
Our Research Contributes to State and National Research Priorities
Leading priority research areas in Innovation, Science, Agriculture, Health and Environments to support the frameworks required to build a stronger Western Australian and Australian economy
UWA is home to a number of highly acclaimed researchers, research centres and institutes which produce impacts across a broad research portfolio.
A number of our research areas align directly with government priorities to deliver better outcomes for all in Western Australia.
Our projects incorporate Indigenous research, and we work with government, industry and the community to develop and deliver our expertise and research as impactful outcomes.
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Energy and Sustainability
Discover how our advanced technologies are creating opportunities for zero emissions and sustainable practices for the future.
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Exploration, Mining and Remote Operations
Discover our novel solutions for industry working in mining and remote operations.
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Digital Technology
Browse the innovative ways that our research intersects with technology, industry, government and broader society.
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Agriculture
Discover how the agricultural sector has advanced from research in plant genetics, breeding, food production and best practice systems.
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Tourism and Creative Industries
Explore how the creative arts evolved in history and are shaping our modern world.
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Health and Wellbeing
Find out about innovations to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of patients.
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Defence and Security
Find out about our solutions for a peaceful and secure Indo-Pacific region.
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Transport and Urban Environments
Discover practical ways our research is shaping public spaces, transport and urban environment
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Space and Astronomy
Explore the pioneering ways our researchers are making space more accessible.
Aboriginal landscape transformations in south-west Australia
- Informing present day land management strategies and climate issues, by assessing the extent to which the landscape at the time of European colonisation was an artefact of management practices of Indigenous people.
Learn more >> Biological Sciences
- Investigating biodiversity and natural environments to ensure sustainable futures.
Learn more >> The Data Analytics for Resources and Environments Centre
- As a partner in DARE, UWA is helping to develop new data science models to drive better decision making in the management of Australia’s natural resources.
Learn more >> School of Earth Sciences
- Discovering Earth and beyond through time.
Learn more >> Centre for Energy
- The Centre for Energy develops new knowledge and advanced technologies for efficient, effective and environmentally friendly utilisation of fuels and energy in the resources industries.
Learn more >> UWA Centre for Environmental Economics & Policy
- Addressing complex, multi-faceted environmental problems through quality research, engagement and training.
Learn more >> Fluid Science and Resources Research Group
- Undertaking a multi- faceted approach to research, conducting fundamental studies, bench scale experiments, and modelling of real world systems together with dynamic pilot-scale processes to validate the research outcomes.
Learn more >> Marine Energy Research Australia
- A knowledge and innovation hub for Australia's ocean renewable energy sector and for the region’s coastal communities.
Learn more >> School of Molecular Sciences
- Chemical and molecular research laying the foundation for high-impact science aimed at solving the challenges of the modern world.
Learn more >> Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre
- Exploring and mapping the deepest areas of the Indian Ocean and beyond.
Learn more >> Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub
- As a partner organisation, UWA is delivering new knowledge and tools with a focus on ecosystems and biodiversity, land and water planning, and Indigenous land management.
Learn more >> Oceans Institute
- The UWA Oceans Institute is supporting research to create a thriving and sustainable blue planet for future generations.
Learn more >> Plant Energy Biology
- Enhancing plant energy efficiency by simultaneously optimising energy capture, conversion and use in changing environments, to improve the sustainable productivity of plants.
Learn more >> Renewable Energy and Microgrids research cluster
- The Renewable Energy and Microgrids research cluster looks at the future of energy generation and how to improve renewable energy distribution, so it is safer and more effective.
Learn more >> UWA REV Project
- The UWA REV Project is building zero emission and driverless vehicles, with charging networks powered from renewable sources.
Learn more >> Power and Energy Clean Research Group
- Devoted to the study of power systems, micro-grids and renewable/clean energy sources.
Learn more >>
Attention and Human Behaviour Laboratory
- Understanding the interface between key human cognitive abilities, like attention and multi-tasking, and human behaviours across a variety of situations.
