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Research at Western Sydney University
Western Sydney University is a research institution driven by impact.
We believe that excellent research and practical outcomes are essential parts of our overarching research mission. Our research has real impact upon the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of our regional, national and international communities.
The University invites outstanding graduate researchers, innovative new generation researchers and established researchers to consider joining or collaborating with us.
Research Concentrations
Within the University there are disciplines and specialisations but outside the University there are real challenges that cross over these distinctions. Research at Western Sydney University is organised into four multidisciplinary research themes. Our research themes speak to the history and culture of the University and its communities, providing a shared vision for their future.
- Education and Aspirational Change (opens in new window)
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- Health and Wellbeing (opens in new window)
- Urban Living and Society (opens in new window)
- Biological Sciences (124)
- Pure Basic Research (116)
- Environmental Sciences (113)
- Plant Biology (103)
- Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences (101)
- Forestry Sciences (99)
- Environmental Science And Management (93)
- Tree Nutrition And Physiology (91)
- Precipitation (88)
- Rainout Shelter (87)
- Drought Tolerance - Trees (48)
- Air Temperature (46)
- Temperature (45)
- Humidity (43)
- Drought (31)
- Psychology And Cognitive Sciences (29)
- Language, Communication And Culture (23)
- Medical And Health Sciences (23)
- Psychology (21)
- Ecological Applications (18)
- Studies In Human Society (18)
- Cognitive Science (17)
- Cultural Understanding (13)
- Linguistics (13)
- Studies In Creative Arts And Writing (13)
- Applied Research (12)
- Historical Studies (11)
- History And Archaeology (11)
- Performing Arts And Creative Writing (11)
- Ecology (10)
- Education (10)
- Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change (10)
- Microbiology (9)
- Photosynthesis (9)
- Australian History (excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History) (8)
- Expanding Knowledge (8)
- Specialist Studies In Education (8)
- Cultural Studies (7)
- Curriculum And Pedagogy (7)
- Education And Training (7)
- Human Geography (7)
- Public Health And Health Services (7)
- Understanding Past Societies (7)
- Built Environment And Design (6)
- Chemical Sciences (6)
- Environment (6)
- Evolutionary Biology (6)
- Film, Television And Digital Media (6)
- Learner And Learning (6)
- Pedagogy (6)
- Plant Physiology (6)
- Urban And Regional Planning (6)
- Understanding Australia's Past (6)
- Drought Tolerance - Trees (6)
- Co2 (5)
- Curatorial And Related Studies (5)
- Expanding Knowledge In Psychology And Cognitive Sciences (5)
- Language Acquisition (5)
- Microbial Ecology (5)
- Paediatrics And Reproductive Medicine (5)
- Sociology (5)
- Soil Sciences (5)
- Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance (5)
- Teaching And Instruction (5)
- Analytical Chemistry (4)
- Australia (4)
- Developmental Psychology And Ageing (4)
- Health (4)
- Historical Studies (4)
- Learner Development (4)
- Learner And Learning Processes (4)
- Neurosciences (4)
- Political Science (4)
- Speech Perception (4)
- Tone (phonetics) (4)
- University Of Western Sydney. Archives (4)
- 607 (3)
- Aboriginal Australians (3)
- Archival, Repository And Related Studies (3)
- Biogeography And Phylogeography (3)
- Clinical Sciences (3)
- Complementary And Alternative Medicine (3)
- Climate Change (3)
- Elevated Co2 (3)
- Human Movement And Sports Science (3)
- Hawkesbury Forest Experiment (3)
- Heatwaves (3)
- Mathematical Sciences (3)
- Music Composition (3)
- Other Chemical Sciences (3)
- Philosophy And Religious Studies (3)
- Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural) (3)
- Poverty (3)
- Religion And Religious Traditions (3)
- School Improvement Programs (3)
- Schools (3)
- Speech (3)
- Strategic Basic Research (3)
- Student Engagement (3)
- Teacher Effectiveness (3)
- Whole Tree Chambers (3)
- Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle And Plasma Physics (2)
- Air Temperature (2)
- Biochemistry And Cell Biology (2)
- Bioinformatics (2)
