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
- Venom from spitting cobras has evolved to cause predators extreme pain as a form of self-defence, rather than for capturing prey, according to new research.
- University of Queensland final year student Justin Clarke is bound for Oxford University after being named Queensland’s 2021 Rhodes Scholar.
- A University of Queensland-led team of international researchers says supercharged “clones” of the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes are to blame for the resurgence of the disease, which has caused high death rates for centuries.
- A study is underway to investigate how ‘smart’ devices may be helping to facilitate domestic abuse in Australia and the United Kingdom.
- A tiny weed with huge potential has prompted University of Queensland PhD candidate and 2020 Charlie Perkins Scholarship winner Audrey McInnerney to head to the UK’s University of Cambridge.
- A strong association between the genes influencing cattle temperament and autism in humans has been discovered by University of Queensland researchers.
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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: