Honours Project List
Click on the topics below to find available research projects:
Exercise Physiology
Project Title | Supervisor/s | Contact email | AES Suitable | ASpS Suitable | AEP Suitable |
Broad Project - Co-designing exercise solutions for serving and ex-serving ADF personnel: a mixed methods study * Students participating in this project will be required to sign a Student IP and Confidentiality Deed. Students unwilling to do so, will need to consider participating in another project. | Shelley Keating | s.keating@uq.edu.au | |||
Indigenising Cardiac Rehabilitation in Australia | Kai Wheeler and Jenna Taylor | kwheeler@uq.edu.au | |||
Heart rate response to high intensity resistance training | Professor Jeff Coombes and Dr Riley Brown | jcoombes@uq.edu.au | |||
Exercise physiologists addressing fatty liver disease in First Nations peoples | Dr Kai Wheeler and Dr Shelley Keating | kwheeler@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Scoping review of trauma-informed training for exercise and rehabilitation professionals | Dr Kai Wheeler and Grace Ike | kwheeler@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Long-term effect of high-intensity interval training during cardiac rehabilitation: A follow-up study | Dr Jenna Taylor | jenna.taylor@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Research investigations of cardiac technologies, populations, clinical datasets, and clinical services within the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital | Dr Jenna Taylor; RBWH co-supervisor | jenna.taylor@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Assessing and Comparing the Muscular Fitness of Elite Ninja Warrior Children with Normative Values | Jeff Coombes and Emma Beckman | jcoombes@uq.edu.au | |||
Exercise and Gynaecological Cancer Survivorship: Assessing Changes in Fitness and Quality of Life | Brent Cunningham Alex Boytar Professor Sandie McCarthy | a.boytar@uq.edu.au | |||
The Effect of HIIT on Health Outcomes for those Surviving Cancer: Interactions Between Exercise, Diet, and Quality of Life | Alex Boytar | ||||
Working together for people with a disability- combining architecture and sport and exercise science | Sean Tweedy and Emma Beckman | e.beckman@uq.edu.au |
Physical Activity and Health
Project Title | Supervisor/s | Contact email | AES Suitable | ASpS Suitable | AEP Suitable |
Barriers and enablers to supporting desk workers to sit less and move more* * Students participating in this project will be required to sign a Student IP and Confidentiality Deed. Students unwilling to do so, will need to consider participating in another project. | Professor Genevieve Healy, Dr Ana Goode | g.healy@uq.edu.au | |||
Supporting veterans to be physically active: Codesign of creative solutions in Springfield | Professor Lauren Ball, Dr Amy Kierkegaard, Ms Clare Van Dorssen | Lauren.ball@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Mapping exercise care for cancer survivors: Codesign project in Springfield | Professor Lauren Ball, Dr Amy Kierkegaard, Ms Clare Van Dorssen | Lauren.Ball@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Supporting cancer survivors to navigate community health care services: Codesign project in Springfield | Professor Lauren Ball, Dr Amy Kierkegaard, Ms Clare Van Dorssen | Lauren.Ball@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Screen time, sleep and active play in Australian Infants: Analysis of 24-h time use data. | Stewart Trost | s.trost@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Screen time and sleep in Australian Preschool Children. Analysis of 24-hour time use diaries.. | Stewart Trost | s.trost@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Systematic review of using technology to influence physical activity over the last 50 years * Students participating in this project will be required to sign a Student IP and Confidentiality Deed. Students unwilling to do so, will need to consider participating in another project. | Nick Gilson | ||||
Examining associations of sedentary behavior and depression and anxiety | Bronwyn Clark |
Sports Coaching and Development
Project Title | Supervisor/s | Contact email | AES Suitable | ASpS Suitable | AEP Suitable |
Coaching at pinnacle events * Students participating in this project will be required to sign a Student IP and Confidentiality Deed. Students unwilling to do so, will need to consider participating in another project. | Steven Rynne; Jordan Lefebvre |
Sports Medicine
Project Title | Supervisor/s | Contact email | AES Suitable | ASpS Suitable | AEP Suitable |
Clinical Assesments in Total Knee Joint Replacement Patients * Students participating in this project will be required to sign a Student IP and Confidentiality Deed. Students unwilling to do so, will need to consider participating in another project. | Craig Engstrom, Jon Anderson (PhD candidate) | craig@hms.uq.edu.au |
Sports Science
Project Title | Supervisor/s | Contact email | AES Suitable | ASpS Suitable | AEP Suitable |
Creativity in Motion (netball): Evaluation of a training program aiming at enhancing creativity in netball players | Veronique Richard | v.richard@uq.edu.au | Contact supervisor to advise if project is suitable for your program. | ||
Effects of Strength and Plyometric training on the Novel Measure: the Reactive Quality Deficit in AFL athletes* | Ben Southey and Emma Beckman | e.beckman@uq.edu.au | |||
Talent gaps- where should we focus our efforts to find the next generation of paralympians?* | Emma Beckman | ||||
Hamstring Muscle Activation Adaptations to Eccentric Training* | Dr Patricio Pincheira, Mr Max Andrews | ||||
* Students participating in these projects will be required to sign a Student IP and Confidentiality Deed. Students unwilling to do so, will need to consider participating in another project. |
Other
Project Title | Supervisor/s | Contact email | AES Suitable | ASpS Suitable | AEP Suitable |
Torres Strait Islander Sport: History, Culture and Identity | Gary Osmond amd Murray Phillips | g.osmond@uq.edu.au | |||
Run4Health CP - an adapted sports intervention (frame running) to improve cardiorespiratory health in children and young people with high support needs cerebral palsy. Flexible project available across fields of Biomechanics, Physiological Measurement, Para athletics classification and Mobility Function. * Students participating in this project will be required to sign a Student IP and Confidentiality Deed. Students unwilling to do so, will need to consider participating in another project. | Dr Ellen Armstrong, Dr Sarah Reedman | ellen.armstrong@uq.edu.au |