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Agriculture, Food and Wine (School of)
Agronomy, animal science, integrated pest management, horticulture, viticulture, oenology, wine business, plant biotechnology, crop improvement, plant genomics, sustainable agriculture, dryland farming and cereal breeding.

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Perioperative medical care, perioperative assessment, anaesthesia for surgical procedures, pain management, postoperative care, advanced life support in intensive care, retrieval medicine and hyperbaric medicine.

Anatomical Sciences
Biological anthropology, reproductive biology, neuroanatomy, comparative anatomy, comparative histology, growth, regulation histology of the gastrointestinal tract, join structure and innervation and connective tissue research.

Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design (School of)
Thermal performance and preferences in buildings, computer-aided architectural and urban design, cross-cultural studies in Asian and Middle Eastern architecture.

Business (School)
Strategy, family business/SMEs, marketing, organisational behaviour, leadership and East Asian business.

Chemical Engineering (School of)
Biotechnology (food and wine), energy and the environment, particle technology (especially particle/fluid interactions), process control and simulation and advanced laser diagnostics.

Chemistry and Physics (School of)
Biological chemistry, chemical synthesis, laser and ion chemistry, high energy astrophysics, atmospheric physics, high performance computing, geophysics, mathematical physics, medical physics, optics and photonics, particle and nuclear theory and physical archaeometry.

Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering (School of)
Water resource management, water quality modelling, water distribution system simulation and optimisation, hydrology, coastal engineering, earthquake engineering, mining engineering, structural dynamics and analysis, composite steel and concrete sturctures, fatigue assessment of structures, infrastructure diagnosis, geotechnical engineering, retrofitting of reinforced concrete, steel, timber and masonry structures by steel or FRP plating.

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology
Clinical pharmacology, drug dependence, drug metabolism, drug transporters, pain, quality use of medicine, molecular toxicology and receptor pharmacology.

Clinical Nursing
Focuses on the experiences of health and illness, practice of nursing, effects of nursing practice on health outcomes, interface of hospital and community care, quality of nursing, community and rural nursing, clinical practice issues and emergency nursing.

Commerce
Accounting, corporate finance, marketing, management, commercial law, taxation and electronic commerce.

Computational Neuroscience (Research Cluster)
Biomedical engineering, cognitive science, computer vision, human cognition and applied decision making, neurological development and disease, pathology/neurological diseases and injury, and sensory neurophysiology.

Computer Science (School of)
Computer vision, evolution computation, formal modelling and verification, software architecture and distributed algorithms and distributed high-performance computing.

Defence and Security (Research Cluster)
Photonics, microwave radar, communications and signal processing, power and control systems engineering, computing, surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence, explosive detection by laser spectroscopy, aerospace engineering, asymetrical warfare, human factors and decision making, terrorism, environmental security, strategic studies and civil liberties.

Dentistry (School of)
Periodontal research, biomaterials, oral microbiology, forensic odontology, dental statistics, dental practice, craniofacial biology and fluoride studies.

Earth and Environmental Sciences (School of)
Ecology, systematics/biodiversity, ecophysiology, mineral, petroleum and environmental geoscience, solid earth geophysics, physico-chemistry and biology of soils, spatial information science, crop and pasture agonomy, land management and natural resource management.

Economics (School of)
Economic theory, macro/monetary economics, econometrics, agricultural economics, economic development, economic history, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation and relations, international economics and public economics.

ECIC
Project Management, Commercialisation, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Education (School of)
Intelligent learning-teaching assessment systems, ICT in education, history of the interaction of religion, education and social change, history of catholic girls' school in South Australia, analytical psychology and education, languages education, mentoring and career development for beginning teachers.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering (School of)
Communications and signal processing, convergent communications, digital systems and VLSI, electromagnetic engineering, remote sensing, t-rays, power and control systems engineering, insect vision and biomedical engineering.

General Practice
Clinical trials, primary care services, medical education, respiratory health, cardiovascular disease, grief and palliative care, mental health, health informatics and indigenous health.

Healthy Ageing (Research Cluster)
Biology of ageing (basic science), clinical aspects, psychological aspects, legal, ethical and political aspects, demographic and economic aspects and education, re-skilling and recreation.

Healthy Development Adelaide (Research Cluster)
Healthy reproduction, early growth and birth, pregnancy and families, healthy babies, growth and child health, healthy parenting, adolescent development, health risk behaviours and gender and sexuality.

