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2026 Summer Research Program

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Engage in a formal research project over the winter 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 four (6) weeks between 12 January to 20 February 2026.

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.

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Applications will close 12 October 2025.

Check out some testimonials from previous scholars.

  1. Testimonies of torture in Indonesia
  2. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) to explore family discourse
  3. More than Frills and Ribbons: Translating Essays on Japanese Children’s Literature
  4. Dingo Lingo – Building a database of Indigenous words for ‘dingo’
  5. Discourse analysis of regional dialects in Korean: Preserving cultural identities
  6. Health risk and benefit communication
  1. Professional conference interpreters’ use of interpreting strategies in real-life Chinese/English simultaneous interpreting at the United Nations
  2. A review of interactional competence amongst vulnerable university students
  3. Drawing language in action: Stimuli development for language experiments
  4. Up next for Djambarrpuyŋu texts: Creating a digital corpus of Djambarrpuyŋu from legacy materials
  5. Building Indigenous languages dictionaries and learning resources

3. More than Frills and Ribbons: Translating Essays on Japanese Children’s Literature

Project title: 

More than Frills and Ribbons: Translating Essays on Japanese Children’s Literature

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

24 hours per week, 12 Jan – 20 Feb 2026.

Some of the work can be completed off-site, but the student needs to be available for in-person meetings and library/resource access at UQ St Lucia at least once a week.

Description:

This project is to assist work on a new collection of English-language translations and critical commentary on the scholarship of pioneering Japanese scholar, Honda Masuko. Honda’s wide-ranging work has become incredibly influential in childhood studies, shōjo /girl studies, and Japanese popular culture and literary studies. The publication is co-edited by the adviser with another expert in these fields, with Australia-based girl studies scholars contributing. It will offer insight into these fields and strong theoretical foundations for ongoing research.

Expected learning outcomes and deliverables:

Depending on individual preferences and abilities, students will be expected to collaborate with the advisor on this project by doing some or all of the following:

  • Researching and writing a literature review
  • Copyediting and fact-checking for research writing and translation
  • Developing and editing a reference list based on a style guide
  • Creating an index for a book manuscript

AND/OR

  • Co-translating a (short) piece of criticism or research chronology

Students are also welcome to devise their own personal project related to the topic, to present at the end of the research period and receive detailed feedback from the advisor.

Students who take part in this project will receive detailed, progressive feedback, and in this way they can expect to:

  • Improve their general research skills in the humanities
  • Improve technical editing, proofreading, and referencing skills used in the humanities and humanities publishing
  • Develop the ability to write succinctly and clearly
  • Gain knowledge of the field of Childhood, Children’s Literature, and Popular Culture Studies in Japan and elsewhere
  • Be acknowledged by name in any publications that their work contributes to

Students undertaking the optional translation task can expect to:

  • Improve their translation ability and experience
  • Have the chance to submit the work for publication as a co-translator

 

Suitable for:

This project is open to students with intermediate or higher reading and writing skills in Japanese and English. Students with this proficiency who have achieved excellent results in one or more university courses in writing, editing, literature, film, television, popular culture, or similar humanities fields of study are especially encouraged to apply. 

Primary Supervisor:

Lucy Fraser

Further info:

If you would like more information, please contact the supervisor: l.fraser2@uq.edu.au