Student life

Second year UQ medical student Andy McKinlay travelled to Arequipa in Peru as part of his overseas medical placement with Work the World.

The messages from these women are unmistakable: Gender Matters. UQ’s gender studies course has had profound effects on the students who take it, and those who deliver it.

University can seem like a whole new world after spending years at school, where schedules are prescribed and attending classes is mandatory – avoid the traps that new students can fall into.

Student Maginnis Connell shares her adventures of volunteer life at 3399m above sea level.

Bachelor of Environmental Management students recently put their studies into practise in Wuhan, China, working with the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) to improve the health of the Yangtze River. Three students shared their experiences with us.

Nestled in the Manali Valley at the foothills of the Indian Himalayas is the Lady Willingdon Hospital, a small but busy facility with a unique philosophy: no patient will be turned away, no matter their race, religion, age, sex or financial situation.

UQ students Daniel Hutchison and Daniel Parnell spent four weeks in Tianjin as part of the Confucius Institute’s 2017 UQ Research, Study and Experience Tour to China. They reflect on their time abroad, and their exposure to a new culture and language.

Meet Rudy and Lupin. These pooches live with a house full of students, so they’re no strangers to the emotional rollercoaster that is a university semester. Enthusiasm, determination, stress, exhaustion, and even pure laziness – they’ve seen it all. So no matter what you study, they’ll take you through 14 moments typical to every university student’s semester.

Erin was the third generation of Gourlays to graduate from UQ, and the fifth graduate from the same family. Chris Gourlay shares his family's UQ graduation heritage with Small Change.

Perseverence Moyana tracked down an ad for the Master of Sustainable Energy at UQ and it seemed a perfect fit for her passion for energy sustainability. However, it wasn't exactly as she expected.