Building healthier and happier communities
UQ's close relationship with the UK is strong bonds with government and industry, close collaboration on strategic research projects, and significant student mobility. The QUEX Institute of Global Sustainability and Wellbeing brings together researchers from UQ and the University of Exeter to address major global challenges. Other key areas of collaborative research include infrastructure, medicine and sustainability, with a focus on transforming the future for our communities.
Fast facts
60
UK students enrolled at UQ
1,153
UK-UQ co-publications
202
academic staff born in the UK
180
research project collaborations
2,984
alumni in the UK
30
agreements with 20 official partners
Fast facts show full year 2023 data.
Collaboration in action
- For the first time, researchers have revealed how a person’s genes can play a part in their enjoyment of nature, potentially changing the way we look at our affinity with the natural world.
- Cracked phone screens could become a thing of the past thanks to breakthrough research conducted at The University of Queensland.
- In partnership with the Australia-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, National Australia Bank and the Investment NSW, and The University of Queensland is delighted to feature in the second Rethink, Reset 2021 report on ‘The Road to Net Zero.’
- Increasing access to cost effective, evidence-based treatment for alcohol and drug use is the focus of a University of Queensland-led Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
- Bird species across the globe are suffering and dying from a type of malaria and while these strains are not infectious to humans, they’re spreading quickly through global transmission hotspots.
- People who experienced childhood trauma get a more pleasurable ‘high’ from morphine, new research suggests.
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Alumni
The UK is home to one of the largest UQ alumni communities. More than 2,984 alumni live there. Alumni with significant links to the UK include: