Department of Ecological, Plant and Animal Sciences partnerships

These relationships drive teaching innovations and research excellence, and position us as a partner of choice for co-developing solutions to challenges in agriculture, plant biotechnology, animal health, natural resource management and conservation biology.

Australian partnerships

We work closely with a range of organisations in Australia on to tackle key issues in agriculture, animal health and biodiversity conservation.

Our partners include governments, animal health companies, primary industry bodies, catchment management authorities, Traditional Owners, plant breeders and horticulture growers. These collaborations ensure that our education and research programs stay current and meet the changing needs of our partners.

International partnerships

We are globally connected, partnering with international agencies, academic centres and multinational companies.

Our partnerships support a range of research and teaching programs including joint grants, leadership development, academic staff exchange and student mobility.

For example, our researchers are members of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, which aims to create on-demand, zero-waste, high-efficiency plants and plant products to address grand challenges in sustainability for Space and on Earth.

As part of this research, our staff are contributing to NASA’s Lunar Effects on Agricultural Flora, a project will collect plant growth and development data that will help scientists to understand the use of plants grown for both human nutrition and life support on the Moon and beyond.

Researchers also join global networks like the Mountain Research Initiative and the Nutrient Network. These collaborations aim to address ecological questions by comparing outcomes across continents to seek global applications of ecological and resource management.