- Biological Psychology (neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) (2)
- Blacktown (2)
- Collaboration (2)
- Communities (2)
- Community Ecology (2)
- Community Engagement (2)
- Drought Tolerance - Trees (2)
- Education Systems (2)
- Eeg (2)
- Ecological Physiology (2)
- Ecosystem Function (2)
- Environmental Science And Management, Ecological Applications, Plant Biology, Forestry Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences (2)
- Environmental Monitoring (2)
- Eucalyptus (2)
- Eucalyptus Forest (2)
- Eucalyptus Saligna (2)
- Eucalyptus Tereticornis (2)
- Flora, Fauna And Biodiversity (2)
- Film Archives (2)
- Global Change Biology (2)
- Green Infrastructure (2)
- Growth (2)
- Heritage (2)
- Hawkesbury Agricultural College (2)
- Information And Computing Sciences (2)
- Illumina (2)
- Kolkata (india) (2)
- Land And Water Management (2)
- Literary Studies (2)
- Land-owners--south Creek Valley (nsw)--history (2)
- Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production And Comprehension) (2)
- Management (2)
- Microclimate (2)
- Multisited Research (2)
- Ngs (2)
- Nursing (2)
- Natural Resource Management (2)
- Other Biological Sciences (2)
- Other Studies In Human Society (2)
- Physical Sciences (2)
- Policy And Administration (2)
- Pure Mathematics (2)
- Penrith (2)
- Phosphorus (2)
- Phylogeny And Comparative Analysis (2)
- Physical Activity (2)
- Population Ecology (2)
- Regionalism (2)
- Religion And Society (2)
- Resilience (2)
- Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health) (2)
- Shanghai (china) (2)
- Social Sciences (2)
- Studies Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Society (2)
- Sydney (2)
- Sydney (n.s.w.) (2)
- Teachers (2)
- Transnationalism (2)
- Trees (2)
- Urban Policy (2)
- Urban And Industrial Water Management (2)
- Urban Cooling (2)
- Urban Planning (2)
- Video Recordings (2)
- Water Conservation (2)
- Water Consumption (2)
- Water Reuse (2)
- Water Supply (2)
- Western Sydney (2)
- Wolbachia (2)
- Zoology (2)
- Attention (2)
- Co-evolution (2)
- Community Formation (2)
- Endosymbiont (2)
- Homotomid (2)
- Music (2)
- Oral History (2)
- Phylogeny (2)
- Phylogeography (2)
- Psyllid (2)
- Pure (2)
- Suburbanisation (2)
- Women (2)
- Asia (1)
- Creative Labour (1)
- Drought Tolerance - Trees (1)
- 501 (1)
- 502 (1)
- 602 (1)
- 605 (1)
- 705 (1)
- Aerospace Transport (1)
- Amf Communities (1)
- Applied Mathematics (1)
- Atmosphere And Weather (1)
- Atmospheric Sciences (1)
- Acclimation (1)
- Acupuncture (1)
- Adaptation (1)
- Aged Care Nursing (1)
- Aged Care Nursing (1)
- Agricultural Implements (1)
- Airports (1)
- Alternative Medicine (1)
- Analytical Spectrometry (1)
- Angus & Robertson (1)
- Annotation (1)
- Anti-racism (1)
- Antiquities (1)
- Aranda (australian People) (1)
- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (1)
- Architecture (1)
- Argumentation (1)
- Arthropod (1)
- Asia (1)
- Atmospheric Co2 (1)
- Audiovisual Speech Perception (1)
- Auditory Event-related Potentials (erps) (1)
- Auditory Looming (1)
- Australia - History (1)
- Australia - Politics And Government (1)
- Australian English (1)
- Australian Government And Politics (1)
- Australian History (excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History) For: 210303 (1)
- Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Literature) (1)
- Australian Social History (1)
- Australian Species (1)
- Autotrophic Respiration (1)
- Business And Management (1)
- Bacteria (1)
- Bacterial Genetics (1)
- Bacteriology (1)
- Bayesian Decoding (1)
- Bilingualism (1)
- Biochemical Composition (1)
- Biodiversity (1)
- Biogeography (1)
- Bioinformatics Software (1)
- Buildings (1)
- Business Education (1)
- C Storage (1)
- C02 (1)
- C3 Plants (1)
- C4 Plants (1)
- Climate And Climate Change (1)
- Clinical Health (organs, Diseases And Abnormal Conditions) (1)
- Co2 Treatment (1)
- Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services (1)
- Commercial Services And Tourism (1)
- Communication (1)
- Communication And Media Studies (1)
- Computer Software (1)
- Curriculum (1)
- Cardinium (1)
- Carsonella (1)
- Catalogues (1)
- Child Health (1)
- Children's Book Publishing (1)
- China (1)
- Chinese (1)
- City Planning (1)
- Climate Change (1)
- Climate Predictability (1)
- Cognitive Science Not Elsewhere Classified (1)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (1)
- Combinatorics And Discrete Mathematics (excl. Physical Combinatorics) (1)
