About QUEX

The partnership will strengthen a joint commitment to co-produce research of the highest quality, boost industry and business collaboration, and publish high-level policy reports designed to inform and shape key government initiatives across the globe. 

The high-level collaboration will bring together the University of Exeter’s global-leading expertise in health, disease and dementia research from both its Medical School and flagship Living Systems Institute, as well as its pioneering environmental research carried out at the Environment and Sustainability Institute, with UQ’s world-leading reputation in health and genetic, environmental, and mental health research.

Operating as a ‘virtual’ institute, the QUEX Institute will also promote opportunities for academics to conduct collaborative research at both universities, facilitated through specified and targeted investment.

Key themes

Working under the overarching banner of ‘Global Sustainability and Wellbeing’, the QUEX Institute will focus on the following crucial interdisciplinary themes:

• healthy living
• global environmental futures
• digital worlds and disruptive technologies.