The University of Technology has recently reviewed its strategic directions. In response to Setting the Pace: Strategic Directions for the next Decade UTS has established four new Advanced Technology Research Institutes. Three of these institutes are based on research strengths in the Faculty of Science.

Within the Faculty of science research is focused in the activities of several research centres and units. The Faculty also runs the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and administers two clinics.

The Institutes are:

Institute for Nanoscale Technology

Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management

Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases


The Faculty of science includes departments, centres and units, each specialising in particular areas of research and education. Centres include:

• Centre for Ecotoxicology
• Centre for Forensic Science
• National Centre for Groundwater Management.

There are three Student Learning Centres which include

• Chemistry Learning Centre
• Mathematics Study Centre
• Physics Learning Centre

Units include

• Microstructural Analysis Unit
• Health Psychology Unit and the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine