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We offer a variety of research scholarships to assist you throughout your program. Find out what we have on offer and how to apply.
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Strategic Plan 2021-2026
CDU’s Strategic Plan 2021-2026 will set out our roadmap for the next five years
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Research news
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Project to look at climate impacts on Northern Australia's turtle populations
Read moreA new project, between Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and indigenous ranger groups, will investigate how sea level rise and increasing sand temperature may affect Northern Australia’s turtle populations.
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Slums can provide lessons for building effective circular cities
Read moreThe slums in the global south hold the key to building circular cities in other developing countries, according to Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers.
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Researchers help to learn more about critically endangered fish
Read moreA multi-national research team from Indonesia, Australia, and the United States, are hunting to find the home of one of the world’s most endangered fish, the Clown Wedgefish, a fish so elusive that it has only ever been recorded at fish markets.
