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QUT ePrints is an online collection of research outputs produced by QUT staff and postgraduate students. It's purpose is to aggregate and disseminate the intellectual output the institution.

The collection contains a range of research outputs including journal articles, conference contributions, working papers and higher degree theses and dissertations. Most records include a link to the published version and/or an open access full-text file. This ensures the widest possible dissemination and impact the research outputs and contributes to the growing body of research literature that is now freely available online. Find out more about Open Access for QUT Research Outputs (Including Theses) Policy .

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If you are an author, creator or copyright owner and you believe that a work that is currently available via QUT ePrints should not be in open access, please send details to [email protected] . The QUT Copyright Officer will review all takedown requests. If there is prima facie evidence of copyright violation then the research paper/work in question will immediately be removed from public view.

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The QUT Intellectual Property Policy states that higher degree research students own the intellectual property and retain copyright in their thesis. Students grant QUT a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to communicate their submitted thesis via QUT ePrints. For more information, see QUT Copyright Guide: Publishing .

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Note that former QUT students, as owners of their copyright, will be responsible for these actions. However, QUT has a strong policy direction against plagiarism and we are committed to assisting you as far as practicable.

Below is a process that describes some steps that former QUT higher degree research students can take in response to identifying that their work has been plagiarised.

• Notify QUT immediately. In particular, address your concerns directly to the University's Copyright Officer and copy in the relevant Liaison Librarian for their information.
• This is a top priority - Initiate a takedown request directed to the website, repository, open access journal or similar where the plagiarism was published. There is usually a contact to be found somewhere within these platforms. Alternatively a bit of detective work with Google can find a contact. This is something that the University's Copyright Officer is always happy to assist with.
• Inform your thesis supervisory team or faculty and seek suggestions.
• Contact the plagiarising author directly. This has no guarantee of a response. However, it may be the only means to request that all references to the offending article be struck from publications lists, etc.
• Contact the institution the plagiarising author is affiliated with. This has no guarantee of a response. However, it may be the only means to request that all references to the offending article be struck from publications lists, etc.
• Consider legal remedies. Again, no guarantee of outcome but depending on the degree of perceived harm it might be a consideration.

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Referencing

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Why do I need to use and cite the research of others?

Scholarship involves researching, understanding and building upon the work of others.

It requires that you give credit where it is due and acknowledge the contributions of others to your own intellectual efforts, be they world famous experts, your teachers or fellow students.

Incorporating the research of others by citing demonstrates your ability to research and your understanding of a topic or problem. It identifies who is bringing what voice to the conversation.

QUT APA citation style  is the required referencing style. APA style involves citing resources in-text as well as in your reference list.

QUT cite|write has detailed information about APA style and examples of in-text citations and reference lists.

Ways to cite

Direct quote vs paraphrase vs summarise.

Original source:

Transit provides basic mobility services to people in their day-to-day activities. It helps to reduce road congestion, travel time, air pollution, and energy consumption compared to other travel modes. Nevertheless, a large proportion of commuters are reluctant to use transit as their preferred mode choice. Understanding of reasons behind disinclination to transit ridership is of utmost importance to transit agencies.   Source: Kashfi, S. A., Bunker, J. M., & Yigitcanlar, T. (2015). Understanding the effects of complex seasonality on suburban daily transit ridership. Journal of Transport Geography , 46 , pp. 67-80.

How do I...

Incorporate others' images, diagrams or tables....

The image should have relevance to the content, be referred to in the text of the assignment and be referenced.

• In text: "The strategic priorities of Engineers Australia as illustrated in Figure 1. prioritise sustainability…"
• Refer to the image with a caption (i.e. Figure 1. Engineers Australia Strategic Priorities )
• If an online source, provide a link to the URL (e.g. http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au )
• Provide the full reference in the reference list eg.  Engineers Australia. (2014). Strategic priorities 2014-15 to 2016-17. Retrieved September 7, 2016, from http:// www.engineersaustralia.org.au/

QUT cite|write

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A quick way to create an APA reference from a publication is to copy and paste the title into QUT Library Search, locate the publication, when displayed click on the " icon and choose APA to obtain the reference. The example below is a journal article:

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• 4.2.2 Manuals and software
• 4.3 Why bother?

QUT cite|write

QUT cite|write is the University's official guide to referencing, so should be your go-to guide to work out how to cite and reference correctly. It includes guidance for the following styles:

QUT cite|write is an invaluable tool to check how to reference a particular item. It gives you guidance on how to construct a reference exactly to the specifications of a particular referencing style - for all different source types, from YouTube videos to Government reports. So first, check with your Unit Coordinator or Tutor as to which referencing style is expected in your Unit and then use QUT cite|write for the specifics on how to do it.

Activity - Construct a citation

Activity - format the citation.

Cite right with cite|write

Are you working on an assignment and wondering: How do I cite this source?  Or maybe: Why do I cite this source? Or maybe even: Do I have to cite it at all?