Learn more >> Automation and Robotics
- Addressing challenges where automation can improve safety and operations.
Learn more >> CRC TiME
- As a partner organisation, UWA is contributing innovative research that addresses the complex challenges underpinning mine closure and relinquishment.
Learn more >> Engineering for Remote Operations (ERO)
- Providing solutions for remote mining and offshore engineering, agriculture, health, transport, energy and water supply
Learn more >> The Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)
- The Centre for Exploration Targeting addresses problems of the mineral exploration industry with innovative research solutions.
Learn more >> Future Tails
- Contributing to the thinking, research, training, education and practice in tailings management, working towards a global vision of a future with zero catastrophic tailings failures.
Learn more >> Centre for Mining, Energy and Natural Resources Law
- Recognising the importance of both the resources and the commercial sectors to the Western Australia economy, with a focus on a wide range of mining, energy and natural resources law matters.
Learn more >> Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems
- The Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems is an international leader in the field of offshore geotechnical engineering research.
Learn more >> Tailings Monitoring
- Dedicated to structural safety of tailings storage facilities on mine sites, including monitoring and instrumentation.
Learn more >> Transforming Maintenance through Data Science
- As a partner in this training centre, UWA is using data science to transform maintenance and its workforce.
Learn more >> Centre for Rock Art Research + Management
- The Centre for Rock Art Research + Management have shone a light on the importance of Aboriginal Rock Art preservation at Murujuga and the importance of world heritage recognition.
Learn more >>
The Australian Centre for Quantitative Imaging
- The Australian Centre for Quantitative Imaging spans research including: the extraction of useful biomarkers to the use of artificial intelligence to inform a precision medicine approach to patient management.
Learn more >> Centre for Business Data Analytics
- The Centre for Business Data Analytics focuses on the analysis of fast-moving commercial data through new tools and technologies that inform business of changing trends quickly, particularly through the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Learn more >> UWA Data Institute (DI)
- The Institute of Data provides leadership for industry transformation in our digitised world through innovative, discipline relevant and responsible data science.
Learn more >> Digitisation Centre of WA
- The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia aims to digitise, to global archival standards, the major Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences collections held in Western Australia. This includes Indigenous collections, which are currently a flagship.
Learn more >> UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab
- The UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab is an interdisciplinary research institute based at UWA Law School, dedicated to tackling lawlessness in the technology ecosystem and building pro-public futures. It fuses world-leading expertise in law, machine learning and motion analysis.
Learn more >> Centre for Applied Statistics
- Providing world-class statistical and mathematical advice to the University community, government and non-government clients.
Learn more >> Quantum Information, Simulation and Algorithms Research Centre
- QUISA is developing innovative quantum solutions to tackle otherwise intractable computational problems and complex phenomena.
Learn more >>
Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Providing world-class economic research and evidence-based advice on emerging agricultural issues of regional, national, and global significance and their impact on food systems, producers, the natural environment, and economic development in Australia and globally.
Learn more >> Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative
- Finding solutions to minimise the adverse impact herbicide resistance and crop weeds have on Australian cropping.
Learn more >> Centre for Engineering Innovation
- Providing engineering solutions and methodologies for agricultural prosperity and ecological restoration.
Learn more >> Exploiting natural variation to enhance crop yield
- Understanding how plants survive hot, dry, high light and saline environments.
Learn more >> Honey Bee Research Centre
- Finding ways of future-proofing the bee, and making Australian honey renowned as unique and pure, and priced for its rarity.
Learn more >> Identification and characterisation of disease-causing compounds from plant pathogens
- Examining secondary metabolites in fungi to gain insight into plant diseases.
Learn more >> UWA Institute of Agriculture
- Working with the agricultural and natural resource sectors to create knowledge and improve workforce skills to exercise responsible stewardship of the environment.
Learn more >> Plant Energy Biology
- Enhancing yields by manipulating key signals, 'gatekeeper' cells, and (epi)genetic controls that regulate the energy system of plants.
