Achievements
UniSA has a proud history of achievement. These are some recent highlights.
- Our students and graduates
- Our Research
- Institutional Awards and Rankings
- Our Staff
- Our infrastructure
Our students and graduates
In 2010 we graduated over 9,000 students who have now gone out into the world as problem-solvers of the future, contributing to the economic and social sustainability of Australia and indeed the world.
UniSA graduate Julian Burton was named South Australia's Australian of the Year for 2010 by the Australia Day Council.
UniSA student Tessa Henwood-Mitchell was the 2010 City of Adelaide Australia Day Young Citizen of the Year.
Research student Angela Valamanesh was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010.
MBA student Julian O'Shea was the 2009 Young South Australian of the Year.
Our Research
In the Excellence in Research for Australia research assessment exercise conducted by the federal government:
- Seventy percent of assessed UniSA research was judged to be of world-class standard.
- There were strong outcomes across all divisions and discipline clusters.
- UniSA was one of only two universities in Australia to receive the highest rating (well above world standard) in chemical sciences.
A team led by Professor Kerin O'Dea AO was awarded an $8.2m National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant to investigate ways of improving chronic disease outcomes for Indigenous Australians.
The Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination and Remediation of the Environment, based at our Mawson Lakes campus, was awarded $29m to develop environmental remediation technologies (with an additional $148m in industry support).
The Institute for Telecommunications Research was awarded $4.9m to develop a new satellite-based wireless senor network to collect information vital for industry, defence, the environment and national security ($12m including industry support).
The Hon Peter Garrett MP, Minister for School Education, has announced a $7.5 million project to help increase Indigenous teacher numbers. The 'More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teachers' project will be led by Professor Peter Buckskin, Dean: David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research.
A team led by Professor Robyn McDermott has been awarded an Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute Centre of Research Excellence worth $2.5 million to examine primary care in rural and remote communities, including drug and alcohol and nutrition interventions.
Institutional Awards and Rankings
In the 2011 QS World University Rankings, UniSA ranked equal 256th out of the world's universities and showed the biggest improvement of any Australian university for the second year running. UniSA ranked 11th in Australia.
UniSA is ranked 14th in Australia for research income and in the top 10 Australian universities for the percentage of academics with a doctorate.
Our MBA has again been awarded 5 stars by the Graduate Management Association
of Australia. It is one of only three MBAs in
Australia to be awarded five stars for four consecutive years.
Our Division of Business is one of only eight Australian business schools, and one of only 130 in the world, to hold the prestigious European Quality Improvement System accreditation.
UniSA has been named an Employer of Choice for Women by
the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency for the ninth year
in succession and was one of only three organisations in South Australia to
receive the award in 2011.
Our Staff
Professor Mike Roberts has been named a National Health and Medical Research Council Senor Principal Research Fellow.
Professor Thomas Nann, Dr David Beattie, Dr Margaret Cargo, Dr Krasi Vasilev and Associate Professor Enzo Lombi have been named Australian Research Council Future Fellows.
Professor Jill Slay has been made a made a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to the information technology industry through contributions in the areas of forensic computer science, security, protection of infrastructure and cyber-terrorism.
Dr Craig Prest, a microfluidic and
interfacial chemistry expert, was a 2011 SA Young Tall Poppy Science Award
winner. Dr Siobhan Banks, Dr Saravana Kumar, Dr Ellen Nisbet and Dr
Gabrielle Todd were winners in 2010 and Dr Todd was 2010 SA Young Tall Poppy
of the Year.
Associate Professor Betty Leask was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, one of only three in Australia in 2010, by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
Associate Professor Mahfuz Aziz was the Prime Minister's University Teacher of the Year for 2009.
Our infrastructure
We have invested over $6m to ensure that all of our undergraduate programs include exposure to research, practice-based learning or service to the community.
We are investing $11m in a new online learning environment and lecture recording system.
The federal government has awarded UniSA $30m towards a new $95m student learning centre and associated projects at the City West Campus.
We are constructing a $50m Materials and Minerals Science Learning and Research facility at Mawson Lakes with $45m of federal and state government support.