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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

9. Computational Approaches To Complement Conversation Analysis

Project title: 

Computational Approaches To Complement Conversation Analysis

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

This will be offered on-site or hybrid, for 20-30 hours/week between 13 Jan and 21 Feb.

Description:

This project aims to explore and pilot several techniques for computational approaches to transcribed conversations as a complement to existing approaches to conversation analysis. Using already transcribed conversations, the applicant will survey existing text mining approaches, evaluate how they might complement conversation analysis, then trial the most promising methods on real data.  Based on this they will make recommendations on which are worth further investigation or application.

Expected learning outcomes and deliverables:

This project will introduce the successful applicant to computational approaches and building software to analyse text in the context of conversation analysis.  They will be provided mentoring and training around writing research software. They will be expected to give a short presentation on their process and outcomes of their work on this project.

Suitable for:

Ideally applicants will have some exposure to text analytics and/or programming, and/or conversation analysis. An interest and a willingness to learn computational methods will go a long way!

Primary Supervisor:

Dr Sam Hames

Further info:

Please contact Dr Sam Hames at s.hames@uq.edu.au if you have any questions.