The UQ Summer Research Scholarship Program provides UQ students with an opportunity to gain research experience working alongside some of the University’s leading academics and researchers.
Each year the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry offers research placement opportunities for students through the UQ Summer Research Scholarship Program.
Applications will open for the 2026-2027 Summer Research Program on Monday, 21 September 2026 and will close 11.59pm on Sunday, 11 October 2026. All applicants will be notified of their outcome by Friday, 13 November 2026 and offer acceptance due date is Sunday, 29 November 2026.
Participation is open to students with some background in our School's disciplines: Classics and Ancient History, Religious Studies, Philosophy, History or Gender Studies. Below is the list of current and past projects.
Current Projects
2026-2027
Project 1: Topics for future research on the work of early twentieth century American women philosophers
Project title: | Topics for future research on the work of earlt twentieth century American women philosophers |
Project duration and expected hours per week | 6 weeks (11 January - 19 February 2027) 20 hours/week |
Description: | The late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the first three generations of women philosophers entering American academia. Their work is more or less entirely unstudied. They include, among others, Mary Whiton Calkins, Ellen Bliss Talbot, Marjorie Silliman Harris, Mary Collins Swabey, Isabel Scribner Stearns, Heln Huss Parkhurst, and Dorothy Walsh. The proposed project will provide an overview of the themes of the work of some of these figures and explore possible research about their work. More specifically, the project will explore points of contact between the research of these women as well as between their research and that of comtemporaneous and somewhat later figures in the Anglophone world. In light of this expoloration, the project will outline a number of preliminary proposals for research on the significance of the contribution of early American women philosophers to philosophy. |
Expected outcomes and deliverables: | A number of research proposals suitable for Honours theses. |
Suitable for: | Students in a position to commence Honours program in semester 1 2027. |
Primary Supervisor: | A/Prof Joel Katzav |
Further info: | A/Prof Joel Katzav (j.katzav@uq.edu.au) |
Project 2: Back to the Future: Implementing Best Practice in Collection Documentation at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum
Project title: | Back to the Future: Implementing Best Practice in Collection Documentation at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum |
Project duration and expected hours per week | 6 weeks (11 January - 19 February 2027) 21 hours/week |
Description: | This project involves students in the implementation of best practice collection research and documentation standards at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum. Students will assist the Museum Curator to review, update and extend information available about the Museum’s original acquisitions from the 1960s, in order to ensure that available information on the Museum’s collection is high quality, complete and accessible to students, researchers, and museum staff in appropriate formats. The project may involve the use of the Museum’s database system, research about individual artefacts (online and digitally), work with the Museum’s historical archive, artefact photography, oral history interview and provenance research. The successful Winter Scholar will have the opportunity to work with the Museum’s Director, Manager/Curator and Assistant Curator as part of the placement. This project is generously supported by a donor to the Antiquities Museum. |
Expected outcomes and deliverables: | At the completion of the project, participating students should have familiarity with:
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Suitable for: | Advanced Undergraduate or Honours student in the disciplines of Classics and Ancient History, Archaeology, Anthropology, or Art History. |
Primary Supervisor: | Mr James Donaldson Museum Manager and Curator |
Further info: |
Past Projects
2025-2026
Project 1: UQ Latin and Greek Digital Classics Project
2024-2025
Project 1: The Queensland Atlas of Religion (QAR)
2023-2024
Project 2: Political Therapy
2022-2023
2021 - 2022
Queensland Atlas of Religion & Gammon Utopias and Biggest Mob Tea Parties
2019 - 2020
2018 - 2019
2016 - 2017
2015 - 2016
Popular perceptions of Roman emperors from Augustus to Theodosius
Cosmology, the earth and politicised territory in the Mahābhārata
The UQ Winter Research Scholarship Program provides students with an opportunity to gain research experience working alongside some of the University's leading academics and researchers.
Each year the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry offers research placement opportunities for students through the UQ Winter Research Scholarship Program.
Applications will open for the Winter Research Program 2024 on Monday, 25 March 2024 and will close 11.59pm on Sunday, 21 April 2024.
Participation is open to students with some background in our School's disciplines: Classics and Ancient History, Studies in Religion, Philosophy or History. Below is the list of projects on offer.
Current Projects
2024
Project title: | Back to the Future: Implementing Best Practice in Collection Documentation at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum |
Project duration, hours of engagement & delivery mode | 4 weeks – 21 hours/week |
Description: | This project involves students in the implementation of best practice collection research and documentation standards at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum. Students will assist the Museum Curator to review, update and extend information available about the Museum’s original acquisitions from the 1960s, in order to ensure that available information on the Museum’s collection is high quality, complete and accessible to students, researchers, and museum staff in appropriate formats. The project may involve the use of the Museum’s database system, research about individual artefacts (online and digitally), work with the Museum’s historical archive, artefact photography, oral history interview and provenance research. The successful Winter Scholar will have the opportunity to work with the Museum’s Director, Manager/Curator and Assistant Curator as part of the placement. This project is generously supported by a donor to the Antiquities Museum. |
Expected outcomes and deliverables: | At the completion of the project, participating students should have familiarity with:
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Suitable for: | Advanced Undergraduate or Honours student in the disciplines of Classics and Ancient History, Archaeology, Anthropology, or Art History. |
Primary Supervisor: | Brianna Sands Assistant Curator |
Further info: |
Past Projects
2023
2022
Cancelled by UQSEC
2021
Winter Research Scholarship 2021
2020
Fuzzy Logics for Graded Reasoning in Applied Contexts
2018-2019