Research at UTS Science

The Faculty of Science has a strong record of research and development, essential to facilitating quality postgraduate research programs. It wins a substantial proportion of the national competitive grants awarded to UTS annually. Competitive research funding is obtained across a wide range of areas of expertise in the fields of physical, chemical, forensic, earth and environmental, biological, biomedical and mathematical sciences. This funding is important to the direction and support of postgraduate research.

The Faculty prides itself on research that engages with the interests of industry and our community partners, and produces outcomes of social and economic benefits.

Strategic Research Strengths within the Faculty:

Other research entities within the Faculty are:

The Faculty has established four technology hubs staffed with expert research scientists, experienced technical staff and equipped with world-class instrumentations in a new state-of-the-art building. These technology hubs are the arena where the Faculty interacts with industry in pursuit of leading-edge techniques, methodologies and capabilities.

The technology hubs are:

These technology hubs forms a network of niche platform technologies, cutting-edge expertise, advanced training and high-level services managed in a way that makes them accessible to industry and the researcher community. They allow informal access to researchers, links with state and federal research and development schemes and access to world-class national infrastructure.

As such, the Faculty invites organisations to be stakeholders in these technology hubs in conjunction with research institutes and groups.