Research Festival - University of Canberra

Celebrate, Connect, Energise

UC’s inaugural Research Festival is a university-wide festival of research showcases, workshops, tours, pitch competitions, networking and social activities, and public lectures.

We will hear from established research networks, transdisciplinary research groups collaborating across faculties, faculty research groups, current students, adjuncts, and more. Featuring more than 40 events over five days, the festival aims to celebrate, connect, and energise our UC research community following two years of restricted research.

Date: Monday 6 to Friday 10 June
Venue: Various locations across the University

Research Festival: Day 1

Day One of the festival will showcase the University’s innovative and multi-disciplinary research projects. These include presentations from some of our established research networks, such as Climate Change Adaption and Resilience Research Network and Health Humanities Network, and from transdisciplinary research teams collaborating across the University.

Location: 2B9

9.00am	Opening session Acknowledgement of Country Presented by Professor Mick Cardew-Hall, DVC Research & Enterprise (acting) and Professor Lucy Johnston, DVC Research & Enterprise (incoming)
10.00am	Morning tea
10.20am	Research Network Showcase Climate Change Adaption and Resilience Research Network (CCARRN): Enabling interdisciplinary research across the University of Canberra Health Humanities Network: Transdisciplinary research to address complex problems Health innovations in AI and robotics
12.00pm	Networking lunch A light lunch will be hosted by the DVC Research & Enterprise. Registration is required. Register now
1.00pm	Research Showcase Maternal and child/adolescence health and educational outcomes in developing countries Teaching Students to Fact-Check: Media Literacy in the Attention Economy Can Transwomen Athletes Ever Win? Multidisciplinary approaches to the sustainability of rural communities, a role for UC? The Research Cluster for Digital Inequality and Social Change (RC-disc)
2.40pm	Afternoon tea
3.00pm	Research Showcase ‘Smashing faculty boundaries’, a ‘Yarn’ about the use of restorative practice in research to find solutions to our most wicked equity challenges. Future of Food in the Australian Capital Region: A multidisciplinary and multisector research collaboration The development of a novel pharmacological treatment for myopia (short-sightedness) - a cross faculty initiative.

Faculty programs

General events

Open for all UC staff, students and adjuncts to attend.

Faculty of Arts and Design

Targeted to Faculty of Arts and Design staff, students and adjuncts.

Faculty of Business, Government & Law

Targeted to Faculty of Business, Government & Law staff, students and adjuncts.

Faculty of Education

Targeted to Faculty of Education staff, students and adjuncts.

Faculty of Health

Targeted to Faculty of Health staff, students and adjuncts.

Faculty of Science & Technology

Targeted to Faculty of Science & Technology staff, students and adjuncts.

Talk to us

Want to know more about the Research Festival? Email the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise at DVCR&E@canberra.edu.au.