Research Partnerships and Activities
We welcome opportunities for joint research activity with our partners. We have a history of high quality research partnerships involving both staff and research students.
Joint research activities
Staff conduct research in partnership with business, government, and the not-for-profit sector in ways that will make a positive contribution to all institutions involved.
A number of Faculty research projects supported by the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects Scheme (ARC Linkage). The scheme facilitates collaboration between industry partners and the University around innovative research.
Each partnership is unique - designed to match the needs and opportunities of our partner organisations, our students and staff, and the Faculty.
Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere
With over 8 million annual visitors, Federation Square, Melbourne, is emblematic of the new public sphere emerging at the junction of physical space and media networks. Fed Square's large screen is integral to 70 large-scale cultural events hosted at the site each year attracting an average of 30,000 people.
This project, led by Professor Nikos Papastergiadis of the School of Culture and Communication and funded by an ARC Linkage Grant, pioneers the exchange of technology and cultural content. Empirical research is expected to generate fresh insights into public interactions with large screens, providing a prototype for future cross-cultural events and offering new theoretical perspectives on the use of public space.
Project partners include Fed Square, the Australia Council for the Arts and Art Center Nabi (Seoul, South Korea).
Towards Improved Healthcare Communication: Development and Validation of Language Proficiency Standards for Non-native English
Together with partner institution the OET Centre, Associate Professor Catherine Elder leads a team of researchers from the Language Research Testing Centre (in the School of Languages and Linguistics) and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, in an ARC Linkage supported project that will directly benefit the provision of healthcare in the Australian community.
Researchers seek a better understanding of what constitutes effective workplace communication in three health professions (medicine, nursing and physiotherapy), and more relevant and rigorous minimum English communication standards for migrant health professionals within the Occupational English Test (OET), administered on behalf of government and professional registration bodies by the OET Centre.
For more information about working with the Faculty of Arts, contact the Faculty Partnerships Office.
Industry linked PhD projects
Alongside staff research partnerships, an industry-funded PhD scholarship can support dedicated research by a postgraduate student on a topic of strategic importance to the organisation.
More information
- Industry Linked PhD Projects
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Information about the research and scholarship of staff at The University of Melbourne.
A Place of Research Excellence
In the 2011 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) report, 40 research areas of the University of Melbourne ranked above or well above world standard.
Humanities and social sciences at the University rated "well above world standard" (Ranking of 5, ERA 2010) in the following areas:
- Art Theory and Criticism
- Communication and Media Studies
- Linguistics
- Literary Studies
- Historical Studies
Similarly, humanities and social sciences at the University rated "above world standard" (Ranking of 4, ERA 2010) in the following areas:
- Film, Television and Digital Media
- Journalism and Professional Writing
- Performing Arts and Creative Writing
- Visual Arts and Crafts
- Cultural Studies
- Language Studies
- Anthropology
- Criminology
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Applied Ethics
- Philosophy
More information
Addressing the need to provide vulnerable workers with more effective means of defending their human rights Watch video interviews with researchers in the Faculty of Arts and staff at Oxfam Australia, who discuss an ARC Linkage project that addresses the need to provide vulnerable workers with more effective means of defending their human rights.
