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 2023-2024 Summer Research Program on Monday, 23 September 2024 and will close
11.59pm on Sunday, 13 October 2024. All applicants will be notified of their outcome by 15 November 2024 and offer acceptance due date is 1st December 2024.
Participation is open to students with some background in our School's disciplines: Classics and Ancient History, Studies in Religion, Philosophy, History or Gender Studies. Below is the list of current and past projects.
Current Projects
Project 1
Project title: | The Queensland Atlas of Religion (QAR) |
Project duration, hours of engagement & delivery mode | Duration of the project, 6 weeks, 20 – 36 hrs per week, between 13 Jan and 21 Feb 2025. |
Description: | The Queensland Atlas of Religion (QAR) is an Australian Research Council Linkage project undertaken in partnership with the State Library of Queensland. The QAR aims to document the religious diversity of Queensland through essays and oral history interviews published on a public reference website. The content of the site reflects the diversity of religion within Queensland, organised according to four broad themes: religious tradition, place, action, and story. The successful applicant for this scholarship will work under the direction of Assoc. Prof. Adam Bowles and Assoc. Prof. Geoff Ginn, the project's leaders. They may be involved in any of the following: doing background research for one or more entries of the Atlas; assisting with oral history interviews; and some administrative and editorial duties. The specific objects of inquiry are open and shall be determined in discussion with the scholarship holder. |
Expected outcomes and deliverables: | The successful applicant will assist in identifying candidates for QAR entries, which may include essays based on religious sites, organisations, or individuals in Brisbane. The scholar may be involved in site visits and informal interviews and will develop skills in data procurement and analysis. The scholar will contribute materials towards one or may entries for the Atlas and may be involved in writing (or co-writing) such an entry (an academic publication). The student may also be involved in editorial activities for the Atlas. |
Suitable for: | We are looking for a motivated, independent learner, who is interested in local Brisbane stories. An interest or background in the academic study of religion would be helpful, but more important is a passion for discovering interesting stories from our present or our past. This is most suitable for students doing advanced level undergraduate subjects. |
Preferred Commencement Date | January 13 |
Primary Supervisor: | Assoc. Prof. Adam Bowles and Assoc. Prof. Geoff Ginn |
Further info: | Assoc. Prof. Adam Bowles (a.bowles1@uq.edu.au) |
Project 2
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 | 6 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: | Ms Brianna Sands Assistant Curator |
Further info: |
Past Projects
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:
|
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