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Research & innovation

We’re dedicated to research that makes a difference.

Throughout our 60-year history, UOW has built an international reputation for world-class research and exceptional teaching quality.

We emphasise partnership and collaboration to deliver real-world impact. We demonstrate our commitment to innovation by giving great ideas a genuine business incubator pathway. We welcome opportunities to share our research and partner with our community. We support each other to enhance UOW’s reputation for research excellence and innovation.

We're not resting on our laurels. We are investing in our research and infrastructure to support our academics to produce high quality scholarship of global standard. We are committed to research training that supports up and coming talent to apply knowledge that makes a difference to the world at large. We will continue to strive for excellence.

Welcome to Research and Innovation at UOW.

The UOW Big Ideas Festival

The UOW Big Ideas Festival was held October 16, 2019 The festival showcased the University’s ground-breaking research from our outstanding researchers. The event for the community saw UOW's newest Professors present an 8-10 minute talk on their big research idea - in a language everyone could understand.

Watch the presentations

World class people & places

To confront the challenges of a rapidly changing world, UOW research is focused on supporting the best intellectual and technical talent to force change for good. From next-gen materials engineering in medicine to social transformation over the lifecycle, our research is purposeful and positive.

Research excellence

Innovation / collaboration

UOW researcher Leah Gibbs sits on rocks near water Global Challenges

A strategic research initiative focused on transformative interdisciplinary research that impacts people's lives and changes worlds.

iAccelerate resident company Me3d at work iAccelerate

A business incubator supporting students, staff and the wider community to build an innovative economy for the region's future.

man and woman in industrial steel manufacturing setting Industry and commercial research

Streamlining the industry-research collaboration process and converting university research expertise into commercial success.

partnerships NUW Alliance signing dignitary Partnership and collaboration

Established research partnerships with like-minded institutions to collaborate, share and grow opportunities for researchers and students.

Ross Bradstock, Christine Eriksen and Alan Green, the bushfire research team walk through a smoky scene
Shuai Shuai Sun MR technology researchers looks at the underboady of a vehicle
UOW Ecologist Associate Professor Kerrylee Rogers stands on a bridge overlooking water

Impact and engagement

For over 40 years, UOW has created pathways for research to have beneficial impacts in the broader community. From its very beginning, UOW has encouraged and nurtured engagement with industry, community and government to tackle the most pressing challenges, introduce disruptive technologies and change our world for the better. The Research Impact Strategy White Paper documents our journey and commitment to meaningful research impact and provides a mechanism to deliver our aspirations.

Discover UOW research and engagement activityView the Research Impact Strategy White Paper

The Research Services Office coordinates and oversees research committees, policies and guidelines.


Gender equality in research

UOW also continues to be recognised by the Federal Government as one of the best workplaces in Australia for gender equality, receiving the Employer of Choice Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), and a Athena SWAN Bronze Institution Award from Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE),Watch Vice-Chancellor Professor, Paul Wellings CBE discuss his commitment to gender equality at UOW.

Read about gender equality at UOW


Find an expert

Discover the University of Wollongong's brightest minds. See their achievements, stories of impact, academic collaborations and research papers. Find a person, topic or publication today: world-class research starts with a UOW Scholar.

UOW Scholars
Prof Gordon Wallace and Dr Stephen Beirne from IPRI display 3D printed brain


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