- Communicative Development Inventory (1)
- Community Analysis (1)
- Community Analysis (1)
- Conductance (1)
- Conserving Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Heritage (1)
- Contact Lenses (1)
- Container Volume (1)
- Creative Labour (1)
- Cultural Studies (1)
- Cultural Studies Not Elsewhere Classified (1)
- Cultural Understanding Not Elsewhere Classified (1)
- Cultural Research (1)
- Cultural Studies (1)
- Cynodon Dactylon (1)
- Cytoplasmic Incompatibility (1)
- Dance (1)
- Dance, Ageing, Cognition, Economics (1)
- Day Respiration (1)
- Designs And Plans (1)
- Dieback (1)
- Diffusion (1)
- Dissolved Organic Matter (1)
- Documentary Films (1)
- Drought Tolerance - Trees (1)
- Dry Eye Syndromes (1)
- Dynamics Affect (1)
- Earth Sciences (1)
- Ecosystem Assessment And Management (1)
- Engineering (1)
- Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences (1)
- Ecological Applications, Plant Biology, Forestry Sciences (1)
- Ecology (1)
- Economics, Business And Management Curriculum And Pedagogy (1)
- Ecosystem Assessment And Management Of Marine Environments (1)
- Eddy Covariance Flux (1)
- Education (1)
- Electroacoustic Music (1)
- Electronic Literature (1)
- Electronic Media Art (1)
- Embryonic Mortality (1)
- Employability (1)
- Endophytes (1)
- Endosymbiont (1)
- Endosymbiotic Bacteria (1)
- English (1)
- Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry) (1)
- Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry), Analytical Spectrometry (1)
- Ethnicity (1)
- Ethnology (1)
- Eucface (1)
- Eucalypt (1)
- Eucalyptus Globulus (1)
- Evolution (1)
- Expanding Knowledge In The Biological Sciences (1)
- Expanding Knowledge In The Chemical Sciences (1)
- Expanding Knowledge In The Mathematical Sciences (1)
- Eye Drops (1)
- Face (1)
- Food Sciences (1)
- Fecundity (1)
- Fertilisation (1)
- Forensic Chemistry (1)
- Forest C Cycle (1)
- Government Policy (1)
- Graduate Students (1)
- H2o (1)
- Horticultural Production (1)
- Human Pharmaceutical Products (1)
- Habitus (1)
- Haplodiploid (1)
- Health Protection And/or Disaster Response (1)
- Health And Hygiene (1)
- Heathrow Airport (london, England) (1)
- Herbivory (1)
- Heritage And Cultural Conservation (1)
- Heritage Not Elsewhere Classified (1)
- Home Ownership (1)
- Home-school Congruence (1)
- Hong Kong International Airport (1)
- Host-parasite Interactions (1)
- Housing (1)
- Human Pharmaceutical Treatments (e.g. Antibiotics) (1)
- Human-robot Interaction (1)
- Humidity; (1)
- Hydrodynamic Radius (1)
- Hydrological Balance (1)
- Information And Communication Services (1)
- Information Services (1)
- Immigrants (1)
- Indexical Vs. Linguistic Information (1)
- Infant Speech Processing (1)
- Infant-directed Speech (1)
- Infertility (1)
- Information Literacy (1)
- Instrumental Methods (excl. Immunological And Bioassay Methods) (1)
- Internet (1)
- Interpersonal Coordination (1)
- Invasive Plant (1)
- Islamic Studies (1)
- Jmax (1)
- Joint Action (1)
- Kingsford-smith Airport (sydney, N.s.w.) (1)
- Language Studies (1)
- Law (1)
- Law And Legal Studies (1)
- Lc-ms/ms Data (1)
- Library And Information Studies (1)
- Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science (1)
- Lacrimal Apparatus (1)
- Land Grants--south Creek Valley (nsw) (1)
- Land Tenure (1)
- Land Trusts (1)
- Land Use (1)
- Land Use--south Creek Valley (nsw)--history (1)
- Language In Culture And Society (sociolinguistics) (1)
- Languages And Literacy (1)
- Leaf Area Index (1)
- Leaf Respiration (1)
- Learner And Learning Achievement (1)
- Learning Sciences (1)
- Leaves (1)
- Librarianship (1)
- Libraries (1)
- Library And Archival Services (1)
- Linguistics Not Elsewhere Classified (1)
- Litter Production (1)
- Local Adaptation (1)
- Manufacturing (1)
- Medical Microbiology (1)
- Male Development (1)
- Manipulation Of Temperature (1)
- Maps (1)
- Maternal Transmission (1)
- Mathematical Models (1)
- Medical And Health Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified (1)
- Melodies (1)
- Mesopyll Conductance (1)
- Metacommunity (1)
- Meteorological (1)
- Meteorological Data (1)
- Microbial Genomics (1)
- Microbiome (1)
- Microlaena Stipoides (1)
- Microtonality (1)
- Modified Climate (1)
- Mother And Infant Communication (1)
- Multiculturalism (1)
- Multiple Ectomycorrhizal Fungi (1)
- Museum Studies (1)
- Music Box (1)
- Music Perception (1)
- Music Composition (1)
