Fostering innovation
Support for our researchers ensures our teams can deliver excellence and impact our regions.
Featured research services
The Research and Innovation Division provides expert advice and support to our researchers, innovators and their partners. This helps ensure our interdisciplinary research teams can deliver the excellence and impact our regions need to thrive.
Grants and funding
We help our researchers identify, apply for and manage their research grants.
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Human research ethics
Research that is conducted with or about people, their data or tissues must receive human ethics approval.
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Animal in Research and Teaching
Any research or teaching activity that involves the use of animals must receive approval from our independent animal ethics committee.
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Research integrity
We help ensure all research carried out at the University of Newcastle complies with university policies, state and federal legislation, and best-practice codes.
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Research performance
We coordinate institutional research reporting and provide insights that can help teams better understand and improve their research performance.
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Research safety
Research activities can come with health and safety risks. We can help you mitigate those risks to support a safe work environment for all.
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Supporting industry engagement
Teams across the Research and Innovation Division can help researchers improve their industry engagement and commercialisation skills and connect them with partners to give them real-world experience solving some of today’s most pressing challenges.
Knowledge Exchange & Entrepreneurship
We can help researchers navigate issues associated with intellectual property, commercialisation, and other services associated with partner engagement.
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Integrated Innovation Network (I2N)
I2N helps researchers make valuable connections, build their entrepreneurial skills and create new businesses.
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Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources
NIER facilitates activities that enable our research community to drive impact and deliver next generation resources to support resilient regions.
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The University of Newcastle Research Associates (TUNRA)
The strength of the TUNRA operating model is our ability to engage directly with industry and government to provide research services that contribute further to the University’s research and innovation objectives.
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