UWS Research Themes

The University research themes and programs are one of three major mechanisms UWS has for expressing its research strengths. UWS research in the areas of each theme is listed below:

Water

Brings together researchers from diverse fields, for example, engineering and cultural studies. Has resulted in research alliances with major agencies and utilities, in collaborative research projects with regional partners, and in studies carried out by individual researchers. Significant involvement in the CRC for Irrigation Futures focusing on urban irrigation.

• A Gain for Grain Farmers
• Better Cropping for the East India Plateau
• Climate and Crop Disease Management
• Designing for Stormy Weather
• Extracting More for the Environment from Olives
• Fire affects on tree water use
• Freshwater mussels in the Hawkesbury-Nepean
• Harmonising Water Management
• Innovation in the Australian Dairy Industry
• Is Treated Waste a Treat for Wetlands?
• Making the Turn to a Green Golf Club
• Nature’s Carbon Trading Scheme
• Play Hard - Save Water
• Regional Irrigation Business Partnership
• Rehabilitating Saltmarshes
• Renewable fuel from water
• Revitalising Rainfall-Runoff Estimates
• Saving Soil from Sodium Salts
• Sustainanable Irrigation in Kogarah
• The Cleansing Power of Tap Water
• The Hawkesbury Forest Experiment
• The Sustainability Challenge
• Tree Architecture and Climate Change
• Up a Gum Tree with Climate Change
• Urban Geology
• Urban Irrigation – Saving Sydney’s Water
• Water Quality Assessment
• Water Quality in the Manly Dam Catchment
• Water’s Magnetic Personality

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Cultures and Communities

Brings together researchers whose focus is on the complexities of cultures, language, and difference to problems facing contemporary social life.

• Access all Hours
• Addressing the GAP in Vietnamese Vegetables
• All the World’s a Stage Now
• Arresting Cardiovascular Risks
• Assistive Technology in Australia
• Australian Apprenticeships
• Better life for rural boys
• Breaking Down Literary Barriers
• Bridging the Gap
• Building Bridges to Reduce Youth Crime
• Capturing Historic Collections
• Care and Control of Young People and Community
• Common Language for Community and Corporate
• Community Care and Older Men
• Community Languages
• Creating community at end of life
• Cultural Complexity
• Cultural Impact of Indigenous Musicians
• Cultural Information Resources
• Cultural Practices and Learning
• Dealing with Dementia
• Dementia Care
• Developing Critical Practice
• Empowering Elder Law
• Enabling a Community
• Evaluating the suicide risk of men in the Pilbara Region
• Expecting the Unexpected: Learning Complex Rhythms
• Extending Capabilities
• Family Diversity DVD
• ‘Finance First’ for Success
• Forever Young?
• Get me a Doctor
• Healing the Wounds of the Heart
• Health Promotion on the Move
• Helping Fairfield to Flourish
• Helping Young People with Mental Illness
• History of Australian Literary Publishing
• Homebuyer Preferences
• Household mortgage distress
• How Do You Say “Nope” to Dope?
• Improving Decision-Making for Advanced Dementia
• Indigenous Health Outcomes Patient Evaluation (IHOPE)
• Indigenous History Explored
• Interactive Music Systems
• Investigating China’s Assimilation to Modernity
• It’s All Tones to Me
• Job-Seeking Tales of Migrant Australians
• Just in Time? Aspirations of Young Men in the New Economy
• Keeping older people independent
• Knowledge Generation
• Knowledge through Photography
• Larrikins, Jeitinho and Favores
• Livestock Disease Surveillance
• Local Anti-Racism Strategies
• Loudness and Mood
• Macleay Collection
• Managing Tourism Mecca
• Mapping cultural diversity via cyberspace
• Moving Business Online
• Music to my ears
• Music to the Ear
• New Work for Grey Nomads
• No rudeness please – we’re at work
• Planning for Palliative Care
• Positive Behaviour for Learning
• Preventing Sexual Assault
• Pro bono for the greater good
• Promoting Non-violent Partnerships
• Race, Nature and the Human
• Reassessing multicultural education
• Refugees Seeking Help
• Religion and Networking
• Residential Aged Care
• Right-Wing Depression Movements
• School Safety
• Second Language Mysteries
• Seeding Success for Aboriginal Students
• Sexuality and Intimacy after cancer
• Socially Engaged Rural Youth
• Struggling for Possession
• Studying Racism
• Taking the First Step
• Tapping the Pulse of Youth
• That Time of the Month
• The Brazilian Community in Australia
• The How and Why of Speech Perception
• Transformation of Care
• Trial by Jury
• Universal Design and Cultural Context
• Violence in Hospitals
• Volunteering project wins award
• Weight Loss in Aged Care Facilities
• Western Sydney Writing Projects
• What’s in a Place?
• What’s the Score?
• Who uses HACC?
• Wot Culture?
• Youth of Today

