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SMI Memorial Awards 2024

15 November 2024 9:00am–4:15pm

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SMI Memorial Awards is an annual event to recognise and celebrate the innovative work being undertaken by the University's Higher Degree by Research students

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Available HDR research projects

The Sustainable Minerals Institute's Higher Degree by Research (HDR) projects are divided by out Research Centres. Many of our projects are cross-disciplinary, with advisors from different centres, giving you the benefit of a wider range of expertise.

Alban and Barbara Lynch Award

Strengthening ASEAN Cooperation in Minerals

This project is taking a two-part approach to facilitating trade and investment in minerals and deepening their contribution to ASEAN economic integration: a review of current minerals sector cooperation within ASEAN, and the scoping of an enhanced ASEAN minerals database information system to support minerals cooperation.

Stone for Development Work Integrated Learning

New UQ startup harnesses satellite imaging to monitor mine rehabilitation

Published on: 19 January 2021

A startup founded by two Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) research students could make monitoring the progress of mine site rehabilitation easier and cheaper.

Researchers call for cautious progress in deep sea mining

Published on: 4 January 2021

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have urged for regulatory caution in a new paper which emphasises just how little is known about the potential impacts of deep sea mining (DSM).

UQ and Curtin collaborate with industry on new online mining course

Published on: 26 November 2020

The University of Queensland (UQ) and Curtin University have developed a new Professional Certificate Program that will increase understanding of the modern mining industry in Australia and open pathways to postgraduate study for people currently working within the industry.

The bonds between person and place have a role to play in energy transition planning

Published on: 17 November 2020

Understanding the positive and negative attachments of people who live in coal mining communities could be key to implementing inclusive regional energy transitions, according to research by The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI).

Urban mining, waste-pickers and the social aspects of the circular economy – a conversation with Jandira Morais

Published on: 16 October 2020

At the Sustainable Minerals Institute we strongly believe that powerful, transdisciplinary research – bridging the gap between silos – is a fundamental part of addressing the minerals industry’s sustainable challenges. Jandira Morais, a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation (CMLR), has carried that transdisciplinary ethos with her throughout her studies.