Areas of research

Research Office Reports

Mission statement (pdf 165kb)

2012-2015 Research Strategic Plan (pdf 175kb) (Student and staff access only)

2012-2015 Research Implementation Plan (pdf 125kb) (Student and staff access only)

Monash University’s extensive international network plays an influential role in research on the Gippsland campus, but local needs and interests are equally important to us.

We welcome opportunities to tailor our research to the challenges facing industries and communities in our area. And with the backing of our connections in Australia, South Africa, Asia and Europe, we are able to develop research leaders of international standing who are keenly sought by government and industry.

Our experience in transferring knowledge and expertise to organisations and individuals helps bring about change in many fields.

Our campus is home to groups focused on particular research fields, and our faculty-based research expertise also covers many areas, including:

Applied Sciences and Engineering

  • nanoscience and sensor technology
  • carbon capture and sequestration
  • water engineering
  • biodiversity
  • engineering automation

Business and Economics

  • corporate governance and accountability
  • financial markets
  • accounting for non-profit organisations
  • energy economics
  • management in medical settings
  • leadership and trust
  • management including human resource management, organisational behaviour, international management
  • retail marketing
  • branding
  • tourism
  • risk management and injury prevention

Art and Design

  • memory, narrative practice and storytelling in the visual arts
  • landscape perception, sense of place and politics of spatiality in the visual arts
  • specific material practices in contemporary visual arts

Education

  • using student representations in science teaching
  • history and politics of education
  • critical and transformative pedagogies
  • holistic education
  • gifted education
  • gender issues in education
  • culture and learning
  • education and learning in the digital age
  • place pedagogies
  • ethics, law and policy in education
  • educating for sustainability
  • alternative educational settings

Applied Media, Communications and Social Sciences (Arts)

  • Australian studies
  • haptics in virtual reality
  • policy and social change
  • communications, media studies and new technologies
  • criminal justice

Information Technology

  • multimedia and communication technology
  • computation intelligence

Nursing and Midwifery

  • rural health, rural nursing
  • aged care research
  • mental health
  • nursing education, including distance education, simulation
  • acute care nursing
  • chronic illness
  • nursing workforce issues

Medicine and Rural Health

  • medical education research
  • population health and clinical medicine
  • population health/public health/health services
  • mental health research
  • inter-professional education/learning and practice
  • rural health workforce
  • Indigenous health and education research.