Research is a cornerstone of effective decision-making. For the water sector to be prepared to address risks and seize opportunities, organisations need water professionals with curious minds who champion research, ask challenging questions, seek evidence-based answers, and drive solutions through innovation.
Become a Research Champion
Our Research Leadership Program caters to water professionals at all stages of their career from students undertaking research degrees to seasoned (early/mid/senior-career) professionals in academia and the water sector.
Our RLP delivers industry-focused training courses, mentoring, and professional development support opportunities such as scholarships, awards and networking packages that nurture curiosity, increase research skills and knowledge, build capability, maximise research value, and instil confidence to be a career-long research champion and leader within the water sector.
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The Collaboration on Sewage Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 (ColoSSoS) project combined the expertise of more than 50 Australian organisations in R&D activities that have enabled health departments across the country to integrate quantitative measurements of SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in sewage with human clinical PCR test data for COVID-19…
One reason catchment water is treated to make drinking water is because it contains unwanted microscopic organisms…
The environmental conditions which cause blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) blooms vary according to location, the climate, and other attributes of aquatic ecosystems…
The aim of Project 1127 was to help the water industry better manage and understand contaminants of emerging concern (CEC), through…