Building safe and secure communities

No matter where people reside or work in the world, every citizen deserves to feel safe. At Deakin, we’re developing preventative approaches to complex global security threats.

From training the next generation of pilots, preparing firefighters for ever intensifying bushfires, to improving the reliability of autonomous vehicles, we’re at the forefront of building and enhancing intelligent systems.

Designing solutions for efficient and resilient supply chain and logistics, our researchers are ensuring that essential supplies get to those in need. We challenge racism, enhance social belonging, and build resilience to social harms through strong collaboration with industry, government and communities.

Find out how our researchers are integrating societal, behavioural, political and technological innovations to meet and surpass our security needs.

In addition to our institutes and research centres, Deakin’s four faculties contribute to research that’s building safe and secure communities. Importantly, researchers within each faculty work together, fostering a collaborative approach to research that unlocks new angles, solutions and ways of thinking.

Visit each of our faculty pages to learn more about the projects, institutes and world-class researchers connected to each faculty.

Whether you want to break new ground, develop your critical professional skills or work with the best researchers in the world, you'll solve problems no one else can with a Deakin PhD.