UNSW has secured $65 million in funding for 36 world-leading projects, placing it first in Australia's leading Group of Eight (Go8) universities in this round of funding. Some of the projects include research to improve treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in refugees and generating new health data on the ageing prison population. The funding is broken down as follows:
- UNSW Medicine & Health was awarded a total of 34 grants worth $59,490,907
- A UNSW Science project received $2,756,790
- A UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture project was granted $2,437,110
In commending all 36 UNSW recipients, UNSW Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research & Enterprise, Professor Nicholas Fisk said this is the University’s best year in the four Investigator Grants rounds to date.
“UNSW congratulates its researchers on securing so many of these prestigious five-year NHMRC Investigator awards, topping the nation in both number and dollars awarded."