Our research

Alongside a distinctive track record for high-quality research from all our departments — including management, economics, finance, accounting and marketing — we also have a strong record of impact and engagement, including many successful collaborations with non-academic partners from industry and government. Specifically, we collaborate with industry-based business experts to provide evidence-based research insights as solutions to a wide range of business challenges and problems.

UTS Business’s impactful research capabilities include market assessment, business model innovation, design-led innovation, supply chain management, behavioural and experimental economics, applied econometrics, market design, health economics, choice modelling and public policy analysis.

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Research centres

Centre for Behavioural Science and Policy Design

The Centre for Behavioural Science and Policy Design (CBSPD) is a Business School Research Strength.

CBSPD aligns with the UTS Business School research focus on experimental economics and market design. Market design studies why some institutions are successful, and how to mend those that fail.

Centre for Business Intelligence and Data Analysis

The Centre for Business Intelligence and Data Analysis (BIDA) aligns with the UTS Business School research focus on business analytics.

Researchers in BIDA are working to improve business systems and practice by harnessing the growing power of data analytics.

Centre for Business and Sustainable Development

The Centre for Business and Sustainable Development (CBSD) conducts world-class research addressing organisations, sustainability and social impact.

CBSD’s research partnership model will accelerate engaged and applied research, as it collaborates with all types of organisations in responding to complex social and environmental problems. It will make a direct contribution to UTS’s overarching strategy in producing work that helps to transform society through connected research, developing a culture of collaboration, and delivering positive social change.

Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience

The Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience (CCRR) is dedicated to helping businesses address the physical and transition risks brought on by climate change.

CCRR’s goal is to be recognised for global research impact; safeguarding the ecosystems and local communities in which businesses operate while developing new strategies for value creation and sustainability.

CCRR is uniquely positioned to support businesses in taking urgent and immediate collaborative action to decarbonise the economy and regenerate Country and planetary health. The Centre contributes to the School’s efforts to close the gap between knowledge and action by providing evidence-based research, education and advice to policymakers, business, and community leaders.

Centre for Livelihoods and Wellbeing

The Centre for Livelihoods and Wellbeing (CLAW) champions multidisciplinary research into people’s decisions in the contexts of building livelihoods and sustaining wellbeing.

CLAW’s research embeds pluralistic research approaches, utilising mixed methods combining quantitative and qualitative research tools. These are used to generate policy-relevant for improving evidence bases for improving our understanding of perennial socio-economic policy challenges.

Key research themes include enabling decent and satisfying work, addressing the roots of deprivation and disadvantage, supporting and empowering people to make good decisions across a range of everyday domains including jobs and entrepreneurship, energy demand, online behaviour, health and wellbeing, housing, education and financial literacy.

Centre for Sport, Business and Society

The Centre for Sport, Business and Society (CSBS) delivers social, economic, cultural and educational benefits to the sports industry, government and individual sporting organisations through consulting, education, applied research, research translation and thought leadership outputs.

CSBS is hosted by the renowned UTS Business School and the Institute for Public Policy and Governance at UTS.

Research lab

UTS Behavioural Lab

UTS Behavioural Lab offers state-of-the-art equipment and technologies to support researchers to test theoretical models and to provide practitioners with policy recommendations that have been thoroughly tested in controlled experiments.

Research initiatives

Domestic and Family Violence Impacts

Across the globe, domestic violence affects one in three women in their lifetime. Led by Professor Anne Summers, our research focuses on understanding the broad social and economic impacts of domestic and family violence in Australia.

UTS Ageing Research Collaborative

The UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC) is led by UTS academics from multiple faculties working in collaboration with researchers from other universities, aged-care providers, health services and government agencies with the aim of identifying evidence-based solutions to the issues facing ageing and aged care.

UTS Disability Research Network

Driven by people with lived experience, disability research can enable evidence-based change that improves and benefits society. The UTS Disability Research Network crosses boundaries, combining expertise from business, education, design, health, law, science, technology and data innovation fields.

Research in departments

Accounting

Accounting is focused on meeting the needs of modern businesses, both through the need for highly trained graduates ready for the professional environment and undertaking research that aims to improve the efficiency of Australian businesses and financial markets.

Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the choices that individuals, businesses, and governments make as they cope with scarcity and the incentives that influence those choices.

Finance

Finance main areas of research are quantitative finance, corporate finance, corporate governance and superannuation.

Management

Management is where quality and innovative teaching combine with relevant, recognised research to develop rewarding careers.

Marketing

Marketing helps organisations build market efficiency, improve sales and enhance marketing management decision-making.

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