World-leading research; world-changing impact
By connecting our ideas and expertise across all faculties, Macquarie’s researchers continue to lead or contribute to world-leading research with world changing impact.
Research Strategy 2035 builds on the achievements of the Strategic Research Framework: 2015–2024, providing a clear and enduring strategic direction designed to reaffirm Macquarie’s position as a beacon of innovation and excellence on the global stage. By embracing our responsibility to enrich society through rigorous research and the application of that research for the betterment of our world, Macquarie’s researchers will continue to achieve world-leading research with world changing impact.
Research objectives
We research aims to:
Future-shaping research priorities
Our future-shaping research priorities have been identified as crossdisciplinary areas in which we either have, or wish to build, research excellence and scale.
The broad and inclusive future-shaping research priorities offer scope for faculties and individual researchers to continue to pursue their areas of expertise, but in the context of opportunities to contribute to areas aligned with national and global challenges of significance.
The University’s commitment to these research priorities is a commitment to impact, to making a difference and to measuring that effect. Macquarie will support and grow the areas articulated in our research themes and streams while maintaining an agile and opportunistic approach to new areas of growth potential.
We are pioneering health, integrated healthcare and lifelong learning for wellness in our ageing world. We focus on:
- pedagogies for health and lifelong learning
- health and resilience
- translational health and medical research
- sensory and cognitive processing
- hearing, language and literacy.
We aim to understand cultures in our changing world and build ethical, just and inclusive communities. We undertake research into:
- societal transformation
- culture and communication
- ethics, governance and justice
- transformational education experiences
- Indigenous knowledge, contemporary challenges and opportunities.
We are strengthening economic productivity to promote prosperity in our diverse world. We're researching:
- role, operation and risks in global financial and economic systems
- organisation sustainability, productivity and competitiveness.
We are sustaining our interdependent world and exploring our place in the universe. This involves:
- nature and the environment
- exploring planet earth and beyond
We're advancing our interconnected world with frontier technologies, systems, designs and creative practice. This involves research into:
- science and engineering technologies for the 21st century
- big data.