Research @DSC
DSC research co-creates sustainable and inclusive post-carbon societies. We embrace diversity, transparency and accountability, while addressing inequality and navigating digital disruption in ways that benefit society. Our world-leading research across design and social context positively impacts society, industry, and government and non-government sectors.
Our research is concentrated across three domains:
Across each we lead new research methods, respond to real-world problems, seek new collaborations, and maintain a flexible and interdisciplinary approach.
DSC researchers span our nine schools and connect through membership of RMIT Research Centres and Groups, Research Initiatives, Enabling Impact Platforms and other cross disciplinary networks.
The second annual Sacred Heart Mission Advocacy Forum, held in partnership with RMIT at the University’s Kaleide Theatre, explored the links between community safety and homelessness, and called for changes in policies and attitudes to make our communities safer for people without a home.
Most women in a new RMIT University study wore shoe sizes that differed from the size indicated by their foot length, highlighting the limitations of conventional sizing systems in accounting for differences in foot width and shape.
Renowned art collector and founder of Kaldor Public Art Projects, John Kaldor AO, recently held a talk sharing memories of his five-decade-long friendship with influential American artist, Sol LeWitt.
A rare 'blackest black' silk from Vietnam's Mekong Delta and a fire-retardant jacket grown from fungal networks are among the standout commissions RMIT University has contributed to the National Gallery of Victoria's world premiere exhibition, Plant Life: The Nature of Design.
Contact us to discuss research collaborations, studying a research degree, or to find a research expert.
Find out more about studying a research degree at RMIT and our current graduate scholarships
RMIT builds partnerships to have a positive impact in the world. We form multi-disciplinary teams with government, community, industry and researchers to deliver innovative solutions.
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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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