Our strategy

Arun SharmaStatement by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Commercialisation), Professor Arun Sharma

We undertake high-impact research in selected areas with a view to achieve significant public, commercial and practical benefit for the community and for our partners.

Research is by its very nature global and today's challenges require input from multi-disciplinary teams within Australia and beyond. One of our key ambitions is to expand internationalisation of research including engagement with global research centres. We have strong links with a number of international organisations and research institutions.

Our major research area developments include:

  • building research in selected fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as they are widely considered to be essential core technological underpinnings for the continued development of society
  • building and consolidating our work at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation through engagement in research of high relevance to the health industry, with a focus on prevention and the use of technology for better health outcomes. We aim to be an international research leader in areas of nursing, wound healing, optometry, prostate cancer, and biomedical engineering 
  • continuing our leadership in eResearch and building distinctive expertise in developing scientific knowledge, underpinned by continuing advances in information and communication technologies
  • consolidating and extending research in education and creative industries, business (especially economics and finance, management, entrepreneurship and non-profits) and law.

In order to achieve these outcomes, we are committed to developing a sustainable and high quality workforce and to providing high quality infrastructure, support functions and facilities for our researchers, and we're making a considerable investment in sustainable infrastructure.

World-class infrastructure and spaces

International collaboration

Strategy and achievements

We are committed to becoming a research-intensive university.  This objective will be realised through:

  • attracting and retaining high calibre staff, particularly in areas of research strength and emerging priority areas
  • investing in capital and infrastructure to support high performing research teams, including higher degree research students
  • investing in large-scale research consortia such as Cooperative Research Centres and Centres of Excellence
  • undertaking quality research that results in high impact for the discipline, end-users and the community
  • increasing the number of high quality higher degree research students and graduating them with business-ready expertise.

Training the next generation of leaders

We are committed to developing a sustainable and high-quality workforce by investing in a number of initiatives that will maintain the momentum of building academic quality and achieving major demographic change. We will do this by:

  • recruiting 500 people to the Early Career Academic Recruitment and Development program (currently 167)
  • appointing 75 research capacity professors (currently 29).