Learn more >> Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding
- The Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding provide advanced research in plant breeding to enhance the world’s future supply of plant-based food, fibre and industrial raw materials in an era of changing climates.
Learn more >> Centre for Regional Development
- Focusing on understanding the major exconomic, social and environmental opporunities and challenges facing rural, regionala dn remote Australia.
Learn more >> UWA Ridgefield farm
- The UWA Ridgefield farm supports agricultural research at UWA including the?Best Practice Farming Systems (BPFS) Project, which aims to find best practice solutions for resilient farming systems, environmental stewardship and community engagement.
Learn more >>
Musician health
- Music is everywhere, shaping our thinking and framing our experiences. The UWA Conservatorium of Music is improving the health and performance of musicians and students.
Learn more >> UWA Conservatorium of Music - music in our modern world
- Understanding how the arts have shaped ways of thinking about political, ethical and economic concepts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Learn more >> ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
- The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions analyses emotions in past societies which shape the world we live in today.
Learn more >> Returning Photos: Australian Aboriginal Photographs from European Collections
- Social and cultural research that is making Indigenous heritage images accessible to families through global collaboration and partnerships through Returning Photos project.
Learn more >> Collecting the West
- Collecting the West will re-define Western Australia's place in the world and help us represent our state with insight and inspiration.
Learn more >> The Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa
- Collaborating with remote Aboriginal art centres to write art histories of artists working in remote Australia.
Learn more >>
Elizabeth Rutherford Memorial Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion
- CARE is driving innovative research that combines a focus on cognitive mechanisms with research to advance our understanding of emotion.
Learn more >> Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention
- The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention promotes practice that empowers individuals, families and communities and respects their culture.
Learn more >> Busselton Population Medical Research Centre
- Aiming for a better understanding and management of a wide range of disease and illness.
Learn more >> Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Clinic
- This group including world-renowned academics, psychologists, psychiatrists, allied health professionals and educators are addressing the complex issues experienced by young people.
Learn more >> Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology
- Improving survival rates for heart stroke and blood vessel disease.
Learn more >> Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology
- Exploring theories and interventions to improve quality of life by understanding the causes and consequences of brain and mental disorders.
Learn more >> Clinical trials integrating research and audit to routine patient clinical care
- Using research to solve clinical problems in everyday patient centred clinical care.
Learn more >> Developmental Psychology
- Uncovering individual developmental paths for people with conditions such as autism or Parkinson’s, and encouraging development along their optimal path.
Learn more >> Dobney Hypertension Centre
- Addressing the burden of chronic disease.
Learn more >> Ear Science Institute Australia
- Enhancing the lives of people with ear and hearing disorders.
Learn more >> Emergency Medicine
- Real-life emergency medical research today to improve the care of tomorrow.
Learn more >> Global and Environmental Health
- Investigating global health issues around our ecosystem, environment and occupations.
Learn more >> WA Centre for Health and Ageing
- The WA Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA) conducts ageing research from midlife and beyond.
Learn more >> The Human Lactation Research Group
- The Human Lactation Research Group aims to gain a greater understanding of the synthesis and secretion of breastmilk.
Learn more >> The UWA Language Lab
- Improving mental wellbeing by creating safe places through linguistic inclusion.
Learn more >> International Research Collaborative - Oral Health and Equity
- The International Research Collaborative - Oral Health and Equity develops innovative solutions in oral health to address challenges associated with social inequities.
Learn more >> KIDDO
- The KIDDO team have developed physical literacy programs that help to nurture a love of physical activity that will last a lifetime.
Learn more >> Marshall Centre
- Conducting world-class medical research for the prevention of infectious diseases.
Learn more >> UWA Mediation Clinic
- Mediation services to help people to resolve staff, student, workplace, and community group conflict.
Learn more >> School of Molecular Sciences
- Creating new therapeutics and biotechnological tools, transforming medicine and advancing our understanding of evolutionary biology.
