Research & Research Study

Macquarie University Research Areas

The research areas below marked with (CORE) are the Macquarie University's Concentrations of Research Excellence. For more information on the CORE areas, visit our Concentrations of Research Excellence webpage.

Division of Economic and Financial Studies

Department of Accounting and Finance
Department of Actuarial Studies
Applied Finance Centre
Department of Business
Department of Economics
Department of Statistics

Graduate School of Management 

Australian Centre for Educational Studies

School of Education
Institute of Early Childhood
Macquarie University Special Education Centre

Department of Modern History
Department of Ancient History
Department of English
Department of Politics and International Relations
Department of Contemporary Music Studies
Department of Public Law
Department of European Languages
Department of Asian Languages
Ancient Cultures (CORE)

Division of Law

Department of Law
Centre for Environmental Law
Department of Business Law

Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy

Department of Anthropology
Department of Critical and Cultural Studies
Centre for International Communication
Department of Media
Department of Philosophy
Department of Sociology
Warawara - Department of Indigenous Studies
Centre for Policing Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (CRSI) (CORE)

Department of Biological Sciences
Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences
Department of Health & Chiropractic
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Graduate School of the Environment
Department of Human Geography
Department of Physical Geography
Climate Risk / Ecology & Evolution (CORE)
Earth & Planetary Evolution (CORE)
Functional Proteomics & Cellular Networks (CORE)

Department of Linguistics
Department of Psychology
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS) (CORE)
Animal Behaviour (CORE)

Department of Mathematics
Department of Physics
Department of Computing
Department of Electronic Engineering
Laser & Photonics (CORE)
Quantum Information Science & Security (CORE)