Research

The Deakin School of Medicine houses a vibrant program of research, including more than 100 research staff and over 100 research students. We currently have research supervisors available in all aspects of health and medical research.

Honours

The current honours projects listing is available to view. Please review and preference projects relevant to your area of interest.

MPhil and PhD

For prospective HDR (PhD and MPhil) students, projects are available to view in the link above. Alternatively, general information about research areas (PDF, 1.6 MB) is available.

Please discuss potential projects directly with the listed supervisor.

Learn more about how to become a research degree student at Deakin

Each of the school's research centres and research partnerships aligns with one or more of our research pillars:

School research groups

Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT) develops new and effective responses to mental and physical health for our community. The team uses cutting-edge approaches to translate medical research from the laboratory to real-world solutions.

Find out more about IMPACT

ReVISE brings together researchers across health education fields to collaborate and investigate better ways to train the health professionals of the future, and conducts research across the spectrum of health professional education.

Find out more about ReVISE

The Centre for Organisational Change in Person-Centred Healthcare

The Centre for Organisational Change in Person‐Centred Healthcare has been developed for both consumers and health professionals. We provide education & training and use translational research to influence change in policy and the culture of healthcare systems.

Learn more about The Centre for Organisational Change in Person-Centred Healthcare

Bioinformatics Core Research Group

The Bioinformatics Core Research Group (BCRG) brings together a range of expertise and resources to support and facilitate bioinformatics at Deakin University.

The group strives to enable researchers so that they will be able to view and process their data themselves, through appropriate training, bioinformatic support and infrastructure.

Find out more about the Bioinformatics Core Research Group

Western Alliance Academic Health Science Centre

Western Alliance Academic Health Science Centre is a partnership between Deakin University, Federation University and 11 health service providers operating across the western region of Victoria. It aims to strengthen existing collaborations by formalising relationships between the partners that have been sustained over the history of the region’s settlement and development.

Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine

Research activities at Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine (CREM) focus on emergency medicine services based in regional and rural communities. The centre is a joint initiative of the Victorian Government, Portland District Health, South West Healthcare (Warrnambool), Alcoa of Australia and the Deakin School of Medicine.

Find out more about the Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine

National Centre for Farmer Health

The National Centre for Farmer Health (NCFH) works to improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of farming families across Australia.

As well as conducting research into agricultural workers' health and offering degrees and courses, the centre provides farming families with face-to-face and online support.

Find out more about the National Centre for Farmer Health