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Swinburne University Of Technology
High
Annual Giving
$49.0M
About
Swinburne University of Technology is an Australian public university based in Melbourne, Victoria, with an estimated annual operational budget of approximately $48.9 million. It provides a comprehensive range of vocational and higher education, conducts extensive research across various institutes, and offers professional development and industry collaboration opportunities.
Giving Philosophy
As a university, Swinburne's primary contribution to public good is through the provision of education, innovative research, and student support services, rather than operating as a traditional grant-making philanthropic foundation. Its impact is achieved by educating students, advancing knowledge, and fostering community engagement.
Notable Grants
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $37,507,787
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $5,501,557
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $1,234,882
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $1,203,756
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $1,173,305
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $1,173,305
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $1,125,110
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $1,092,544
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $985,975
■Swinburne University Of Technology — $970,894
ACNC Financial History
| Year | Grants Given | Revenue | Total Assets | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | $38.7M | $806.0M | $1.6B | $1.2B |
| FY2022 | $46.2M | $728.5M | $1.6B | $1.2B |
| FY2021 | $45.4M | $729.8M | $1.6B | $1.3B |
| FY2020 | $49.0M | $725.2M | $1.6B | $1.2B |
| FY2019 | $41.2M | $739.3M | $1.6B | $1.2B |
| FY2018 | $33.3M | $708.6M | $1.5B | $1.2B |
| FY2017 | $31.3M | $624.2M | $1.4B | $1.1B |
| 7yr total | $285.2M | Source: ACNC Annual Information Statements | ||
Grants in Database (71)
A global urban atlas of nature-based solutions for climate resilient cities. This project aims to systematically examine, map and provide a synthesis of the governance of nature-based solutions (NBS)
GrantUp to $1.1MClosedarc-grants
Transportable high-power blue laser for processing of reflective materials. This project aims to setup Australia's first experimental platform based on new high-power blue laser technology. It is expe
GrantUp to $320KClosedarc-grants
The next generation fast radio burst detector for Australia. This project intends to provide a next-generation fast radio burst detector for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. The proj
GrantUp to $672KClosedarc-grants
Origins and implications of cosmic explosions . This project aims to solve the origin of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) by conducting a study of a large sample (>100) of localised bursts detected with a new
GrantUp to $391KClosedarc-grants
Fatigue life and biodegradation of biomass waste composites in roads. This project aims to develop a new low-carbon pavement stabilisation technology by utilising biomass waste composites in road subg
GrantUp to $606KClosedarc-grants
Defending AI based FinTech Systems against Model Extraction Attacks. This project aims to develop new methods for defending artificial intelligence (AI) based FinTech systems from highly potent and in
GrantUp to $430KClosedarc-grants
Energy absorption and impact mechanics of origami structures and materials. This project aims to understand the dynamic behaviour of origami structures and metamaterials by utilising interdisciplinary
GrantUp to $466KClosedarc-grants
Precision cosmic expansion in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy. The disagreement in the size of the cosmic expansion rate, between measurements from local galaxy indicators and predictions from
GrantUp to $485KClosedarc-grants
Activating social connection to address isolation in Australia. Surveys of wellbeing repeatedly emphasise social isolation, but there is a gap in positive approaches that can be used to grow connectio
GrantUp to $522KClosedarc-grants
The Australian Emulation Network: Born Digital Cultural Collections Access. This project aims to conserve and render born digital artefacts widely accessible by establishing an Australian Emulation Ne
GrantUp to $752KClosedarc-grants
Cost-effective and Reliable Edge Caching for Software Vendors. This project aims to deliver a suite of models and techniques for cost-effective and reliable data caching in the multi-access edge compu
GrantUp to $544KCloses 14/06/2026arc-grants
Discovering the origin of gravitational waves. This project aims to discover the astrophysical origin of gravitational waves. This project expects to calculate the properties of neutron stars and blac
GrantUp to $455KCloses 20/06/2026arc-grants
Digital and data literacies for sexual health policy and practice. New digital practices present significant challenges for the fields of sexual health promotion and sexual healthcare provision. This
GrantUp to $1.2MCloses 31/07/2026arc-grants
Scalable Graphene Enabled Smart Composites. The need for lightweight composite materials is increasing exponentially in the context of renewable energy, e-mobility and related emission reductions. Thi
GrantUp to $440KCloses 23/08/2026arc-grants
Uncovering the laws of gravity using the largest map of the cosmos. This project aims to map out the behaviour of gravity across the Universe. This research will address a key gap in our understandin
