Embarking on a Higher Degree by Research at QAEHS means becoming part of a dynamic community of students from various cultural and academic backgrounds, all thriving in a highly collaborative and supportive environment.
The Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) is a research centre, committed to improving human health through environmental health science by addressing local, national and global environmental health science challenges and achieve first class outcomes in research, training and partnership engagement while meeting the needs of Queensland and the wider community.
The centre’s research areas include environmental aspects of toxicology, human health epidemiology, microbiology, health risk assessment, health risk communication, identification and analysis of emerging environmental health risks, and state-of-the art monitoring and analytical techniques, methodologies and technologies for environmental hazards and exposures.
With the centre’s state-of-the-art equipment and dedicated professional research staff, you will learn a range of analytical skills including liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS), gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), method development, data programming, quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), sample extractions and other project specific lab skills.
Testimonials
I did my PhD at QAEHS from 2019-2022 with Professor Kevin Thomas as my principal advisor. There are so many things that I enjoyed while working here, the collaborative nature, the state-of-the-art equipment, the diversity in backgrounds and knowledge, and the high-quality research. Everyone is super approachable, flexible, and supportive, and I enjoyed being here so much that after doing my Master research project at QAEHS in 2017, I came back for a PhD. During my time here, I have been able to learn and grow so much as a person and a researcher, and while a PhD can be tough sometimes, the people at QAEHS always motivated me and provided me with words of encouragement. The advisory team can really make or break the student experience and advisors here often become mentors. I would 100% recommend QAEHS to anyone considering an MPhil or PhD.
I started my PhD in January 2019 and from the first moment of my PhD journey at QAEHS I felt right at home, which was really a great feeling considering home is on the other side of the world for me (I am from the Netherlands). I was welcomed by everyone in the vibrant team that worked on innovative environmental health science and no-one was shy to teach me as a newbie all the skills that I required during my PhD. The facilities, especially the well-equipped laboratory with cutting-edge technologies at QAEHS were an enrichment of my academic experience. The mentorship I received extended beyond academia (all the way to the volleyball court where we play every Tuesday and Thursday) to my personal and professional growth. At QAEHS I felt there was no hierarchy between student, post-docs and the professors which helped with approachability and the communication between me and my advisory team. Overall, I had a great time here at QAEHS, so great that I stuck around as a Research Fellow, and I still work here with great pleasure.