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Dr Louise Wedlock
Deputy Director, Higher Degree Research Office
World-Leading Research
World-Changing ImpactSlide2
Macquarie University
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CELEBRATED OUR 50
th
ANNIVERSARY IN 2014
A 126-hectare park-like campus with world-class facilities and infrastructure,
20 minutes by City Rail from Sydney’s CBD.
Assets > $2.4 billion, annual revenue of $950 millionOwn our own land, a private hospital and a train station~40,000 students (~2000 research students), 3,100 staff, 1,400 academicTop modern Australian university, top 10 national ranking, top 250 global ranking
A CAMPUS LIKE NO OTHERSlide3
Macquarie University
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At the forefront of the invention of knowledge
Active research critical to delivering teaching at the boundaries of knowledge
Large Faculties – encouraging a cross-disciplinary research culture
RESEARCH INTENSIVE INSTITUTION
BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
ARTS
HUMAN SCIENCES
MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES
MACQUARIE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGSlide4
Emphasis on Excellence
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100% of research at Macquarie is rated at world standard and above (2-digit
FoRC
level)
Proportion of its Fields of Research (
FoRs
) rated at 3 (performance at world standard) and above from 85.7% in 2012 to 96% in 2015 at the 4-digit FoR Code level.Ratings of 5
(
well above world standard
) have been maintained over ERA 2010, 2012 and 2015 areas of Physical Sciences and Environmental Sciences
Ratings of 5 in 2015: Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis
Neurosciences
Ratings of 4 in 2015: Mathematical Sciences and Medical & Health Sciences
EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH FOR AUSTRALIA (ERA) 2015Slide5
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Discovery
Infrastructure
Support
Publications
Linkages
Impact
IDEASRESOURCES
OUTPUTS
END USERS
Macquarie University
OUR APPROACH TO RESEARCH
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Macquarie is committed to research that delivers meaningful outcomes to society: in 2007 audit - > 50% of MQ staff actively engaged in communicating research to end-users (industry, government policy makers, NGOs
etc
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Research Strategy
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1.
HEALTHY PEOPLE:
PIONEERING HEALTH, INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE AND LIFELONG LEARNING FOR WELLNESS IN OUR AGEING WORLD
2.
RESILIENT SOCIETIES:
UNDERSTANDING CULTURES IN OUR CHANGING WORLD AND BUILDING ETHICAL, JUST AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES
3.
PROSPEROUS ECONOMIES:
STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY TO PROMOTE PROSPERITY IN OUR DIVERSE WORLD
4.
SECURE PLANET:
SUSTAINING OUR INTERDEPENDENT WORLD AND EXPLORING OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
5.
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES:
ADVANCING OUR INTERCONNECTED WORLD WITH FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES, SYSTEMS, DESIGNS AND CREATIVE PRACTICESlide7
Research Strategy
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Future-shaping research priorities:
The challenges faced by the world today are complex and interrelated; they require the application of new knowledge.
These five priorities are underpinned by our areas of current and emerging research strength, expressed as a suite of research themes.
They provide a focal point for cross-disciplinary research that is aligned with the national research agenda and global challenges of significance, and further bolster the University’s mission to undertake world-leading research with world-changing impact.Slide8
Key Objectives and Goals
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1. ACCELERATE WORLD-LEADING RESEARCH PERFORMANCE
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PREPARE WORLD-READY HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH CANDIDATES
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ENGAGE AS A WORLD-RECOGNISED RESEARCH COLLABORATOR OF CHOICE
4. DELIVER RESEARCH WITH WORLD-CHANGING IMPACT
The four key objectives are designed to connect faculties, the University’s portfolios, our researchers and our research support staff with Macquarie’s research-intensive aspirations, ensuring we bring World-Leading-Research; World-Changing Impact to life throughout the University.
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Impact
44 researchers who have authored at least one research paper that is currently in the top 1 per cent of cited papers in the world (ESI, July, 2014)
Four researchers who have recently been recognised as among the world’s 'most influential scientific minds' (Thomson Reuters 2014).
Macquarie has been highly innovative in research training: as the first university in Australia to establish a two-year research degree as the standard pathway to a PhD, Macquarie is championing quality improvement in research training that is the envy of the Australian higher education sector.
Macquarie is also the national leader in
cotutelle
and joint PhD study, adding an important international dimension to our HDR experience.
ACHIEVEMENTS
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1990s Dr David
Skillern
(Professor of Electronics and Head of Department) team with CSIRO:
‘
What we did at Macquarie is show that it really was viable to make systems using the signalling format that could be small and economic, that would be commercially viable
’
Today: > 5 Billion devices use wireless technology – impacted on the lives of millions across the globe, transforming communication, business, entertainment and education
Impact
MQ WIFI STORY
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Impact
SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPICS
Trail-blazing technology for Sydney Olympic Torch:
Professor Jim Piper (Director for Centre for Laser Applications and previous Deputy Vice Chancellor Research)
15,000 torches were required for the relay – manufacturing required sophisticated technology – ensuring that the gas in the torch burnt at the right rate required new laser technology invented at Macquarie
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ImpactMACQUARIE DICTIONARY
Leading authority on Australian English - one of two dictionaries in the world to bear the name of the university in which is was founded.
