The University of Queensland (UQ) is a leading university in the development sector, and our mission is to deliver global development leadership for a better world.
Our development practitioners, researchers and students are working to address the most pressing challenges facing our world today — including climate change and the environment, agriculture and food security, renewable energy, governance, health and wellbeing, and gender equality. Our work positively impacts societies globally by real-world application of our development expertise across program delivery, research, policy and advisory services.
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Together we can create greater impact. If you are interested in exploring collaboration with UQ in the global development space, please connect with us.
Our strengths and projects
Where we work
Our work in development is helping build the capacity of people and communities around the world.
About our work
We partner with international governments and private partners to expand the reach and impact of our global development efforts. Our expertise is applied through fieldwork, technical advice, capacity building, applied research, knowledge management and policy-making.
The impressive wealth of UQ capabilities relevant to global development spans a diverse range of disciplines, schools, faculties and institutes. Notably unique to Australian tertiary institutions, UQ proudly houses International Development, a team dedicated to sourcing, managing and implementing commercial development expertise, contracts and services. We also possess strengths in the teaching and learning of development theory and practice across a suite of multidisciplinary and specialist courses.
Through bringing together the brightest minds in global development, we can create meaningful change.
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As one of the leading university development groups in the Indo-
Pacific region, we will continue to provide development expertise and
program management leadership to build the capacity of people and
organisations around the world to achieve their development goals.
By its very nature, global development work offers unique and meaningful opportunities to achieve UQ's vision of knowledge leadership for a better world through real-world application of our expertise and capabilities. Few other endeavours have the potential to deliver such significant and lasting impacts to communities around the world.
Dallas Dowsett
Head, International Development
The University of Queensland
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Find out how UQ helps build the capacity of people and organisations around the world to achieve their development goals.
Find out how UQ helps build the capacity of people and organisations around the world to achieve their development goals.