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   "Our research goals are bold and ambitious, and we’re proud to have developed an enviable reputation for research excellence, with 100 per cent of our research activity rated at world standard or above.",
   "As a leading global university in discovery and innovation, we’re committed to attracting and fostering outstanding researchers at all stages of their careers.",
   "Many of our discoveries have already translated into real-life improvements with wide-ranging impacts for people and communities everywhere. Innovations such as wi-fi – which we co-developed with CSIRO – have had a transformative impact on all our lives.",
   "Our researchers are also working toward achieving medical breakthroughs by finding cures for motor neuron disease, Parkinson’s disease and other diseases."
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   "Macquarie University has established an enviable reputation for research excellence through our strategic research framework. As a result our researchers are responsible for revolutionary discoveries that have changed the world. Learn more about our research portfolios and teams.",
   "The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) portfolio is responsible for developing and implementing strategies for improving research quality, capacity and capability across the University while maximising research funding streams, collaborations and higher degree research enrolment and completions.",
   "In addition to consulting with the University community on the creation of the Research Strategy 2035, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) promotes achievement of the framework’s four research objectives and five future-shaping research priorities.",
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   "The Macquarie University Dementia Research Centre enables cutting edge discovery research with a focus on translating findings into treatments for patients.",
   "The Macquarie University Dementia Research Centre brings together international and national leaders in translational brain research to strengthen the University’s investment into neuroscience research.",
   "Dementia describes the symptoms of a large group of illnesses which cause a progressive decline in a person’s cognitive functioning. In Australia, dementia has become the leading cause of death since 2024.",
   "more than 446,500 people currently live with dementia, including 29,000 with early onset dementia (before the age of 65)"
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   "At Macquarie University, we're at the forefront of cutting-edge research to better understand, diagnose and treat MND.",
   "The Motor Neuron Disease Research Centre is focused on developing treatments that can extend and improve MND patients' lives, and finding a cure for this devastating disease.",
   "Motor neuron disease is a terminal, rapidly progressing neurological disease. Every year in Australia, around 800 people are diagnosed with this disease. Each day, two people lose their lives as their families stand by, powerless to help.",
   "MND attacks the nerve cells controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe, swallow and, ultimately, live. This means that, in most cases, a person with MND will die within two to four years of diagnosis. Over the past 30 years, there has been an escalation in the rate of MND in Australia."
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   "The Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre takes a whole-of-lifespan, interdisciplinary approach to improve emotional, social and cognitive health and wellbeing – from childhood through to older age.",
   "We combine expertise across health, psychology, education, ageing, cognition, health economics, digital health, law, policy and more to understand what helps people thrive, prevent problems before they arise and develop effective solutions when challenges occur.",
   "We work with communities, practitioners, organisations and policymakers to turn research evidence into meaningful change.",
   "Our shared vision is to maximise emotional, social and cognitive health and wellbeing for all Australians regardless of age, background, or psychosocial advantage."
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   "Smart Green Cities Research Centre creates collaborative evidence-based solutions for liveable smart green cities of the future.",
   "Cities are dynamic and complex by their very nature. The future liveability, vibrancy and sustainability of our cities is challenged by multiple factors including:",
   "At the same time, exceptional opportunities to achieve huge advances for our cities and our communities have been created by:",
   "Smart Green Cities was established to address these challenges and capture the best these opportunities offer."
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   "With an enviable reputation for research excellence and a driving desire to produce solutions with real-world impact, our discoveries are paving the way to a brighter future.",
   "Macquarie University operates at the forefront of research practice in several distinct areas. These research strengths are the foundation of Macquarie University's international reputation.",
   "Macquarie's five future-shaping research priorities capture the broad areas our researchers are making a difference in.",
   "At a discipline level, we are nationally and internationally recognised in several distinct areas:"
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   "Macquarie University is committed to maintaining the highest standards of research ethics and integrity.",
   "The Research Ethics and Integrity teams provide resources, advice, guidance, and training to support research ethics, quality, and trustworthiness."
