CQUniversity has a bold new research agenda, and it's looking for the very best researchers to make it happen.

Research ranked as world class? CQUniversity is already there. It wants to push beyond its world class rankings in Engineering, Nursing, and Medical and Health Sciences to achieve greatness and research excellence.  

But it doesn't end there. CQUniversity is establishing new hubs of world-class research in a breadth of areas spanning from Agricultural and Industrial Environments, Social Sciences and Policy, through to Simulation Technologies and Education, and Public Health and Health Services.

To do this CQUniversity needs the very best of the best. Only the top researchers in their fields will do.

The University is aggressively recruiting new high profile Engaged Research Chairs - from fields including Education, Simulation Science, Human Factors Analysis, Environmental Management and Policy, Clean Energy, Sustainable Regions/Communities, Industrial Ecology and Medical Sciences and Allied Health.

These new Engaged Research Chairs - along with their teams - will drive CQUniversity's ambitious research agenda, fuelling CQUniversity's transformation into one of the truly great institutions known for high impact research.

This research will be driven by the ‘power of place'; the unique dynamics of Central Queensland communities and the resource-rich environment driving the nation's remarkable minerals boom. And there is simply no Australian university today better placed than CQUniversity to engage in this space. 

So why the massive investment in CQUniversity's research potential?

Today, CQUniversity is one of the fastest growing universities in Queensland. Twenty new degrees were introduced this year alone, complemented by a $50 million investment in capital works. CQUniversity remains one of the top three Australian universities operating in the international student market. And later this year CQUniversity will become Queensland's first dual-sector university, with a planned amalgamation with TAFE that would effectively double the size of its operations.

Put simply, CQUniversity is on an unstoppable journey. Its ambitious research potential needs to keep pace.