Priority impact areas where your philanthropic investment can expedite the next research breakthroughs include:
Innovative Planet
Your support can drive innovative socio-technical approaches to addressing the challenges facing our world’s fast-growing cities, such as climate change, altered energy, food or water security, issues of mobility and health, ageing population, and disruptions to the nature of work and home.
MedTech and Health Innovation
Your investment can help to create a healthy and inclusive future. Swinburne is focused on real-world health challenges, harnessing our deep expertise in mental health, neuroscience, ageing, bioengineering, medical and assistive technology, data science, digital technologies, design, and social science.
Space and Aerospace (inc. Earth Observation)
Your philanthropic support can provide innovative solutions for communities and industry, deploying our world-class capabilities in astrophysics, astronomy, aerospace, aviation, advanced manufacturing and artificial intelligence. Help uncover new insights for environmental and resource management and via Aerospace, to design and deliver cutting-edge, environmentally-efficient modern air vehicles.
Innovative Society
With your help, Swinburne can leverage the potential of technology to strive for greater social equity. Swinburne is creating a community of social innovators, working at the intersection of social issues and technology. This encompasses industry leadership in reconciliation and to lead national systemic change.
Research at Swinburne is about big ideas and finding solutions to the big, wicked problems we currently face. Our University attracts world-class minds. We provide our research students, our research staff and our collaborators with unparalleled opportunities to participate in world-changing projects. We are keen to invest in two key areas: pilot projects and start up ideas, and the provision of state-of-the-art new research facilities to support these activities.
Swinburne prides itself on its collaboration with local and international industry bodies. We focus our research squarely in areas we know we can deliver big results. In this way we have razor sharp focus on and a strong reputation for innovation and excellence in our specialty areas.
With your support, we do more sooner, advancing research in the pursuit of a more sustainable future, delivering research outcomes that are ecologically sound, socially just and economically viable.
Swinburne’s research achievements and rankings
$66m
external research income
220
research degree completions
2,088
indexed publications in 2022
16
five-star discipline areas
Learn more about our Research Strategy 2025, Research Institutes and Research Centres, Clinics and Groups.
Get in touch
Contact Swinburne’s Philanthropy team to learn more about how your support can enable people and technology to come together for a better world. Call us on +61 3 9214 4409 or email giving@swinburne.edu.au.