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Children's Futures

Brings together researchers from social work, sociology, cultural research, education, psychology and nursing, often with government and community sector partners.

• A Computational Auditory Model
• Best Research into Language Learning
• Better Child Protection
• Better life for rural boys
• Boosting Breastfeeding
• Breaking Up Primary School Bullying
• Bridging the Gap
• Child Care Review
• Classroom groups for positive growth
• Community Nursing
• Cultural Practices and Learning
• Do Infants Know What’s Good for Them?
• Encouraging Indigenous Education
• Enhancing Access and Equity
• Fair Go at Tackling Poverty
• Helping Young People Manage Type 1 Diabetes
• Helping Young People with Mental Illness
• Health Promotion on the Move
• I Think, Therefore… Literature as a way of thinking
• It’s All Adding Up in 2008
• Increased Apprenticeship Intake
• Midwifery Initiated Oral Health (MIOH)
• Monitoring Neonatal Medical Alerts
• Music Therapy Intervention
• Neonatal Monitoring
• OSPREY Flies High for Maternity Health Services
• Perceiving Tone Languages With Cochlear Implants
• Picture This: young people and media violence
• Playing for Success
• Pregnant Women In the Pink
• Probing Early Speech Perception
• Quality in Early Childhood Services
• Quality Teaching and School Leadership
• REACHing Student Potential
• Reading for Life
• Really Hyperactive?
• Reassessing multicultural education
• Reframing Responses to Sexual Abuse Trauma
• Refugee Literacy Intervention
• Seeding Success for Aboriginal Students
• Socially Engaged Rural Youth
• Solving Indigenous Student Needs
• Staying on at school
• Success in Indigenous Education
• Supporting Local Communities
• Sustainable Learning for Teachers
• Taking the Trauma Out of Transitions
• Teacher Secondments
• The Cost of Adolescent Mental Health Issues
• The How and Why of Speech Perception
• Truly Gifted Research
• Turning the COGs for Better Teaching
• Understanding Self-Harm
• Young Aboriginal Men and Informal Learning
• Young Users of Information Technology
• Youth of Today

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Urban and Community Development

Brings together researchers from a wide range of fields including human geography, urban sociology, urban planning, property studies, health, social justice, regional economic, cultural studies, social ecology, environmental fields and tourism to collaborative problem solving research conducted on cities, urban and peri-urban areas and concerned with our interactions and relationships with those spaces.

• Cultural Planning in Western Sydney
• EMS for SMEs
• Environmental Change? We’ll Manage!
• Environmentally Aware Retailers
• Estimating floods
• Getting a Sporting Chance
• Globalisation and Teacher Movements
• Going out on the town
• Healthy Attachment to God
• Housing Construction and Wind Speed
• Land Ahoy!
• Locating Innovative Networks
• May the force be with you
• Oily End to Termites
• Pregnant Women In the Pink
• Rethinking the Campus
• Revitalising Rainfall-Runoff Estimates
• Should Airports be Privatised?
• Skills and Employment Development in Shrinking Cities
• Skills on the Move
• Sound Remediation of Contaminated Soil
• Triple Bottom Line Decision Making in Local Government
• Urban Geology
• Water Quality Assessment
• Whose Airport is It?
• Wolgan Valley Biodiversity

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