Our research portfolio is organised around a number of themes reflecting our wide range of expertise
Our home in South-East Queensland is one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions in Australia, and provides a living laboratory for much of our research on growth management and urban resilience. Encompassing the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, we are also focused on urban water research.
Explore each of our research themes below in more detail.
Core research themes
Adaptation Science
This theme explores the ins and outs of climate adaptation, with a strong focus on sustainable and robust decision-making processes in managing local and global change.
Building Science and Construction Innovation
Looking to improve the integrity, robustness and safety of various building structures used in the construction industry.
Coastal resilience
This theme tackles the challenges facing cities in coastal zones, including erosion, rising sea levels and storm surges.
Digital earth and green infrastructure
Our researchers are exploring decision-making pathways for complex built environment challenges, towards nature loving, nature inspired and place-based solutions.
Digital infrastructure management
This theme looks at how our infrastructure systems can become more resilient, affordable and sustainable.
Digital multi-utility transformation
Seeking to integrate 'big data' metering & monitoring technologies & associated expert systems into infrastructure.
Gold Coast futures
The City of Gold Coast continues its commitment to support and work with the Cities Research Institute across a range of collaborative projects.
Housing
Bringing together our CRI Housing researchers under one banner reveals the diversity of housing research underway in the Cities Research Institute.
Sea cities
This research looks at geographical positions between land and sea and future development scenarios through hydrodynamic modeling.
Transport Research Group
Working closely with a wide range of industry partners to help plan, build and manage transport systems.
Urban water and waste management
This theme is focused on co-designing and implementing applied research for the water and waster management sector and transferring science into practice.
Griffith University Systems Modelling Group
This research group brings together Griffith University experts in methodologies including Systems Thinking, System Dynamics, Bayesian Modelling and Social Network Analysis and applies them to a range of problems involving ecological, social and economic aspects of human interaction with nature
Griffith Centre for Coastal Management
The Griffith Centre for Coastal Management integrates our coastal expertise with wider questions of city planning. Through rigorous research and community engagement, the Centre explores the vulnerabilities of Australian coastal cities helps them to be more resilient into the future.
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