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Speaker 1: As we've heard, Charles Darwen University has made significant progress

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Speaker 1: in the rankings of top universities established within the last

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Speaker 1: fifty years. So in the latest twenty twenty three rankings,

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Speaker 1: CDU secured the sixtieth position. It's a substantial improvement from

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Speaker 1: its previous ranking of one hundred and fourth among universities worldwide,

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Speaker 1: established less than fifty years ago. Now joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line to tell us about the rise is cduo's

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Speaker 1: Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation, Professor Steve Rogers.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Steve, Good morning Katie. How are you going?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really good. Lovely to have you on the show now, Professor,

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Speaker 1: it seems to be really good news. What do you

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Speaker 1: think it means in terms of attracting students to study

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Speaker 1: at Charles Darwin Uni.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the international ranking between a lot and I think

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Speaker 2: when you put it into context, we're ranked sixtieth in

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Speaker 2: the world. There are over twenty sales and universities in

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Speaker 2: the world, so you know, wow, I'll start with university

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Speaker 2: really kicking goals there in terms of attracting students. There

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Speaker 2: are a number of these world rankings, all undertaken by

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Speaker 2: independent third parties. And they look at the quality of

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Speaker 2: our education, the quality of our teach in the environment,

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Speaker 2: students support research, research, innovation, and students, particularly international students

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Speaker 2: look at these rankings when they're making a decision as

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Speaker 2: to which university they're wanting to apply for. So it

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Speaker 2: does that they are important in terms of attracting students.

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Speaker 2: They will be looking at this.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me what's seeing the rise? How have we

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Speaker 1: achieved this?

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Speaker 2: So the key rise here, and I might also add

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Speaker 2: that we're now ranked in the top four hundred of

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Speaker 2: global universities. Of all universities. What's led to this is

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Speaker 2: our research, the research that we're undertaking. It you, the

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Speaker 2: quality of our research, the international reputation of our research

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Speaker 2: is really driven the rise in these rankings. Globally, we're

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Speaker 2: ranked three hundred and fortieth in the world for our

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Speaker 2: research and the quality of our research.

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Speaker 1: And then when you look at sort of how we

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Speaker 1: compared to are they unis around Australia with our rankings

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Speaker 1: as well? How do we see it?

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Speaker 2: So if you look at the new University's rankings, so

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Speaker 2: twenty three universities in Australia that were established in the

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Speaker 2: last fifty years we ranked fifteenth. I think the point

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Speaker 2: here is seving you there are forty universities in Australia,

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Speaker 2: ce you would be the second or third smallest in

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Speaker 2: terms of the numbers of students and the numbers of staff.

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Speaker 2: So to rank fifteenth out of twenty three is pretty

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Speaker 2: good going. We really punch above our weight when it

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Speaker 2: comes to our research. Out of the forty universities in

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Speaker 2: terms of things like research income, yeah, we'd probably be

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Speaker 2: ranking twenty five out of forty, and that income all

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Speaker 2: comes from very highly competitive Commonwealth grant systems. We're very

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Speaker 2: generously funded by the Northern Territory Government. We undertake a

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Speaker 2: lot of contract research for TG. So you know, we

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Speaker 2: really we've got two hundred and seventy research academics, which

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Speaker 2: is about half a percent of the total number of

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Speaker 2: research academics in Australia across the university system. And yet

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Speaker 2: you know, we're we're making these incredible you know, getting

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Speaker 2: these incredible rankings and you know, serously punching above our ways.

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Speaker 2: It is pretty amazing. I'm very proud to be part

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think in terms of not only

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Speaker 1: attracting people from other states and other countries, to come

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory. But even in terms of retaining our

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Speaker 1: own I would sayspect and keeping kids here in the

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Speaker 1: territory that have you know, that have done their education

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Speaker 1: throughout high school. Oh?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, you know, we're very city is very

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Speaker 2: much focus. We are the University of the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: We're here for the benefit of the community, the Northern

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Speaker 2: Territory of community. Our research is about addressing those those

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Speaker 2: key issues and opportunities identified in the Northern Territory in

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Speaker 2: Northern Australia. So the more our reputation improves and hopefully

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Speaker 2: the more attractive we are as an institution, as a

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Speaker 1: And professor, are there certain areas of research where it

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Speaker 1: has become more attractive to study at cd You.

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Speaker 2: Certainly. I mean our real research strengths are in health.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've got the Men's School of Health, which

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Speaker 2: is an absolute world leader. Our research into the environment,

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Speaker 2: our Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods is one of

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Speaker 2: the top research institutes in the world. Other areas would

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Speaker 2: be our research into First Nations, culture and government policy,

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Speaker 2: our research into advanced manufacturing, three D model printing, our

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Speaker 2: new center for Autonomous Drone Systems where we're working on

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Speaker 2: delivering medical supplies to remote communities using unpiloted and autonomous drones.

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Speaker 2: So we've got really cutting edge innovative research here.

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Speaker 1: Are there any areas where we could still do some

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Speaker 2: Yeah, We've just established a new researcher for Northern agriculture,

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Speaker 2: so that's really early days. Was just to recruit all

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Speaker 2: a real gap agriculture potentially being a significant opportunity for

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Speaker 2: economic growth and jobs in Northern Australia. Other areas where

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Speaker 2: I think we need to be looking at investing more

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Speaker 2: is in mining, particularly in mindsight restoration and rehabilitation. We're

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Speaker 2: building our Energy and Resources Institute. The Northern Territory has

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Speaker 2: got an ambitious goal to be fifty percent renewables by

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Speaker 2: twenty thirty, so, you know, we wanted to build the

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Speaker 2: capability in those areas, but unfortunately, at the end of

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Speaker 2: the day, it all comes down to money. Got to own.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely well. It does sound as though we are

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Speaker 1: sort of capitalizing though on those areas that make the

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Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah, And like I say, our reservice is about

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Speaker 2: delivering impact and addressing those keen needs identified by government, industry,

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Speaker 2: of the broader community in Northern Territory broadly Northern Australia.

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Speaker 1: Well see to you, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation,

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Speaker 1: Professor Steve Rogers. Really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for having a chat with this.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's been my real pleasure. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,