Stronger real world research
UniSA’s performance in winning ARC funding for research partnered with industry and community continued to hold strong this year with almost $3.3 million awarded for 10 key projects at the end of May.
The projects will help to solve industry problems in a range of fields from the environment and mining through to sports training and food industries and the development of improved medical treatments.
ARC support will be matched with almost $6 million from business, industry and government partners across the State and the nation.
UniSA Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Høj said the results were pleasing because UniSA had retained its position as the sixth highest performing Australian university for industry and community linked research and the highest ARC Linkage Grant recipient in SA.
"These results reflect just how highly engaged our researchers are in the wider community and the valuable role they play in helping business, industry and government to improve their processes, products and outcomes," Prof Høj.
"The potential to actually make a difference in the world is one of the most exciting aspects of university research."
The successful projects include four focusing on ‘green’ or reduced waste outcomes across the mining, housing and urban development and food service industries.
One project will analyse the impact of sleep on sporting performance in elite athletes, another will look at how we prepare and support teachers to deliver evolving curricula.
In the area of health engineering, research into the development of a capsule that can be used in the small intestine to help diagnose and treat illnesses has won support.
Support has also gone to a project to improve communications in rural and remote locations through the development of bandwidth efficient technologies which are both cheaper and more reliable.
And another project will focus on water resources management in the new context where water markets and marketing will become part of life in rural and regional Australia.
More information about UniSA’s successful Linkage Grant projects is available at UniSA Research and Innovation Services.