Research Futures // Sarah O'Shea

Research Futures is a series of video interviews with Charles Sturt’s Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and senior academics by Virginia Haussegger AM, an award-winning television journalist, writer and commentator. Research is, and will always be, vital to Charles Sturt’s social purpose - to generate world-class applied research to help foster prosperous communities across New South Wales.
Charles Sturt aims to be the leading regional university known for solving real-world problems and enhancing the quality of life of regional Australians.
This extract is taken from Professor Sarah O’Shea’s interview conducted with Virginia. Sarah is the Dean of Graduate Research at Charles Sturt. In this extract, Sarah discusses her focus on enriching the higher degree by research student journey, encouraging students from diverse backgrounds to take the higher degree by research pathway and, ensuring that Charles Sturt is known for widening participation in higher education.
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