Go beyond traditional thinking
We are driven to tackle problems that matter, supporting industry, communities and society, positively evolve today, and into the future.
We integrate expertise from diverse academic disciplines with expertise from professions, policy and lived experiences. Our approach combines creativity, reflexivity, systems thinking and more to evaluate complex challenges and to propose new ways forward. We operate across UTS and regularly collaborate with colleagues across all faculties and institutes.
The Transdisciplinary School (TD School) does research for real-world impact and supports a wide range of organisations in the public and private sectors, both locally and across the world. We recognise that to tackle problems that matter, we must draw on expertise across academic disciplines, non-academic professions and stakeholder groups. We invite you to join us in grappling with these challenges.
Our research themes
Enabling the achievement of the United Nations development goals (SDGs).
Unleashing the transformative potential of learning for individuals, organisations and society.
Technology can transform our lives in so many ways and redefine what it means to be human.
Understanding the social and technical system in which health and wellbeing is managed, including knowing which data and experts to trust.
Humans or animals? Prey or predator? Domestic or wild? Native or introduced? How can we coexist with less conflict and more appreciation of each other’s benefits?
Beyond new products and services, innovation includes new ideas, paradigms and methods that significantly change our productivity and our lives.
Our research centres
The UTS Centre for Compassionate Conservation (CfCC) is dedicated to transforming conservation actions through transdisciplinary methods, by reimagining the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Engaged research on people, productivity, place, and policy relating to entrepreneurial capabilities and innovation.
For many community organisations, staying connected with vulnerable people has been more important than ever during COVID-19. For Mission Australia, working with a transdisciplinary team of UTS students has helped them fast-track innovative approaches to reaching out to people in need of support.
Find out how Piping Hot and a team of BCII students tackled the challenge of sustainability in the fashion industry.
As workplace health and safety standards continue to evolve, the Centre for Work Health and Safety asked Creative Intelligence and Innovation students to consider “What does it mean to be safe at work?”
In 2018 two MDSi students, Vanessa Bhardwaj and Simon (Kin Wah) Mac, undertook an iLab project as part of their Master of Data Science and Innovation program. The iLabs present students with a data set and a set of outcomes or questions to work with an industry partner on.
For many community organisations, staying connected with vulnerable people has been more important than ever during COVID-19. For Mission Australia, working with a transdisciplinary team of UTS students has helped them fast-track innovative approaches to reaching out to people in need of support.
Find out how Piping Hot and a team of BCII students tackled the challenge of sustainability in the fashion industry.
As workplace health and safety standards continue to evolve, the Centre for Work Health and Safety asked Creative Intelligence and Innovation students to consider “What does it mean to be safe at work?”
In 2018 two MDSi students, Vanessa Bhardwaj and Simon (Kin Wah) Mac, undertook an iLab project as part of their Master of Data Science and Innovation program. The iLabs present students with a data set and a set of outcomes or questions to work with an industry partner on.