You can find the answers in QUT cite|write .

The ‘Cite’ section of this invaluable online resource provides concise explanations of why, when, and how to cite and reference. There are guides to the four QUT referencing styles ( APA , Harvard , Vancouver , and AGLC4 ), each one featuring helpful templates and examples of nearly every source type you’ll come across,  from journal articles to computer games.

And for those tricky situations where you may need to build your own reference from scratch, there’s a handy step-by-step guide.

If you need further help with citing and referencing, you can consult a Librarian . Make a Researching and Referencing appointment (these can be conducted in person, online, or over the phone), attend a Library Drop-in session, or make use of our live Chat service. The Law Library Helpdesk can assist with general borrowing, researching, and referencing inquiries, as well as legal researching and referencing inquiries.

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Research expertise

The faces of our research.

Our research experts contribute amazing things to their fields. These are the Australian Laureates and Distinguished Professors who are making real impact in the international research community, and bringing QUT to the forefront of innovation and advancement.

Distinguished Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik

Christopher Barner-Kowollik is a leader in soft matter materials science and an ARC Laureate Fellow, heading a research team at QUT and a research node at the Karlsruhe Institute Technology (KIT) in Germany. He brings years of international research experience and materials science expertise to our research program.

Being a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, he is a recipient of the Erwin Schrödinger Award of the Helmholtz Association in recognition of a body of work on 3D laser lithography of functionalised microstructures in collaboration with physicists and biologists, cementing his place as a leader in his field.

Christopher is applying precision light-induced chemistries in the context of macromolecular chemistry to advance nanotechnology and molecular science, designing materials that can adapt and dynamically change their properties in response to environmental cues.

Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates AM

Patsy Yates leads a large competitively-funded research program focused on developing workforce capacity in cancer, palliative and aged care, advancing the management of cancer-related symptoms and treatment side effects, and strengthening the nexus between research, policy and practice in cancer, palliative and aged care.

She holds visiting appointments as Lead Researcher for the Cancer Nursing Professorial Precinct at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Director for Queensland Health’s statewideCentre for Palliative Care Research and Education, and Visiting Fellow at Princess Alexandra Hospital. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania.

Patsy is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Australian College of Nursing. She has been inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame of Sigma Theta Tau International Honour Society of Nursing and was awarded the prestigious USA Oncology Nursing Society Distinguished Researcher Award in 2018. She has also received a Citation from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.

Distinguished Professor Matt Brown

Matt Brown is currently our Distinguished Professor and Director of Genetics. He is a practising rheumatologist with a special interest in the disease ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and also heads a large research program in human genetics.

His research unit is among the leading human genetics units internationally, and has identified well over a hundred disease-causing genes in common diseases including arthritis (both AS and rheumatoid arthritis), osteoporosis, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, cancers and infection diseases, as well as single-gene diseases involved in skeletal development and cancers.

Increasingly his research is focused on mechanistic investigation of disease pathogenesis, development of novel therapies targeting pathways identified by genetic studies, and in the translation of genomics capabilities into clinical practice. He has also pioneered research into the role of bacteria in the gut (the gut 'microbiome') in driving human arthritis, and its potential as a therapeutic target.

He was awarded the 2013 Queensland Premier's Fellowship for Science, and elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science for his contribution to human genetics research. In 2014 and 2015 he was listed by Thomson Reuters as a highly cited researcher, placing him in the top 1% of researchers in molecular biology and genetics worldwide.

Distinguished Professor Judith Clements

Judith Clements AC is a biomedical researcher whose research is focused on defining new diagnostic, prognostic and predictive biomarkers and therapeutics for prostate and ovarian cancer. She is based at the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre – Queensland (APCRC-Q), a dedicated prostate cancer research centre at the Translational Research Institute.

She has founded and co-founded several key research initiatives at QUT, and nationally, including the QUT Cancer Program, the APCRC-Q, and the Australian Prostate Cancer Bio Resource. She is also co-leader of the Queensland node of the international genetics study for prostate cancer, PRACTICAL, that has discovered over 140 new genetic regions that are associated with prostate cancer risk.

Her most recent honours include that of the Queensland Women in Technology Biotech Outstanding Achievement Award for 2012, Distinguished Professor at QUT in 2013, Fellow of the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in 2014, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences in 2017. She was also awarded Companion of the Order of Australia in 2015.

Distinguished Professor Peter Corke

Peter Corke is the distinguished professor of robotic vision and director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision. His research is concerned with enabling robots to see, and the application of robots to mining, agriculture and environmental monitoring.

He created widely used open-source software for teaching and research, wrote the best selling textbook Robotics, Vision, and Control , created several MOOCs and the Robot Academy, and has won national and international recognition for teaching.

