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Research areas

Our research covers the spectrum – from linguistics to nanoscience

Our breadth of expertise across our faculties and schools is supported by deep disciplinary knowledge. We have significant capability in more than 20 major areas of research.

Major research areas

  • Agriculture, land and farm management
  • Animal production
  • Horticultural production
  • Veterinary sciences

Find out more: Agriculture | Veterinary Science

  • Evolutionary biology
  • Physiology
  • Zoology
  • Plant biology
  • Ecology
  • Microbiology
  • Genetics
  • Biochemistry and cell biology

Find out more: Science | Sydney Medical School

  • Architecture
  • Building, design practice and management
  • Urban and regional planning

Find out more: Architecture, Design and Planning

  • Analytical chemistry
  • Organic and inorganic chemistry
  • Macromolecular and materials chemistry
  • Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry
  • Physical chemistry (incl structural)
  • Theoretical and computational chemistry

Find out more: Science

  • Accounting, governance and regulation research
  • Business analytics
  • Business information systems
  • Employability and work-integrated learning research
  • Finance
  • International business
  • Marketing
  • Strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship research
  • Transport, supply chain management and global logistics research
  • Work and organisational studies research

Find out more: Business

  • Art theory and criticism
  • Film, television and digital media
  • Performing arts and creative writing
  • Visual arts and crafts

Find out more: Arts and Social Sciences | Sydney Conservatorium of Music | Sydney College of the Arts

  • Geochemistry
  • Geology
  • Geophysics
  • Physical geography and environmental geoscience

Find out more: Science

  • Economic theory
  • Applied economics
  • Econometrics

Find out more: Arts and Social Sciences

  • Education systems

Find out more: Education and Social Work

  • Aerospace engineering
  • Autonomous systems and robotics
  • Biomedical engineering
  • Civil engineering
  • Chemical engineering
  • Digital sciences
  • Electrical and electronic engineering
  • Manufacturing engineering
  • Materials engineering
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Mechatronic engineering
  • Net zero

Find out more: Engineering

  • Environmental science and management
  • Soil sciences

Find out more: Agriculture | Science

  • Archaeology
  • History

Find out more: Arts and Social Sciences

  • Anthropology
  • Criminology
  • Demography and human geography
  • Policy and administration
  • Political science
  • Social work
  • Sociology

Find out more: Arts and Social Sciences | Business | Education and Social Work

  • Computational theory and mathematics
  • Distributed computing
  • Library and information studies
  • Information systems
  • Artificial intelligence and image processing

Find out more: Engineering | Science

  • Journalism, communication and media studies
  • Cultural studies
  • Language studies
  • Linguistics
  • Literary studies

Find out more: Arts and Social Sciences

  • Law

Find out more: Law

  • Pure mathematics
  • Applied mathematics
  • Numerical and computational mathematics
  • Statistics
  • Mathematical physics

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  • Medical biochemistry and metabolomics
  • Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
  • Clinical sciences
  • Complementary and alternative medicine
  • Dentistry
  • Human movement and sports science
  • Immunology
  • Medical microbiology
  • Neurosciences
  • Nursing
  • Nutrition and dietetics
  • Oncology and carcinogenesis
  • Ophthalmic science and ophthalmology
  • Paediatrics and reproductive medicine
  • Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
  • Medical physiology
  • Public health and health services

Find out more: DentistryHealth Sciences, Medical SciencesMedicineNursing, Pharmacy, Public Health

  • Applied ethics
  • Philosophy
  • Religion and religious traditions

Find out more: Arts and Social Sciences

  • Astronomical and space sciences
  • Atomic, molecular and plasma physics
  • Biological, biomedical and medical physics
  • Condensed matter physics
  • Nanoscience
  • Particle physics
  • Photonics and optical science
  • Physics
  • Quantum physics and quantum information
  • Sustainability

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  • Psychology
  • Cognitive science

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  • Nanotechnology
  • Communications technologies

Find out more: Engineering | Science