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2026 Winter Research Program

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Engage in a formal research project over the winter break with the UQ Winter 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 29 June to 24 July 2026.

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.

Please check your eligibility before submitting an application.

Applications will open on 23 March 2026 and will close on 12 April 2026.

Check out some testimonials from previous scholars.

  1. Exploring pragmatic and categorial aspects of family discourse
  2. Data Analysis in Korean language use by Korean background speakers
  3. Professional conference interpreters’ use of interpreting strategies in real-life Chinese/English simultaneous interpreting at the United Nations
  4. Navigating the AI Revolution: Understanding How GenAI Tools Transform Academic Writing for International EAL Students
  5. Enhancing Infectious Disease Communication for High-Risk Populations
  1. Indigenising Japanese language curriculum: Building learning resources to connect Indigenous cultures and histories in Australia and Japan
  2. How prior language experience shapes new language learning
  3. Mass-mediated women’s voices: experiences of tidal flooding in Indonesia
  4. Connecting the Stolen Generations: The effect of ‘family reunions’ on Stolen Generations survivors
  5. Postmemory and childhood in letters by high school students to executed and disappeared teenagers during the 1973–1990 Chilean dictatorship.

8. Mass-mediated women’s voices: experiences of tidal flooding in Indonesia

Project title: 

Mass-mediated women’s voices: experiences of tidal flooding in Indonesia

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

Winter program: 29 June – 24 July 2026

Hours of engagement: 20 hours per week

Winter research scholars will meet with Associate Professor Zane Goebel once per week to discuss progress. Meetings will be face-to-face at the St Lucia campus and via ZOOM.

Description:

Tidal flooding is an everyday event that already impacts the lives, livelihoods, and health of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians. Research on how Indonesians experience tidal flooding adapt overwhelmingly uses focus groups and interviews with community leaders, NGO representatives, and experts, the majority of whom are male. With few exceptions we do not hear about the experiences of female community members themselves. This project uses discourse analysis to examine what Indonesian women have to say about their experiences of tidal flooding when interviewed by television station staff. The winter scholar will be tasked with finding and catalogue audio-visual stories published between July 2024 to June 2026. Once the cataloguing of these stories is complete using a supplied excel spreadsheet, the winter scholar will start to transcribe the stories told by interviewees.

Expected learning outcomes and deliverables:

Scholars will gain skills in data collection, cataloguing, and transcription. Scholars will be a named author on the papers that are published using the data that they have collected, catalogued, and transcribed.

Suitable for:

This project is open to applications from UQ undergraduate students interested in issues of gender, tidal flooding, and media reporting. Applicants must be proficient speakers of Indonesian.

Primary Supervisor:

Associate Professor Zane Goebel

Further info:

Students are encouraged to contact Associate Professor Goebel prior to submitting their application at z.goebel@uq.edu.au