Faculty of Science news
News, notices and events
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.
Faculty Meeting Minutes
Please link to the minutes from the Faculty of Science Meeting held on 26 May 2025.
If you have any queies, please contact [email protected].
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 it. Read more
Indigenous Strategy 2026-28
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
Yabun Festival 2026
Yabun Festival takes place annually on January 26 and is the largest community led one-day festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
This is For Everyone: Tim Berners-Lee, hosted by Mark Scott
Join Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott to explore the past and future of the internet. Discounted tickets are available for University of Sydney staff, use discount code USYDSTAFF for 20% off.
Staff Welcome Breakfast 2026
We invite you to gather with colleagues along University Place and on the Front Lawns of the Quadrangle for a light, healthy breakfast with beverages and exercise classes in the Great Hall. The University's health and wellbeing services will be on site for a chat, and our crowd-favourite fitness classes will once again be held in the Great Hall.
Updates and services
Wellbeing support for colleagues affected by global events
Wellbeing support is available for all staff, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through our staff counselling and coaching provider, Converge. Our Student Life teams are identifying any students who may be affected and are proactively contacting them to offer support from the University.
Viva Engage reopening postponed
The University is deeply committed to providing a safe and welcoming work and study environment and preserving academic freedom and free speech.
In the context of recent and ongoing legislative developments at the state and federal level, arising from the Bondi tragedy, we have decided to postpone the reopening of Viva Engage. This pause will allow us time to develop, socialise and implement some refinements to the platform's settings, particularly features that give colleagues greater choice and control over the kinds of posts they see.
Important information regarding a cyber incident
We were alerted to suspicious activity in our online IT code library. We took immediate action to protect our systems and community by blocking the unauthorised access and securing the environment. We have published information about support for our community and answers to frequently asked questions on our website.
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
- 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)
- Marq (formerly Lucidpress)
- 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
- Research Profiles Management (RPM)
- Research Supervisor Connect
- 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
We acknowledge the tradition of custodianship and law of the Country on which the University of Sydney campuses stand. We pay our respects to those who have cared and continue to care for Country.
Read our Guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communication