Recent grant recipients
| Lead investigator | School | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Anne Beasley | Agriculture and Food Sustainability | Exploring AI Assistants: A Feasibility Study for Scenario-Based Farm Management Learning |
| Cheong Xin Chan | Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | AI-powered adaptive learning with personalised feedback |
| Marina Fortes | Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | Empowering Science Course Coordinators to Embed Indigenous Perspectives – guidelines, resources, and pilot implementation in 2 large courses |
| Paul Mills | Veterinary Science | Using AI to enhance short-answer question marking and feedback provision |
| Timothy Puckering | Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | Science simulators: a powerful new learning and assessment tool for the era of AI |
| Susanne Schmidt | Agriculture and Food Sustainability | Indigenous Knowledges: Plants, People, Country. Design, delivery and sustainability principles for Indigenising the higher-level curriculum |
| Lead investigator | School | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Jessa Thurman and Lynn Cook | School of Biological Sciences | Applications of Entomology: connecting undergraduate students to industry and synthesizing the complementarity of these courses |
| Margaret Wegener and Tim McIntyre | School of Mathematics and Physics | Learning Physics with Immersive Virtual Reality |
| Gurion Ang | School of Biological Sciences | UQ-SURF (Science Undergraduate Research Forum) - the next wave of scientists |
| Stephanie Bond | School of Veterinary Science | VetCloud: increasing student convenience and flexibility while implementing quality teaching efficiencies |
| Paul Ebert | School of Biological Sciences | A cross-school initiative to enhance Customisable Practical Module Library (FoS T&L 2022-23) to include flexible simulators for teaching concepts, self-directed exploration and creating innovative and challenging exams in genetics and biochemistry |
| Allison Stewart | School of Veterinary Science | Development and pedagogical testing of a virtual simulator to teach veterinary science and technology students local anaesthetic technical skills |
| Lead investigator | School | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Ulrike Kappler | School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences | Online laboratory tools that teach troubleshooting and critical judgement through productive failure |
| Paul Ebert, Liz Gillam, James Fraser | School of Biological Sciences | Modularisation and augmentation of the hands-on student research experience: a multi-school initiative to enhance and future-proof the practical experience at UQ |
| James Fraser | School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | pgrading the genetic basis of stuff and things: enrichment of an innovative learning paradigm to supercharge graduate attribute achievement |
| Andrew Letten, Gurion Ang, Simon Hart, Louise Kuchel and Cynthia Riginos | School of Biological Sciences | Authentic experiences with authentic assessments: second year biology students reproduce classic experiments through work-simulated assessments |
| Frances Shapter and Emily Jones | School of Veterinary Science | Upscaling skills training to large group format: using blended learning to enable core, day one competency for veterinary graduates |
| Suresh Krishnassamy | School of Agriculture and Food Sciences | Improving a virtual field trip platform |
| Harald Hofmann | School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Demonstrating river and coastal principles in practical classes with the use of interactive stream tables |
The teaching and learning grant scheme did not run in 2020 or 2021.
The equipment grant scheme did not run in 2020 or 2021 or 2022.
| Lead investigator | School | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Ms Marnie Holt | Faculty of Science | Virtual Reality Equipment |
| Dr Frances Shapter | School of Veterinary Science | Multi-functional canine head training simulator to reduce teaching costs and improve student outcomes |
| Dr Kelly Johnstone | School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Experiment needed to enhance OHSSc student's work readiness and employability skills |
| Dr Louise Kuchel | School of Biological Sciences | Bringing field and laboratory biology online using video |
| Dr Daniel Harris | School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | High-resolution marine wave, tide and temperature measurement facility |
| Dr Swaid Abdullah | School of Veterinary Science | Digital microscopy platform for the multipurpose laboratory (MPL), Building 8106, School of Veterinary Science |
| Dr Francois-Rene Bertin | School of Veterinary Science | Acquisition of basic equipment for student training in Equine Clinical Ophthalmology (VETS4022) |
| Dr Harald Hofmann | School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Groundwater modelling with MODFLOW Flex |
| Dr Harald Hofmann | School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Where does climate and hydrological data come from? |
Previous recipients
Find information about previous recipients and outcome reports on the UQ Faculty of Science staff intranet (requires UQ login).