2017 University Profile

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UNIVERSITY PROFILE DRIVEN BY DISCOVERY 06 forA diverse approach purp ose Global Challenges Transforming lives & regions Partnerships & collaborations Research & impact — AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS 14 Campus master plan Expanding student accommodation Facilities — FINDING WHY 22 Transforming curriculum Our faculties Teaching locations — WE STAND TOGETHER 34 UOW’s Economic Impact Our home and our history In this time of unprecedented change universities have an obligation to lead and contribute to society. This is why we are committed to new and emergent industries and future jobs. Our courses and research capacity are geared

towards excellence at a global level. We are UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG focused on creating a lasting impact that contributes to the needs of communities and empowers people to achieve their aspirations. Our ambition for our graduates is that they will be ethical, agile thinkers who are competitive in a global economy. And that their experiences at UOW will Stands shape their sense of self as well as their future career. University of Wollongong. UNIVERSITY PROFILE for purp oseStands for purpose. UNIVERSITY PROFILE UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG This is Top 1% for graduates as rated UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG who we are by global employers1 Universities are key to the national innovation agenda, Top 2% and share an obligation to be at the forefront of 2 contemporary policies and society. This is why we are of universities in the world focused on producing quality, accessible research through highly cited and esteemed researchers. We will grow our innovation ecosystem and pursue the uptake of disruptive Top 20 technologies that deliver positive economic impacts. 12th best modern university We must also anticipate the nature of emergent in the world3 industries and future jobs: graduates need to be ethical, mobile, technologically literate and ready for multicultural workplaces. 5-Stars UNIVERSITY PROFILE As international mobility increases, competition Overall quality for the best academic and professional staff will Student retention also intensify. We will attract the best by unleashing our staff’s performance, reducing complexity Learner engagement and optimising professional achievements. Learning resources We are a young and vibrant university with Skill development undiminished ambitions, with a strong sense Student support of who we are, and where we are going. Teaching quality4 The University of Wollongong stands for purpose. 138,594 graduates from 175 Countries 1

Professor Paul Wellings CBE Vice-Chancellor

1. 2017 QS Graduate Employability Rankings. 2. 218th in the world – QS World University Rankings 2016/2017 3. QS Top 50 Under 50 Rankings 2016 4. Good Universities Guide 2017 Principal UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Officers Our leadership team is the guiding force behind UOW’s commitment to progress, accountability and excellence. UNIVERSITY PROFILE

2 Making a difference: UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Valuing the role of higher education

Chancellor: Deputy Chancellor: Vice-Chancellor: UNIVERSITY PROFILE MS JILLIAN BROADBENT AO MR NOEL CORNISH AM PROFESSOR PAUL WELLINGS, After a career in banking in Australia and Mr Noel Cornish was appointed to the CBE overseas, Ms Jillian Broadbent became University Council in February 2006 by Educated in the UK, Professor Wellings’ a member of the Board of the Reserve the NSW Minister for Education and was career experience includes a NERC Bank of Australia from 1998-2013. She elected Deputy Chancellor in 2015. Mr research fellowship and senior positions has served on the boards of Coca-Cola Cornish completed his BSc (Metallurgy) at the CSIRO and Department of Industry, Amatil Ltd, ASX Ltd, Special Broadcasting and MEngSc at Newcastle University. Science and Resources. Prior to his Service (SBS), Woodside Petroleum He has also studied at the University current role, he was Vice-Chancellor of Ltd, Westfield Management Ltd and of Michigan Business School. His Lancaster University from 2002–2011. Qantas Airways Ltd, and was Chair of former roles include Chief Executive of Professor Wellings was appointed the National Institute of Dramatic Art BlueScope Steel Ltd Australian and New Commander of the British Empire (CBE) (NIDA). Ms Broadbent is currently a Zealand steel manufacturing businesses, in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours Director of Woolworths Ltd and Chair of and President of Northstar BHP LLC list for services to higher education. He the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. In in Ohio USA. Mr Cornish is currently has extensive board experience including 2001 she was a recipient of the Australian Chairman of Snowy Hydro Ltd, Chairman with the Australian Nuclear Science 3 Centenary Medal in recognition of of IMB Ltd, a Director of Forestry and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), her contribution to the community Corporation NSW and a Non-Executive the Australian Centre for International and in 2003, she was made an Officer Director on the UOWE Board. He is also Agricultural Research (ACIAR), and in the Order of Australia for service to the National Past President of Ai Group. some of the UK’s peak education and economic and financial development research bodies. He is currently a board in Australia and to the community member of the University of Wollongong through administrative support for in Dubai, a Trustee of Guangdong cultural and charitable groups. University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), China, and a director of the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI). Professor Wellings also serves on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Advisory Committee, the NSW Innovation and Productivity Council, the Global Foundation Advisory Council and the Bundanon Trust Board. Providing an exceptional Celebrating partnerships Addressing regional, learning and student and building connections national and experience international needs UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Deputy Vice-Chancellor Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic): (Global Strategy): (Research and Innovation): PROFESSOR JOE CHICHARO PROFESSOR ALEX FRINO PROFESSOR JUDY RAPER Professor Chicharo has a distinguished Professor Alex Frino is a distinguished Professor Judy Raper brings extensive academic and research track record, financial economist who fosters the management and research administration having published more than 200 refereed interaction of business with academe. He experience to UOW. Her prior service papers. His research contributions are is an alumnus of UOW and Cambridge includes the ARC Engineering and Earth well cited and he has been the recipient of University, and a former Fulbright Sciences Panel, Dean of Engineering at a number of best paper prizes, such as by Scholar. He is one of the best published the University of Sydney, and Division UNIVERSITY PROFILE the Institute of Electrical and Electronics financial economists in the world with Director at the National Science Engineers (IEEE). Professor Chicharo over 100 papers in leading scholarly Foundation in Washington DC. In has also served as the inaugural President journals. He has won over $10 million 2012, Professor Raper was named by of the Australian Council of Deans in competitive research funding and the Australian Financial Review and of Information and Communication is frequently cited in the global press. Westpac as one of Australia’s ‘100 Women Technology. He has served as Chair with Professor Frino was previously Chief of Influence’, and in 2015 was named in organisations, including Excellence Executive Officer of the Capital Markets the ‘Top 100 Influential Engineers’ by in Research Australia (ERA) and the Cooperative Research Centre Ltd and Engineers Australia for the third year 4 Australian Research Council (ARC), as has held visiting academic positions at running. Professor Raper is a Fellow of Editor with IEEE, and is an external leading Universities in Italy, New Zealand, the Academy of Technological Sciences examiner for MSc (Eng.) programs the UK and the United States. He has and Engineering (ATSE) and an Honorary at the University of Hong Kong. also held positions with leading financial Fellow of Engineers Australia. She market organisations, including the currently serves on three incorporated Sydney Futures Exchange, Credit Suisse boards: Unimutual Ltd, Excellerate and the Commodity Futures Trading Australia, and the Illawarra Health and Commission in the USA. He is regularly Medical Research Institute (IHMRI). called upon to act as an independent expert witness in major Australian court cases and has acted as a consultant to many large Australian listed companies. UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Embracing change Investing in our and opportunity people and places

