Facilities

The University of Sydney’s core research facilities provide access to high-end research infrastructure and offer a range of related services to assist researchers with specialist applications. These centralised, shared facilities span faculties and serve as focal points of research activity.

The core research facilities bring together a critical mass of researchers from diverse disciplines, and provide the means to better manage and sustain high-end research infrastructure to conduct quality research.

National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy

The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) is a federal government initiative that provides funding for major research facilities, supporting infrastructure and networks to drive research excellence. NCRIS builds collaborations between researchers, government and industry to deliver practical outcomes to complex issues challenging our society.

The University of Sydney is involved in the following NCRIS facilities:

• Astronomy Australia Ltd
• AuScope
• Australian National Fabrication Facility
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Australia
• Integrated Marine Observing System
• Microscopy Australia
• National Computational Infrastructure
• National Imaging Facility
• Optical and Radio Astronomy - Square Kilometre Array
• Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (NSW)
• TERN Ecosystem Modelling and Scaling Facility (eMAST)
• Translating Health Discovery.