Major research initiatives

Major research initiatives

健康的人

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  Precision Cancer Therapy Lab

  Tumour biopsies are difficult and invasive, with the analysis confounded by tumoural heterogeneity. 研究ers at Macquarie have led the analysis of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA), which can assess prognosis and the genetic evolution of tumours in a non-evasive way.

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  Making health care better and safer

  Professor Wendy Rogers is on a mission to make surgery safer for patients around the world. Her team developed the Macquarie Surgery Innovation Identification Tool (MSIIT) – a checklist that identifies how much a surgical intervention differs from usual practice.

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  认知科学

  Professor Anne Castles is also deputy director of the Australian 研究 Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. The Macquarie-based centre runs a reading clinic to investigate the cognitive processes involved in reading and learning in children.

有弹性的社会

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  震惊的房间

  In the wake of the Holocaust, Stanley Milgram wanted to understand how we respond when asked to do something that conflicts with our conscience. His research concluded that most of us will harm others if asked to do so. Professor Kathryn Millar’s research aims to reinterpret Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiments through the prism of film.

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  创造历史

  Dr Tanya Evans is a senior lecturer at Macquarie and a public historian who examines the history of family, motherhood and sexuality. She is passionate about the democratisation of historical knowledge and incorporating ordinary people and places in her research.

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  扩散力

  The hysteria surrounding the arrival of boats carrying asylum seekers is a familiar phenomenon in Australia and around the world. Daniel Ghezelbash博士, a lecturer at 麦考瑞法学院, is focusing his research on comparative refugee and immigration law, with a focus on the diffusion of restrictive asylum seeker policies across jurisdictions.

繁荣的经济

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  Fighting for better economic outcomes- for all

  Professor Stefan Trueck, co-director at the Centre for Financial Risk, wants to keep utility prices reasonable in Australia. He creates statistical or econometrical models to forecast the price behaviour of electricity.

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  自由的代价

  蒂姆Kyng, an actuary and senior lecturer at Macquarie, has developed the retirement village calculator, the first of its kind in Australia. The calculator helps consumers to compare the costs of different retirement villages.

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  让我们保持联系

  How to keep everyone connected and ensure the absolute reliability of medical, power and other mission-critical applications is becoming a problem. Macquarie researchers have developed tools to assess and manage load, including using picocells.

安全的星球

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  深海海底采矿

  Mining the deep seabed for minerals, 比如铜, manganese and rare earth minerals, is an emerging industry. Dr Aline Jaeckel’s work looks at the balance between mineral mining and the protection of the marine environment in the regulatory framework of the International Seabed Authority.

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  Climate adaption decision tools

  The changing climate is likely to result in more frequent extreme weather events, requiring preventative and preparatory action from all levels of government. This research project developed a pilot tool that enables end users to analyse and prepare for extreme weather events.

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  Transforming ecology into a predictive science

  20世纪90年代以来, Macquarie researchers have developed a new understanding of plant ecology and have become world leaders in plant ecology via species traits. Ecologists are now able to better understand and predict the impact of a changing world on ecosystems.

Innovative technologies

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  鲨鱼的愿景

  Professor Nathan Hart, his students and collaborators are studying the sensory world of sharks. Using a range of physiological, genetical and behavioural methods, they have a clearer understanding of how to deter sharks from interacting too closely with humans.

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  木乃伊之谜

  Dr Ronika Power’s research combines scientific analysis of the human body with other forms of historical and archaeological evidence to gain insights into the life of past populations, thus helping to expand our understanding of the human condition across time.

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  A smartphone in a cell

  The Macquarie University 研究 Centre in Quantum Science and Technology (QSciTech) is building quantum sensors consisting of tiny diamond crystals that are only tens of nanometres in diameter. When injected into living cells, these sensors can relay useful diagnostic information via an optical signal.