Chief Administrative Officer: Chief Finance Officer: MS MELVA CROUCH CSM MR DAMIEN ISRAEL UNIVERSITY PROFILE Ms Melva Crouch has extensive Mr Damien Israel is an experienced experience as a logistics and corporate senior executive committed to delivering support executive in complex sustainable financial outcomes organisations. She commenced her career and commercially viable business with the Australian Army as a logistics developments. Prior to joining UOW, Mr officer, serving for 23 years in a variety of Israel held a number of senior executive Army and joint Defence roles culminating posts within health services, involving with the position of Head of Logistics resource management, information and Administration at Joint Operations technology, capital planning and delivery, Command at the rank of Colonel. and organisational change management. He is a Fellow of CPA Australia, holding Ms Crouch left the Army in 2005 to a Bachelor of Business and Master of join the United Nations, subsequently Accounting. As Chief Finance Officer, providing logistic support to peacekeeping Mr Israel ensures effective and strategic missions in Democratic Republic of management of UOW resources and Congo, Liberia and Western Sahara. assets. He has oversight of accounting 5 After five years in the field, she moved and finance, internal audit, risk to New York to take on more strategic management, business assurance, administrative roles with the United information technology, commercial Nations. Prior to joining the University and infrastructure development, of Wollongong she held the position of public-private partnerships, business Director of Facilities and Commercial process improvement, and planning and Services Division in the Department of management information. Mr Israel is Management, managing the office and executive lead for the development of conference facilities of the United Nations the University’s Innovation Campus. Headquarters and providing common support functions to the Secretariat. Driven by UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG discovery

UNIVERSITY PROFILE From 3D bioprinting and materials engineering to medicinal chemistry and social transformation, our research is solving complex real-world problems.

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7 A diverse approach

At UOW we recognise that the search for solutions to the world’s challenges must be a global one. Research at UOW crosses Whether addressing climate change, modern medical issues or international and disciplinary sustainable food sources, we form alliances with the best minds across the globe. Our strong research partnerships with world- boundaries to deliver results. renowned organisations and industry work towards building a sustainable and equitable future for the 21st century. The results of our overseas Recently, we have introduced a major research initiative – the UOW partnerships underpin the UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Global Challenges Program – to harness the expertise of world-class University’s reputation for interdisciplinary researchers to transform lives and regions. research excellence.” Locally, our Innovation Campus (iC) is an award-winning research and commercial precinct. iC is home to a number of UOW’s leading Professor Judy Raper, research institutes working in the development of ‘intelligent’ innovative Deputy Vice-Chancellor materials with the potential to regenerate damaged human nerves, (Research and Innovation) the development of superconductors that make energy transmission more efficient, new techniques for sustainable building design, and maritime law and security. iC also houses UOW’s iAccelerate initiative, which is designed to support students, staff and the community to build an innovation ecosystem that fosters new talent. MAJOR RESEARCH ENTITIES UOW has built an international reputation for world-class research —— Australian Institute for Innovative and is proud to be among the best modern universities in the world. Materials (AIIM) We are, and always have been, about research excellence. —— Early Start UNIVERSITY PROFILE —— Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) RESEARCH EXCELLENCE —— SMART Infrastructure Facility —— Sustainable Buildings Research Centre 98% of UOW disciplines (SBRC) rated ‘at world standard’ or higher 8 (Excellence in Research for Australia 2015) UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG UNIVERSITY PROFILE 9 Global Challenges, interdisciplinary solutions

Over the coming decades we will face many challenges and transformations in the way we live. The Global Challenges Program recognises the interconnected The Global Challenges nature of these transformations. Program was born of the belief that interdisciplinary The Program is designed to encourage and develop creative and community- engaged interdisciplinary research that will help drive social, economic and research is vital to address cultural change in our region, and will be translatable across the globe. the truly significant problems UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Jakarta, Manchester, Seoul, San Francisco, Ho Chi Minh City, the world faces. The Wollongong: Global Challenges projects are having an impact in our own backyard and around the world. The Global Challenges integrated nature of major Program is building a strong research network comprising university challenges of environment, and industry organisations in Australia and across the globe. economy, health and society will need researchers coming GLOBAL CHALLENGES currently has together from diverse backgrounds finding ways 73 Active Projects to transfer knowledge, methodologies and insights.”

UNIVERSITY PROFILE $2.8 Million White Paper: INVESTED in research funding Challenge-Led Interdisciplinary Research Programs Tamantha Stutchbury, Chris Gibson, Projects have attracted Lorna Moxham, Clive Schofield, Geoffrey Spinks $19 Million 10 IN EXTERNAL FUNDING A five-fold return on investment

41% OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES projects are led by female researchers Transforming lives & regions UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG What does transformation look like? What kind of world do we want to shape for the future?

