Research

The new centre will be used for key research priorities between the new Science and Engineering Faculty, and a new interdisciplinary research institute.

With a theme of sustainable and secure infrastructure, the centre will produce multiple research and graduate outcomes in key areas of national interest such as:

• climate change
• infrastructure
• food, water, and energy security.

Globally relevant challenges will be tackled through multidisciplinary research and skills development.

The centre will house a new research institute that draws on QUT's strengths in the areas of sustainable resources and information security and will enable on-site collaboration with cooperative research centres (CRCs).

More than 1,000 research and teaching staff and 200 postgraduate research students will be housed in the centre.

The centre will also build demand for the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) among potential students, thus positioning QUT—better than any other university—to supply new and re-skilled professionals in areas of national skills shortage.

QUT has already displayed leading-edge examples on how the cross-faculty centre model has the power to transform the way a traditional university works, such as bringing together health, life sciences, and medical engineering disciplines in its Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation to tackle key health challenges—a model which is proving very successful.