History and Politics (School of)
Australian, British, Asian, European and American history. Australian feminist studies, international politics studies, comparative politics, political theory, Australian politics, area studies, feminist political theory, history of political thought, radical and cultural theory.

Humanities (School of)
Classics, European studies, French, German, linguistics, philosophy, English, creative writing and media.

Law (School)
Criminal law and sentencing, narcotics law, housing law, legal education, contract law, constitutional law, arbitration, freedom of information and commercial confidentiality, competition law, trust, commerical equity, property law, philosophy of law, legal and feminist theory, medical law, international humanitarian law, human rights, crown lands and natural resource law, religious legal systems and law.

Mathematical Sciences (School of)
Biomedical engineering, fluid dynamics, optimisation, stochastic modelling, teletraffic research, statistics, pure mathematics, biostatistics, bioinformatics, epidemiology, variance components modelling and applications in engineering, coding and cryptology, differential geometry (real and complex), twister theory, operator algebras, mathematical physics and represenation theory.

Mechanical Engineering (School of)
Acoustics, vibration and control, turbulence, energy and combustion, air conditioning, fluid mechanics, materials and fracture mechanics and robotics.

Medicine
Basic science research, clinical research and epidemiological research in: endocrinology, gastroenterology, neurology, ageing, cardiology, rheumatology, chronic disease, population health, nutrition, obesity, gastrointestinal motility, men's health, asthma, COPD, stroke, movement disorders, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Molecular and Biomedical Science (School of)
Research into the understanding of and potential cures for major diseases like cancer, neurological disorders, developmental abnormalities, genetic and viral diseases, chronic inflammatory diseases, bacterial infections. Stem cell research, genetics, microbiology and immunology and physiology.

Music (Elder Conservatorium of)
Performance, composition, musicology, music education and music technology.

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Maternal-fetal physiology, circadian physiology, reproductive immunology, embryology, advanced reproductive technology, perinatology, developmental neuromotor physiology.

Orthopaedics and Trauma
Cell and molecular biology of bone, cancer of bone, osteaoarthritis, total joint replacement, spinal disorders, trauma, orthopaedic implant devices, management of upper and lower limb injury and biomaterials.

Paediatrics
Early indicators of outcome in insulin dependent diabetes, growth hormone intervention studies, asthma and sleep disorders, hepatocyte growth factor, immunisation, early development of the immune response, child and adolescent mental health.

Pathology
Neurological diseases: traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, stroke, peripheral nerve injury, degeneration (Parkinson's and Alzheimer diseases). Extracellular matrix: study of the molecular biology of proteins, important to the function of tissues such as blood vessels, lung, skin, muscle, cornea and bone. Bone and joint diseases and spinal research.

Petroleum (Australian School of)
Education, training and research in petroleum geoscience, engineering and management.

Psychiatry
Post traumatic stress disorder, anthropological perspectives of schizophrenia, psychiatric epidemiology, child and adolescent health and illness, suicidal behaviour, psychology of health and healthcare, medical education, eating disorders, immigrants, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, anxiety disorders, quality of life, depression and dementia.

Psychology (School of)
Clinical psychology, counselling, community psychology, forensic psychology, education and developmental psychology, organisational psychology, sports psychology, primary mental healthcare, disabilities, discourse and rhetoric, human cognition and anomalistic psychology.

Public Health
Research design and statistical analysis, epidemiology, clinical trials methodology, health services research, ethics in public health, public policy, occupational health and safety and communicable diseases.

Rural Health
Rural and remote health, aboriginal history and culture, chronic disease self management, community development in health, quality use of medicines, domestic violence (aboriginal communities), mental health planning and falls prevention.

Social Sciences (School of)
Anthropology, Asian studies, geography, environmental studies, labour studies, gender studies, sociology, economic modelling, workforce development, population and migration.

Surgery
General surgery, upper gastrointestinal surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, oncological surgery, clinical care of patients, clinical trials, colonic disease, laparoscopic surgery, minimally invasive tumour destruction by electrolytic techniques, would healing and seamless surgical care.

Water (Research Cluster)
Integrated catchment management, managing water in arid areas, managing wetlands and rivers, sustainable irrigation, wastewater treatment and management and water management in urban areas.