LIVING WELL, LONGER How can we ensure that a long life is also a secure and healthy life – physically, mentally, socially and economically?

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION What should we be making in Australia and how should we be making it?

SUSTAINING COASTAL AND MARINE ZONES UNIVERSITY PROFILE How can we ensure the protection and management of our precious coastal and marine environments?

11 Partnerships & collaborations

At UOW we understand that to truly make a difference to the world our research often needs to be conducted with a global perspective.

Our global connections are strengthened by our membership of the University Global Partnership Network (UGPN), which is focused on creating a foundation for international collaboration. This enables academics and students from some of the world’s top universities to work together on issues of global importance. The UGPN consists of The Universidade de São Paulo, North Carolina State University, the University of Surrey and the University of Wollongong. UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG UOW has also developed key research partnerships and collaborations with other universities, institutions, governments and corporations from around the world.

OUR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS INCLUDE: —— A world-first collaboration led by —— Centre for Medical Radiation UOW’s SMART Infrastructure Physics researchers collaborated Facility, in partnership with BPBD with NASA scientists to develop DKI Jakarta and Twitter Inc, is instrumentation for measuring the having a huge impact on how Jakarta’s radiobiological effects of cosmic citizens and government agencies radiation on humans, and are working prepare for and respond to severe with leading radiation oncology monsoonal flooding. The crowd- institutes around the world on

UNIVERSITY PROFILE sourcing urban data collection groundbreaking cancer treatments. project PetaJakarta.org, uses social —— Centre for Archaeological Science media to promote the resilience of experts are working with Indonesian cities to extreme weather events as archaeologists on one of the most a process of climate adaptation. significant palaeoanthropological —— Engineers from the Institute of discoveries of modern times – the Superconducting and Electronic unearthing of a previously unknown Materials are working with Chinese species of tiny humans on the island 12 steelmaker Baosteel and other of Flores who had co-existed with partners to improve the energy modern humans until relatively efficiency of steel plants by developing recently. The world now knows the new ways to capture heat from the specimen uncovered by its nickname steel-making process and convert it to ‘the Hobbit’. usable energy. —— Medical bionics scientists from the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute working with Hanbat National University in South Korea are building expertise in energy conversion and storage systems for medical bionics.

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UOW UOW 6,332 UOW STUDENTS have studied overseas on UOW exchange programs

12,041 STUDY ABROAD AND UOW EXCHANGE STUDENTS have come from another university to study at UOW

RESEARCH INCOME & GRANTS RESEARCH IMPACT $ 53.99 Million 2,699

HERDC RESEARCH INCOME RECEIVED – 2016 TOTAL UOW SCOPUS UNIVERSITY PROFILE (Higher Education Research Data Collection) PUBLICATIONS IN 2016 (abstract and citation database) $ 36.13 Million RESEARCH BLOCK GRANT ALLOCATION – 2016 1,398 (Source: Australian Government) UOW GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS IN 2016 $ (including publications with international co-authors, 48.62 Million grants with international investigators and contract research with international funding partners). ARC & NHMRC GRANTS INCOME AWARDED (Australian Research Council & National Health & Medical Research Council grants announced in 2016)

Including: 13 $33.75 Million $2.13 million ARC Centre of Excellence for ARC Linkage Projects Australian Biodiversity and announced in 2016 Heritage $ $ 1.76 million 5.34 million NHMRC Project Grants ARC Discovery Project funding announced in 2016 announced in 2016 $4.27 million ARC DECRA & Future Fellowships announced in 2016 (DECRA: Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards) An

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG environme nt of success UNIVERSITY PROFILE We are investing to enhance our campuses and align our facilities to changing centres of population and 14 emerging research priorities. An UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG environme nt

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15 Campus Master Plan

PUTTING THE PLAN INTO ACTION The 2016–2036 Wollongong Campus Master Plan is underway as we build on the high- quality landscape and public realm of This Master Plan will the existing campus, while improving its help ensure our physical relationship to the surrounding community environment responds and connections to Wollongong and the region. to changing academic and research needs and a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Addressing the University’s vision and goals for future growth over the next growing student population. 20 years, the Master Plan will focus on several key areas of consideration: It guides the management —— Academic facilities and student/staff populations for future growth —— Facilities for students and staff, such as accommodation, and development of cafes, sports, retail, and student services our properties.” —— Open space and public amenity —— Our relationships with surrounding neighbourhoods and communities Melva Crouch CSM, Chief Administrative Officer —— Environmentally sustainable growth —— Vehicle movements, including car access, parking and servicing —— Pedestrian pathways, access, signage and security —— Cycle access and storage —— Public transport facilities UNIVERSITY PROFILE

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BANGALAY OPENS FOR SESSION ONE IN 2017 Student accommodation at UOW is undergoing a major expansion and transformation. Session one of 2017 saw the opening of Bangalay. Located on Northfields Avenue, just across the road from the main campus, this residence features modern facilities, landscaped outdoor communal areas, recreation areas, study spaces and meeting facilities. UNIVERSITY PROFILE Currently under construction, another new residence will open as a part of Kolloobong Village for session one 2018, adding a further 800 beds to UOW’s accommodation offering. These developments will take the number of beds the University can provide to students to more than 2,500, while transforming the Wollongong campus into a vibrant destination of choice for students.

