Available Hidden Vale research projects

Find research projects at Hidden Vale for students and PhD candidates with a background in ecology.

Further supervisors (principal or co-supervisors) for selected projects are also welcomed.

Many projects are collaborations with other research labs at UQ, USQ, USC, ANU and UNE. Resources are available to support all projects.

Note: dates are anticipated availability and project details and teams are subject to change.

Choose your project

• Project: Managing interactions between fire regimes and invasive plants
• Study level: PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: Dr Annabel Smith, Dr Shane Campbell, Danyel Wolff

• Project: Commensal dung beetle-rufous bettong relationships: implications for population health and ecosystem function
• Study level: Honours or PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: Dr Megan Brady, Dr Alfonsina Arriaga-Jimenez (UNE), Prof Karl Vernes (UNE)  

• Project: Improving methods for capture and population estimates of rufous bettongs
• Study level: Honours
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members:  Dr Megan Brady

• Project: Comparison of performance traits (speed, agility) of critical weight range mammal adults, juveniles and their predators: implications for predator-prey dynamics in landscapes of varying refuge
• Study level: Honours or PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: Dr Chris Clemente (USC), Prof Robbie Wilson, Dr Megan Brady

• Project: Use of ‘gateways’ to fenced ‘safe havens’ by critical weight range mammals
• Study level: Honours or part PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: Dr Megan Brady, Prof Adrian Manning (ANU), Prof Iain Gordon (JCU), Dr Julia Hoy

• Project: Spotted tail quoll (Dasyurus maculatus maculatus) ecology across modified landscapes
• Study level: PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: AProf Diana Fisher, Dr Megan Brady, Dr Scott Burnett

• Project: Beyond the fence: development of wildlife ‘safe havens’ in connected landscapes
• Study level: PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: Prof Adrian Manning (ANU), Dr Megan Brady, Prof Iain Gordon (JCU), Dr Julia Hoy

• Project: Rufous bettong habitat utilisation, home range and activity overlaps with predators (foxes, cats, dogs, quolls)
• Study level: Honours or PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: Dr Megan Brady, Prof Robbie Wilson

• Project: Gut microbiome impacts on social interactions and predator avoidance in Eastern chestnut mice
• Study level: Honours or PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: TBA

• Project: Determination and restoration of landscape carrying capacity for threatened and declining species
• Study level: PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: TBA

• Project: Reproduction and aging of rufous bettong, as a model for threatened Potoroidae
• Study level: PhD
• Start date: available from June 2023
• Team members: TBA