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Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award Winners Excellence in Research for Australia 2010 outcomesGriffith University receives $21 million for sustainability building
World Class Research
Griffith researchers make highly significant contributions and find solutions that bring real and positive change to 21st century challenges and priority issues. Griffith is a research intensive university with an international reputation and world-leading expertise in our Areas of Strategic Investment:
- Water science
- Drug discovery and infectious diseases
- Asian politics, security and development
- Climate change adaptation
- Criminology and crime prevention
- Music, the Arts and the Asia Pacific
- Sustainable tourism
- Health and chronic diseases
Griffith is also delivering local, national and international solutions through niche research areas in medicine, quantum physics, environmental sciences, tourism and sport management, educational research, nursing, urban and regional planning, law and smart workplaces. Quality has become the major driver of research at Griffith. Our 38 Research centres and institutes are strongly encouraged to benchmark globally.
All researchers at Griffith are provided with state-of-the-art facilities, support services and a research environment that best accommodates their individual research needs.

