CQUniversity researchers have helped garner more than $1.3 million in funding through this year's Australian Research Council's (ARC) grants....

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This coincided with the University ranking 24 out of 38 Australian universities for research output in the Spanish-based SCImago report. The University also placed in the top 10% of universities in the world for research output.

Grant recipients Dr Mitch Duncan, Dr Yang Xiang, Professor Qing-Long Han and Professor Kerry Mummery.CQUniversity's Professor Qing-Long Han received $250,000 towards his research into the effects of network-induced delays on networked control systems, while Dr Yang Xiang's joint research with Deakin University into tracing internet attackers through information correlation was awarded $220,000. Professor Kerry Mummery and Dr Mitch Duncan's joint research with Curtin University titled 'Catch: Children, Active Travel, Connectedness and Health' was awarded $479,000.

Among this year's ARC Linkage Projects were Dr Yang Xiang's joint project with Deakin University titled: 'An active approach to detect and defend against peer-to-peer botnets'; and Professor Kerry Mummery and Dr Mitch Duncan's project on independent mobility, active travel and children's health - a joint project with Griffith University.

Professor Mummery and Dr Duncan, with CQUni colleagues Dr Cornel Vandelanotte and Dr Cristina Caperchione, also secured a $896,000 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant for Project WALK 2.0, which investigates the internal and external validity of the latest web applications in promoting physical activity. 

Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman was overwhelmed by the University's recent research success.

"The ranking and the funding demonstrate that CQUniversity's applied research has a concentration of excellence in the health sciences and information technology..."

"From rail safety and load bearing, to inner-ear infections and the health of the Great Barrier Reef, to cardiac monitoring and the sweetness of locally-grown fruit, CQUniversity's applied research is delivering benefits to people on a local (and global) scale from activities undertaken in Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gladstone and Mackay and throughout Central Queensland."

Professor Bowman said although the CQUniversity's size and funding of research was relatively small compared to universities such as Melbourne or ANU, CQUniversity research was recognised among the best.