2025 Winter Research Program
Engage in a formal research project over the winter break 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.
Each project will be offered for a period of four (4) weeks between 30 June to 25 July 2025
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.
Applications will open on 24 March.
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1. Conflict Narratives Symposium and Workshop support
Project title: | Conflict Narratives Symposium and Workshop support |
Hours of engagement & delivery mode | For the Winter program, students will be engaged for 4 weeks only. Hours of engagement are between 20 – 36 hrs per week between 30 June – 25 July 2025. We seek 2 students to support a symposium (10 July) and workshop (11 July) to be held on the St Lucia campus of UQ. On those two days, participants will need to be available all day, in person. For the remainder of the four-week program, participants can negotiate either in-person or hybrid arrangements for other tasks. |
Description: | This Winter research project participants will support the holding of a research symposium on ‘Narrative-based research in conflict-affected settings’ on 10 July, and a follow-up postgraduate workshop on ‘Managing conflict and trauma in qualitative research’ on 11 July. Prior to these events, participants will assist with logistics and program organisation, and carry out follow-up tasks afterwards. Specifically, this project involves: (1) the coordination and running of a research symposium and postgraduate workshop; (2) reporting on these two events; and (3) research assistance towards a thematic review of the symposium’s main themes (that is: on the ethics and methods of storytelling in conflict-affected settings). This research assistance will include finding and summarising relevant literature, under the guidance of the convenors. Researchers will work under the guidance of the symposium’s convenors, and be expected to participate in both the symposium and workshop. After 11 July until the end of the program (that is, by 25 July), the project participants will assist the convenors with the preparation of a report on the two events. |
Expected learning outcomes and deliverables: | The participants in this project will gain skills in:
There is the potential for future publications to arise from the research assistance work; where appropriate, students may be given the opportunity to contribute to a publication. |
Suitable for: | Any student from any program, but preference will be shown to students with an interest in (or potentially with experience in) the topic of the symposium, and in organising and running workshops. |
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