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UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG MOLECULAR HORIZONS EARLY START The University’s $80 million Molecular Officially opened in July 2015, UOW’s and Life Sciences facility, Molecular $44 million Early Start initiative Horizons, will be a world-leading research represents a new way of thinking facility dedicated to illuminating how about how universities can share their life works at a molecular level and intellectual capital and research with solving some of the biggest health the community, and how technology challenges facing the world. can bring about better outcomes for children. Early Start is transforming The centrepiece of the University’s lives through education to reduce current molecular science initiative will be the gaps in inequality. By ‘investing’ in $7 million ultra-high resolution Titan the earliest years of life, Early Start is Krios cryo-electron microscope, one working to create a landscape for learning of only a handful in the world and only and social change that is markedly the second of its kind in Australia. different to the image traditionally UNIVERSITY PROFILE The extensive suite of technologies, associated with higher education. including the Titan Krios microscope, With state-of-the-art teaching, research that will be housed at the Molecular and community engagement facilities, Horizons facility will attract scientists utilising enhanced technologies, the from all over Australia and the Early Start building acts as a hub world to work collaboratively, using connecting to a network of partner this rare and vital technology. centres in regional, rural and remote 18 The Molecular Horizons facility will communities across NSW. house around 200 researchers, including Within the building is the Early Start a number of prominent research teams Discovery Space, a public, hands-on led by Professors Nick Dixon, Antoine van creative learning space specifically Oijen and Mark Wilson. It will include designed for children from birth to 12 research facilities from single-molecule years and their accompanying families, to molecular and cellular imaging, carers, educators and teachers. including flow cytometry, electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy and earlystart.uow.edu.au nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG

SCIENCES TEACHING FACILITY SMART INFRASTRUCTURE ILLAWARRA HEALTH The Sciences Teaching Facility is a FACILITY & MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE $35 million teaching space built to The world is changing, not only because revolutionise the way sciences are of technology and climate change, but The Illawarra Health and Medical taught at UOW. From the first year of also the impact of an ageing population. Research Institute is a joint initiative their degree, our students benefit from This means the way we plan and manage of the University of Wollongong exposure to industry standard equipment infrastructure will need to change too. and Illawarra Shoalhaven Local UNIVERSITY PROFILE and methodologies. The Facility Health District (ISLHD). brings together up to 460 students at To address this challenge SMART brings a time, with laboratories for biology, together experts from fields such as Based in a purpose-built facility at UOW’s chemistry, and earth and environmental transport, water, energy, economics, main campus, IHMRI’s goal is to foster, sciences, alongside lecture halls that and modelling and simulation in a support and grow health and medical can accommodate classes of up to 240 state-of-the-art facility to support research in the Illawarra. It aims to people. These capabilities are extended this important research agenda. connect and supporting academic and clinician researchers to address problems even further by networked learning As an international leader in applied of relevance to the region and the world. technologies. The Facility is one of the infrastructure research, SMART is latest in networked digital wireless helping to address the challenges of The Institute provides research microscope technology from renowned infrastructure planning and management leadership, coordination, infrastructure scientific technology supplier Leica. both now and into the future. and facilities to 600 affiliated researchers smart.uow.edu.au and students who are either based in IHMRI’s headquarters or other UOW and ISLHD centres around the region. All contribute to the Institute’s research 19 program, which has three core themes: Diagnostics and Therapeutics; Chronic Conditions and Lifestyle; and Mental Health and the Ageing Brain. The program also has an Illawarra Insights cluster focused on population health.

ihmri.uow.edu.au UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG INNOVATION CAMPUS iACCELERATE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR UOW’s Innovation Campus (iC) is a iAccelerate is a University of Wollongong INNOVATIVE MATERIALS 33-hectare research and technology initiative that helps grow new businesses The Australian Institute for Innovative precinct located in Wollongong. It that contribute to building Materials (AIIM) is an advanced encourages innovative organisations a true ‘innovation nation’. materials research, prototyping and from around the world to co-locate with iAccelerate is designed around a robust device facility located at the University UOW’s leading research institutes in a educational framework, formalised of Wollongong’s Innovation Campus. collaborative campus environment. business acceleration monitoring and AIIM houses two of the University’s iC is already home to more than 15 one-to-one mentoring. The three-storey, flagship research groups: the Institute organisations, including international 4,000-square-metre iAccelerate Centre for Superconducting and Electronic technology firm NEC Australia, US IT at UOW’s Innovation Campus will Materials, focussing on materials company Telecommunication Systems feature ‘plug and go’ expandable space for energy technologies, electronic Inc. and Chinese IT provider Pactera. for more than 280 entrepreneurs. devices and leader of the AutoCRC These globally recognised companies vehicle electrification program; and

UNIVERSITY PROFILE The program offers startups the unique work alongside the Intelligent Polymer opportunity to partner with a university the Intelligent Polymer Research Research Institute, and the Institute that is educating 30,000 students, Institute, which leads the Australian for Superconducting and Electronic employs more than 2,000 staff, and Research Council Centre of Excellence Materials, the Sustainable Buildings boasts a significant portfolio of research for Electromaterials Science, is part Research Centre, the Australian interests and partners. In its first five of the Polymers CRC and is driving National Centre for Ocean Resources years, iAccelerate is anticipated to development of nanomaterials for health and Security, and the Centre for Health generate more than 500 full-time jobs and medical applications. AIIM also Initiatives. iC is also home to iAccelerate, (including within its supported startups) houses the Electron Microscopy Centre, 20 the region’s first business incubator and more than $100 million direct which includes advanced microscopy and accelerator driving the business added value for the local economy. and characterisation equipment. and innovative ecosystem on campus. iAccelerate utilises a multi-faceted The new materials developed at The Innovation Campus is a seven- approach to accelerating sustainable AIIM are already being used to meet minute drive from UOW’s Wollongong business growth to deliver the greatest some of society’s greatest challenges. campus, and is linked to UOW and economic impact, propelled by the $10 Advanced production, prototyping and Wollongong’s CBD by a free shuttle bus. million iAccelerate seed fund. We offer device development facilities allow innovationcampus.com.au a two-stream program with up to a research to extend to the development three-year incubation period – unique of novel processing, manufacturing in the Australian startup landscape. and fabrication methods to help bridge the gap to commercialisation. www.iaccelerate.com.au aiim.uow.edu.au UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG

SCIENCE CENTRE & AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS PLANETARIUM CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH CENTRE Around 50,000 people visit UOW’s RESEARCH & SECURITY UOW’s Sustainable Buildings Research Science Centre and Planetarium at The Australian National Centre for Ocean Centre (SBRC) is an exciting new the Innovation Campus every year. Research and Security (ANCORS) is a addition to the Innovation Campus, Its interactive exhibitions, science unique interdisciplinary research and and a showpiece of innovation shows, planetarium and observatory education centre within UOW’s Faculty and research excellence. UNIVERSITY PROFILE with a research-quality telescope, of Law, Humanities and the Arts. It SBRC researchers’ projects include make it one of Wollongong’s most plays a key global role in international developing sustainable building popular indoor tourist attractions. The ocean management in vital areas, technologies for residential and visitors include around 15,000 school including maritime security, offshore commercial applications, analysing and students, many from outside the area. jurisdiction and enforcement, ocean improving thermal design for buildings First opening its doors in 1989, the law, fisheries management, and the to reduce the need for using energy for Centre runs educational science and protection of the marine environment. heating and cooling, renewable energy planetarium shows, and engages Since its establishment in 1994, ANCORS technology application, and developing with the local community through its has run regular capacity-building control and sensor technology to volunteer and internship programs. An specialist courses for navies, coast improve building performance. army of volunteers, including retired guards, policymakers and managers The SBRC building was awarded a six engineers and technicians, maintain from maritime nations across the Star Green Star Education Design rating the exhibits, and student interns act Asia-Pacific, Africa and, more recently, and is on track to be the first Australian as guides for visiting school groups. the Caribbean and Latin America. It building certified by the Living Building also provides consultancy services to sciencecentre.uow.edu.au Challenge – the world’s most advanced 21 many governments on a range of ocean measure of sustainability in the built law, policy and management issues, environment. The Living Building including maritime boundary disputes, Challenge comprises seven performance management of ocean resources, such areas: site, water, energy, health, as fisheries, and policy advice on critical materials, equity and beauty. As part of maritime issues such as maritime meeting the Living Building Challenge, security, ship safety and marine pollution. the SBRC is an ultra-low energy building ancors.uow.edu.au with natural ventilation and carefully- selected materials, many of which have been recycled and/or sourced locally.

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Education at UOW is a bond between student and teacher, and a commitment to mutual why, excellence. Our expertise UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG uplifts our students and helps them find their purpose. Their achievements in the world complete the University’s mission of transforming one society for the better. UNIVERSITY PROFILE

22 student at a time I’ve always been into health promotion I chose to study nursing because People grow up saying “I want to be a ever since I was little. I grew up around I’ve always been passionate about firefighter, I want to be a policeman”. I just UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG sport, playing basketball and netball biology. I had a personal experience knew that I wanted to study maths. What and all different kinds of sports. in a hospital setting and discovered I love about maths is that there’s only one It really gave me an outlet. I want the impact that the nurses had. right answer. You do all your calculations and to encourage young Indigenous I want to create a genuine human your working out, arrive at an answer and people to participate in sport and connection, when people are at it’s either correct or it’s not. Life’s just a big physical activity. their most vulnerable. mathematical problem and I want to solve it. — — — INDI MIA AUDI BACHELOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH BACHELOR OF NURSING BACHELOR OF MATHEMATICS AND (HEALTH PROMOTION) FINANCE (DEAN’S SCHOLAR) HONOURS

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23 Marketing is a field that is so broad and I’ve always enjoyed the creative outlet I’d like to do some work in the developing ever-changing. That’s what inspires me of writing. I was completely in love with world. I’m currently doing a subject through — the fact that it’s always growing and environmental science in high school and I’m the University, where we’re going to Africa to with that I can grow also. The big dream an environmentalist myself, so those things implement a water supply system. for me is to establish a successful clothing really matter to me. I definitely want to shed I want to use engineering to contribute label. I want to use business to make my light on environmental issues. I want to help to the sustainability and equality of all mark on the fashion industry. people care about the environment again. those living within the world. — — — JOSEPH SIMONA DAN BACHELOR OF COMMERCE BACHELOR OF JOURNALISM, BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (SCHOLAR) (MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (GEOLOGY) (CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL) Transforming curriculum

The Curriculum Transformation Project (CTP) is an ambitious four-year plan to build on and enhance UOW’s national and international reputation for top quality teaching and learning.

A component of the CTP is the implementation of the UOW Curriculum Model. By implementing a set of key practices into each UOW course every student will have a learning experience that is:

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG TECHNOLOGY ENRICHED REAL-WORLD FOCUSED The curriculum optimises the use We engage students with key skills of technology in its delivery and that model real-world practice, to content, and prepares graduates to be bring the world into the classroom digitally literate and technologically- and take students out into the engaged professionals. community or profession. It looks at both key classroom practices UOW is recognised nationally and as well as the technological tools that internationally as a leader in teaching are needed to ensure high quality, and learning innovation and student flexible, student-centred learning. experience. In 2016 , UOW was ranked equal second nationally for the INTELLECTUALLY number of Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning CHALLENGING awarded to its staff. The university also UNIVERSITY PROFILE We challenge UOW students to think received a national award in 2016 for broadly and critically within and Programs that Enhance Learning*. By outside their disciplines. Learning the end of 2018, all coursework programs activities and flexible curriculum will be reviewed and transformed to structures empower students to be ensure they incorporate the themes, adventurous in their learning. principles and transformative practices of the UOW Curriculum Model.

24 RESEARCH/ENQUIRY BASED We aim to induct students into a set of processes that include empirical, interdisciplinary, practice-based and creative research activity, to develop connections between learning, academic research, critical enquiry and problem-solving.

