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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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Bringing world class clinical research to our local communities.

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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

Mind over matter: UniSC experts for Qld Mental Health Week
2 Oct

How are UniSC researchers working to alleviate the mental health issues affecting Australians in 2024? With Queensland Mental Health Week from 5-13 October, experts are available for interviews on a range of topics.

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Love island: Bird’s refusal to leave resort life leads to genetic change
19 Sep

A little yellow-and-white bird that prefers to date its mates in an idyllic island lifestyle rather than fly to the mainland to mingle is an example of avian species evolution in action, according to new UniSC research.

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As strong as a feather: New insights into optimal muscle design
19 Sep

Are the biggest and most bulging calf muscles necessarily the most powerful? The scientists behind new research into muscle architecture say it’s not the size of a muscle that delivers the most force, but rather its layout – in particular, a feathered layout called “pennate”.

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