Adelaide University hosts a diverse network of research institutes, centres, and concentrations that drive innovation across disciplines to address complex challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
Government-funded Centres and Hubs
Adelaide University drives research innovation through its leadership and participation in major government-funded centres of excellence, hubs and training centres. These initiatives bring together academia, industry and government to tackle complex challenges and deliver real-world impact.
Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence
We are also a partner organisation on:
Australia Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Program (ITRP)
The ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs fund research projects focused on issues facing industry.
- ARC Research Hub for Advanced Manufacturing with 2D Materials (AM2D)
- ARC Research Hub for Driving Farming Productivity and Disease Prevention
- ARC Research Hub for Engineering Plants to Replace Fossil Carbon
- ARC Research Hub for Intelligent Contaminant-Sensing in complex Environments (IC-SensE Hub)
- ARC Research Hub in the Internet of Things for Water
- ARC Research Hub in New Safe and Reliable Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies
- ARC Research Hub for Next Generation Mining Methods
- ARC Research Hub for Photovoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability (PVRS)
- ARC Research Hub in Responsible AI for a Sustainable Grain Industry
- ARC Research Hub for Transformation of Reclaimed Waste Resources to Engineered Materials and Solutions for a Circular Economy
- ARC Research Hub in Zero-emission Power Generation for Carbon Neutrality
Australia Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centres (ITTC)
The ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres support Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students and postdoctoral researchers gain practical skills and experience through placements with industry.
- ARC Training Centre for Accelerated Future Crop Development
- ARC Training Centre for Battery Recycling
- ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies
- ARC Training Centre in Critical Resources for the Future
- ARC Training Centre in Current and Emergent Quantum Technologies (CE-QuTech)
- ARC Training Centre for Environmental and Agricultural Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance (ARC CEA-StAR)
- ARC Training Centre for Facilitated Advancement of Australia's Bioactives (FAAB)
- ARC Training Centre for Innovative Composites for the Future of Sustainable Mining Equipment
- ARC Training Centre for Integrated Operations for Complex Resources
- ARC Training Centre for Next-Gen Architectural Manufacturing
- ARC Training Centre for Radiation Innovation
- ARC Training Centre for Transformative Health Sensing Technologies
- ARC Training Centre for Whole Life Design of Carbon Neutral Infrastructure
National Health & Medical Research Council Centres of Research Excellence (CRE)
Centres of Research Excellence are funded by the NHMRC, Australia's peak body for supporting health and medical research. They support research translation, collaboration and capacity building in basic science, clinical, public health and health services research.
- Centre of Research Excellence for Atrial Fibrillation (AF-CARE) to Reduce Burden of Disease
- Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous Australian oral health advancement through clinical trials, cohort studies and surveillance
- Centre of Research Excellence on Shaping Markets for Health Equity
- Centre for Research Excellence in Neisseria disease control
- Centre for Research Excellence in Optimising human milk nutrition to improve the long-term health of preterm infants
Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs)
Cooperative Research Centres foster high-quality research to solve industry-identified problems through industry-led, outcome-focused, collaborative research partnerships. A CRC is an Australian government supported initiative that brings together researchers (from universities, CSIRO or other Institutions), industry partners and government agencies.