Grants and Writing Resources for Queensland University of Technology
Nine QUT students studying engineering, information technology, design, creative industries and data science won 2026 Westpac Young Technologists Scholarships, announced in April. Each is worth up to $20,000 over as many as three years, with mentoring, paid internships and a five-day study trip in Asia, and QUT is the only Queensland university that offers it. In August QUT reported that nine of its student athletes had competed at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and won 14 medals between them, eight of them gold. Three of the medallists study engineering.
A First Research Project
The QUT Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES) gives current undergraduates, and some postgraduate coursework students, a paid research project of about 6 to 10 weeks during the vacation between November and February. The stipend is $2,000. QUT presents it as a way to find out whether research suits you before you commit to a research degree.
Prizes and Mooting
QUT offers undergraduate creative writing students the Allen and Unwin Writers Prize. The Faculty of Business and Law lists its student prizes for the 2025 academic year, to be awarded in 2026. Most of those reward results in a single unit or a graduating GPA. The Des Butler Memorial Prize pays $5,000 for the best performance in LLB202 Contract Law, and the Tom Cain Mooting Trophy recognises achievement in mooting.
In July 2026 QUT opened a new Moot Court, a replica courtroom where law students practise advocacy. QUT teams won the Oxford Moot in 2007, 2009 and 2012.
Paying for a Research Degree
From 1 January 2026 the Research Training Program Stipend pays $37,010 a year full time, up from $33,637 in 2025, with a fees offset. Holders can also claim a thesis allowance after submission: $840 for a PhD and $420 for a master's by research. QUT awards it through an annual research scholarship round.
Scholarship recipients ranked in the top 10 of that round can be considered for the Vice-Chancellor's Top-Up Scholarship, $10,000 a year for up to three years of doctoral study. Robotics PhD students from groups under-represented in STEM can apply to the CSIRO-funded Alberto Elfes Memorial Scholarship Fund, a A$1.2 million program of eight scholarships. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctoral candidates have the PhD to Postdoctoral Fellowship (P2P) Program, which adds $5,000 a year for consumables and professional development and leads to academic appointments at QUT after the degree.
Three Minutes on Stage
Each September QUT's Graduate Research Education and Development team runs the Graduate Research Student Showcase, which includes the grand final of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT). Finalists explain their research to a public audience in three minutes. In 2025 the judge's winner works on light-activated materials that trap and destroy "forever chemicals" in water. The runner-up uses robots and climate science to redesign brickwork.
Referencing Help and Thesis Rules
QUT cite|write covers APA, Harvard, AGLC and Vancouver referencing, and its writing section is split into starting well, writing well and finishing well. The Library runs drop-in sessions and appointments on researching and referencing. Higher degree research students can also book research support consultations on researching, publishing and research data.
QUT's guideline on presenting theses sets a ceiling of 100,000 words for a doctoral thesis, excluding the bibliography, and says any editing a thesis received must be acknowledged in the final version. After examination, theses go into QUT ePrints, where students keep copyright and give QUT a non-exclusive licence to make the work available.
A thesis on its way to examiners, or an assignment due to a unit coordinator, can come to our editors for a final check of grammar, consistency and format. See our QUT dissertation and thesis editing and QUT essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.
From Our Writing Guides
Compiled by James Peterson Brown, PhD, Managing Editor of Editors For Students. Links checked October 2026.
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