Research Degree Projects

Select from the below research areas to browse over 300 projects that are on offer. Alternatively, you can apply with your own project idea.

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Defence Trailblazer Industry Research Program
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All Health Projects
Adolescence
Affective science
Aging Frailty and Mobility
Animal disease models
Bioinformatics
Biomechanics
Biomedical
Blood cancer predisposition
Cancer biology
Cardiac respiratory and vascular health
Cell biology
Chemistry neuroscience
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Clinical oncology research
Cognitive flexibility
Cognitive psychology
Computational biology
Computational fluid dynamics
Computer science
Critical illness
Dementia
Developmental biology
Early origins of health
Education
Epigenetics
Gene mutation
Gene regulation
Genetics and genetic disorders
Genetics
Genomics
Immunology and infection
Infant child and adolescent health psychology
Innovative therapeutics
Intelligent health
Machine learning
Materials engineering
Mechanical engineering
Medicinal chemistry
Mental Health
Molecular biology
Multi omics
Musculoskeletal health
Nanotechnology
Neurobiology
Neurodegeneration
Neuroscience behaviour and brain health
Nutrition and metabolic health
Occupational health
Oral health
Perinatal and infant mental health
Pharmacogenomics
Pharmacogenomics precision medicine
Photonics and applied physics
Pregnancy and birth
Psychology
Public health
Responsible AI
Signal processing
Stroke
Surgical and health systems innovation
Translational health outcomes
Virtual reality education health
All Business projects
Corporate finance
Entrepreneurship
Finance and accounting
Finance and business analytics
Innovation management
Strategic management
Supply chain management human rights
Supply chain management resilience
Supply chain management sustainability
Tourism
Water economics
All STEM projects
Acoustics
Advanced manufacturing
Advanced materials
Aerodynamics / Boundary layer turbulence
Aerospace engineering
Aging frailty and mobility
Agriculture food and wine
AI for space
Analytical and environmental chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Animal behaviour
Animal disease models
Animal infectious diseases
Antibiotic-resistance
Applied math
Applied physics
Applied sciences
Architecture and built environment
Astrophysics
Bacterial genetics
Biochemistry
Biodiversity and pest control benefits
Biofluid
Bioinformatics
Biological chemistry
Biomaterials
Biomechanics
Biomedical
Blood cancer predisposition
Boundary layer
Cancer biology and clinical oncology research
Cancer biology and gene regulation
Carbon storage
Chemical engineering
Chemical physics
Chemistry
Civil engineering
Civil environmental and mining engineering
Climate change
Cognitive psychology
Computational astrophysics
Computational biology
Computational fluid dynamics
Computer science
Conservation biology (marine)
Conservation genetics / eDNA
Construction management
Critical minerals
Cyber security
Data analytics
Data science
Dementia
Early gastrointestinal tract cancer detection and treatment
Earth sciences
Education and science
Electrical and electronic engineering
Electronic vehicle
Energy and energy resources
Engineering
Entomology
Environment
Environmental management
Environmental remediation
Evolutionary biology
Experimental particle physics
Fish ecology
Fluid flows
Freshwater ecology
Genetics and genetic disorders
Gene mutation
Genomics
Geochemistry
Geology
Gravitational waves (physics)
Human-AI interaction
Immunology and infection
Infectious disease
Innovative therapeutics
Inorganic chemistry
Intelligent health
Land management, restoration, pastoral management
Machine learning
Machine learning and robotic vision
Marine ecology
Materials chemistry
Mathematical modelling
Mathematical sciences
Mathematics
Mechanical engineering
Medical machine learning
Medical microbiology
Medicinal chemistry
Microbiology
Mining engineering
Molecular biology
Multi omics
Music technology and performing arts
Nanophotonics
Neurobiology
Neuroscience behaviour and brain health
Optics lasers and photonics
Oral health
Palaeoecology and ancient DNA
Pathogenesis
Pharmacogenomics
Photonics and applied physics
Physical chemistry
Physical chemistry and food
Physics
Physical geography
Plant biochemistry
Plant protection
Plant science
Plant synthetic biology
Precision agriculture
Pregnancy and birth
Protein structure
Psychiatry
Psychology
Pure mathematics
Quantum engineering
Quantum field theory
Quantum physics
Rabbit control
Renewable energy
Reservoir and hydrology
Responsible AI
Satellite system
Semiconductors
Signal processing
Socio-ecology
Stroke
Structural biology
Sustainability
Sustainable futures
Synthetic biology
Systems engineering
Theoretical chemistry
Transcriptomics
Turbulence
Veterinary public health and veterinary science
Veterinary sciences
Virtual reality
Virology
Virulence, reproductive impacts, vectors, transmission, natural host, spatial variants
Viticulture
Wind engineering
Wine chemistry
All People and Society projects
Agriculture food and wine
Applied animal behaviour, animal welfare
Architecture and built environment
Computer science
Corporate law
Education
Environmental economics
Equality laws and law reform
Global food and resources
International relations
Media, cultural studies, humanities
Migration
Music
Music technology and performing arts
Political sociology
Terrorism
Virtual reality
Philosophy (phenomenology) Education
Social anthropology, medical anthropology, gender studies, public health and ethnography
All Adelaide-Nottingham Alliance projects
All health projects
Architecture and built environment
Cell communication in yeast
Chemical engineering, advanced materials industrial chemistry
Crop salinity
Global food systems
Intelligent health
Lactic acid bacteria biotechnology
Medical biochemistry
Molecular biology
Non-yeast fermentation
Omics and sensory science
Orchard soild and almond production
Plant architecture to mitigate climate change
Plant roots and the search for water
Population modelling
Public health
Signalling compounds in plant growth
Sustainable futures
Yeast biotechnology and biofilms

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