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. For more information about each project, please see Research Directions.

Water

• 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
• Freshwater mussels in the Hawkesbury-Nepean
• Harmonising Water Management
• Making the Turn to a Green Golf Club
• Nature’s Carbon Trading Scheme
• Regional Irrigation Business Partnership
• Rehabilitating Saltmarshes
• Sustainanable Irrigation in Kogarah
• The Hawkesbury Forest Experiment
• The Sustainability Challenge
• Tree Architecture and Climate Change
• Up a Gum Tree with Climate Change
• Urban Irrigation – Saving Sydney’s Water
• Water Quality in the Manly Dam Catchment
• Water’s Magnetic Personality

Cultures and Communities

• Access all Hours
• Addressing the GAP in Vietnamese Vegetables
• Arresting Cardiovascular Risks
• Assistive Technology in Australia
• Australian Apprenticeships
• Building Bridges to Reduce Youth Crime
• Capturing Historic Collections
• Care and Control of Young People and Community
• Common Language for Community and Corporate
• Community Languages
• Cultural Complexity
• Cultural Practices and Learning
• Dealing with Dementia
• Dementia Care
• Empowering Elder Law
• Enabling a Community
• Family Diversity DVD
• ‘Finance First’ for Success
• Forever Young?
• Helping Fairfield to Flourish
• History of Australian Literary Publishing
• Homebuyer Preferences
• Improving Decision-Making for Advanced Dementia
• Indigenous History Explored
• Interactive Music Systems
• Investigating China’s Assimilation to Modernity
• It’s All Tones to Me
• Knowledge Generation
• Larrikins, Jeitinho and Favores
• Livestock Disease Surveillance
• Loudness and Mood
• Macleay Collection
• Managing Tourism Mecca
• Mapping cultural diversity via cyberspace
• Moving Business Online
• New Work for Grey Nomads
• Positive Behaviour for Learning
• Pro bono for the greater good
• Promoting Non-violent Partnerships
• Race, Nature and the Human
• Refugees Seeking Help
• Residential Aged Care
• Right-Wing Depression Movements
• School Safety
• Taking the First Step
• Tapping the Pulse of Youth
• The Brazilian Community in Australia
• The How and Why of Speech Perception
• Universal Design and Cultural Context
• Volunteering project wins award
• Western Sydney Writing Projects

Children's Futures

• A Computational Auditory Model
• Best Research into Language Learning
• Better Child Protection
• Breaking Up Primary School Bullying
• Child Care Review
• Cultural Practices and Learning
• Do Infants Know What’s Good for Them?
• Encouraging Indigenous Education
• Enhancing Access and Equity
• Helping Young People Manage Type 1 Diabetes
• I Think, Therefore… Literature as a way of thinking
• Increased Apprenticeship Intake
• Monitoring Neonatal Medical Alerts
• Music Therapy Intervention
• Neonatal Monitoring
• Perceiving Tone Languages With Cochlear Implants
• Picture This: young people and media violence
• Pregnant Women In the Pink
• Probing Early Speech Perception
• Quality Teaching and School Leadership
• REACHing Student Potential
• Reading for Life
• Reframing Responses to Sexual Abuse Trauma
• Solving Indigenous Student Needs
• Supporting Local Communities
• Sustainable Learning for Teachers
• Taking the Trauma Out of Transitions
• Teacher Secondments
• The How and Why of Speech Perception
• Truly Gifted Research
• Understanding Self-Harm

Urban and Community Development

• Cultural Planning in Western Sydney
• EMS for SMEs
• Environmentally Aware Retailers
• Getting a Sporting Chance
• Globalisation and Teacher Movements
• Going out on the town
• Healthy Attachment to God
• Housing Construction and Wind Speed
• Locating Innovative Networks
• Pregnant Women In the Pink
• Skills on the Move
• Triple Bottom Line Decision Making in Local Government