- Music Mixing (1)
- Music Perception (1)
- Mycology (1)
- Npp (1)
- Natural Resource Management, In Human Society Not Elsewhere Classified, Urban Policy (1)
- Net Primary Productivity (1)
- Neurocognitive Patterns And Neural Networks (1)
- Nitrogen (1)
- Normalization (1)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1)
- Nutrient Exchange (1)
- Optometry And Ophthalmology (1)
- Other Cultural Understanding (1)
- Other Health (1)
- Other Medical And Health Sciences (1)
- Other Studies In Creative Arts And Writing (1)
- Obstetrics And Gynaecology (1)
- Pgste-watergate Method (1)
- Pharmacology And Pharmaceutical Sciences (1)
- Physical And Chemical Conditions Of Water (1)
- Property, Business Support Services And Trade (1)
- Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) (1)
- Palliative Care (1)
- Parkinsonia Aculeata (1)
- Peripheral Nervous System (1)
- Pezothrips (1)
- Phenology (1)
- Physical And Chemical Conditions Of Water In Marine Environments (1)
- Physical Assay (1)
- Pipeline (1)
- Planning (1)
- Plant Biology Not Elsewhere Classified (1)
- Plant Traits (1)
- Plant Water Relations (1)
- Plant-insect Interaction (1)
- Polymers (1)
- Post-natal Depression (1)
- Pre-ocular Tear Film (1)
- Precipitation (meteorology) (1)
- Preventive Medicine (1)
- Primary Education (1)
- Project-based Learning (1)
- Prosthetics (1)
- Protozoan Parasites (1)
- Psychological Aspects (1)
- Psyllid (1)
- Quantitative Pcr (1)
- Questionnaires (tools, Instrument) (1)
- Religion And Ethics (1)
- Rnaseq (1)
- Race And Ethnic Relations (1)
- Race And Ethnic Relations, Social And Cultural Geography (1)
- Race Awareness (1)
- Race Discrimination (1)
- Race Relations (1)
- Racism (1)
- Radiation (1)
- Rain (1)
- Rainfall (1)
- Reproductive System And Disorders (1)
- Research (1)
- Root Traits (1)
- Saccharum Spp. (1)
- Secondary Education (1)
- Self-efficacy (1)
- Sensorimotor Synchronisation (1)
- Separation Science (1)
- Shade (1)
- Social And Cultural Geography (1)
- Social Interaction (1)
- Sociology Not Elsewhere Classified (1)
- Soil Biology (1)
- Soil Moisture (1)
- Soil Nutrients (1)
- South Creek Valley (nsw)--history--sources (1)
- Speech (1)
- Spotify Playlists (1)
- Statistical Acoustics (1)
- Stimuli (1)
- Stomata (1)
- Stomatal Conductance (1)
- Strehlow, T. G. H. (theodor George Henry), 1908-1978 (1)
- Study And Teaching (1)
- Sufism (1)
- Sunflecks (1)
- Syllabus And Curriculum Development (1)
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- Tactile Afferents (1)
- Taxonomy (1)
- Teacher (1)
- Tear Film (1)
- Tears (1)
- Temperature Manipulation (1)
- Text-based Art (1)
- Timbre (1)
- Traditional Chinese Medicine And Treatments (1)
- Treatment (1)
- Tree Improvement (selection And Breeding) (1)
- Tree Biomass (1)
- Understanding Africa's Past (1)
- Understorey Community (1)
- Universities And Colleges (1)
- Unlabelled Lattice (1)
- Urban Policy (1)
- Veterinary Sciences (1)
- Vcmax (1)
- Water (1)
- Whitlam Institute (1)
- Whitlam, Gough, 1916- (1)
- Whole Tree Chamber (1)
- Whole Tree Chamber (1)
- Wind Speed (1)
- Women (1)
- Women's Health (1)
- Workplace Information Skills (1)
- Adaptation (1)
- Asphaltene Profiling (1)
- Assessment (1)
- Auditory Steady-state Responses (1)
- Awareness (1)
- Children (1)
- Communication (1)
- Communities (1)
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- Composers (1)
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- Consumer Culture (1)
- Contralateral Activation (1)
- Counselling (1)
- Eyeblink Conditioning (1)
- Frequency Tagging (1)
- Host Adaptation (1)
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- Human Communication Data (1)
- Infants (1)
- Internet (1)
- Ipsilateral Activation (1)
- Joint Action (1)
- Language Development (1)
- Learning (1)
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- Medical Students (1)
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- Music Production (1)
- Neurologic Music Therapy (1)
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- Occupational Therapy (1)
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- Radio (1)
- Secularisation (1)
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- Spoken Australian Language (1)
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- Two-dimensional Electrophoresis (1)
- Universals (1)
- Vapour Pressure Deficit (vpd) (1)
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