Research Roadmap
The Research Roadmap represents our ambition to create change across the varied dimensions of research and innovation, and seeks to identify what needs to be done to enhance our research leadership and impact.
The Roadmap was developed as an outcome of the UQ Strategic Plan 2022-2025. It reflects a core purpose of the University, to advance knowledge and to generate innovative solutions to the complex challenges of contemporary society, and aligns with the Toward 2032 decadal strategy.
"Through our commitment to conducting brilliant discovery research and collaborating with our partners to translate our research discoveries, we seek to not only create new knowledge but share it in ways that enrich our communities, our economy, and the environment."
Toward 2032: UQ Strategic Plan 2022–2025
Actions arising from the Roadmap will enable us to meet changing expectations in research through a commitment to a vibrant and supportive research culture along with first-class infrastructure and resources to support our researchers and research students.
The Roadmap will help position UQ as a research powerhouse, delivering advances in knowledge and creating public value for community, industry and government. As we look to meet the challenges of the future and seize new opportunities, we encourage you to engage with the Roadmap and to support its aim of enabling the University to continue to be a nexus of excellence in research and innovation, both nationally and globally.
Roadmap framework
The Roadmap is comprised of 4 intersecting pillars that underpin our continuing vision to continue to produce world-leading research. The purpose of the Roadmap is to reflect on UQ’s current research support, collaboration, infrastructure and culture, and propose what the UQ research enterprise will look like over the next 10 years.
Researchers and research culture
- Researcher development
- Research culture
- Responsible research
Research and innovation enabling capabilities
- Functions supporting research
- Research quality and impact
- Mobilising IP towards commercialisation
Research infrastructure, systems and precincts
- Precincts
- Research infrastructure
- Research management systems
Research investment and cross-disciplinary collaboration
- Facilitation of collaboration among researchers
- Mission-oriented collaborative framework
- Research investment
Guides for staff
If you're a UQ staff member, you can download the implementation guide for each pillar of the Roadmap.