Research Centres
The University of Melbourne has discipline specific faculties, and is affiliated with many research institutes and hospitals, putting the University at the heart of biomedical research in Melbourne and Australia. Flagship interdisciplinary centres, include:
Collaborative Centres
These research centres are formed in association with other institutions.
Cooperative Research Centres (CRC)
The Australian government's CRC program delivers social, economic and environmental benefits by encouraging collaboration between research institutions and industry with a strong commercialisation focus.
Australian Research Council (ARC) Centres of Excellence
These prestigious hubs of expertise allow high-quality researchers to collaborate with other universities within Australia and overseas to maintain and develop Australia's international standing in research areas of national priority.
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Centres and Institutes for Research and Research Training:
Institutional (involving only University of Melbourne participants)
ARTS
- Australian Centre
- Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation
- Centre for Public Policy
- Language Testing Research Centre
- Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies
BUSINESS and ECONOMICS
- Asian Economics Centre
- Centre for Accounting and Industry Partnerships
- Centre for Market Design
- Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia
EDUCATION
- Assessment Research Centre
- Centre for Research on Education Systems
- Centre for Program Evaluation
- Centre for the Study of Higher Education
- Youth Research Centre
ENGINEERING
- Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Particulate Fluids Processing
- Centre for Neural Engineering
- Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration
- Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications
LAW
- Asian Law Centre
- Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
- Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation
- Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law
- Centre for Islamic Law and Society
- Centre for Media and Communications Law
- Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law
- The Institute for International Law and the Humanities
MEDICINE, DENTISTRY & HEALTH SCIENCES
- Centre for Health and Society
- Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine
- Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics
- Centre for International Mental Health
- Centre for Neuroscience
- Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology
- Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society – A World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Women’s Health
- Centre for Youth Mental Health
MELBOURNE BUSINESS SCHOOL
- Asia-Pacific Centre for Leadership for Social Impact
- Centre for Ideas and the Economy
- Centre for the Practice of International Trade
SCIENCE
VETERINARY SCIENCE
- Asia Pacific Centre for Animal Health
- Centre for Animal Biotechnology
- Centre for Equine Infectious Diseases
OTHER UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRES AND INSTITUTES
OFFICE OF THE PROVOST
ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNING
- Victorian Eco Innovation Lab (VEIL)
- The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) project
ARTS
- Australia India Institute
- Sidney Myer Asia Centre
- National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies Australia
- Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
BUSINESS and ECONOMICS
EDUCATION
- International Centre for Classroom Research
- LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management
LAND & ENVIRONMENT
- Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries
- Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
- Office for Environmental Programs
- Primary Industries Adaptation Research Network
- Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research
MEDICINE, DENTISTRY & HEALTH SCIENCES
SCIENCE
Collaborative Centres
(formed in association with other institutions)
ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & PLANNING
- Australian Research Centre for the Governance and Management of New Urban Transport (Also known as the Australasian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport)
- Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living
ARTS
- Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
- National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change
- Australian Centre for Financial Studies
EDUCATION
ENGINEERING
- Advanced Centre for Automotive Research and Testing
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals
- Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications
- National ICT Australia Limited
LAND & ENVIRONMENT
- Animal Welfare Science Centre
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research
- Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre
- Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research
LAW
- Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law
- Centre of Excellence for International Finance and Regulation
MEDICINE, DENTISTRY & HEALTH SCIENCES
- Australian Cancer Research Foundation Centre for Therapeutic Target Discovery
- Australian Centre for Hepatitis and HIV Virology Research
- Australian Health Workforce Institute
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology and Development
- Australian Tissue Engineering Centre Limited
- Centre for Palliative Care Education and Research
- Centre for Psychiatric Nursing
- Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Neurosciences: Cross-Discipline Enhancement of Clinical Research and Education
- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre
- National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Clinical Science in Diabetes
- National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence for Translational Neuroscience: A Modular Platform for Translating Discovery into Health Outcomes
- McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Community Wellbeing
- National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence for Reducing the Burden of Colorectal Cancer by Optimising Screening: Evidence to Clinical Practice
SCIENCE
- Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
- Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis
- Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls
- ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale
- Peter Cook Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage
Cooperative Centres (CRCs) involving the University of Melbourne
ENGINEERING
- Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies
- Cooperative Research Centre for Polymers
- Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information
- eWater Cooperative Research Centre
LAND & ENVIRONMENT
- Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre
- Dairy Futures Cooperative Research Centre
- Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry
- Cooperative Research Centre for High Integrity Australian Pork
- Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre
MEDICINE, DENTISTRY & HEALTH SCIENCES
- Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- Cooperative Research Centre for Mental Health
- Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre (Ltd)
- Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre
- The HEARing Cooperative Research Centre