What's on
June events
Community garden workshops: Gatton and St Lucia
Thursday 12 to Thursday 19 June
Did you know UQ has vibrant community gardens at both St Lucia and Gatton campuses? Join the upcoming workshops in May and June to learn about soil health, composting, growing herbs, and more. Staff, students and community members are all invited to volunteer in the gardens. It's a fantastic opportunity to explore a unique part of UQ, enjoy the outdoors, and gain new gardening skills.
Indigenous Business Hub Symposium
Thursday 12 June
UQ Business School’s Indigenous Business Hub is hosting a symposium and event to celebrate the launch of the International Journal of Indigenous Business. The event’s theme, ‘The Past to the Future’, reflects our commitment to honouring traditions and Elders’ legacies to forge Indigenous innovation and business insights. Join in person at UQ Brisbane City or online via Zoom.
UQ Art Museum: ‘These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature’
Ends Saturday 14 June
UQ Art Museum’s new exhibition explores petroleum, chemicals, and bacteria have become agents of history. Humanity, or rather the settler-colonial project, has infiltrated every environment on a molecular level, resulting in anthropogenic climate crisis. ‘These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature’ gathers artists from across the globe exploring cross-disciplinary discourses that decentre the human subject.
RECOVER Symposium: Innovating to Create Systems for Injury Recovery
Tuesday 17 June
Join the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Better Health Outcomes for Compensable Injury for the RECOVER Symposium: Innovating to Create Systems for Injury Recovery. The Symposium will explore cutting-edge research and innovative systems in whiplash and injury care. Connect with experts, share insights, and shape the future of recovery. Don’t miss this chance to learn, network, and innovate.
UQPN Trivia Night
Wednesday 18 June
Join the UQ Professionals Network (UQPN) for an evening of trivia, networking, and friendly competition. Both members and non-members of the UQPN are invited to connect with UQ colleagues, meet the UQPN committee, and battle it out for the coveted title of trivia champions, all while fundraising for the UQPN.
Hall Annual Lecture
Friday 20 June
Join UQ's School of Social Science for a compelling presentation that explores how research at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is deepening our understanding of human evolution through an interdisciplinary lens. The lecture will be presented by Dr Jackson Njau, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana University and Research Associate at the Stone Age Institute.
Webinar: Making the case for 21st Century thinking in Security and Energy Policy
Thursday 26 June
At this webinar hosted by UQ’s Centre for Policy Futures, hear futurist and Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Ellyard explore how global politics is shifting from outdated nation-first ideologies to ‘Planetism’ – a rising paradigm led by an educated, planet-first middle class. This values shift may redefine security and energy policies, challenge nationalism and foster global cooperation.
July events
UQ–IITD Research Academy Annual Symposium
Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 July
This year’s UQ–Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) Symposium will bring together academics, industry partners and PhD students to explore collaborative research initiatives that will address sustainability challenges and foster innovation between Australia and India. With the theme ‘Innovating Together: Australia-India Research Partnerships for a Sustainable Future’, the Symposium will feature a keynote presentation from Professor Kerrie Wilson, Queensland Chief Scientist.
Orientation for academics new to UQ
Thursday 3 July
Academics who have started their first fixed-term or continuing role with UQ in 2025 are invited to attend this orientation. Hear from some of UQ’s leaders and understand the tools and systems that can support you in your role.
2025 Lloyd Davis Public Lecture
Thursday 3 July
The Lloyd Davis Fellowship was created in memory of Associate Professor Lloyd Davis and aims to bring a major world scholar to UQ each year, to teach and share their scholarship on Shakespeare. The 2025 lecture, presented by Dennis Austin Britton (Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia), will consider how The Tempest may have shaped how early modern English audiences felt about the enslavement of Caliban.
SCMB's TGH Jones Memorial Lecture
Friday 4 July
Don’t miss the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences' biennial TGH Jones Memorial (Chemistry) lecture. This year's lecture will be presented by Professor Erick Carreira, ETH Zurich. Prof Carreira will discuss several new reaction processes that provide ready access to a host of fundamentally versatile building blocks for synthesis and recent progress with earth-abundant metal catalysts combined with photochemistry.
QBI Lexus Alzheimer's Sunset Soirée
Saturday 26 July
Spend an afternoon with the Queensland Brain Institute at Officers Mess on the Brisbane River in New Farm, for the Sunset Soirée. The event is an opportunity to support vital dementia research.
QRHIRC Research Symposium
Thursday 31 July
This research symposium, run by Queensland Rural Health Innovation and Research Collaborative, is a day of knowledge sharing, research brainstorming and collaboration. The free event, which will include lunch, will be held at the Toowoomba Showgrounds. Health researchers, clinicians and consumers will ocme together and network, hear presentations about health research relevant to rural communities, and develop a research project idea to pitch for a funding opportunity. This year's keynote speakers, Dr Tanvir Kapoor and Floyd Leedie, will share their experience and insight on 'Access to Health Services in Regional and Rural Communities', which is the theme for this year's symposium.