Faculty of Arts and Education
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School of Education research groups
- Being and Becoming Learners (BBL)
Explores innovative, creative and ethical ways in understanding and engaging diverse learners within early childhood, schooling, home and communities to enhance understanding of the ecologies in which they live, learn and play. Co-convened by Associate Professor Tim Corcoran and Dr Marcus Horwood - Innovating Teacher Education (ITE)
Prioritises the co-production of research-informed partnerships and alliances across the eco-systems of educational provision that includes early childhood, school and higher education. Co-convened by Dr Natalie Robertson and Associate Professor Amanda Mooney - Transforming Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy (TCAP)
Investigates curriculum, pedagogy and assessment topics across formal and informal contexts, including early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, vocational education and training, higher education and community settings. Co-convened by Associate Professor Michiko Weinmann and Dr Rebecca Cairns - Transforming Professional Lives, Learning and Learnership (TPLLL)
Addresses professional learning across workplaces, early years, schools, vocational education and training and higher education by examining leadership capacity building for transformative organisational change. Co-convened by Associate Professor Rod Neilsen and Dr Lihua Xu
Faculty Research Networks
- Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism Network (AVERT)
- Asian Media and Cultural Studies Research Network
- Climate Change Narratives and Communication Research Network
- Deakin Network Against Gendered Violence (DNAGV)
- Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network
- Middle East Study Forum (MESF)
School of Communication and Creative Arts
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Business and Law
The Faculty of Business and Law is committed to offering students a rewarding business or legal education, and offering access to industry, professional networks and award-winning courses.
Faculty of Health
Deakin University’s Faculty of Health is one of the largest and fastest growing health faculties in Australia. Across five schools, we are committed to improving health and social outcomes and reducing inequalities across the life-course in the communities we serve, through dynamic learning experience and world-class research.
Faculty groups
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
School of Health and Social Development
School of Medicine
School of Psychology
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment puts great emphasis on excellence in teaching and learning, research and research training, community engagement and staff empowerment. We're involved in national and international activities, and are proud of our partnerships with industry, community, government and the professions.
Faculty groups
School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Architecture Vacancy Lab
- HOME Research Hub
- Deakin Biophilia Lab
- MInD Lab
- Data Analysis and Modelling in Construction Lab
Learn more about research in architecture and built environment
School of Engineering
- Centre for Smart Power and Energy Research (CSPER)
- Deakin Digital Design and Engineering Centre (3DEC)
- Engineered Timber Structures Research Group
- Environmental Chemistry and Climate Resilience Engineering Research Group
- Flow, Aerosols and Thermal Energy (FATE) Research Group
- Networked Sensing & Biomedical Engineering (NSC) Research Lab
- Sustainable Composite Materials and Structures Research Group
- Transport Infrastructures and Safety Research Group
- Water-Energy Nexus Research Group
- Water Resources and Asset Management Research Group
School of Information Technology
- Centre for Internet of Things ECOsystems Research and Experimentation (CITECORE)
- Centre for Software, Systems and Society (CSSS)
- Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
- Data Analytics Research Lab (DARL)
- Data to Intelligence Research Centre (D2I)
- Deakin Blockchain Innovation Lab (DBIL)
- Human Computer Interaction for Virtual Experiences Lab (HIVE)
- IoT Platforms and Applications Lab (PAL)
- Mathematics Lab
- Machine Intelligence Research Lab (MILA)
- Security and PrivacY Research in IoT (SPYRIT)
- Smart Ed Tech Innovations Research Lab (SETI)
- Smart Networks Lab
School of Life and Environmental Sciences
- Blue Carbon Lab
- Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution and Ecophysiology
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
- Chemistry, Biotechnology and Forensic Sciences
- Deakin AIRwatch
- Deakin Marine Mapping
- EcoGenetics Lab
- Environmental Management and Sustainability
- Integrative Physiology and Biochemistry
- Marine, Freshwater and Aquaculture Sciences
- Nutrition and Seafood Lab (NuSea)
- Palaeobiology and Global Change
- Planet-A Sustainability Science Research Group
- Wildlife and Conservation Biology
Learn more about research in life and environmental sciences
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