INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE RESEARCH
The Faculty of Science is internationally renowned for its record of innovative research achievements, dynamism and high productivity. Individual researchers continue to receive national competitive research grants and maintain strong linkages with other research organizations around the world. Faculty staff have an enviable reputation of publishing in the most prestigious international journals and many staff have published sole-authored monographs.
 Research within the Faculty is concentrated within a number of research units, aligned to the main academic teaching units. The research units receive seeding funds from the University Research Committee. Research units are designed to encourage collaborative research and maintain a strong research ethos at the forefront scientific problem solving.
Research units within the Faculty include the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, Institute for Conservation Biology, Centre for Medical Biosience , Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, Centre for Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology and GeoQUest. In addition, researchers within the Faculty also participate in other research units across faculties.
The Faculty is well equipped, with dedicated research laboratories and instruments for a diverse range of analytical methods within the biological, chemical and Earth and environmental sciences. In addition, the Faculty provides ready access to computing facilities and four-wheel drive vehicles for fieldwork. The University Library caters particularly well for research needs in science.
Further general information about research within the Faculty may be obtained from the Research and Innovation Division and the Dean of Science.
See also the research pages in the respective academic units:
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