About Research @ Curtin
The Office of Research and Development at Curtin coordinates research activity across Faculties, developing quality research while promoting Curtin's research culture.
Curtin has an overarching research objective of solving real world problems and has strong strategic partnerships with industry and government. It is essential that the University has the ability to support these relationships with key research partners in line with our five areas of expertise and to manage and take commercial advantage of the intellectual property generated.
Curtin staff and students have an excellent track record in conducting advanced, industry-relevant research. This research often results in a product or solution that offers real commercial potential and provides significant benefits to the community. The primary objective of the Office of IP Commercialisation is to transfer these novel technologies out into the marketplace, and ensure that Curtin secures attractive returns from the commercialisation of its valuable research outcomes and intellectual property.
Masters and doctoral students at Curtin play a key role in pure and applied research and are major partners in research projects across the University. Higher degree by research students are our future research leaders and are encouraged to publish in major journals and attend conferences as part of their research training.
Curtin has developed a reputation of being a strong partner with industry in solving the research needs of industry. Curtin's approach is to promote a dual strategy of pursuing Australian Competitive Grants (ACG) while at the same time aggressively targeting industry driven research. For further information , view a copy of the Research Management Plan. In addition, details on funded projects with the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council can be found on their respective websites.
