QUT Centre for Justice congratulates our members who have been successful in being awarded a grant under the Australian Research Council Discovery Projects 2026 scheme. This scheme supports excellent basic and applied research to expand Australia’s knowledge base and research capability, and in projects that provide economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits to the Australian community.
Listed below are the successful projects:
Uncreative Australia: impacts of declining participation in arts education.
Australia’s arts and cultural sector has faced significant changes due to the post-COVID environment, cost of living crisis, and workforce reform. Despite increased demand for arts activities, there has been a reduction in creative arts courses at universities, affecting training and innovation. This research investigates factors influencing young people’s decisions to abandon creative arts studies and examines long-term impacts on Australia’s cultural landscape. The mixed methods approach includes in-depth interviews and co-design workshops with young people to uncover motivations behind education choices, providing a nuanced understanding of the decline in creative arts education and solutions for the sector’s future
Professor Sandra Gattenhof; Professor Donna Hancox; Dr Freya Wright-Brough; Dr Abbey MacDonald; Professor Craig Batty; Associate Professor Peter Cook; Professor Daniel Harris
Next generation environmental regulation: Integrating regulatory technology.
This project aims to develop new approaches to optimally integrating regulatory technology into environmental regulation. Regulatory technology is needed to improve regulators’ efficiency and effectiveness in response to mounting environmental challenges and resource constraints. The project will deliver new context sensitive strategies to enhance the design, adoption and application of regulatory technology. Expected outcomes include advances in regulatory theory and practical guidance strategies and training to fast track the successful uptake of regulatory technology to improve regulatory outcomes. This will provide significant public resource savings and promote the public interest goals of environmental regulation.
Professor Anna Huggins; Professor Cameron Holley; Professor Darren Sinclair; Professor Robert Glicksman
Supporting independent living with “seeing” technologies.
This project will engage people with cognitive disabilities in the design of the next generation of home assistive technology, leveraging a step change in artificial intelligence. For over one million people with cognitive disability in Australia, the project will accelerate innovation in independent living technologies that respect privacy, dignity and self-determination. The interdisciplinary research team will establish a new paradigm for multi-modal assistive technology with design guidelines, co-design approaches and evaluation frameworks. This will benefit all Australians through an energised and ethical home assistive technology market, providing savings in institutional care, jobs in a new industry and improved quality of life.
Associate Professor Laurianne Sitbon; Dr Jessica Korte; Associate Professor Jared Donovan; Professor Glenda Caldwell
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