Faculty of Science news
News, notices and events
2026–2028 Strategic Plan booklet
The Faculty of Science 2026–2028 Strategic Plan, outlines six strategic goals to advance education, research, partnerships and national leadership across all of its science disciplines.
- Science ignites - Sparking passion and launching bold careers in STEM
- Science inspires - Creating the next generation of problem solvers
- Science discovers - Driving fundamental research in science
- Science amplifies - Unlocking and accelerating our research impact
- Science cultivates - Uniting, growing and empowering our community
- Science elevates - Raising the profile of our work so it lifts up others
Research Missions and Impact booklet
We have designed our Research Missions and Impact booklet to try and capture the depth and breadth of our researchers, their research and highlight the impact we are making now and into the future.
The booklet is divided into four missions, reflecting our commitment to discovery research and real-world impact – locally and globally:
1. Expanding the frontiers of science
2. Improving health and wellbeing
3. Enabling a sustainable and resilient world
4. Innovating for tomorrow’s industries
Our research is constantly evolving and expanding, so we know that we have not captured everything we do in our booklet. Our plan is to continue revising and updating it at regular intervals to incorporate more of our ground-breaking research from across our faculty's schools.
Faculty's Committees intranet page
Please visit the Faculty's Committees intranet page to see bulletins of the most recent and previous Faculty Leadership Group (comprising: Dean's Executive Committee, Faculty Board, Work, Health & Safety Committee, and Indigenous Strategy & Services and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee) meetings.
New staff obligations for reporting data breaches
Changes to privacy legislation will soon be imposing stricter breach reporting obligations on the University, making it important that you know what to do if you suspect a data breach has occurred.
If you suspect that personal or health information held by the University has been incorrectly shared or accessed, you must report it to the Privacy team as soon as you become aware of the issue.
Indigenous Strategy 2026-28 booklet
The inaugural Faculty of Science Indigenous Strategy outlines our aspirations to 2028 for a stronger and more visible presence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, educators and staff.
Providing a touchstone for how this change can be encouraged across the University, the strategy sets out a focused approach to achieving First Nations population parity and fostering belonging and leadership within our faculty.
Inside Science Newsletter
Keep up-to-date with all the faculty news and important updates across Education, Research, SPEE, Health and Safety, Events and Social platforms.
Viva Engage
No matter what your role or which campus you call home, the Viva Engage community is great for keeping up to speed with what's happening across the University.
We’ll be using this Viva community to share news stories, updates on projects and other things that are happening, and encourage conversations about life and work in Science at Sydney.
Education Staff Showcase
The faculty was proud to present the 2025 Education Showcase, which took place in early April.
The themes of the Education Showcase this year focused on coming together to celebrate and highlight innovation in teaching and education delivery. Several leading science educators gave short talks on their varied education delivery platforms, providing interesting insights into timely teaching themes.
A full list of speakers, their presentations and session recordings can be found on the intranet.
Professional Staff Showcase.
The faculty was proud to present the Professional Staff Showcase which took place in late October.
As always, the aim of the Professional Staff Showcase is to provide a forum for professional staff to share their learnings, best practice and ideas across the faculty community.
A full list of speakers, their presentations and session recordings can be found on the intranet.
Events
50 Years of Deadly NAIDOC Week panel
This special panel event is open to all staff, students, and our wider community. Lunch will be provided at the Gadigal Centre after the panel, and all attendees are invited to stay, enjoy lunch and network among colleagues.
NAIDOC Week community lunch – 50 Years of Deadly
Open to all, this catered community lunch offers an opportunity to reflect on the stories of the Elders who stood firm, and to recognise how far we've come.
NAIDOC Week cultural tours with Uncle Jimmy Smith
Join Aboriginal Knowledge Holder Uncle Jimmy Smith, a proud Wiradjuri man, on a cultural tour around our local community. The tour covers the Aboriginal cultural heritage that exists at the University of Sydney Camperdown campus.
2026 Sydney Teaching Symposium
Available on campus and Zoom, this event highlights student-centred approaches to teaching and assessment from colleagues across the University. Andrea Strachan, our new Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students), will give the keynote on a wellbeing-first approach to student engagement.
Updates and services
Support for our community impacted by the conflict in the Middle East
The conflict in the Middle East is distressing on many fronts. We’d like to remind you that 24/7 counselling and wellbeing support is available to staff through our counselling and coaching partner, Converge International.
Superannuation contributions are now being paid in line with each fortnightly pay cycle
This will be done within 7 business days of each payday to align with new Payday Super legislation, effective 1 July 2026.
Student Centre in the Jane Foss Russell Building reopening Wednesday 1 July
From this date, the temporary Student Centre location in the Belinda Hutchinson Building will close, and Student Centre services will return to normal operations from the Jane Foss Russell Building and Fisher Library.
Simplified process for fixed term staff applying for conversion to continuing or funding contingent on continuing employment
The form, as well as further information and details regarding eligibility, can be found on the Varying or ending fixed-term employment intranet page.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
- Canvas
- Citrix
- Concur
- Contractor Safety Management System (CSMS)
- Copilot
- Disability Academic Plan Portal
- Dimensions
- Docusign
- Email Office 365
- emma (formerly EmmaHQ)
- eNotebooks
- Event calendar
- Exams portal
- External Engagement CRM
- File Sender (large file transfer)
- Finance EPM
- Finance Salary Planning EPM
- IRMA
- Lecture recording
- LinkedIn Learning
- Macquarie Dictionary
- Maps (Campus Maps)
- myHRonline
- MyLab
- My Library account
- myResearch Ethics
- Office 365 Portal
- Online Teaching Allocations (OTA)
- Password management (Okta)
- Payments to the University
- PeopleSoft financials
- Policy Register
- Power BI
- Publish Partner
- Qualtrics
- Records Online
- REDCap
- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Riskware
- Room bookings (resource booker)
- SEAMS
- SensusAccess document conversion
- Service Portal
- ServiceNow Client
- SPIRE
- Special consideration and arrangements
- Student Survey System
- Sydney Curriculum
- Sydney Insights (formerly Insights Hub)
- Sydney Profile Manager
- Sydney Student
- SydneyFMS (Facility Management System)
- Timesheets
- Timetabling
- UniBuy
- Viva Engage (Yammer)
- Workday
- Workday Learning (formerly CareerPath)
- Workday learning (formerly CareerPath) for academic affiliates
- Zoom
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