Peter is a fellow of the IEEE and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, former editor-in-chief of the IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine , founding and associate editor of the Journal of Field Robotics , founding multi-media editor and executive editorial board member of the International Journal of Robotics Research , member of the editorial advisory board of the Springer Tracts on Advanced Robotics series, recipient of the Qantas/Rolls-Royce and Australian Engineering Excellence awards, and has held visiting positions at Oxford, University of Illinois, Carnegie-Mellon University and University of Pennsylvania.

Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham

Stuart Cunningham AM is Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications. He is internationally recognised for his contributions to media, communication and cultural studies and for exemplifying their relevance to industry practice and government policy.

He is author, co-author or co-editor of fifteen books, twenty five reports, over 200 chapters and articles, and a wide range of general articles and public communications. He has served in several leadership roles in advocacy, advice and governance in research and higher education, and in the screen and library sectors, including Director of Screen Queensland from 2012-2015.

His most recent honours include admission into the UK-based Academy of Social Sciences in 2013, the award of a Fulbright Senior Scholarship for 2014-15, and the award of Member of the Order of Australia in 2015.

Distinguished Professor James Dale

James Dale was the inaugural Director of our Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, which has collaborative projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

He is the leader of the joint QUT and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation project asked to produce a cooking banana with greatly increased levels of betacarotene, which the human body converts to vitamin A. Taking a gene from a banana with high levels of betacarotene and putting it into Cavendish and East African highland bananas, James created the 'Super Banana', which has the potential to dramatically reduce infant mortality and blindness in children across Africa. After nine years of work this banana was tested in its first human trials in 2014.

James’s work has been extended to India, with an enhanced focus on disease resistance and put Queensland on the world stage when the 'Super Banana' was named one of Time Magazine 's 25 Best Inventions of 2014.

Distinguished Professor Dmitri Golberg

Dmitri Golberg's research specialises in nanotubes, nanowires and nanosheets. He's currently a Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow at our School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering. Before joining QUT in March 2017 he worked as a group leader and principal investigator at the International Centre for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan.

Dmitri has a wide background and strong command in the synthesis, electron microscopy, and physical property measurements of Boron Nitride (BN) and other inorganic nanotubes and related nanomaterials. In 1995 he became one of first scientists to launch full-scale research on BN nanotubes. Since then he's become a world-recognised expert in this and related fields and published more than 600 papers.

Dmitri is currently listed among the top 250 most cited world materials scientists on the Web of Science , making him an eminent voice in the materials science field. He brings us international expertise and a depth of knowledge after more than 20 years as the Nanomaterial Laboratories Scientific Leader at NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan, and National University of Science and Technology (MISIS) in Moscow, Russia.

Distinguished Professor Dietmar Hutmacher

Dietmar Hutmacher is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation. His specialties are biomaterials, biomechanics, medical devices and tissue engineering. His multidisciplinary background includes positions as a biomedical engineer, an educator, an inventor, and a creator of new intellectual property opportunities. He has also developed an international track record in adult stem cell research related to regenerative medicine.

He is one of the few academics to take a holistic bone engineering concept to clinical application. More than 400 patients have been treated with the FDA-approved bone engineering scaffolds developed by Dietmar’s Singapore-based interdisciplinary research group.

Currently, Dietmar leads the Regenerative Medicine Group, a multidisciplinary team of researchers including engineers, cell biologists, polymer chemists, clinicians and veterinary surgeons. He received the European Society of Biomaterials International Award for 2017, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to research and development.

Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen

Kerrie Mengersen is a research professor in statistics, and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers for Big Data, Big Models and New Insights.

Kerrie’s methodological interests are in complex systems modelling, Bayesian statistics, mixture models, hierarchical modelling and meta-analysis. Her applied interests are in biometrics, biostatistics, environmetrics and industrial statistics.

In 2016, Kerrie was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor, and also received the prestigious Pitman Medal from the Statistical Society of Australia, which recognises outstanding achievement in the statistics discipline.

Professor Peter Waterhouse

Peter Waterhouse is Professor of Molecular Genetics and has earned global recognition for his research into gene silencing and plant viruses. Peter joined us in 2014 as one of the world’s leading discovery researchers, known internationally for his research on RNAi interference.

He has been awarded an Australian Research Council Laureate for his work in future-proofing the world’s crops. The project aims to fully understand how a plant distinguishes self from non-self genes and to develop ways of precisely enhancing, repairing, updating and redirecting genetic traits in harmony with the genome. We anticipate this project will result in safer, higher-yielding and more sustainable crops. His research group is the only non-European partner in a multi-million Euro Consortium Horizon 2020 Project Grant, 'Newcotiana – Developing multipurpose nicotiana crops for molecular farming using new plant breeding techniques'.

In recognition of the transformative nature of his research, he has been awarded many of the highest scientific honours in Australia, including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, CSIRO Chairman’s medal, the Victor Chang Medal, and election to the Australian Academy of Science.

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