UQ’s Regional Roadshow travels across regional Queensland, fostering collaboration with local leaders and community members. The program is driven by The Queensland Commitment, which aims to break down barriers to education and build a brighter future for Queensland by 2032.
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Upcoming events
The UQ Regional Roadshow has visited 28 destinations across Queensland since 2021. Explore our upcoming visits below. For more information on our programs and ways to participate, please contact the UQ community engagement team by emailing communityengagement@uq.edu.au
For events closer to a UQ campus, check out our UQ Neighbours program.
Regional Roadshow activities
Strategic discussions and community meetings
We begin building relationships through a Strategic Discussion that helps us understand the community – its people, priorities and aspirations. From there, we work alongside community members and organisations to identify opportunities for collaboration and create meaningful, positive outcomes.
Connection-building and educational experiences
With our partners, we deliver events, workshops and educational activities in the regions to build aspiration, support lifelong learning, celebrate advances by our regionally located research partners and grow our connections with communities.
Connecting with UQ alumni
Our UQ Regional Roadshow enables us to meet with UQ alumni across Queensland. We create opportunities for our alumni to meet and connect with their local network, reconnect with the University and become ambassadors in their area.
Stories of the UQ community across Queensland
- Contact asked staff member, current student and alum Camille Brandon – a self-identified ‘semi local’ – for an insider’s guide to the City of Ipswich, a town she feels is chronically underrated.
- UQ has commemorated the 80th anniversary of the US Army's General Hospital's withdrawal from Gatton at a special event on 29 August, with more than 120 attendees reflecting on the impact to the community and acknowledging the service of the medical staff who saved so many lives.
- Meet the UQ Create Change Young Achiever award-winner who's on a mission to reduce plastic waste.
- UQ experts explain why camels could be the next big Aussie export.
- Journalist and editor Harry Clarke (Bachelor of Journalism '13) reflects on founding a successful online news service for rural Queensland.
- UQ science lecturer Jim Walker says the best way to achieve a national collective database describing the health of Australia’s regional and remote ecosystems is to work alongside Indigenous peoples.
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