Our researchers drive research that makes a difference to the world we live in. Our diverse expertise covers a wide range of research areas including future industries, health and sustainability.
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Research news and projects
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Preventing catastrophic sewer failure
In partnership with Sydney Water, UTS researchers have built an innovative remote-controlled robot to traverse the pipes beneath our feet and identify dangerous concrete corrosion.
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Rapid testing for tailored cancer treatment
A 3D tissue preservation system developed by a team from UTS and the Garvan Institute enables more personalised treatments for patients with cancer.
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Regulation of facial recognitionA new report by the UTS Human Technology Institute sets out a model law to address threats to Australians’ privacy and other human rights.
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Testing the waters
How a large UTS-led citizen science project has led to a multi-million-dollar breakthrough for NSW oyster farmers.
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AI to curb chaos of deepfakesArtificial intelligence 'deepfake' detection is set to disrupt the chaos manipulated images and video leave in their wake.
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Four-day working week
The UTS study into flexible working arrangements at Unilever NZ is one of the most comprehensive to date.
Working together for impact
Fang Chen: Because we’re young and vibrant, we probably have less rigid processes or thinking patterns to say we have to follow x, y and z. But we say we solved it by getting it done.
Ramona Vijeyarasa: So we don’t get bogged down in the books and the cases and the journal articles, but we take those ideas off the pages and we try to make sure that those messages have real world impact and bring about social change.
Peter Ralph: We don’t work in silos. At UTS, we’re able to move between different disciplines and find the really exciting gold and exploit that for industry and government’s purposes.
Ramona Vijeyarasa: At UTS when people are open-minded to work outside their own discipline, that’s when collaboration is at its best.
Fang Chen: UTS is focussed very much on industry partnerships because those are the avenues for us to deliver impact to the society.
Peter Ralph: Some of the characteristics of research at UTS is our ability to be agile. We can adapt and change and we work really closely with industry. By working with industry it allows us to actually transform society and have great impact.