GrantUp to $388KCloses 14/09/2026arc-grants
MemberGuard: Protecting Machine Learning Privacy from Membership Inference. Machine Learning has become a core part of many real-world applications. However, machine learning models are vulnerable to
GrantUp to $485KCloses 15/09/2026arc-grants
Illuminating the cosmic web with Fast Radio Bursts. This project aims to establish the use of millisecond-duration Fast Radio Bursts as a wholly new means to map out the distribution of matter in the
GrantUp to $971KCloses 15/09/2026arc-grants
SenShaMart: A Trusted Internet of Things Marketplace for Sensor Sharing. This project aims to devise a novel Internet of Things (IoT) sensor sharing marketplace that permits IoT applications to discov
GrantUp to $485KCloses 30/10/2026arc-grants
Codesigning processes to improve technology service provision for aged care. This research investigates the learning and implementation of novel technologies applying a participatory approach with age
GrantUp to $195KCloses 31/10/2026arc-grants
Developing systemic interventions for intimate partner financial abuse. This project addresses the significant national problem of intimate partner financial abuse, which continues long after women le
GrantUp to $432KCloses 31/10/2026arc-grants
Holobody: Advancing the Future of Mixed Reality Technologies. This project aims to advance our understanding and use of mixed reality technologies by pioneering a new approach to interaction in virtua
GrantUp to $502KCloses 11/12/2026arc-grants
Biocemented recycled glass columns: Green technology for ground improvement. This project aims to develop a green ground improvement technology using biocemented recycled glass column inclusions. This
GrantUp to $563KCloses 23/12/2026arc-grants
Unveiling the dead and dusty Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope. This project aims to find the earliest dead and dust obscured galaxies in the Universe. Understanding their astrophysics, exp
GrantUp to $414KCloses 30/12/2026arc-grants
Revealing the Unseen Universe with Gravitational Lensing. This project will analyse new Australian led observations from the Hubble Space Telescope of light being bent around massive galaxies by gravi
GrantUp to $736KCloses 30/12/2026arc-grants
Modelling and Searching Cohesive Groups over Heterogeneous Graphs . Heterogeneous information networks (HINs) contain richer structural and semantic information represented as different types of objec
GrantUp to $449KCloses 31/12/2026arc-grants
Laboratory X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for Victoria and Queensland. This project aims to establish laboratory X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) instruments in Victoria and Queensland, enhancing re
GrantUp to $1.2MCloses 31/12/2026arc-grants
Efficient and secure data integrity auditing on cloud. Data auditing presents a promising way for verifying user data integrity on cloud, i.e., whether user privacy sensitive data such as identity inf
GrantUp to $538KCloses 31/12/2026arc-grants
The Australian Emulation Network Phase 2 - Extending the Reach. This project aims to extend the reach of the Australian Emulation Network, conserving born digital artefacts and making them accessible
GrantUp to $545KCloses 31/12/2026arc-grants
Cohesive Multipartite Subgraph Discovery in Large Heterogeneous Networks. This project aims to devise novel cohesive multipartite subgraph models and corresponding efficient search algorithms based on
GrantUp to $496KCloses 31/12/2026arc-grants
Illuminating the dark Universe with explosive astrophysical events. Explosive astrophysical events are critical to understand what the Universe is made of and its physics. This project aims to single
GrantUp to $496KCloses 31/12/2026arc-grants
Mapping the integration of T cell fate control across time and space. This project aims to apply new methods to determine how coordination of signalling complexes impacts upon the fate of cells of the
GrantUp to $768KCloses 14/01/2027arc-grants
Galactic Outflows: Pushing the Distance Frontiers. This project aims to push the frontiers of our knowledge of galactic outflows: a key physical process shaping galaxy formation and evolution. Using c
GrantUp to $510KCloses 15/01/2027arc-grants
Attribution of Machine-generated Code for Accountability. Machine-generated (or neural) code is usually produced by AI tools to speed up software development. However, such codes have recently raised
GrantUp to $575KCloses 31/01/2027arc-grants
Bubble clouds in ocean waves. This project aims to predict the behaviour of bubble clouds in ocean waves. Bubble clouds are used in Europe to shield marine mammals from the dangerous noise of offshore
GrantUp to $626KCloses 14/02/2027arc-grants
Optimisation of Buildable Structures for 3D Concrete Printing. This project aims to establish a systematic approach to seamlessly integrate optimisation, characterisation, and 3D concrete printing (3D
GrantUp to $599KCloses 28/02/2027arc-grants
Co-designing and co-evaluating technology experiences in residential care . This project aims for meaningful experiences and skill development by older adults living in residential care using technolo
GrantUp to $543KCloses 28/02/2027arc-grants
Big time crystals: a new paradigm in condensed matter. This project aims to extend condensed matter physics to the time dimension using big time crystals created by a periodically driven Bose-Einstein
GrantUp to $617KCloses 06/03/2027arc-grants
Cost-effective Edge Service Provisioning in the Last Mile of 5G. This project aims to deliver a suite of novel approaches for enabling cost-effective last-mile service provisioning in the 5G mobile ed