Learn more >> Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
- The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health aims to improve the health and well-being of Indigenous people.
Learn more >> Centre for Human and Cultural Values
- Understanding and appreciatiing the variety of human and cultural values and how they relate to big social issues in society.
Learn more >> UWA Modern Slavery Research Cluster
- The MSRC brings together interdisciplinary researchers and students from across UWA and partners to contribute to tackling modern slavery.
Learn more >> UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab
- The UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab is an interdisciplinary research institute based at UWA Law School, dedicated to tackling lawlessness in the technology ecosystem and building pro-public futures. It fuses world-leading expertise in law, machine learning and motion analysis.
Learn more >> Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit
- Expertise in psychiatric epidemiology, particularly in the study of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, and other severe mental illness.
Learn more >> Not-for-Profits UWA
- Fostering interdisciplinary research, collaboration and engagement with the Not-for-profit sector.
Learn more >> The Raine Study
- Advancing knowledge and impacting on policy, practice and education to enhance lives across the globe.
Learn more >> The Rural Clinical School of WA
- Driving real change in rural health through collaborative research across the state.
Learn more >> WA Centre for Rural Health
- The WA Centre for Rural Health conducts research on Aboriginal and population health, workforce development and health professional education.
Learn more >> Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing
- As a partner, UWA is bringing cultural ways and healing into mental health and wellbeing systems to better serve the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.
Learn more >> The VaxPol Lab
- The VaxPol Lab brings together new and existing programs of work on vaccine policy and regulation and the social science of vaccination from UWA’s School of Social Sciences, Law School, School of Allied Health, and beyond.
Learn more >> Vulnerable Groups
- Improving outcomes for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations.
Learn more >> Centre for Social Impact
- Transforming research that informs best practice, and public engagement that inspires and mobilises change makers.
Learn more >> Young Lives Matter
- Creating a safety net for those at risk of suicide. For those we can see and even for those we can't.
Learn more >>
The Defence and Security Institute (DSI)
- UWA is playing a central role in helping to develop Australia’s sovereign defence capabilities in WA to help generate solutions towards a peaceful, prosperous and secure Australia and Indo-Pacific region.
Learn more >> Perth Asia Centre, Indo Pacific program
- Balancing trade and economic relations with Indo-Pacific partners, to ensure prosperity, peace, and security within the Indo-Pacific region.
Learn more >> Cybersecurity
- Adaptive and intelligent solutions in Cybersecurity.
Learn more >> Seeds of Life
- Managed within the Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding, this long-running project has delivered change in Timor-Leste, by preventing malnutrition due to food security issues.
Learn more >> Fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria
- Developing methods to work out what antibiotics to use for serious infections much faster than the methods currently in clinical laboratory practice.
Learn more >> Human Factors and Applied Cognition (HUFAC) Laboratory
- Uncovering the cognitive mechanisms that underlie human performance in everyday life and in safety-critical work contexts.
Learn more >>
Australian Urban Design Research Centre
- Perth's Australian Urban Design Research Centre produces practical and analytical research, in areas such as: public space use, design technologies, open spaces, density, housing, and ecological drivers of design.
Learn more >> Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC)
- The Planning and Transport Research Centre’s expertise in the connected spaces of transport and land use planning offers insight and informs innovative solutions that fit the future.
Learn more >> The Psychology at Work Lab
- Examining the human element of work to create better workplaces.
Learn more >> Western Australian Centre for Road Safety Research (WACRSR)
- The Western Australian Centre for Road Safety Research develops new and innovative approaches to road safety in WA.
Learn more >>
Dark Matter Particle Physics
- As a Node partner UWA is helping to unlock the secrets of dark matter and foster the science and engineering leaders of the future.
Learn more >> Exploring architecture in outer space
- Research into how architecture can exist when the relationship of the human and its constructed environment is challenged.
