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
Find out more
For more details, email Prof Robbie Wilson at r.wilson@uq.edu.au.