Study a research degree with us
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
Find a research supervisor
Search for the topic that you're interested in researching and discover all the possible supervisors within the Faculty of Health that could help you further your research career goals.
Our research themes
Each of the school's research centres and research partnerships aligns with one or more of our research pillars:
- infection, immunity and cancer
- metabolic and musculoskeletal medicine
- neuroscience
- rural and regional health.
School research groups
- Medical Education Research Group
- Clinical Optometry
- Rural Medicine
- Medical Imaging
- Pre-Clinical Research
- Clinical Research.
Institutes
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.
ReVISE
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.
Internal partnerships
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.
External partnerships
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.
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.
Contact us
Get in touch if you have any queries regarding School of Medicine research.