University of Canberra

Overview

University of Canberra

University of Canberra (UC) is a public university in Bruce, Canberra, Australia. It was founded in 1967 as Canberra College of Advanced Education. It gained university status and its present name in 1990. UC has developed quickly to become one of the leading young universities in the country and across the world.

University of Canberra Key Statistics

The university comprises five faculties, namely, the Faculty of Science and Technology, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Business, Government and Law, Faculty of Art and Design, and Faculty of Health.

University of Canberra's student population is approximately 16,814 undergraduates and postgraduates. It employs around 1,000 administrative personnel.

The other University of Canberra key statistics include its main library, the University of Canberra Library, which houses an extensive range of special collections, including the Rare Books Collection, the National Center for Australian Children’s Literature, and the University Deposit Collection. Its notable alumni include former Labor government Minister Susan Ryan, former Chief of Army (Australia) Peter Leahy, journalist Donald Horne, and geneticist Janine Deakin.

University of Canberra Research

UC is a fast-emerging research institution in Australia. Its top fields of research are medicine, demography, and global health.

University of Canberra research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like The New England Journal of Medicine, the Social Science Research Network, and PLOS ONE. Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences such as the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, the International Conference on Computer Vision, and the International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems.

The most cited University of Canberra research publication is Vos et al.’s (2015) “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.” This article was published in The Lancet and has received 6,349 citations.

The university’s second most cited publication is Forouzanfar et al.’s (2015) “Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013,” which was also featured in The Lancet and has been cited 4,950 times.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is Naghavi et al.’s (2015) “Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.” Another The Lancet featured article, this report has been cited 4,451 times to date.

The university has several research centers and institutes. Some of its institutes include the Health Research Institute, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, and Institute for Applied Ecology.

It also has several research centers, such as the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre, SYNERGY Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre, STEM Education Research Centre, Centre for Research in Therapeutic Solutions, and the Centre for Research and Action in Public Health.

In addition, UC houses other research facilities, including the Canberra Urban and Regional Futures, Collaborative Indigenous Research Initiative, and the Murray-Darling Basin Futures Collaborative Research Network.