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Research strategy

Through our role as a public university, we task ourselves at UTS with ensuring that our research outcomes benefit our communities and more broadly the economy, environment and society.

Key takeaways

  • Our research strives to benefit our communities and the wider economy, environment and society
  • Investments in academic growth and our campus have increased the scale, quality and impact of our research
  • Our collaborative culture develops solutions to real problems and strong research partnerships

The UTS research strategy has four main sections.

  1. Exploring how we deliver excellent research with impact by taking a people-centric approach, deliberately evolving our research concentrations and driving knowledge exchange.
  2. Outlining the eight characteristics of research at UTS including excellence, focus and distinction, connectedness, and interrelated research and teaching.
  3. Stating how our people-centred approach is framed by outcomes and impact.
  4. Defining our high-performing research culture and how it is focussed on delivering leadership at the highest level of scholarly endeavour.

Our achievements have accelerated by our culture of collaboration and creativity, use of trans-disciplinary approaches, and our industry and community connections.

This positive culture and approach has increasingly seen us sought out as a research partner across different industry and professional-practice sectors.

Download the UTS Research Strategy (pdf, 503kb)

We’re committed to undertaking excellent research that delivers real impact to our community. We solve complex problems and create solutions that work in the now and also into the future.

Professor Kate McGrath, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)

UTS Research Strategy
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The research strategy aims to help UTS undertake excellent research that delivers real impact to our community.

Hi, I’m Kate McGrath and I’m the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research here at UTS, and I’m very excited to introduce you to our new research strategy.

Here at UTS, we’re really committed and have been since we began, to being able to undertake excellent research that delivers real impact to our community. We’ve done that as a university but also every single one of our research community is dedicated to delivering excellent research that delivers impact beyond our own environment.

We’ve seen a huge change in that over the last decade as we’ve done a really big investment in our academic growth strategy and our campus development strategy, so when you look around campus, you’ll see that we have amazing facilities now and we have a growth in our academic research that allows us to be of a scale that allows us to deliver real solutions to the outside world.

In particular, what we see at UTS that’s really distinctly different, we believe, is that we have this amazing culture of collegiality and creativity in our workforce. We also recognise that it’s really important to be connected to industry and community, that we have an agile way of working that also incorporates transdisciplinary expertise, and that we explore things in a really different way than other people do and identify what we’re really good at.

Taking this approach means that what we’re able to do is actually solve really complex problems and create solutions that are going to work for the now and also hopefully for the future. So, with that embedded in our UTS strategy, it’s now time to think about how we can take it, build it and create even more from our research work.

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