University of South Australia

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University of South Australia


Motto	Educating professionals. Creating and applying knowledge. Engaging our communities.
Established	1991
Type	Public
Chancellor	David Klingberg
Vice-Chancellor	Denise Bradley (retiring May 2007)
Undergraduates	32 000
Postgraduates	included in above
Location	Adelaide and Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
Campus	City West, City East, Mawson Lakes, Magill and Whyalla
Organisations	Member of Australian Technology Network
Website	www.unisa.edu.au

The University of South Australia, or UniSA, is a public university in the Australian state of South Australia. It was formed in 1991 with the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology and Colleges of Advanced Education. However, one of its antecedent institutions, the South Australian School of Arts, dates back to 1856, making it one of the oldest art schools in Australia. It is the largest university in South Australia with more than 32,000 students.

The university is a leading expert in technical education and applied research, as well being a founding member of the Australian Technology Network. It has four metropolitan campuses in Adelaide and two regional campuses in Whyalla and Mount Gambier. The metro campuses have specific academic focuses: City West and Magill focus on architecture, the arts, humanities and social sciences; City East specialises in health, biomedical, pharmaceutical and nursing programmes; Mawson Lakes teaches technical and scientific disciplines. The regional campuses are more generalist.

University of South Australia ranks amongst the top 200 (154th) universities in the world based on the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), and has its Division of Health contributing to its ranking of among the top 100 (76th) biomedical universities globally. All Australian Technology Network universities are featured in the THES rankings.

The South Australian School of Arts, an established school within the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, provides the most prestigious and valuable visual arts scholarship in Australia, the Gordon Samstag Scholarship.

1 Campuses
2 Structure
3 Research Institutes
4 Commercialisation
5 Affiliations
6 Notable alumni
7 External links

[edit] Campuses

UniSA City West Campus

UniSA Magill Campus

There are two Adelaide central business district (CBD) campuses:

City East (between The University of Adelaide and the Royal Adelaide Hospital), north of North Terrace on the site of the former South Australian Institute of Technology, and before that, the School of Mines.
City West, between North Terrace and Hindley Street in buildings constructed in the 1990s for the new campus.

There are metropolitan campuses at Mawson Lakes (formerly The Levels) and Magill. In the implementation of the university's AU$100 million Blueprint 2005 project, campuses at Salisbury and Underdale were closed and the programs moved to the remaining campuses.

There are also regional campuses located in Whyalla and in Mount Gambier, serving the interests of rural and regional students.

[edit] Structure

[edit] Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences

Communication, Information and New Media
Education
International Studies
Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design
Psychology
Social Work and Social Policy
South Australian School of Art
The Unaipon School (named in honour of David Unaipon)

[edit] Division of Health Sciences

Health Sciences
Nursing & Midwifery
Pharmacy and Medical Sciences[1]

[edit] Division of Business

Commerce
Financial Management
Marketing
Applied Finance

[edit] Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment

Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
Computer and Information Science http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/
- Advanced Computing Research Centre http://www.acrc.unisa.edu.au/
  - Wearable Computer Lab. http://www.wearables.unisa.edu.au/
Electrical and Information Engineering
Mathematics and Statistics http://www.unisa.edu.au/maths/
Natural and Built Environments http://www.unisa.edu.au/nbe/

[edit] Research Institutes

Ian Wark Research Institute
Institute for Telecommunications Research
The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
- Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies (HRISS)
Sansom Institute for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Science[2]
Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science[3]
Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies

[edit] Commercialisation

ITEK was formed in 1999, its role is to implement an integrated framework for the management of intellectual property, from the early stages of research through to commercialisation (from the ITEK website).

Through ITEK and the Wearable Computer Lab, the University has established the first gaming company A-Rage which solely looks at augmented reality gaming systems.

[edit] Affiliations

Australian Technology Network (ATN)
Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AVCC)
Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)

[edit] Notable alumni

Trish Draper, Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Makin
Iain Evans, Leader of the Liberal Party in South Australia and Leader of the Opposition in the South Australian parliament