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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.

Applications will open soon

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

4. Dingo Lingo – Building a database of Indigenous words for ‘dingo’

Project title: 

Dingo Lingo – Building a database of Indigenous words for ‘dingo’

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

Summer program students will be engaged for 6 weeks for 36 hrs per week between 12 Jan – 20 Feb 2026. The project will be on-site only.

Description:

This project investigates 'dingo' related words in Indigenous languages to transform our understanding of the linguistic landscape of Australia from a static collection of languages to a complex picture of vibrant language exchange and social dynamics. As the dingo arrived around 4000yrs ago, these words are within the scope of evolutionary models of language.

The project seeks to understand the dynamic historical relationships between Indigenous groups by creating a database to compare dingo-related words across languages.

Expected learning outcomes and deliverables:

Summer Research scholars will gain hands on experience in using dictionaries and ethnobiologies. They will also become familiar with linguistic annotation tools and database building. The end result will be a searchable database of dingo words.

Suitable for:

This project is open to applications from advanced students with a background in Linguistics and First Nations languages. Indigenous applicants are particularly encouraged to apply.

Primary Supervisor:

Professor Felicity Meakins

Further info:

f.meakins@uq.edu.au