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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

5. The investigation of environmental discourse and ruling ideologies in the school textbooks in North and South.

Project title: 

The investigation of environmental discourse and ruling ideologies in the school textbooks in China, Vietnam, North Korea and South Korea.

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

For the Summer program, students will be engaged for 6 weeks only.

 

Hours of engagement must be 36 hrs per week and must fall within the official program dates (13 Jan – 21 Feb 2025).

 

Please outline if the project will be offered on-site, remotely or through a hybrid arrangement. 

Description:

This project aims to analyse environmental issues and the dominant ideologies that are embedded in school textbooks in China, Vietnam, North and South Korea. This project analyses language textbooks for primary and secondary school which were published in China, Vietnam, North and South Korea.  Textbooks are means which legitimise the government ruling ideologies. Through this project, I will look into how school textbooks portray the environmental issues and government ruling ideologies, and whose interest they portray.

 

The students will have the opportunity to translate Asian language textbooks into English, and gain scholarly insight how texts and images are carriers of certain values and ideologies. They will learn how to read and analyse texts critically, and reveal dominant ruling ideologies embedded in textbooks.

Expected learning outcomes and deliverables:

Students will develop critical analytic skills of texts, and will have an opportunity to translate Korean into English, Vietnamese into English, and Chinese into English. In addition, they may gain skills in data collection

Suitable for:

This project is open to receive applications from students with high bi-lingual skills (Korean and/ English, English/Chinese, Vietnamese/English), UQ enrolled students.

Primary Supervisor:

Dr Isaac Lee

Further info:

Please contact Dr Isaac Lee  isaaclee@uq.edu.au for any further enquiries.