UQ at Springfield

03/09/2026

We're getting in our 2 serves a day! What's your fave fruit? 🍉🍌🍅🍑🫐🍎

01/09/2026

What will Springfield look like as more people work closer to home?🚶‍♂️🏙️

Last week, 30 urban design and development Master's students joined us at UQ at Springfield for a walk through Springfield, exploring how changing work patterns are shaping the future of our community.

As more people work flexibly or from home, the students are investigating how communities can adapt and thrive in response to better support the way people work, learn, socialise and access services, helping create places that are more connected, inclusive and adaptable for the future.

The walk started at Brighton Homes Arena, went through Robelle Domain, the Orion Lagoon, Orion Shopping Centre, up towards the Shared Sports Fields and Mater Hospital, and finished at Springfield Tower.

Their ideas and research will help inform future-thinking approaches to creating places where people can work, live, connect and thrive closer to home 🌳✨

31/08/2026

Are you currently pregnant or a new mum? Do you find the cost of food or access to healthy food a challenge?

Researchers at The University of Queensland and Swinburne University of Technology are currently recruiting participants for in-person interviews in Springfield and at the University of Queensland, St Lucia.

They would love to hear your perspectives and learn more about your experiences in order to better understand how effective solutions to food access, food affordability and healthy food can be provided to pregnant women and new mothers in the community.

All details (including eligibility and how to sign up) are included on the flyer below.

Please feel free to share this post or flyer with anyone who might be interested.

Register/check eligibility here: https://swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_74E9f8d7FxwTv94?Q_CHL=qr

31/08/2026

A very special event in the Queensland Parliament this week to mark 30 years of the Heart Foundation's Walking Program. 🚶‍➡️🚶‍♀️‍➡️🚶‍♂️‍➡️

And even better to see just some of our own local walking group participants from and !

We now have 5️⃣ active organised walking groups all supported by the Heart Foundation in our region - it's a wonderful way to stay active, connected and healthy ❤️

Springfield In Step with Nature Walk
Spring Lake Park Walking Group
WCC Walk and Talk
Ipswich Thriving Seniors
UQ at Springfield

27/08/2026

Welcome Jackson and Andy!

Jackson and Andy are students who have started their research placement with us here at UQ at Springfield.

They will primarily be working with Cal on his pop-up Screening project 🤝

The pop-up is designed to catch health issues like diabetes and heart disease early. The screening will assess risk, provide check-up results, and advise if the patient should see a GP, all in 15 minutes!

Coming soon to YMCA Springfield and more locations, keep an eye out for more details 👀

26/08/2026

We love living in the Sunshine State! What's your favourite thing about living in Queensland?

24/08/2026

The office is BUSY today 🤩

One of the things we love about our research centre is the diversity of disciplines within our team - we've got dietitians, exercise scientists, public health researchers, placement students, engineers and so much more.

This variety of expertise is representative of the complex and dynamic nature of all the factors that can affect health and wellbeing.

Because health is determined by many things, whether social, physical, environmental, commercial or something else🫀

We absolutely love being able to share our work and perspectives across disciplines to build a healthier Springfield together ❤️

Happy Monday!

24/08/2026

Join The University of Queensland and Creative Hearts Co. for Creative Brain Week Day 4 this Sunday in Springfield 🧠🎨

🧠WHAT IF CREATIVITY COULD CHANGE THE WAY WE UNDERSTAND THE BRAIN?

We’re incredibly excited to welcome Creative Brain Week Australia 2026 to Creative Hearts Co., Brookwater for:

Day 4: RISE — A Gathering of Resilience in partnership with The University of Queensland and the Queensland Brain Institute

On Sunday 30 August, we’ll bring together neuroscience, creativity, lived experience, art, movement and community for a powerful morning exploring how creative practice can support resilience, recovery, connection and brain health.
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And this one is especially close to our hearts.

Creative Hearts Co. exists because we believe creativity is far more than making art. It is a way of thinking, connecting, expressing, learning and understanding ourselves and one another.

✨ What’s happening on the day?

🧠 QBI’s Beautiful Minds: Art in Neuroscience showcase

🎨 A digital art collection exploring the brain

🧵 Weave the Brain — an interactive creative experience

🧠 Arts for Brain Injury — celebrating creative brain health

💬 RISING panel discussion — exploring recovery journeys through the arts

💃 Neuroplasticity in Play — an interactive movement experience facilitated by Marie Ferguson (Co-Founder and Master of Education)

🌱 Reflection, connection and conversation

This is part of a four-day journey bringing together leading voices across neuroscience, the arts, health, research and community, exploring creativity and what it means to be human.

Whether you’re an artist, educator, clinician, researcher, student, health professional, community member—or simply curious about the incredible relationship between creativity and the brain—this day is for you.

Come curious.
Come ready to move.
Come ready to create.
Come ready to see the brain differently.

📅 Sunday 30 August 2026
⏰ 10:00am–1:30pm
📍 Creative Hearts Co. in Brookwater
🌿 RISE — A Gathering of Resilience

Tickets are available through Eventbrite 🎟️ Join us for Creative Brain Week Day 4:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/creative-brain-week-day-4-creative-hearts-co-brookwater-springfield-tickets-1993502712276

Creativity isn’t just something we make.
It is something our brains use to help us become, connect and flourish.

19/08/2026

1.3 MILLION STEPS!

That's how many steps our team has done so far this month for the 10,000 Steps Move Together Challenge 👣

Some ways we've been adding more movement into our day:
🌳Team lunch walks outside
🚴Walking and cycling on the weekends and to work
👟Using our standing desks
🤝Encouraging each other to get active together

Looking for more ways to get active? Here's 5 ways to stay active together: https://www.10000steps.org.au/learn-and-discover/stay-active-together/