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 Education Showcase, which took place in July.
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
Parramatta Lanes
The University of Sydney is the proud Education Partner of Parramatta Lanes 2026, bringing our teaching, research and creative talent to the heart of the city. Join our world-class academics at Sydney Ideas Pop Talks or listen to our students, some of Australia's great emerging musical talents, at the Jazz Bar.
Dr Charles Perkins AO Memorial Oration and Prize
The 26th annual Dr Charles Perkins Oration and Memorial Prize is an opportunity to celebrate outstanding scholarship from our students and be inspired by this year's orator, Duane Fraser. Duane is a Wulgurukaba and Bidjara man, raised between Tennant Creek and Magnetic Island.
Community Festival
A day of ideas, connection and community, the University of Sydney Community Festival will play host to live entertainment and family friendly activities, inspiring talks, hands-on workshops and guided tours – as well as great food for you, your friends and family. Register one or more additional guests before Wednesday 4 November for the chance to win food and beverage vouchers to enjoy at the Festival.
Updates and services
The University is aware that the NTEU has voted to take further industrial action on 13 October
The University is seeking to continue constructive discussions with the NTEU at the bargaining table. Its position in Enterprise Agreement negotiations will only change through good faith bargaining and will not change in response to industrial action. Staff taking the action, and their managers, should review information on the protected industrial action intranet page.
In response to TEQSA guidance encouraging universities to strengthen how they manage risks to student and staff safety and wellbeing
This includes potential risks associated with people from outside our university community accessing our campuses. In that regard, we are consulting with our staff and students on a new draft Video Surveillance Policy. The draft policy would replace our current CCTV procedures and proposes the introduction of body-worn cameras. Body-worn cameras help provide an accurate record of incidents and responses, support transparency and safety. The cameras would only be used when appropriate and in line with our legal and privacy requirements, and any footage collected would be securely managed and handled in accordance with relevant legislation and our University policies. You can find more information about the draft policy and the use of these cameras, including frequently asked questions, on the University’s Policy register page. Consultation closes midnight Friday 16 October.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
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- 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
- Remote Support
- 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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