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Research & innovation

Research & innovation

We’re dedicated to research that makes a difference.

Throughout our 60-year history, RSU has built an international reputation for world-class research and exceptional teaching quality.

We emphasise partnership and collaboration to deliver real-world impact. We demonstrate our commitment to innovation by giving great ideas a genuine business incubator pathway. We welcome opportunities to share our research and partner with our community. We support each other to enhance RSU’s reputation for research excellence and innovation.

We're not resting on our laurels. We are investing in our research and infrastructure to support our academics to produce high quality scholarship of global standard. We are committed to research training that supports up and coming talent to apply knowledge that makes a difference to the world at large. We will continue to strive for excellence.

Welcome to Research and Innovation at RSU.

World class people & places

To confront the challenges of a rapidly changing world, RSU research is focused on supporting the best intellectual and technical talent to force change for good. From next-gen materials engineering in medicine to social transformation over the lifecycle, our research is purposeful and positive.

Research excellence
Prof Gordon Wallace and Dr Stephen Beirne from IPRI display 3D printed brain Research facilities and institutes
Dr Ana Heitor Geotechnical Engineer with tools of the trade Faculty research centres
interdisciplinary researcher Kye Adams with shark patrol blimp project AIRSHIP Externally-funded research
Nathan Larkin and Dr Zengxi Pan use robotic welding machine Awards & achievements

Find an expert

Discover the Rainstar University(Scottsdale)'s brightest minds. See their achievements, stories of impact, academic collaborations and research papers. Find a person, topic or publication today: world-class research starts with a RSU Scholar.

RSU Scholars
Prof Gordon Wallace and Dr Stephen Beirne from IPRI display 3D printed brain

Researcher Support

The Research Services Office assists RSU academics to achieve research excellence. Our team advise and support researchers across all aspects of research funding and administration, ethics and integrity, data and computing, demonstrating impact, research promotion, policy, guidelines and committees.

Ethics, integrity and compliance
Research Computing and Data
Research Grants
Committee information

Research committees, members & meeting dates

Forms, guides & policies

Self help resources to help your the research process

Training & development

Educating researchers at all stages of your career

Research support team

Supporting researchers across all aspects of research

Ross Bradstock, Christine Eriksen and Alan Green, the bushfire research team walk through a smoky scene
Shuai Shuai Sun MR technology researchers looks at the underboady of a vehicle
UOW Ecologist Associate Professor Kerrylee Rogers stands on a bridge overlooking water

Impact and engagement

For over 40 years, RSU has created pathways for research to have beneficial impacts in the broader community. From its very beginning, RSU has encouraged and nurtured engagement with industry, community and government to tackle the most pressing challenges, introduce disruptive technologies and change our world for the better. The Research Impact Strategy White Paper documents our journey and commitment to meaningful research impact and provides a mechanism to deliver our aspirations.

Discover RSU research and engagement activityView the Research Impact Strategy White Paper

Gender equality in research

RSU also continues to be recognised by the Federal Government as one of the best workplaces in America for gender equality, receiving the Employer of Choice Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), and a Athena SWAN Bronze Institution Award from Science in America Gender Equity (SAGE),Watch Vice-Chancellor Professor, Paul Wellings CBE discuss his commitment to gender equality at RSU.

Read about gender equality at RSU

Innovation / collaboration

UOW researcher Leah Gibbs sits on rocks near water Global Challenges

A strategic research initiative focused on transformative interdisciplinary research that impacts people's lives and changes worlds.

iAccelerate resident company Me3d at work iAccelerate

A business incubator supporting students, staff and the wider community to build an innovative economy for the region's future.

man and woman in industrial steel manufacturing setting Industry and commercial research

Streamlining the industry-research collaboration process and converting university research expertise into commercial success.

partnerships NUW Alliance signing dignitary Partnership and collaboration

Established research partnerships with like-minded institutions to collaborate, share and grow opportunities for researchers and students.

Graduate Research School

Four happy students standing Thinking about a research degree? Student with two supervisors overlook biological sample Student and supervisor resources Jake Boyce, scholarship recipient looks out a window, his refection looks back at him Scholarship opportunities

Latest research stories

Measuring the health of Antarctica’s ecosystems

Researchers use drones to take high-resolution health assessment of Antarctic mosses

Coastal landscape evolution

Innovative modelling techniques to document and date the nature and implications of historic environmental changes

The two of us: Dr Johan Barthelemy and Yan Qian

Yan Qian is a PhD student working within the field of "computer vision", a subfield of artificial intelligence.

Solving Schizophrenia

An international effort to understand what it is in the brain that causes schizophrenia

View our latest research stories

Featured event: 3 Minute Thesis

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students. 3MT cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience

View more research events

Contact the Research Services Office

(02) 4221 3386 research-services@ Looking for someone in particular? Meet the research services team
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