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Spanning multiple disciplines, our teams pursue and share new knowledge, collective understanding, and bold solutions that bring about real impact and positive change that helps move everyone forward.
Across our campuses, the next generation of researchers are answering some of today’s most pressing issues, focused on ensuring healthier people and a healthier planet.

Research themes

Improving the quality of human life around the world.

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Improving the quality of ecology and our environment.

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Research overview

Implementing changes that make a big difference to lives and communities here at home, across the Pacific and around the globe. And ultimately, bringing about real impact and positive change that helps move everyone forward.

Research and development student opportunities.

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Every research dollar has a lasting impact.

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Bringing world class clinical research to our local communities.

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Research impact

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Researcher spotlight

Leading Microbiologist, Professor Peter Timms, has spent decades searching for a way to address disease in koalas >

The team has had a breakthrough — developing, trialling and administering a successful koala chlamydia vaccine.

UniSC Associate Professor of Molecular Engineering Dr Joanne Macdonald >

UniSC Associate Professor of Molecular Engineering Dr Joanne Macdonald and postdoctoral researcher Dr Nina Pollak from UniSC’s Centre for Bioinnovation worked with CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness on the research into the Nipah virus.

Research news

Your lifestyle choices are already showing up on your brain and could be prematurely ageing it, study finds
17 Dec

New research from UnSC’s Thompson Institute has found a relationship between lifestyle choices that affect dementia risk, and early signs of ageing on the brain.

research participant Joanna Fowler in her home smiling
Research to find ‘missing link’ in home tech for people with disabilities
16 Dec

An innovative UniSC study aims to find the “missing link” in home-based smart technologies to enable people with spinal cord and brain injuries to live more independently.

UniSC scientists named STEM superstars
11 Dec

A love of science has led two researchers from UniSC down two very different career paths – but today they share the same national honour.

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Giving to research

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