Our research focus

Alongside a distinctive track record for high-quality research from all our departments — including management, economics, finance, accounting and marketing — we also have a strong record of impact and engagement, including many successful collaborations with non-academic partners from industry and government. Specifically, we collaborate with industry-based business experts to provide evidence-based research insights as solutions to a wide range of business challenges and problems.

UTS Business’s impactful research capabilities include market assessment, business model innovation, design-led innovation, supply chain management, behavioural and experimental economics, applied econometrics, market design, health economics, choice modelling and public policy analysis.

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Research centres

Centre for Business Intelligence and Data Analysis

The Centre for Business Intelligence and Data Analysis (BIDA) aligns with the UTS Business School research focus on business analytics.

Researchers in BIDA are working to improve business systems and practice by harnessing the growing power of data analytics.

Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience

The Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience (CCRR) is dedicated to helping businesses address the physical and transition risks brought on by climate change.

CCRR’s goal is to be recognised for global research impact; safeguarding the ecosystems and local communities in which businesses operate while developing new strategies for value creation and sustainability.

CCRR is uniquely positioned to support businesses in taking urgent and immediate collaborative action to decarbonise the economy and regenerate Country and planetary health. The Centre contributes to the School’s efforts to close the gap between knowledge and action by providing evidence-based research, education and advice to policymakers, business, and community leaders.

Centre for Indigenous People and Work

The Centre for Indigenous People and Work (CIPW) is a self-determined, joint initiative of the UTS Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research and the UTS Business School that aims to address systemic inequities experienced by Indigenous Australians in the labour and employment markets, including racism, underemployment, and exclusion from leadership positions.

The Centre seeks to reclaim the Indigenous employment narrative through rigorous, industry-based Indigenous-led research, consulting, and partnerships with other stakeholders in the employment community, focusing on policy formulation, law reform and workplace-based solutions.

Centre for Sport, Business and Society

The Centre for Sport, Business and Society (CSBS) delivers social, economic, cultural and educational benefits to the sports industry, government and individual sporting organisations through consulting, education, applied research, research translation and thought leadership outputs.

CSBS is hosted by the renowned UTS Business School and the Institute for Public Policy and Governance at UTS.

Change for Good @ UTS

Change for Good @ UTS addresses complex health and social problems through transdisciplinary behaviour and social change research.

We design and implement real world solutions that are based on scientific evidence, behaviour and social change principles, social justice values, and critical methods.

Research lab

UTS Behavioural Lab

UTS Behavioural Lab offers state-of-the-art equipment and technologies to support researchers to test theoretical models and to provide practitioners with policy recommendations that have been thoroughly tested in controlled experiments.

Research initiatives

Domestic and Family Violence Impacts

Across the globe, domestic violence affects one in three women in their lifetime. Led by Professor Anne Summers, our research focuses on understanding the broad social and economic impacts of domestic and family violence in Australia.

UTS Ageing Research Collaborative

The UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC) is led by UTS academics from multiple faculties working in collaboration with researchers from other universities, aged-care providers, health services and government agencies with the aim of identifying evidence-based solutions to the issues facing ageing and aged care.

UTS Disability Research Network

Driven by people with lived experience, disability research can enable evidence-based change that improves and benefits society. The UTS Disability Research Network crosses boundaries, combining expertise from business, education, design, health, law, science, technology and data innovation fields.

Research in departments

Accounting

Accounting is focused on meeting the needs of modern businesses, both through the need for highly trained graduates ready for the professional environment and undertaking research that aims to improve the efficiency of Australian businesses and financial markets.

Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the choices that individuals, businesses, and governments make as they cope with scarcity and the incentives that influence those choices.

Finance

Finance main areas of research are quantitative finance, corporate finance, corporate governance and superannuation.

Management

Management is where quality and innovative teaching combine with relevant, recognised research to develop rewarding careers.

Marketing

Marketing helps organisations build market efficiency, improve sales and enhance marketing management decision-making.

Research with impact

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Contact us

Email: Business Research Office