What Are the University's Areas of Research Strength?

The University of Adelaide is a research intensive University and a member of the prestigious 'Group of Eight', which is comprised of Australia's leading universities.

Adelaide has a fine tradition of exemplary scholarship and ground breaking research and is at the leading edge of knowledge, with research earnings consistently the highest per capita of any university in Australia. Adelaide is one of the top universities in Australia in terms of research output, research funding and quality of postgraduate research experience.

Adelaide is recognised internationally for its research strengths in an array of areas including:

• Agriculture (especially plant science and genomics, food security, oenology and viticulture, and soil and land systems)
• The Environment (especially climate change and adaptation, evolutionary biology and biodiversity, monitoring, restoration and recovery, natural resource management and water quality, and engineering)
• Health and Biomedical Sciences (especially cancer, childhood development, infectious diseases, molecular genetics, neuroscience and cognition, nutrition, oral health, population health and primary care, and reproductive health)
• Social Innovation (especially gender, politics and social inclusion, philosophy and ethics, and population and migration studies)
• Mineral and Energy Resources (especially energy technologies, fluids and combustion, mining and petroleum engineering, and tectonics and resource exploration)
• Sensing and Computation (especially acoustics & vibration, computer vision and signal processing, modelling and optimisation, and phototonics and applied optics). In addition the University has outstanding research teams spread across a wide range of disciplines.