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RMIT is shaping the future with innovative and industry-engaged research.

RMIT has a history of excelling in applied, interdisciplinary research and we are active in wider partnerships that help to commercialise research knowledge and scale up effective innovations.

We're internationally recognised as experts in a range of research areas from architecture to entrepreneurship.  

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The future of fighting superbugs

With your support, RMIT is set to make antibiotic resistance a thing of the past.

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Biomedical and Health Innovation

Help to solve health challenges of rapidly-changing population including chronic disease, bioinformatics, biomedical engineering and drug discovery.

Urban futures

Support us in investigating practical solutions to the world's most urgent environmental degradation, urban change, sustainability and resilience challenges.

Social change

Help us to empower and advance our communities by tackling social policy problems, migration and security, transformations in digital society and economy.

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Olympian Lauren Burns: A Natural Fit

Naturopath and Olympic Gold Medallist Lauren Burns is uncovering the key to elite athletic performance thanks to the Jacka Foundation of Natural Therapies.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

aboriginal flag
torres strait flag

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.