*2016 Australian Awards for University Teaching-Innovation and Flexibility in Curricula, Learning and Teaching. The Faculty of Business advances business-related knowledge and promotes responsible leadership and Our sustainable business practices that contribute to a faculties stronger society and economy. We offer a first-rate learning experience that seeks to develop professionals, managers and business leaders who are independent thinkers and creative problem-solvers that are in high demand among employers. Our postgraduate programs are offered through our graduate school, Sydney Business School, which is a QS-ranked, top-200 business school, placed in the top five business schools in Australia and 22nd in the Asia- Pacific region (2014/2015). We conduct innovative and applied research in the fields of accounting, economics, finance, management and operations. UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG

OUR RESEARCH OUR SCHOOLS —— Australian Health Services —— Sydney Business School Research Institute —— Accounting, Economics and Finance —— Centre for Human and Social —— Management, Operations and Capital Research Marketing —— Centre for Contemporary Australasian Business and Economics Studies

Executive Dean of Business: —— Centre for Responsible Organisations PROFESSOR and Practices CHARLES ARENI UNIVERSITY PROFILE business.uow.edu.au

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The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences will advance our understanding of the intersection

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG between natural phenomena and human technology, and use this knowledge to sustainably improve our environment and society.

The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences has a world-class reputation for excellence in research, strong collaborations with industry and government partners, and innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

OUR RESEARCH —— Institute for Mathematics and its Applications —— Advanced Manufacturing —— Mining Research Centre Technologies —— National Institute for Applied —— ARC Centre of Excellence in Statistical Research Australia Geotechnical Science and Engineering

UNIVERSITY PROFILE —— Research Centre for Geomechanics —— Australian Power Quality and and Railway Engineering Reliability Centre

Engineering and Information Sciences —— Australian Steel Research Hub OUR SCHOOLS —— Centre for Business and Social —— Civil, Mining and Environmental Innovation Engineering —— Centre for Infrastructure Protection —— Computing and Information and Mining Safety Technology 26 —— Centre for IT-enabled Transformation —— Electrical, Computer and —— Centre for Medical Radiation Physics Telecommunications Engineering —— Decision Systems Laboratory —— Mathematics and Applied Statistics —— Energy Pipelines CRC - Rail —— Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic Manufacturing CRC and Biomedical Engineering —— Engineering and Mathematics —— Physics Executive Dean: Education Research Group PROFESSOR CHRIS COOK —— Engineering Asset Management ENTITIES Group —— SMART Infrastructure Facility —— Engineering Manufacturing —— Sustainable Buildings Research —— Engineering Materials Centre —— ICT Research Institute The Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts will improve our understanding of human thought, culture and art, to advance an inquisitive, harmonious and equitable society.

At the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts we aim to develop skills like creative problem-solving, analytical thinking, communication and practical expertise through undergraduate and postgraduate coursework, and higher degree research programs that support international research collaboration.

OUR RESEARCH —— Australian National Centre for Ocean —— Forum for Indigenous Research Resources and Security (ANCORS) Excellence (FIRE) —— Centre for Critical Human Rights —— Legal Intersections Research Centre Research (HRR) (LIRC) UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG —— Centre for Research on Men and —— Material Ecologies Research Network Masculinities (CROMM) (MECO) —— Centre for Texts, Cultures and —— Narrative Practices in Therapy Creative Industries (CTC) Initiative (NPT) —— Colonial and Settler Studies Network (CASS) OUR SCHOOLS —— Contemporary Emotions Research —— The Arts, English and Media Network (CERN) —— Humanities and Social Inquiry Executive Dean: —— Feminist Research Network (FRN) —— Law PROFESSOR AMANDA LAWSON

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27 Law, Humanities Humanities Law, and the Arts the and 28 UNIVERSITY PROFILE UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Strategy) & Executive Dean: &Executive Strategy) (Health Vice-Chancellor Pro ALISON JONES PROFESSOR Science, Medicine and Health smah.uow.edu.au — — — — — — — — quality of life. of life. quality our improving and knowledge human on expanding focused programs postgraduate and undergraduate of range a offers Health and Medicine of Science, Faculty The improve environmental and human health. knowledge world, of the natural creates and tools to The Faculty of Science, Medicine Health and advances OUR RESEARCH OUR — — — — — — — — Centre for Archaeological Science for Archaeological Centre Biodiversity and Heritage and Biodiversity for Australian of Excellence Centre Bioscience Molecular and for Medical Centre Dementia Australia Training GeoQuest GeoQuest Solutions Ecosystem for Sustainable Centre Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry for Atmospheric Centre Health Impacts Research Cluster Research Impacts Health — — — — — OUR SCHOOLS — — — — — Nursing Nursing Medicine Sciences Environmental and Earth Chemistry Sciences Biological Executive Dean: GLENN SALKELD GLENN PROFESSOR

Social Sciences socialsciences.uow.edu.au — — — — expertise in human behaviour and the way people interact with their environment. environment. their with interact people way the and behaviour human in expertise have that disciplines emerging and traditional combines Sciences of Social Faculty The communities. healthy behaviour promote to positive relationships and The Faculty Sciences of Social investigates human OUR RESEARCH OUR — — — — Environmental Research Research Environmental for Cultural Centre Australian Early Start Research Power Lab Power Project Air — — — — — ENTITY OUR SCHOOLS — — — — — Early Start Psychology Communities Sustainable and Geography Society and Health Education

29 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG OF UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY PROFILE UNIVERSITY Teach i ng locations

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG UOW has nine campuses throughout NSW to provide exceptional learning experiences that are specially designed to meet the needs of our local students.

This commitment to provide outstanding learning environments was recognised by the 2017 Good Universities Guide, which awarded UOW five-stars in seven categories, including student retention and student support. Internationally, UOW is a global network of campuses, UNIVERSITY PROFILE delivering world-class teaching to students in the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. The University also has formal agreements with more than 150 overseas institutions in the areas of research collaboration, student and staff exchange, study abroad, and offshore program delivery.

