Sustainability
- Researchers at the Monash Centre for Green Chemistry are working on designing chemical processes and products that are hazard-free, waste-free, energy efficient and non-toxic.
- A $2.6 million project co-coordinated by the Monash Sustainability Institute aims to develop a more efficient combustion process, resulting in reduced greenhouse emissions from brown coal power station, as well as the capture of emissions for storage beneath the Earth’s surface.
- Scientists at Monash University Gippsland are developing a pen-sized biosensor that revolutionises the way chemicals are measured in water supplies.
- Researchers at the Facility for Advancing Water Biofiltration (FAWB) are developing technologies for better, safer solutions in managing urban water.
Community Cohesion
- Researchers at the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements are engaged in mapping and analysing the movement of migrants and recommending initatives that build social cohesion and successful settlement.
- The Melbourne Monash Problem Gambling and Treatment Centre is leading a new initiative to find effective treatments for problem gambling and its causes.
- The work of a Monash academic to develop multimedia technology to teach sign language is being used across Australia. The multimedia software, recently adopted by Deaf Children Australia, will help hearing-impaired children better communicate with their families and friends.
Health and Disease
- The Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) at Monash University is investigating ways to help the adult body repair and regenerate damaged tissues and organs.
- Monash is at the forefront of the search for an effective cure for malaria, which would relieve millions of people suffering in some of the world’s poorest nations.
- Researchers are helping to explain the critically important processes of infection and immunity.
- With more than 20% of Australian adults diagnosed as obese, researchers at the Centre for Obesity Research and Education are committed to preserving the health, happiness and life expectancy of millions of Australians.
Economic Development
- A Monash University economist is showing how developing countries can accelerate through stages of the information economy.
- Monash University's Asia Pacific Centre for Science and Wealth Creation is focused on producing results that will be both academically rigorous and commercially valuable.
- Research projects conducted by Monash University’s Asia Pacific Centre for Science and Wealth Creation share a focus on producing results that will be both academically rigorous and practically relevant.
- The Asian Business and Economics Research Unit are undertaking a project that centres on the efficiency and productivity of the banking sector in several Asian countries and the effects of post-crisis deregulation and consolidation on these.
Innovation
- An engineer based at Monash University’s Department of Materials Engineering is leading the quest to find a lighter, cheaper aluminium alloy – the holy grail of aircraft manufacturing.
- Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) is currently working on projects to improve safety for older drivers, prevent falls for the elderly, reduce suicide among young Australians, reduce water sport and boat related injuries and improve safety on rural roads.
- Researchers at the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science are making great advances in improving cancer diagnosis, investigating how we take our first breaths, the effect of therapies on cystic fibrosis and developing better methods of treating tumors with radiotherapy.
Peace and Security
- Monash researchers are leading the national debate on the counter-terrorism measures at home and overseas, stressing the need for engagement and cooperation with our Asian neighbours and promoting social justice at home.
- Researchers from Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law are strongly involved in international justice issues, devising models for human rights practices that may be used throughout the world.
- Monash University researchers combine expertise in counter-terrorism and criminology to find new approaches to intelligence gathering.
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