Eight characteristics of research at UTS

Professor Kate McGrath: Our new research strategy will see that our research is characterised by eight separate things. We have a range of things that we really want to be known for as a university, starting, of course, with excellence. We want to ensure that everything that we do is from a foundation of driving excellence – our people, our systems – and what this allows us to do is be more aspirational and more inspirational about what we can actually achieve from our research.

We also recognise well, hey, we are the University of Technology Sydney, so we want to be leaders in the creation, the use, the leadership of what it is to actually use technology in today’s practice, and how do you do that in a really responsible way?

These are really the two most critical things for us: excellence and that fundamental context of technology. But we have many others as well: We’re creative. We want to ensure that we’re connected to our creative and professional practice people. We also know that it’s really important that we think about our focus and distinction. We can’t be everything for everyone.

So, we’re also exploring, how do we define what we’re really good at? What makes us distinct, what makes us different, what makes industry, governments, communities want to come and work for us because they know that in these particular areas, they’ll be able to tap into us in an agile, responsive way and start creating solutions?

So, we have eight different characteristics. Explore them at your leisure and you’ll see exactly what it is we’re going to have as a research university.