Many of you will be entering the research community in the years to come. But do you know how research is actually done in Australia? There is a bewildering number of different organisations all doing some sort of research - but what do they actually do?

In this series of articles, we will talk to a number of scientists and engineers working in different research environments. Your questions are always welcome (it will help us write the next section of this series!) - please send them to Stuart Prescott <s.prescott@ysa.org.au>.

As the parts of this series are written they will be posted here on the website. A new part will be released every couple of months. The existing (and proposed) sections of this series are shown below:

Part 1: The University Research Group

The first article in this series looks at the university research group. Dr Adrian George is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney.

Part 2: Key Centres and Special Research Centres

Prof. Ary Hoffmann of the Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research and Prof. Michael Humphreys of the Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology talk about the Research Centres Programme.

Part 3: CSIRO

Mr Kim Branson (a PhD student at CSIRO Health Science & Nutrition talks about CSIRO, its reputation and how it is structured.

Part 4: The Cooperative Research Centre Experiment

(not available yet)

Part 5: Industry

(not available yet)

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