Addressing significant local and global challenges that cannot be solved by one discipline alone.
The Hallmark Research Initiatives address significant local and global challenge that cannot be solved by one discipline alone. Research includes:
Meeting the future nutritional needs of a growing local and global population
Combating racism at both the interpersonal and structural levels
Understanding how technologies are profoundly shaping the nature of work, workplaces and working lives
Addressing the dynamic interdependencies between fire, climate, society, and the environment
The initiatives encourage the maturing of interdisciplinary research communities through research projects, workshops, fellowships and events.
Researchers work with industry, government and not-for profit organisations in Australia and internationally. In turn they challenge current thinking and offer new solutions to change our world
With scientific rigour and creativity we can use nature to solve almost any problem – from the nanoscale to the global. We call this bioinspiration.
Professor Devi Stuart-Fox Co-Chair, BioInspiration Hallmark Research Initiative
Other awful years in history
It's been a bad year, but there have been worse.
Experts from Creativity and Wellbeing as well as science, history and literature highlight other awful years in human history to help put things into perspective.
In collaboration with government, community organisations and businesses, the Anti-Racism Hallmark Research Initiative undertakes and disseminates solutions-focused anti-racism research and interventions to combat racism at both the interpersonal and structural levels.
The Wildfire Futures HRI is a future-focused research program that takes an interdisciplinary approach to link new ways of predicting changes in fire, climate, and ecosystems with the preferences and knowledge of communities.
The Affordable Housing initiative is working across disciplines to create new insights into the supply of affordable housing.
Making sustainable building material – with mushrooms
Cladding is used to protect and insulate buildings. Usually, cladding ‘sandwich’ panels are made with aluminium and synthetic materials. This makes them cheap, light and easy to install. But they leave a large carbon footprint.
Mycelium, a network of fibres from which mushrooms flower, has the required properties for sandwich panels while being biodegradable. It is used in packaging and interior building linings and fittings.
The Disability Hallmark Research Initiative brought disciplines together to focus on changing the social, economic and physical environments that impact people with disability.
The Therapeutic Technologies Research Initiative focused on new applications of mechano-pharmacology and organ-on-a-chip technology to transform drug screening processes.