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Keeping cool and calm in the line of fire
For firefighters around the world, the challenge is that hotter conditions are leading to more fires, and hotter firefighters.
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Addressing a gap in cancer cachexia trainingDr Mariana Sousa received the prestigious 2022 UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to further develop her research building multidisciplinary capacity to deliver quality cancer cachexia care.
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Enabling emergency nurses to manage pain in critically ill patientsA PhD student in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Wayne Varndell's research shows significant potential for positive impacts on patients and health clinicians.
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Communication is everyone’s business!
Tackling the isolation felt by those impacted by communication difficulties after stroke and other brain injuries has turned into the work of a lifetime for Associate Professor Emma Power.
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Empowering people with chronic disease to manage breathlessnessPeople living with chronic breathlessness are at the heart of Dr Tim Luckett’s research at IMPACCT.
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UTS Faculty of Health Alumni Award
Dr Sabera Turkmani’s passionate advocacy for women’s rights and health is both highly professional and deeply personal.
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Understanding COVID-19 risk: an online, interactive tool to support vaccine decisionsThe COVID-19 pandemic created a raft of fresh challenges for everyone, but perhaps none so vexed as a new vaccine debate.
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Influencing change in workforce practices and experiences for First Nation AustraliansDanielle Manton works in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to ensure that their voice is heard at UTS, and in the wider community.
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Innovative approaches to measuring and valuing quality of lifeQuality of life – and how to measure it from the cradle to grave is the core of the research by Associate Professor Brendan Mulhern at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE).
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COVID restrictions: Trade-off, sentiments and preferences
How do you investigate the level of population tolerance for lifestyle restrictions if it slowed the spread of covid-19 and the number of deaths?
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Publication summaries
Learn more about our published research.
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Plant-based drug delivery
Using extracts from medicinal plants to treat respiratory disease has many benefits. But how can they be delivered mostly effectively?
Autism research priorities
We are paving the way for change when it comes to research about autistic girls, women and gender diverse people in Australia.
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Reaching refugee communities
How do you encourage uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine, when some don’t even believe the virus is real?
Too Deadly for Diabetes
Doctoral student Ray Kelly has been instrumental in changing policy on the single most prevalent chronic disease in Australia.
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Cancer Symptom Trials
UTS researchers go where others do not. In the process, they change the lives of people living with cancer for the better.
End of life care
Helping aged care staff access the best training and information when they need it.
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Empathy MuseumThe Empathy Initiative enhances and examines the empathy skills of healthcare students and clinicians.
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Communication after brain injuryDoctoral student and speech pathologist Melissa Miao tackles the issue of isolation in adults with acquired brain injuries.
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A-EyeDr Mojtaba Golzan and his team want to see an end to drilling holes in the skull, when a simple photo taken on a smart phone would suffice.
Acknowledgement of Country
UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.
