociolinguistics by showing how social values, beliefs, and attitudes about health are linguistically and multimodally encoded and made accessible to the public. The project will also provide media and health professionals with research-based recommendations on how to overcome challenges, repair misunderstandings, and mitigate conflicts in health communication.

Expected learning outcomes and deliverables:

 

Students will:

  1. gain skills in transcribing video recordings, including speech and gestures;
  2. learn to use different technologies to code and present video data (e.g. InqScribe);
  3. participate in regular meetings to share their findings;
  4. review relevant literature on multimodality and sociolinguistics;
  5. have the opportunity to co-publish research findings with the primary supervisor.

 

 

Suitable for:

Students need to have the experience of taking or completing the following courses: CHIN2600, CHIN3110, or CHIN3210.

Primary Supervisor:

 

Dr. Sheng-Hsun Lee

 

Further info:

Please contact Dr. Sheng-Hsun Lee (shengshun.lee@uq.edu.au) if there are question about the project.