Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research)

As Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research), Professor Kate McGrath is responsible for research policy development and general oversight of UTS's research activities, postgraduate education, industry liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation.

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A portrait shot of Kate McGrath, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research)

Professor Kate McGrath
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Professor McGrath's responsibilities include:

  • developing and implementing a research strategy that fulfils UTS's vision to be a world-leading university of technology; in particular, overseeing UTS's strategic research investments and research performance, and ensuring research excellence through the support of research and academic staff
  • promoting research collaboration with industry and government, and building strong linkages in the research and innovation sector nationally and internationally
  • enhancing the quality of UTS postgraduate research education, and building a vibrant research community.

Educated in New Zealand and Australia, Kate is the chair of numerous startup companies and national committees. She has taught extensively, developed curricula and new degrees, supervised students, published 80 research papers, and worked to help primary school and early childhood teachers in New Zealand to introduce STEM into their classrooms.

Following a BSc (Honours) in Chemistry from the University of Canterbury, Kate completed her PhD at ANU before taking up a postdoctoral position with the Université de Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. She undertook two years as a research fellow at Princeton before returning to New Zealand as a researcher and academic at the University of Otago. In 2004, Kate joined Victoria University of Wellington. In 2011 she was appointed director of a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence, the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

Kate was the Vice-Provost (Research) at the Victoria University of Wellington for the three years prior to joining UTS in 2018.

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Contact

Kellie Lamont
Executive Assistant

+61 2 9514 1990

DVCR-EA@uts.edu.au

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.