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WOLLONGONG METRO CAMPUSES REGIONAL CAMPUSES UOW’s main Wollongong campus UOW has two campuses in Australia’s In 1993 UOW established the first of its is set in native Australian bush largest city, Sydney, and a new regional campuses in the Shoalhaven, and is one of the most picturesque campus in one of the fastest growing 80 kilometres south of Wollongong, so university campuses in Australia. regions, the Great South West. that residents of the area could benefit from a university education without the Apart from extensive teaching, research The South Western Sydney campus need to travel long distances or live away UNIVERSITY PROFILE and administration buildings, the main at Liverpool provides world-class from home. Since then the network has campus includes student residences, a educational opportunities in been extended to include Batemans Bay library, conference facilities, food halls, undergraduate and postgraduate and Bega on the NSW South Coast and cafes, restaurants and a bar, retail outlets, programs, and represents a long-term Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands. indoor sports centres and gymnasium, commitment to the region. UOW Olympic-standard swimming pool, commenced operations in Liverpool Each centre offers a range of and sports fields. The campus in February 2017 with a vision to undergraduate and postgraduate is used by over 27,000 students create a contemporary city campus, degrees, with teaching on-site and and more than 2,000 staff. home to 7,000 students by 2025. via high-speed internet links with the main Wollongong campus. The The campus is situated at the base of Mt UOW’s Sydney Business School is Shoalhaven campus also includes a Keira, a few kilometres north-west of located in Circular Quay, in the heart sub-campus of our School of Medicine. Wollongong CBD. Prominent buildings of Sydney’s financial district. Offering include the SMART Infrastructure award-winning business courses, the Facility, the Illawarra Health and Medical Sydney Business School maintains Research Institute, and the Early Start strong links with industry, business and Facility, which includes an Australian- government to ensure that programs 31 first $7 million Discovery Space. reflect both industry and student needs. UOW Southern Sydney at Loftus, on the city’s southern outskirts, is a joint initiative of the University, the Sydney Institute of TAFE Sutherland College, and Sutherland Shire Council. Providing a range of courses, the campus is conveniently located for students living in southern Sydney. International

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG UOW IN DUBAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE OVERSEAS PARTNERSHIPS OF CITY UNIVERSITY UOW established the University of UOW is the Australasian member of the Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) in 1993. UOW and Community College of City University Global Partnership Network From humble beginnings, it is now one University (CCCU), Hong Kong, have (UGPN). Founded by The Universidade of the most prestigious educational established a strategic alliance to extend de Sao Paulo, North Carolina State institutions in the United Arab Emirates. the UOW student experience to CCCU. University and the University of Surrey, UOWD currently employs more than The University’s world-class teaching the UGPN sets out to create a foundation 400 staff and has a student cohort credentials, active industry engagement for international collaboration, enabling of over 4,000. It offers courses in and supportive student services enhance academics and students from some of Business, Commerce, Computer the existing curriculum for College the world’s top universities to work Science, Information Technology, students. Studying UOW programs together on issues of global importance. in Computer Science, Business, and Engineering, International Studies, Established partnerships with and Media and Communications at its Media and Communications, will give students in Hong Kong opportunities international education providers INTI campus in Dubai’s Knowledge Village. Laureate, PSB Academy, Singapore, and

UNIVERSITY PROFILE for articulation into further study, UOWD is arguably Australia’s most optimise graduate outcomes the Singapore Institute of Management successful off-shore higher education through international mobility and extend our reach to students in Asia, facility, having built a reputation as one of strengthen industry collaborations. with full UOW degrees available the leading universities in the Gulf region. to students in their local area. The stewardship of CCCU is an All degree programs are accredited The University’s corporate arm, by the Ministry of Higher Education opportunity for the University of Wollongong to apply the experience UOW Enterprises, has developed and Scientific Research through the a strong development profile. It is Commission for Academic Accreditation, it has gained operating a university 32 involved in operations in a number ensuring that qualifications are in Dubai, and take CCCU to the next phase of its development. of countries, including China, Hong recognised throughout the UAE. Kong, Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, cityu.edu.hk/cccu/home.html UOWD’s alumni include many and United Arab Emirates. UAE government employees, while Our work with the World Bank, the UOWD has significant research Asian Development Bank, AusAID and and training partnerships with OECD are also critical in delivering major UAE organisations and relevant education programs. government departments as well as multinational corporations.

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TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING STUDY ABROAD AND COURSE DELIVERY UOW has partnerships with government EXCHANGE Around 1,000 students are currently organisations around the world to UOW has Study Abroad and Student undertaking UOW courses in Malaysia deliver targeted training courses in Exchange partnerships with more than under a partnership with leading South- fields ranging from business to fisheries 272 universities in 44 countries. East Asian education provider, INTI management. For example, since 2010 Student mobility between Wollongong International University and Colleges. the Sydney Business School has run UNIVERSITY PROFILE and overseas institutions broadens UOW offers a Masters degree in Business a postgraduate training course for both the experiences of the students Administration, as well as Bachelor officials from the Beijing Municipal who travel abroad, and those studying degrees in Commerce, Computing Science Government. Each year around 20 in Australia who are joined in the and Information Technology at INTI’s Chinese officials come to Wollongong classroom by international students campuses in Kuala Lumpur, Subang to complete Certificate of Management with different perspectives on the world. Jaya and on the island of Penang. courses in Public Administration and Business Administration. Research suggests that students who A strong strategic alliance has formed undertake an overseas study component between UOW and the Community UOW’s Australian National Centre benefit personally, academically and College of City University (CCCU), for Ocean Resources and Security professionally, returning with greater Hong Kong. Local students have the (ANCORS) provides capacity-building inter-cultural awareness, adaptability option to study UOW degree programs courses to officials from maritime and improved academic performance. in Business, Computer Science and, nations in the Asia-Pacific region and Communication and Media. beyond. The courses include Maritime Security, Ocean Governance and UOW also has long-standing partnerships Fisheries Resource Management. For with two of Singapore’s leading private example, ANCORS works closely with 33 colleges: the Singapore Institute of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Management (SIM) and PSB Academy, Agency, running courses for government to deliver internationally-recognised officials from Pacific Island nations on academic programs in Business, international fisheries negotiations. Information Technology and Psychology. We

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG stand together UNIVERSITY PROFILE Cooperation is at the very heart of UOW. The diversity of our expertise gives us power over the world’s most complex problems. Our partnerships 34 with academics, governments, industries and communities only increase that power, and together we are building great things. UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG UNIVERSITY PROFILE 35 UOW’s Economic Impact

The University of Wollongong is making a major contribution to Wollongong’s economic and social transition from a steel city towards a more diverse, FOR MORE highly skilled and globally competitive region. INFORMATION This is reflected in the continued impact UOW The full Economic Impact Report can be has on the Illawarra and Australia more broadly. downloaded at The total (direct, indirect and induced) economic impact.uow.edu.au UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG contribution has also increased in real terms from $1.191 billion in 2011 to $1.21 billion in 2015.

