Announcing our 2026 Collaborations

We're excited to announce our 2026 collaborations, with 20 research projects across all nine Faculties!

From sound levels in paediatric care units, and the effects of global warming on the distribution of terrestrial plants, to addressing gender inequality in Indonesia, and creating a global database of teachers in cinema and television – these project cover the breadth and depth of research at the University.

We are also supporting a number of researchers via our Project Development Advice stream in 2026.

We look forward to working with research teams and a variety of external project partners in government, industry and the community – as well as the next generation of graduate researchers.

We'll share full details about each project with you in the new year.

Successful collaborations:

• A/Prof Ashraful Haque, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, MDHS – Immersive immunology
• Prof Bang Bui, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, MDHS – Quantification of retinal vascular reactivity during acute hyperglycaemia
• Prof Jon Barnett and Ms Tia Brullo, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Science – The Australian Adaptation Database
• Dr Janeen Bower, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, FFAM – Describing sound levels in Australia's highest acuity paediatric intensive care unit
• A/Prof Robyn Brown, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, MDHS – Improving preclinical models in psychiatry
• Dr Hugh Gundlach, Faculty of Education – Teachers in cinema and television: A global database for research
• Dr Vera Korasidis, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Science – Effects of extreme global warming on the distribution of terrestrial plants
• Dr Suzanne Long, Department of Paediatrics, MDHS – ASQ-TRAK program mapping: Building data infrastructure for impact
• Dr Erika Martino, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, MDHS – Structural racism index of housing: Towards health equity in Victoria
• Prof Christopher McDevitt, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, MDHS – Developing an integrated genome-scale approach to map elemental proteome interactions
• Prof Katrina McFerran, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, FFAM – Spotify wrapped unpacked
• Dr Mengran (Aaron) Li, Department of Chemical Engineering, FEIT – ElectroAI: AI-driven electrochemical system optimisation
• Dr Kanika Meshram, Department of Management and Marketing, FBE – Consumption via active learning method
• Dr Lucie O'Brien, Melbourne Law School – Low-income, low-asset debtors in personal insolvency: an empirical study
• Prof Alan Pert, Architecture, Building and Planning – Suburban Futures: The data of dwelling, design and demography
• Dr Ken Setiawan, Asia Institute, Arts – Building durable responses to gender inequality in Indonesia
• Dr Louise Shewan, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Science – Australian rock art: 3D modelling for research, conservation, education & engagement
• Dr Kylie Soanes, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, Science – Revealing Melbourne’s hidden relationship with biodiversity
• Dr Gonzalo Villanueva, School of Social and Political Sciences, Arts – Exploring literacy, comprehension, and research shifts in undergraduate writing
• Dr Sam Wilks, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, FEIT – Leveraging AI structural inference to inform viral surveillance and vaccine selection