Research and Innovation Office

The Research and Innovation Office (RIO) is responsible for university contract and collaborative research, and for research commercialisation.

RIO has three functional areas:

• Grants

  The Grants team provides support for competitive grant funding including the ARC, NHMRC,NIH, and EU as well as grant-giving foundations and other UTS funding schemes.

• Industry

  The Industry team is responsible for supporting researchers seeking to engage in contract research, Researchers in Business, industry engagement and commercialisation activities.

• Planning and Operations

  The Planning and Operations team provides strategic and administrative support, including developing research policy, supporting research strengths and RQF needs, data collection reporting and support and management of human and animal ethics and biosafety committees.

 

A number of other teams within RIO and across UTS provide support to the UTS research community:
 

• Finance and Administration

  The Finance and Administration team coordinates the operations of RIO, including the Service Centre and management of the RIO budget.

• Centres and Strategic Initiatives

  The Centres and Strategic Initiatives manager provides strategic advice and development support for proposals for externally funded research centres and similar large collaborative programs.

• Research Communications

  The Research Communications team works to promote UTS research activites across UTS and to industry, government, the media and the broader community.

• Web

  The Web team provides technical and administrative support for web-based issues relating to the RIO and UGS websites, and some research strength sites.

• UniQuest at UTS

  UniQuest is UTS' commercial partner. UniQuest Managers of Innovation and Commercial Development (MICDs) are embedded within UTS faculties where their roles are to identify and develop innovative research from within UTS faculties.