UQ and Southern and Central Asia

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UQ's valued relationship with India has been strengthened by decades of academic and industry partnerships, student mobility, and commercialisation opportunities.

Collaboration in action

  • In 2019, 21 emerging leaders from Nepal participated in the 100th Australia Awards South and West Asia Short Course in Inclusive Governance for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction (Nepal) delivered by UQ’s International Development (UQID).
  • Across UQ, nearly 100 researchers from a range of disciplines are banding together to prevent, better diagnose and treat breast cancer – an insidious disease that affects millions of lives around the world each year.
  • With limited access to innovative farming techniques and equipment, many smallholders in Pakistan are ill-equipped to take advantage of emerging food markets in Asia. UQ researchers surveyed nearly 1000 smallholder farmers in Punjab and Sindh provinces to explore how they are accessing credit and financial services, their current farming practices, and how new farming technology is adopted.
  • A quick, cost-effective, cloud-based platform, which could solve one of fish farming’s biggest challenges, has received a US$100,000 grant for concept development and testing.

  • The University of Queensland’s (UQ) International Development unit hosted an opening ceremony in August 2019, for 46 participants undertaking Australia Awards Short Courses in Agribusiness (Africa) and Inclusive Governance for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction (Nepal).
  • Twenty three outstanding Pakistani women leaders from public, private and non-government organisations have come to The University of Queensland to develop their leadership practice in gender equity. This initiative is a customised Australia Awards Short Course delivered by UQ International Development.

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Alumni

UQ has more than 1,100 alumni from Southern and Central Asia, including:

Pakistan

UNICEF Pakistan Officer in Charge/Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting Specialist (Masters of Development Practice 2007, International Alumnus of the Year 2017)
Pakistan

Economic Resilience consultant with expertise in the field of Food Security and Livelihoods; Former Action Against Hunger Agriculture Coordinator (Master of Rural Development 2016)