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   "We are a centre of collaborative and multi-disciplinary researchers using innovative methods to address ethical and legal challenges facing individuals, communities, societies and the wider ecosystem",
   "The Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre spans a wide range of research topics, reflecting our multi-disciplinary membership. We bring unique perspectives to social, ethical and legal challenges arising from:",
   "We are a multidisciplinary network of researchers who collaborate to tackle significant challenges relating to technology, health and social justice. We have three main aims:",
   "to foster engagement with communities and stakeholders through our public outreach activities"
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  "name": "Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies",
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   "The Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies (ACANS) is an internationally recognised leader in the study of coinage in the ancient societies of the Mediterranean, Egypt and the Near East.",
   "As one of the few university-based institutions in the world to offer facilities and financial support for the study of numismatics, ACANS fosters a vibrant, interdisciplinary research network at the forefront of ancient numismatics.",
   "The Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies aims to be a place of learning, transformative experience and deep disciplinary knowledge, maintaining its status as a preeminent research centre within Australasia for ancient world studies.",
   "In accordance with the vision and values of Macquarie University's Our University: A Framing of Futures policy and Research Strategy 2025, ACANS is committed to engendering:"
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   "The Macquarie University Environmental Law Research Centre develops cross-disciplinary, holistic and intersectional solutions for governments, businesses and policy makers in Australia and beyond.",
   "We harness the role of law to address the triple planetary crisis of environmental pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss.",
   "Established in 1983, Macquarie University’s Environmental Law Research Centre – previously named Centre for Environmental Law (CEL) – is Australia’s oldest continuously functioning environmental law centre. Our researchers have expertise in the fields of:",
   "We engage law students as part of our volunteer program and provide them practical experience of administration and environmental research. The program has been integral to centre’s success, with volunteers being involved in all events and projects."
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   "The Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre at Macquarie University investigates the complexities of Indigenous life, ingenuity and identity. Together, we explore possibilities and opportunities for Indigenous futures.",
   "We create positive impact by sharing this research with Indigenous peoples around the world.",
   "The Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre is based in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University on the lands of the Wallumattagal people of the Dharug Nation.",
   "Led by Distinguished Professor Bronwyn Carlson, the centre is a site for collaboration in research, teaching, and community building. We bring together Indigenous researchers, graduate research students and allies from across the globe."
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   "For organisations committed to the provision of high-quality early education and care, the Macquarie University Early Childhood Education Research Centre provides opportunities to engage in impactful research collaborations.",
   "The Macquarie University Early Childhood Education Research Centre brings together a critical mass of early childhood education researchers from Macquarie University who work together with the early childhood community to co-design and conduct innovative, impactful research. Our research enhances the learning and wellbeing of children, families, educators and communities.",
   "Undertake impactful research about individualised early childhood pedagogies.",
   "Develop new knowledge to enhance the learning and wellbeing of children aged birth to eight."
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   "The Department of Chiropractic is committed to undertaking research that will improve the musculoskeletal health of the community.",
   "Our purpose is to advance knowledge in musculoskeletal health by undertaking high quality, impactful research and research training to improve clinical practice, inform healthcare policy, and improve health outcomes of the community.",
   "Macquarie University has distinguished itself as one of Australia’s leading research-intensive universities. Macquarie has outstanding achievements in research income, citations ranking, supporting Centres of Research Excellence, and the timely completion of excellent higher degree research by students.",
   "The Department of Chiropractic aims to actively foster academic staff and postgraduate research in areas of community health, complementary medicine, and evidence-based chiropractic practice and teaching. The Department maintains a diverse range of research interests in such areas as clinical, basic and applied chiropractic sciences, and community health."
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   "Real-world science delivering health solutions for individuals, communities, systems and policies.",
   "Our research aligns with Macquarie University Health and the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences' core purpose of Heal, Learn, Discover by bringing discovery research from the lab into real-world outcomes, world-class teaching, and healthcare across the health sciences.",
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   "We carry out research and supervision across a wide range of areas of linguistics, including language acquisition and disorders of language, speech and hearing, and languages in society.",
   "Our research centres, clinical groups, research labs and research collectives collaboratively foster a dynamic and interdisciplinary research and teaching environment for our staff and students.",
   "The Department of Linguistics has one of the highest concentrations of gradaute research students at Macquarie, with about 100 research students working in the department at any given time.",
   "We make a substantial and unique contribution through extensive distance and online courses for international graduate research students. We also host global PhD program students from Asia, Europe and Africa."
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   "Our research studies diseases at the molecular, cellular, system and population level with key capabilities in genetics, cell biology, systems physiology and the neurosciences.",
   "We have world-class research facilities, with access to dedicated PC2 laboratories, molecular and medical imaging suites, transgenic zebra fish and animal house facilities, and a viral vector core.",
   "Our close relationship with Macquarie University Hospital provides a unique opportunity for both translational and health services research, as do the strong internal partnerships across these facilities:"
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   "Our researchers seek to understand human behaviour and the way our mind, brain and body function.",
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   "Macquarie University Cancer Biobank is dedicated to providing high quality biospecimens to enable research into the cause, development, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.",
   "The Biobank collects tissue and blood from patients under investigation or treatment for cancer within Macquarie University's Health Sciences Centre, Macquarie University Health, which includes Macquarie University Hospital and a range of specialist clinics.",
   "Macquarie University Cancer Biobank has been certified by the NSW Health Pathology Biobank Certification Program.",
   "High quality biospecimens and patient information associated with the samples are made available to researchers who are conducting ethically approved cancer research."