Origins go back more than 40 years - Professor Arthur
Delbridge
(Macquarie's founding professor of Linguistics) with a team at MQ, ANU and Wiley publishers to create a comprehensive dictionary of Australian English.
1981 – Macquarie Dictionary becomes a bestseller and contributed to Australian identity and culture.
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ImpactMACQUARIE DICTIONARY
Leading authority on Australian English - one of two dictionaries in the world to bear the name of the university in which is was founded.
Origins go back more than 40 years - Professor Arthur
Delbridge
(
Macqaurie’s
founding professor of Linguistics) with a team at MQ, ANU and Wiley publishers to create a comprehensive dictionary of Australian English.1981 – Macquarie Dictionary becomes a bestseller and contributed to Australian identity and culture.
‘bowerbird’ – a curious bird with a habit of collecting things, an antique collector, someone who collects things
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Global partnership focused on utilising synthetic biology tools to build the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome.
Key international leaders:New York University (USA)John Hopkins University (USA)
Joint Genome Institute (USA), BGI (China)
Tianjin University (China)
Tsinghua University (China)
Imperial College London (UK)
University of Edinburgh (UK)Current Research: Yeast 2.0SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY – BUILDING GENOMES
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Global partnership focused on utilising synthetic biology tools to build the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome.
Key international leaders:New York University (USA)John Hopkins University (USA)
Joint Genome Institute (USA), BGI (China)
Tianjin University (China)
Tsinghua University (China)
Imperial College London (UK)
University of Edinburgh (UK)Current Research: Yeast 2.0SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY – BUILDING GENOMES
* Fundamental properties of chromosomes, genome organization, gene content, function of RNA splicing, the extent to which small RNAs play a role in yeast biology, the distinction between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and questions relating to genome structure and evolution.
* The availability of a fully synthetic genome will allow direct testing of evolutionary questions not otherwise approachable.
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Our research staff: internationally recognized and leading in future wireless communication systems.There is a strong focus on next generation (5G) wide-area wireless networks, as well as on small scale medical body-area communications.
Current Research: 5G
FUTURE WIRELESS NETWORKS
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Our research staff: internationally recognized and leading in future wireless communication systems.There is a strong focus on next generation (5G) wide-area wireless networks, as well as on small scale medical body-area communications.
Current Research: 5G
FUTURE WIRELESS NETWORKS
Hot topics
Next-generation mobile cellular network architectures
Heterogeneous Networks
Body Area Networks
mm-wave Network Architectures
Cognitive Communication systems
Ad-Hoc Networks
Device-to-Device communications
Spectrum Sharing
Information Theory
Software Defined Networking
Signal processing
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Macquarie Model
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Championing quality improvement in Australia’s research training sector with the two-year hybrid Master degree, introduced in 2013:
‘
Most innovative pathway to the PhD
’ – Australian Council of Learned Academies
http://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/research-training/program-information
Master of Research Exchange opportunitieshttp://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/research-training/master-of-research-exchange
MASTER OF RESEARCH (INTERNATIONAL)
BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY (DOMESTIC)
RESEARCH PROJECT AND 20,000 WORD THESIS
YEAR 2 RESEARCH
YEAR 1 COURSEWORK
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HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH
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Programs: Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Philosophy
Scholarships (more than $30M)
IPRS,
iMQRES
, co-funded scholarships (Cotutelle/Joint PhD or CSC-MQ),
iRTPAdditional scholarships for externally funding research projects
Ongoing funding opportunities
http://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships
http://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/how-to-apply
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Cotutelle & Joint PhD Programs
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National leader in cotutelle
and joint PhD study, adding an important international dimension to our HDR experience for candidates, supervisors, Faculties and international partners.
OVER 100 COTUTELLE/JOINT PHD CANDIDATES CURRENTLY ENROLLED
OVER 270 COTUTELLE/JOINT
PHD CANDIDATES SINCE THE
PROGRAMS INCEPTION
PARTNER UNIVERSITIES IN
OVER 30 COUNTRIES – LED
BY EUROPE AND CHINA
JOINT SUPERVISION PROGRAMS ARE PART OF OUR STRATEGIC RESEARCH FRAMEWORK FROM 2015 - 2024
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
HAVE THE MOST CANDIDATES
JOINT ENROLMENT AT TWO
UNIVERSITIES
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Cotutelle partners
21110 UNIVERSITIES IN 30 COUNTRIES
270 candidates at 110 universities in 30 countries since 1999
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CONTACT US
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OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY VICE CHANCELLOR RESEARCH
Dr Louise Wedlock
Deputy Director
Higher Degree Research Office
louise.wedlock@mq.edu.au
+61 2 9850 1891
HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH OFFICE
Dr Ren Yi
Director
Higher Degree Research and International
Research Training Partnerships
ren.yi@mq.edu.au
+61 2 9850 6198
Level 3 C5C East +61 2
9850 7987
Commencements and Enrolments
mres@mq.edu.au
hdr.admissions@mq.edu.au
Scholarships
mres.schol@mq.edu.au
hdrschol@mq.edu.au
Cotutelle and Joint PhDs
hdrcotutelle@mq.edu.au