Western Sydney University campuses range across both Sydney’s second CBD, Parramatta, and its remaining agricultural areas. Our campuses are living labs for innovation and collaboration through local, national and global research and teaching partnerships. While the University’s neighbourhood gives it a unique perspective on the interdependence of urban and agricultural systems, our research extends beyond the region and is oriented to finding novel responses to the grand challenges and impacts of global environmental change on food production research within our agrifood theme is wide-ranging, applied and interdisciplinary, and concentrates on sustaining and managing diverse urban, agricultural and natural systems, including protected cropping, remote management and data science.

Our research expertise within this theme relies on insights from the biological and engineering sciences, as well as business, sociology, sustainable development, environmental humanities, design, green IT, public health, education, law and economics.