What's New!
Expansion of Griffith's Areas of Strategic Investment
The Vice Chancellor has announced four new Areas of Strategic Investment in an expansion of the ASI portfolio. These four new areas are in addition to the existing eight ASIs and were assessed for inclusion based on very strong performance through the ERA 2010 research quality assessment, publication output and impact and competitive grant income. As for previous assessments, the additional requirement for inclusion in the ASI portfolio is suitable scale and the likelihood of achievement of international excellence.
The four new Areas of Strategic Investment are::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.
The other Areas of Strategic Investment are:- 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.
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