Learn more >> Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
- OzGrav is developing cutting-edge technologies for data mining, laser science, quantum measurements, and multi-messenger astronomy to stay at the frontier of gravitational wave discovery.
Learn more >> The International Space Centre (ISC)
- Exploring space has become an integral part of Australia’s economy and a symbol of human innovation. Through the ISC, UWA is harnessing our world-leading space research capability to build partnerships that will contribute to the ongoing growth of Australia’s space industry.
Learn more >> International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)
- The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has played an integral role in the development of the SKA project and has grown into an internationally renowned, multi-disciplinary research centre for science, engineering and data intensive astronomy.
Learn more >>
Energy and Sustainability
Aboriginal landscape transformations in south-west Australia
- Informing present day land management strategies and climate issues, by assessing the extent to which the landscape at the time of European colonisation was an artefact of management practices of Indigenous people.
Learn more >> Biological Sciences
- Investigating biodiversity and natural environments to ensure sustainable futures.
Learn more >> The Data Analytics for Resources and Environments Centre
- As a partner in DARE, UWA is helping to develop new data science models to drive better decision making in the management of Australia’s natural resources.
Learn more >> School of Earth Sciences
- Discovering Earth and beyond through time.
Learn more >> Centre for Energy
- The Centre for Energy develops new knowledge and advanced technologies for efficient, effective and environmentally friendly utilisation of fuels and energy in the resources industries.
Learn more >> UWA Centre for Environmental Economics & Policy
- Addressing complex, multi-faceted environmental problems through quality research, engagement and training.
Learn more >> Fluid Science and Resources Research Group
- Undertaking a multi- faceted approach to research, conducting fundamental studies, bench scale experiments, and modelling of real world systems together with dynamic pilot-scale processes to validate the research outcomes.
Learn more >> Marine Energy Research Australia
- A knowledge and innovation hub for Australia's ocean renewable energy sector and for the region’s coastal communities.
Learn more >> School of Molecular Sciences
- Chemical and molecular research laying the foundation for high-impact science aimed at solving the challenges of the modern world.
Learn more >> Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre
- Exploring and mapping the deepest areas of the Indian Ocean and beyond.
Learn more >> Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub
- As a partner organisation, UWA is delivering new knowledge and tools with a focus on ecosystems and biodiversity, land and water planning, and Indigenous land management.
Learn more >> Oceans Institute
- The UWA Oceans Institute is supporting research to create a thriving and sustainable blue planet for future generations.
Learn more >> Plant Energy Biology
- Enhancing plant energy efficiency by simultaneously optimising energy capture, conversion and use in changing environments, to improve the sustainable productivity of plants.
Learn more >> Renewable Energy and Microgrids research cluster
- The Renewable Energy and Microgrids research cluster looks at the future of energy generation and how to improve renewable energy distribution, so it is safer and more effective.
Learn more >> UWA REV Project
- The UWA REV Project is building zero emission and driverless vehicles, with charging networks powered from renewable sources.
Learn more >> Power and Energy Clean Research Group
- Devoted to the study of power systems, micro-grids and renewable/clean energy sources.
Learn more >>
Exploration, Mining and Remote Operations
Attention and Human Behaviour Laboratory
- Understanding the interface between key human cognitive abilities, like attention and multi-tasking, and human behaviours across a variety of situations.
Learn more >> Automation and Robotics
- Addressing challenges where automation can improve safety and operations.
Learn more >> CRC TiME
- As a partner organisation, UWA is contributing innovative research that addresses the complex challenges underpinning mine closure and relinquishment.
Learn more >> Engineering for Remote Operations (ERO)
- Providing solutions for remote mining and offshore engineering, agriculture, health, transport, energy and water supply
Learn more >> The Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)
- The Centre for Exploration Targeting addresses problems of the mineral exploration industry with innovative research solutions.
Learn more >> Future Tails
- Contributing to the thinking, research, training, education and practice in tailings management, working towards a global vision of a future with zero catastrophic tailings failures.