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   "Our surgical skills and anatomy facility features modern technology to study the most basic of the medical disciplines: human anatomy.",
   "Macquarie provides an ideal environment to teach fundamental and advanced surgical technical skills and procedures in a simulated surgical environment. Trainees and practising surgeons hone their skills before translating them into practice in the operating theatre.",
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   "The National NeuroProteomics Facility (NNPF) is dedicated to advancing research in motor neuron disease (MND) and neurodegeneration.",
   "The NNPF is a specialised neurodegeneration research node of the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility (APAF), supported by Bioplatforms Australia (BPA).",
   "Founded in 2025, the NNPF is funded by FightMND and brings together Australia’s leading expertise in:",
   "Embedded within the Macquarie University Motor Neuron Disease (MND) Research Centre, the NNPF provides cutting-edge proteomics infrastructure, expertise and collaborative services for Australian researchers studying MND and other neurodegenerative diseases. The NNPF integrates with APAF to deliver end-to-end proteomics capabilities."
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   "The Neurodegenerative Disease Biobank and our multidisciplinary MND service and clinic are critical for our research into this awful disease.",
   "The MND Research Centre’s Neurodegenerative Disease Biobank, established in 2013, is a cornerstone of our research program.",
   "All patients of the MND service and clinic, and their families, are invited to contribute to the Neurodegenerative Disease Biobank.",
   "Through a bespoke sample tracking system within the biobank database, it’s possible to keep an inventory of the 60,000 samples throughout their lifecycle: from collection to processing to storage and ultimately use in research."
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   "Providing a world-class functional precision oncology platform to support patient care and accelerate the discovery of novel interventions.",
   "This Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) centre will bring together research, clinical and bioengineering expertise to advance the development of cancer models that reflect tumour biology beyond genomics.",
   "The Centre will initially focus on three core research themes adapted from existing strategic partnerships between Macquarie University, Melanoma Institute Australia, the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse and the University of Sydney.",
   "The development and implementation of ex vivo cancer models leading to real-time treatment decisions that are tailored to each patient."
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   "For people at risk of or living with lymphoedema and the health professionals who care for them, the Australian Lymphoedema Education, Research and Treatment Centre (ALERT) provides world-leading integrated personalised treatment.",
   "The ALERT Centre was recognised as a LE&RN Centre of Excellence – Lymphatic Disease Network in 2020 for its exceptional multidisciplinary care and services for people affected by lymphatic disease (LD) and their families. In 2025, this recognition was renewed and elevated, with the Centre upgraded to a LE&RN Comprehensive Center of Excellence (COE) in lymphatic disease.",
   "A world where individuals with lymphoedema, lipoedema or chronic oedema have access to early diagnosis, effective treatment and support, empowering them to live healthy lives.",
   "Delivering high-standard personalised clinical care, evidence-based education and innovative research in the field of lymphoedema, lipoedema and chronic oedemas."
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   "The Macquarie University Hearing Research Centre integrates cutting-edge discoveries, clinical expertise and effective connectivity to generate knowledge that reshapes hearing health policy and practice on a global scale.",
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   "Measures such as early childhood screening, the use of hearing devices, efficient management of conditions like otitis media can alleviate this burden."
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   "Located in Australia’s most multilingual city, with one of Australia’s largest concentrations of language and education researchers, we are ideally placed to take the lead in multilingualism research.",
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   "World-leading research into Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and related neurodegenerative conditions – integrating clinical care, disease-modifying trials, biomarkers, neurobiology and discovery science.",
   "The Parkinson’s disease research program is based at the Macquarie University Brain Institute and Clinic – a new, purpose-built facility designed to bring together world-class clinical care and discovery science under one roof.",
   "Our mission is to determine the biology underlying clinical diversity in order to deliver precision biological treatments for people living with Parkinson’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.",
   "To deliver on that mission, we are integrating leading clinical service delivery and patient-focused care with fundamental neuroscience research, to assess the molecular and cellular features influencing why individuals' disease spreads and progresses differently."
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   "To create smarter systems and deliver better ways of thinking and deciding, the Macquarie University Frontier AI Research Centre is reshaping the boundaries of AI-empowered humanity.",
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   "The Macquarie University Multi-omics Research Centre uses innovative technologies to deepen our understanding of complex biological systems and translate our findings to outcomes that will improve our health and wellbeing.",
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   "The Macquarie University Pollinator Futures Research Centre supports industry, conservation and policy. Through collaborative and cross-disciplinary approaches, we develop practical tools to protect pollinators and ecosystems.",
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