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UOW's ripple effects 1.7 1.4 1.6 (MULTIPLIERS) Every 1,000 FTEs Every $1M in labour income Every $1M in value added created by UOW related generated by UOW related as a result of UOW related expenditure supports expenditure generates expenditure generates 36 another 1,100 elsewhere in another $800,000 of another $1M of income the economy. income elsewhere in elsewhere in the economy. the economy. UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG UNIVERSITY PROFILE KNOWLEDGE EXPENDITURE SOCIAL UOW has been a catalyst for Wollongong’s UOW is among the top five employers UOW has a longstanding history of transformation into a university city within the Illawarra, employing 2,659 supporting its multiple local communities focused on the knowledge economy, and full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in 2015. with the intention of creating positive it will be the skills and smarts of our The University’s expenditures include social impact. We provide important people – the human capital – that will be wages and salaries, purchase of goods cultural, intellectual, artistic, pivotal in keeping Australia economically and services, maintenance of buildings recreational and medical resources, competitive and socially cohesive. and grounds, and government charges. which can add to the vibrancy, creativity UOW’s research and development This expenditure has flow-on impacts and dynamism of our local communities. activities play a major role in shaping throughout the economy, as employees UOW students and staff also participate regional innovation and in helping to spend their income and UOW’s local and make important contributions to find solutions to some of society’s suppliers buy inputs to their operations to local projects through volunteering and biggest issues. meet UOW’s commercial needs. A total of other activities. $342 million in labour income is directly generated by UOW operations. KEY FACTS KEY FACTS 37 —— 32,208 enrolled students —— $190,183 to charity in the past KEY FACTS —— Top 1% for graduates as rated by three years global employers1 —— $613M of value added —— $490,000 in funding through the —— $557.9M in research & innovation —— 25+ commercial retail operators Community Engagement Grant income received (2006-2015) —— 2,659 direct FTE employees Scheme —— 57,692 UOW research outputs —— $300M in capital expenditure to be —— 296 UOW students have mentored available via Open Access released between 2016-2020 with AIME (as of August 2016) —— $597M of value added (student —— $3.5M direct contribution to rural —— 65 startups supported via iAccelerate spending) and regional infrastructure to support (since its inception in 2012) clinical education and training

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Our home is the coastal city of Wollongong – 80 kilometres south of Sydney, on Australia’s east coast. We have UNIVERSITY PROFILE two campuses in Sydney, as well as four in the South Coast and Southern Highlands regions of the state of New South Wales.

Colonial settlers moved to Wollongong The University’s origins date back to In just 40 years UOW has become 38 in the early 19th Century, with early 1951, when the then NSW University a benchmark for Australia’s new industries including timber getting and of Technology (later to become the generation of universities: dynamic, agile, dairying (in fact UOW’s main campus was University of NSW) established a innovative and prominent in national once a dairy farm). Coal mining became divisional college in Wollongong with and international rankings for the increasingly important in the second half of the main aim of training engineers, quality of our research and teaching. the 1800s, and in the 1920s a steelworks was metallurgists and industrial chemists Now with over 36,000 students studying established at nearby Port Kembla, which for the region’s industries. UOW courses, and more than 2,400 was developed as a deepwater harbour. Since our independence, the University staff, our activities generate around $2 The port and the coal and steel has played a pivotal role in Wollongong’s billion in economic activity annually, industries were the catalyst for transformation from an industrial city making UOW a major economic force. Wollongong’s development as Australia’s to a university city. While Port Kembla UOW has a clear focus on developing 21st heavy manufacturing industry is still home to Australia’s largest steel century ‘knowledge economy’ industries heartland in the second half of the plant, operated by BlueScope Steel, UOW based on technology and innovation. 20th century. Industry also played a is taking a progressively leading role in the key role in UOW’s development. city and region’s economic development. Our history

UOW has built a reputation as an enterprising institution with a multi- disciplinary approach to research, UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG underpinned by strong industry partnerships and personalised style. Originally established as a provider of technical education required for the region’s steel industry, the University now offers a wide range of courses across five faculties.

HISTORY

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Established as The Division UOW UOW UOW in Dubai UOW in a Division of became the incorporated by amalgamated Hong Kong the then NSW Wollongong NSW Parliament with Wollongong University of College of the as an independent Institute of Technology University of NSW institution Higher Education, sparking a period of rapid growth

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POPULATION ATTRACTIONS KEY INDUSTRIES 39 —— Wollongong / 210,350 —— 17 patrolled beaches —— Education —— Shellharbour / 70,650 —— Nan Tien Temple (largest Buddhist —— Manufacturing —— Kiama / 22,000 temple in the Southern Hemisphere) —— Health Services —— Wollongong Botanic Gardens —— Shipping and Port Operations —— Sea Cliff Bridge/Grand Pacific Drive —— Tourism CULTURE —— Illawarra escarpment bushwalks —— Mining —— Illawarra Performing Arts Centre —— Coastal cycleway/walking track from —— Retailing Wollongong to Thirroul (13km) —— Wollongong City Gallery —— Professional Services —— Science Centre and Planetarium —— WIN Sports and Entertainment —— Technology Centre (UOW) —— Early Start Discovery Space (UOW) —— Skydive the Beach —— Sri Venkateswara Hindu Temple CONTACT uow.edu.au facebook.com/UOW twitter.com/UOW +61 2 4221 3555

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