Learn more >> Centre for Mining, Energy and Natural Resources Law
- Recognising the importance of both the resources and the commercial sectors to the Western Australia economy, with a focus on a wide range of mining, energy and natural resources law matters.
Learn more >> Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems
- The Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems is an international leader in the field of offshore geotechnical engineering research.
Learn more >> Tailings Monitoring
- Dedicated to structural safety of tailings storage facilities on mine sites, including monitoring and instrumentation.
Learn more >> Transforming Maintenance through Data Science
- As a partner in this training centre, UWA is using data science to transform maintenance and its workforce.
Learn more >> Centre for Rock Art Research + Management
- The Centre for Rock Art Research + Management have shone a light on the importance of Aboriginal Rock Art preservation at Murujuga and the importance of world heritage recognition.
Learn more >>
Digital Technology
The Australian Centre for Quantitative Imaging
- The Australian Centre for Quantitative Imaging spans research including: the extraction of useful biomarkers to the use of artificial intelligence to inform a precision medicine approach to patient management.
Learn more >> Centre for Business Data Analytics
- The Centre for Business Data Analytics focuses on the analysis of fast-moving commercial data through new tools and technologies that inform business of changing trends quickly, particularly through the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Learn more >> UWA Data Institute (DI)
- The Institute of Data provides leadership for industry transformation in our digitised world through innovative, discipline relevant and responsible data science.
Learn more >> Digitisation Centre of WA
- The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia aims to digitise, to global archival standards, the major Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences collections held in Western Australia. This includes Indigenous collections, which are currently a flagship.
Learn more >> UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab
- The UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab is an interdisciplinary research institute based at UWA Law School, dedicated to tackling lawlessness in the technology ecosystem and building pro-public futures. It fuses world-leading expertise in law, machine learning and motion analysis.
Learn more >> Centre for Applied Statistics
- Providing world-class statistical and mathematical advice to the University community, government and non-government clients.
Learn more >> Quantum Information, Simulation and Algorithms Research Centre
- QUISA is developing innovative quantum solutions to tackle otherwise intractable computational problems and complex phenomena.
Learn more >>
Agriculture
Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Providing world-class economic research and evidence-based advice on emerging agricultural issues of regional, national, and global significance and their impact on food systems, producers, the natural environment, and economic development in Australia and globally.
Learn more >> Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative
- Finding solutions to minimise the adverse impact herbicide resistance and crop weeds have on Australian cropping.
Learn more >> Centre for Engineering Innovation
- Providing engineering solutions and methodologies for agricultural prosperity and ecological restoration.
Learn more >> Exploiting natural variation to enhance crop yield
- Understanding how plants survive hot, dry, high light and saline environments.
Learn more >> Honey Bee Research Centre
- Finding ways of future-proofing the bee, and making Australian honey renowned as unique and pure, and priced for its rarity.
Learn more >> Identification and characterisation of disease-causing compounds from plant pathogens
- Examining secondary metabolites in fungi to gain insight into plant diseases.
Learn more >> UWA Institute of Agriculture
- Working with the agricultural and natural resource sectors to create knowledge and improve workforce skills to exercise responsible stewardship of the environment.
Learn more >> Plant Energy Biology
- Enhancing yields by manipulating key signals, 'gatekeeper' cells, and (epi)genetic controls that regulate the energy system of plants.
Learn more >> Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding
- The Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding provide advanced research in plant breeding to enhance the world’s future supply of plant-based food, fibre and industrial raw materials in an era of changing climates.
Learn more >> Centre for Regional Development
- Focusing on understanding the major exconomic, social and environmental opporunities and challenges facing rural, regionala dn remote Australia.
Learn more >> UWA Ridgefield farm
- The UWA Ridgefield farm supports agricultural research at UWA including the?Best Practice Farming Systems (BPFS) Project, which aims to find best practice solutions for resilient farming systems, environmental stewardship and community engagement.
