Welcome

Professor Grant Stanley Vice‑President (Research)

CQUniversity Australia is one of Australia’s most engaged universities, with an emphasis on globally relevant operations that particularly benefit regional Australia.

Research is core business for CQUniversity and our focus is to develop research strengths that support our stakeholders in the regions. The CQUniversity mission is to provide high quality applied research that engages with, and is informed by, its external stakeholders. The research profile of CQUniversity has grown considerably in recent years with an impressive portfolio of world class research institutes and centres, such as the Coastal and Marine Research Centre that was ranked 10th worldwide in the United Nations Sustainable Goal, ‘Life Under Water’ by the Time Higher Education 2022 World Impact Rankings. In recent years, the growth rate of external research income and research higher degree enrolments at CQUniversity have been amongst the highest in Australia. This growth has not been at the expense of quality, with the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia audit recognising 22 fields of research at CQUniversity as being of world standard or above world standard.

Absolutely critical to the research success of CQUniversity Australia is our community of RHD candidates. RHD candidates conduct most of the research activities occurring at the university, under the supervision of our talented academic and research staff. All our RHD candidates undertake fascinating and impactful projects – I know this, because one of the most rewarding duties of my role is to cheer on research graduates and read the citations of PhD students at graduation ceremonies. It is such a pleasure to see these talented people receive their awards, and to know that their research makes such extraordinary contributions to our global society. I am incredibly proud of the achievements of our RHD candidates, as well as our RHD supervisors and support staff. For these reasons, I want to congratulate RHD candidates, graduates and CQUniversity Australia for achieving 1000 RHD graduations.

Together, we have given the world one thousand reasons to be hopeful about the future of our planet and those that live on it.