Research centres
Flagship centres
Other key initiatives
We are building research capacity and partnerships in several other key initiatives.
Faculty-based centres and networks
Centres
- Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
- Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment
- Centre for International Security Studies
- Centre for Time
- Creativity Research, Engaging the Arts, and Transforming Education (CREATE) Centre
- Research Centre for Children and Families
- Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies
- Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education
- Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSHARC)
- The Vere Gordon Childe Centre
Networks
Centres
- Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion @ Work
- Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies
Networks
- Australian Food, Society and Culture Network
- Body, Heart and Mind in Business Research Group
- Business and Labour History Group
- Business Financing and Banking Research Group
- Communications and Technology for Society Research Group
- Consumer Insights Research Group
- Co-operatives Research Group
- Digital Disruption Research Group
- Disruptive Innovations in Business Education Research Group
- Emerging Markets Research Group
- Future Transport Research Group
- Marketing and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Australia New Zealand Research and Education Network
- Methodological and Empirical Advances in Financial Analysis
- Migrants, Ethno-Racial, Cultural and Intersectionality@Work Research Group
- Nano-Economy-Society Research Project
- Organisational Discourse Strategy and Change
- Productivity, Efficiency and Measurement Analytics (PEMA)
- Sydney Employment Relations Research Group
- Time Series and Forecasting Research Group
Centres
- Australian Centre for Robotics (ACR)
- Centre for Advanced Food Engineering
- Centre for Advanced Materials Technology
- Centre for Advanced Structural Engineering
- Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing
- Centre for Future Energy Networks
- Centre for IoT and Telecommunications
- Centre for Sustainable Energy Development
- John Grill Institute for Project Leadership
- Sydney Centre in Geomechanics and Mining Materials (SciGEM)
- The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering
- UBTECH Sydney Artificial Intelligence Institute
- Wind, Waves and Water Centre
Networks
- Alliance For Design And Application In Tissue Engineering
- Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation
Centres
- Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law
- Centre for Asian and Pacific Law in the University of Sydney (CAPLUS)
- Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence
- Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law
- Sydney Centre for International Law
- Sydney Health Law
- Sydney Institute of Criminology
Networks
Centres
- Centre for Disability Research and Policy
- Heat and Health Research Centre
- Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute
- Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics
- NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre
- Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
- Reproduction and Perinatal Centre
- Save Sight Institute
- Sydney Musculoskeletal Health
- The Daffodil Centre
- The Matilda Centre
- Westmead Applied Research Centre
Networks
- Academic Implementation Science Network
- Cancer Research Network
- Cardiovascular Initiative
- Community and Primary Health Care Network
- Digital Health Informatics Network
- First Nations Network
- Global Maternal and Child Health Network
- Sport and Physical Activity Research and Teaching Network
- Sydney Clinical Imaging Network
- Sydney Health Ethics Network
- Sydney Pain Consortium
- Waranara
Centres
- Centre for Complex Systems
- Centre for Medical Psychology And Evidence-Based Decision Making (CMPED)
- Centre for Veterinary Education
- Institute of Medical Physics
- Institute of Photonics and Optical Science
- Key Centre for Polymers and Colloids
- Marine Studies Institute
- Plant Breeding Institute
- Psycho-Oncology Co-operative Research Group (PoCoG)
- Sydney Institute for Astronomy
- Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI)
- Sydney Precision Data Science Centre
- The University of Sydney Institute of Agriculture
Networks
National and international centres
Australian Research Council (ARC) centres of excellence facilitate collaboration between universities, government, research organisations and businesses to create expertise in their field. ARC Centres of Excellence are funded on the basis of research excellence and their potential to contribute to the economic, social and cultural development of Australia.
The University of Sydney plays a fundamental role in 13 national ARC Centres of Excellence:
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science
- Data Analytics for Resources and Environments (DARE)
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP)
- Centre for all Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions ( ASTRO 3D)
- ARC Training centre for Cubesats, UAVS & their applications (CUAVA)
- ARC Research Hub for Basin Geo-dynamics and Evolution of Sedimentary Systems (EarthBYTE)
The Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Research Program facilitates collaboration between universities, government, research organisations and businesses to support collaborative research activity to focused on strategic outcomes that are not independently realisable. This program has two streams, Research Hubs and Training Centres, which support Higher Degree by Research students and postdoctoral researchers to gain real-world practical skills and experience through placement in industry.
The University of Sydney is home to one ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub:
The University of Sydney is home to two ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres:
These collaborative centres are funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to support teams of researchers pursuing innovative, high-quality research in health across five priority areas:
- Clinical research
- Health services research
- Population health research
- Infectious disease emergency response research
- Indigenous researcher capacity building
The University of Sydney has been awarded funding for the following Centres:
2021 awardees
- Centre of Research Excellence for wiser healthcare. Chief investigator: Professor Kirsten McCaffery
- Centre of Research Excellence for Better Outcomes in Inflammatory Arthritis. Chief investigator: Professor Lyn March
- Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood -Translate (EPOCH-Translate). Chief investigator: Professor Louise Baur
- Centre of Research Excellence: Partnering with patients with chronic kidney disease to transform care and outcomes (CRE-PACT). Chief investigator: Professor Allison Tong
2020 awardees
- Centre of Research Excellence for Better Outcomes in Coronary Artery Disease. Chief investigator: Professor Gemma Figtree
- Centre of Research Excellence in the Prevention of Fall-related Injuries. Chief investigator: Professor Catherine Sherrington
- Centre of Research Excellence for Integrated Community Care for People with Complex Multi-morbidities. Chief investigator: Professor John Eastwood
2019 awardees
- Centre of Research Excellence for Low Back Pain. Chief investigator: Professor Chris Maher
- Centre of Research Excellence in Strengthening systems for Indigenous healthcare Equity (CRE-STRIDE). Chief investigator: Dr Veronica Matthews
- Centre of Research Excellence in Reducing suicidal thoughts and behaviours in young people presenting for health care. Chief investigator: Professor Ian Hickie
2018 awardees
- Centre of Research Excellence to Optimise Sleep in Brain Ageing and Neurodegeneration (CogSleep). Chief investigator: Professor Sharon Naismith
- Centre of Research Excellence in Tuberculosis Control on both sides of our border. Chief investigator: Professor Warwick Britton
2017 awardees
- A Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health: Making health services work for adolescents in a digital age. Chief investigator: Professor Katharine Steinbeck
- Centre of Research Excellence in Partnership Pathways to Better Care and Outcomes for Aboriginal Young People. Chief investigator: Professor Jonathan Craig
- Centre of Research Excellence in Melanoma: Person, tumour and system-focussed knowledge to drive better outcomes in melanoma. Chief investigator: Professor Graham Mann.
The University's engagement with industry and community is supported by our involvement in Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) as either a core or supporting participant.
The program is led by industry to create partnerships between the University, business and the community. CRCs help to develop new technologies, products and services for specific community and industry challenges.
Our CRCS:
- Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence CRC
- Innovative Manufacturing CRC
- iMove Australia CRC
- Digital Health CRC
- SmartSat CRC