Learn more >>
Tourism and Creative Industries
Musician health
- Music is everywhere, shaping our thinking and framing our experiences. The UWA Conservatorium of Music is improving the health and performance of musicians and students.
Learn more >> UWA Conservatorium of Music - music in our modern world
- Understanding how the arts have shaped ways of thinking about political, ethical and economic concepts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Learn more >> ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
- The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions analyses emotions in past societies which shape the world we live in today.
Learn more >> Returning Photos: Australian Aboriginal Photographs from European Collections
- Social and cultural research that is making Indigenous heritage images accessible to families through global collaboration and partnerships through Returning Photos project.
Learn more >> Collecting the West
- Collecting the West will re-define Western Australia's place in the world and help us represent our state with insight and inspiration.
Learn more >> The Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa
- Collaborating with remote Aboriginal art centres to write art histories of artists working in remote Australia.
Learn more >>
Health and Wellbeing
Elizabeth Rutherford Memorial Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion
- CARE is driving innovative research that combines a focus on cognitive mechanisms with research to advance our understanding of emotion.
Learn more >> Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention
- The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention promotes practice that empowers individuals, families and communities and respects their culture.
Learn more >> Busselton Population Medical Research Centre
- Aiming for a better understanding and management of a wide range of disease and illness.
Learn more >> Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Clinic
- This group including world-renowned academics, psychologists, psychiatrists, allied health professionals and educators are addressing the complex issues experienced by young people.
Learn more >> Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology
- Improving survival rates for heart stroke and blood vessel disease.
Learn more >> Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology
- Exploring theories and interventions to improve quality of life by understanding the causes and consequences of brain and mental disorders.
Learn more >> Clinical trials integrating research and audit to routine patient clinical care
- Using research to solve clinical problems in everyday patient centred clinical care.
Learn more >> Developmental Psychology
- Uncovering individual developmental paths for people with conditions such as autism or Parkinson’s, and encouraging development along their optimal path.
Learn more >> Dobney Hypertension Centre
- Addressing the burden of chronic disease.
Learn more >> Ear Science Institute Australia
- Enhancing the lives of people with ear and hearing disorders.
Learn more >> Emergency Medicine
- Real-life emergency medical research today to improve the care of tomorrow.
Learn more >> Global and Environmental Health
- Investigating global health issues around our ecosystem, environment and occupations.
Learn more >> WA Centre for Health and Ageing
- The WA Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA) conducts ageing research from midlife and beyond.
Learn more >> The Human Lactation Research Group
- The Human Lactation Research Group aims to gain a greater understanding of the synthesis and secretion of breastmilk.
Learn more >> The UWA Language Lab
- Improving mental wellbeing by creating safe places through linguistic inclusion.
Learn more >> International Research Collaborative - Oral Health and Equity
- The International Research Collaborative - Oral Health and Equity develops innovative solutions in oral health to address challenges associated with social inequities.
Learn more >> KIDDO
- The KIDDO team have developed physical literacy programs that help to nurture a love of physical activity that will last a lifetime.
Learn more >> Marshall Centre
- Conducting world-class medical research for the prevention of infectious diseases.
Learn more >> UWA Mediation Clinic
- Mediation services to help people to resolve staff, student, workplace, and community group conflict.
Learn more >> School of Molecular Sciences
- Creating new therapeutics and biotechnological tools, transforming medicine and advancing our understanding of evolutionary biology.
Learn more >> Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
- The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health aims to improve the health and well-being of Indigenous people.
Learn more >> Centre for Human and Cultural Values
- Understanding and appreciatiing the variety of human and cultural values and how they relate to big social issues in society.
Learn more >> UWA Modern Slavery Research Cluster
- The MSRC brings together interdisciplinary researchers and students from across UWA and partners to contribute to tackling modern slavery.
Learn more >> UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab
- The UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab is an interdisciplinary research institute based at UWA Law School, dedicated to tackling lawlessness in the technology ecosystem and building pro-public futures. It fuses world-leading expertise in law, machine learning and motion analysis.
