Opportunities to Engage

Fostering links with industry and other organisations is important to Commerce Research. Our researchers work with businesses, government and other universities to provide innovative analysis and solutions that result in a competitive advantage. Collaboration takes three main forms:

1. Partnering academic research
Academics often conduct research in collaboration with external organisations in order to provide complementary expertise and access to sources of information. Typically, the findings of such research will have broad policy, business or community relevance.

2. Consultancy advice
Consultancy services draw upon a staff member’s corpus of knowledge and experience to provide advice relevant to the organisation such as in relation to problem-solving or strategic planning.

3. Contract research
Contract research requires the conduct of new commercially relevant research work related to a staff member’s expertise.

For more information on the University of Wollongong’s external research relationships visit the UOW Commercial Research Unit.

Case Study: people and organisation

The People and Organisation Research Centre (PandO) is undertaking a collaborative research project with funds awarded an ARC Discovery grant of $90,000 over three years. The project, "Generating insights for the future: a retrospective, comparative study of attempts to implement large-scale electronic health record systems" will be conducted by Dr Karin Garrety (UOW), Professor Ian McLoughlin (Monash University), Dr Ping Yu (UOW), Dr Andrew Dalley (Medical Director of the Illawarra Division of General Practice) and Robert Wilson.