Research with us

Help build wearable activity-monitoring solutions that combine sensing with advanced data analytics to understand human movement and deliver tailored insights that improve performance, recovery and health – in high-stakes environments.

Help build wearable activity-monitoring solutions that combine sensing with advanced data analytics to:

• understand human movement
• deliver tailored insights to improve performance and health in:
  • high-stakes environments
  • recovery.

You’ll contribute to applied projects across elite sport, clinical and defence settings, developing methods that turn complex movement data into transformative performance and injury insights.

This scholarship is only available for domestic students.

Contact: joel.fuller@mq.edu.au

Help develop new ways to design practice that better prepares people to perform in unfamiliar and changing situations. This project explores how practice experiences can be selected and sequenced to scaffold the development of adaptable perceptual-motor skills.

Using simulated learners, you'll computationally develop and evaluate practice strategies before testing them with human participants – gaining experience in computational modelling (including reinforcement learning), and connecting these methods with nonlinear pedagogy and constraints-led approaches to skill acquisition.

The project aims to better understand how learner, task and environmental constraints can be shaped to:

• accelerate learning
• promote transfer
• support the development of generalisable expertise.

Contact: patrick.nalepka@mq.edu.au

Help develop and test better ways to individualise training for physical performance. This project will investigate how training can be planned, monitored and adjusted to account for differences between individuals and changes in performance, fatigue and recovery over time.

You'll contribute to applied research examining how training load, physiological and performance data, and athlete feedback can be used to inform training decisions. Projects may span endurance and strength training, with opportunities to work across sport, tactical and occupational settings.

The research aims to develop practical approaches that:

• improve the prescription and progression of training
• identify meaningful individual responses to training
• integrate performance, training and recovery data
• translate research findings into better training decisions.

Contact: tim.doyle@mq.edu.au

Turn challenges from your workplace into applied research that can improve practice. This project is designed for people already working in defence, emergency services or related operational environments who want to investigate a physical performance problem relevant to their organisation.

Your research could examine areas such as physical employment standards, occupational task performance, physical training, injury risk, fatigue, readiness or the physical demands of operational roles. Wherever possible, projects will be shaped around real problems, populations and data from your professional setting.

You'll work with researchers in human performance to develop rigorous research that can:

• answer questions relevant to your organisation
• evaluate current practices and identify opportunities for improvement
• develop and test evidence-informed approaches
• translate research findings into operational practice.

Contact: tim.doyle@mq.edu.au