Learn more >> Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit
- Expertise in psychiatric epidemiology, particularly in the study of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, and other severe mental illness.
Learn more >> Not-for-Profits UWA
- Fostering interdisciplinary research, collaboration and engagement with the Not-for-profit sector.
Learn more >> The Raine Study
- Advancing knowledge and impacting on policy, practice and education to enhance lives across the globe.
Learn more >> The Rural Clinical School of WA
- Driving real change in rural health through collaborative research across the state.
Learn more >> WA Centre for Rural Health
- The WA Centre for Rural Health conducts research on Aboriginal and population health, workforce development and health professional education.
Learn more >> Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing
- As a partner, UWA is bringing cultural ways and healing into mental health and wellbeing systems to better serve the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.
Learn more >> The VaxPol Lab
- The VaxPol Lab brings together new and existing programs of work on vaccine policy and regulation and the social science of vaccination from UWA’s School of Social Sciences, Law School, School of Allied Health, and beyond.
Learn more >> Vulnerable Groups
- Improving outcomes for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations.
Learn more >> Centre for Social Impact
- Transforming research that informs best practice, and public engagement that inspires and mobilises change makers.
Learn more >> Young Lives Matter
- Creating a safety net for those at risk of suicide. For those we can see and even for those we can't.
Learn more >>
Defence and Security
The Defence and Security Institute (DSI)
- UWA is playing a central role in helping to develop Australia’s sovereign defence capabilities in WA to help generate solutions towards a peaceful, prosperous and secure Australia and Indo-Pacific region.
Learn more >> Perth Asia Centre, Indo Pacific program
- Balancing trade and economic relations with Indo-Pacific partners, to ensure prosperity, peace, and security within the Indo-Pacific region.
Learn more >> Cybersecurity
- Adaptive and intelligent solutions in Cybersecurity.
Learn more >> Seeds of Life
- Managed within the Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding, this long-running project has delivered change in Timor-Leste, by preventing malnutrition due to food security issues.
Learn more >> Fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria
- Developing methods to work out what antibiotics to use for serious infections much faster than the methods currently in clinical laboratory practice.
Learn more >> Human Factors and Applied Cognition (HUFAC) Laboratory
- Uncovering the cognitive mechanisms that underlie human performance in everyday life and in safety-critical work contexts.
Learn more >>
Transport and Urban Environments
Australian Urban Design Research Centre
- Perth's Australian Urban Design Research Centre produces practical and analytical research, in areas such as: public space use, design technologies, open spaces, density, housing, and ecological drivers of design.
Learn more >> Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC)
- The Planning and Transport Research Centre’s expertise in the connected spaces of transport and land use planning offers insight and informs innovative solutions that fit the future.
Learn more >> The Psychology at Work Lab
- Examining the human element of work to create better workplaces.
Learn more >> Western Australian Centre for Road Safety Research (WACRSR)
- The Western Australian Centre for Road Safety Research develops new and innovative approaches to road safety in WA.
Learn more >>
Space and Astronomy
Dark Matter Particle Physics
- As a Node partner UWA is helping to unlock the secrets of dark matter and foster the science and engineering leaders of the future.
Learn more >> Exploring architecture in outer space
- Research into how architecture can exist when the relationship of the human and its constructed environment is challenged.
Learn more >> Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
- OzGrav is developing cutting-edge technologies for data mining, laser science, quantum measurements, and multi-messenger astronomy to stay at the frontier of gravitational wave discovery.
Learn more >> The International Space Centre (ISC)
- Exploring space has become an integral part of Australia’s economy and a symbol of human innovation. Through the ISC, UWA is harnessing our world-leading space research capability to build partnerships that will contribute to the ongoing growth of Australia’s space industry.
Learn more >> International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)
- The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has played an integral role in the development of the SKA project and has grown into an internationally renowned, multi-disciplinary research centre for science, engineering and data intensive astronomy.
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