Research centres & institutes

The Big Anxiety Research Centre is a unique transdisciplinary enterprise, dedicated to transforming thinking and practice in mental health through creative collaboration and cultural innovation.

The Centre for Social Research in Health aims to increase understanding of the individual, social and structural factors that influence health-related behaviours, experiences and outcomes.

The City Futures Research Centre is a national leader in scholarly applied urban research based in the School of Built Environment.

UNSW Cities Institute is independent and exists to develop new, long-term and integrated visions and roadmaps for the city.

The iCinema Centre is focused on the development of AI-based creative visualisation across the UNSW faculties of Arts, Design & Architecture, Engineering and Science, and UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

The Social Policy Research Centre tackles critical social issues through research with a focus on poverty, inequality, wellbeing and justice.

Arch_Manu brings together academics, researchers, and industry experts from Architecture, Engineering, Management and Governance, Information Systems, Computer Science, Computational Design, Industrial Design, and Construction Management to investigate how data and digital strategy can help the AEC Sector meet critical sustainability and productivity goals. 

ADM+S brings together researchers in the humanities and social sciences, communication and media studies, law, computer science and data science. 

CIEHF was created to pursue better outcomes for Land and Sea Country by bringing Indigenous and Western knowledges together to understand the long-term histories and near-term futures of Australia. Our Centre is a collaboration between 29 organisations, bringing together Australia’s leading researchers and research organisations across diverse fields.

The Hub and its Networks support, accelerate, and attract investment to decarbonisation tech and services in NSW. They foster collaboration, partnerships and projects between industry, researchers and government to drive decarbonisation forward in NSW and beyond.

The Laureate Centre for History & Population asks how, where and why population policies emerged over the 19th and 20th centuries, and what their present legacies are, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.

The 3DXLab is a multi-disciplinary research lab that unites artists, designers, and technologists to craft innovative immersive worlds.

The Advanced Architectural Analytics Laboratory (A3 LAB) is a multi-disciplinary research lab that specialises in architectural analytics and design computing.

Founded in 2011 at the School of Art & Design, the Creative Robotics Lab is a collaborative research and educational space that advances interaction between humans and machines.

The Empirical Musicology Laboratory applies interdisciplinary methods to understand the phenomenon of music and human interactions with it.

The Creative Technologies Research Lab (CTRL) at the School of Art & Design researches and teaches emerging media technologies and their application in creative work.