Held every two years in Adelaide, South Australia, QPR brings together educational researchers, policy makers, university leaders, research students, and research degree supervisors for the purpose of better understanding the processes, practices, pedagogies, and theoretical frameworks of doctoral education.

Globally, doctoral education continues to develop rapidly in terms of size, form, diversity, and ascribed purposes. Alongside these developments, debates continue over its future, forms of delivery, and the nature of the learning and innovation that it facilitates and engenders. These debates involve diverse actors, from individual research students to international bodies such as the OECD and the World Bank.

Each year, there are HDR students to participate in the QPR Conference to showcase digital posters of their current research in 2026 as they embark on their research journey.

Congratulations to the following students who had a poster at the conference!

• Paige Abblitt – Hearing their voices. What are the current perspectives of Australian Teachers toward Voice Care?
• Berihun Bantie Tesema – Trajectories of sepsis survivors in Australia: a scoping review
• Eva Coussens – Brokers of Influence: Investigating the Impacts of Advocacy Groups on Modern Slavery Policy in an Australian Context
• Muhammad Muradul Islam – Policy and administrative challenges of managing cross-border forced displacement: Bangladesh’s management of the Rohingya crisis in comparative perspective
• Dhanushi Jayathilaka – Enhancing Mental Health Service Integration through Commissioning A Co-design and Implementation Study
• Michael J Kirton – Could young and/or exercised plasma transfusions be used to manage neurodegenerative conditions?
• Adeline Lau – Perspectives of older adults with pre-frailty and frailty when engaging with an online nutrition educational resource: a qualitative study
• Olumide Odeyemi – Exploring strategies for career advancement, mental health maintenance, and sustained research interest among Australian researchers with unsuccessful funding application outcomes: A qualitative study
• Lisa Sullivan – General practitioner engagement with continuing professional development: A scoping review
• SuSu Tun – Experiences of everyday harm by people with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse communities (CALD) – perspectives of people with disability from Myanmar in Australia
• Wei Wei – Home language maintenance and development among Chinese families in Australia

 

Read more about the students experience below.