GrantUp to $453KCloses 07/03/2027arc-grants
Robustness-oriented and serviceable design of innovative modular buildings. This project aims to unlock the full potential of prefabricated modular buildings through innovative framing solutions in co
GrantUp to $420KCloses 12/03/2027arc-grants
Making Strongly Interacting Photons. This theoretical project aims to investigate strongly correlated polaritons in quantum physics. Known as quantum fluids of light, polaritons are half-light, half-m
GrantUp to $529KCloses 17/03/2027arc-grants
3D integrated crystalline UV optical lens-fiber couplers for astronomy. This project aims to create micro-optics for astronomical and bio medical applications by 3D sculpturing them out of crystals by
GrantUp to $610KCloses 31/03/2027arc-grants
Nanoengineered hybrid coatings that control inflammation to artificial bone. This project aims to develop novel biocompatible surfaces using nanotechnology approaches to understand how cells attach to
GrantUp to $649KCloses 31/03/2027arc-grants
Photography and Reconciliation: the Ngarrindjeri and the SA Museum. The project aims to recover, curate and exhibit a large archive of photographs of national significance created by Aboriginal photog
GrantUp to $479KCloses 02/04/2027arc-grants
Decentralised Data Management for Edge Caching Systems in 5G. This project aims to deliver a suite of decentralised data management approaches to facilitate practical edge caching systems in the 5G mo
GrantUp to $268KCloses 12/04/2027arc-grants
Building green roads with gasified municipal solid waste composites. This project aims to develop gasified municipal solid waste composites as a novel and green road material. This project expects to
GrantUp to $633KCloses 30/05/2027arc-grants
The many lives and deaths of high redshift massive quiescent galaxies. This Fellowship will investigate the recent discovery of very massive, extremely early forming quiescent galaxies and explain the
GrantUp to $1.2MCloses 05/06/2027arc-grants
Uncovering the First Stars and Galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope. This project aims to find "First Light": the first stars and galaxies that formed after the Big Bang. Understanding the ast
GrantUp to $1.2MCloses 29/06/2027arc-grants
Ultra Diffuse Galaxies: Challenging the galaxy formation paradigm . We aim to understand the origins of newly discovered Ultra Diffuse Galaxies. Their extreme properties challenge many assumptions und
GrantUp to $453KCloses 30/06/2027arc-grants
On processing and knowledge discovery in large dynamic multilayer networks. Multilayer networks contain rich and dynamic interaction information among objects spanning multiple aspects. Properly proce
GrantUp to $675KCloses 31/12/2027arc-grants
Discovering the origins of cosmic radio explosions. Fast radio bursts are intense bursts of radio waves that can be detected from half-way across the Universe. The vast distances these bursts travel m
GrantUp to $514KCloses 31/12/2027arc-grants
Electromagnetically driven flows in electrolyte layers with free interfaces. This project aims to understand electromagnetically driven flows in thin deformable layers. It expects to develop an analyt
GrantUp to $248KCloses 31/12/2027arc-grants
Moving With Robots: Advancing Human-Robot Collaboration and Communication. The use of collaborative robots by people in arts, social and health settings has the potential to improve their economic sit
GrantUp to $747KCloses 31/12/2027arc-grants
Into the Darkness: Measuring the Properties of Dark Galaxies. A fundamental prediction of cosmology is that galaxies without stars, Dark Galaxies, should exist. This project aims to exploit the new er
GrantUp to $740KCloses 31/12/2027arc-grants
Steel Origami-Enabled Metaconcrete Composite Structures. This project aims to develop a novel integrated design platform to engineer high-performance and multifunctional origami-enabled metaconcrete c
GrantUp to $506KCloses 31/12/2027arc-grants
Child victims: Providing protection from re-victimisation and offending. This project aims to improve understanding of the impact of child abuse, neglect and exposure to domestic violence on young peo
GrantUp to $553KCloses 10/01/2028arc-grants
Investigating Telehealth Psychological Support. This project aims to investigate how practitioners and LGBTIQ+ patients engaged in long term psychological support experience telehealth and navigate co
GrantUp to $488KCloses 18/01/2028arc-grants
A few-body perspective on polaron physics and polaron interactions. This project aims to develop novel approaches to investigate one of the most celebrated quasiparticles, polarons, and polaron intera
GrantUp to $872KCloses 29/02/2028arc-grants
Enhancing Australian Dark Matter Searches with Quantum Technology. The nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in the Universe and detecting it would represent an enormous paradigm shift
GrantUp to $533KCloses 29/02/2028arc-grants
Innovations in Green Chemical Manufacture from Synchrotron based Techniques. This project aims to find sustainable ways to produce commodity chemicals by developing new catalysts. New synchrotron tech
GrantUp to $1.1MCloses 14/04/2028arc-grants
Innovative Fuzzing for Security Test of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations. Electric vehicle charging stations are widely deployed today, but they face critical and complex security challenges due to
GrantUp to $488KCloses 30/06/2028arc-grants
Active control of battery aging process for life extension. This project aims to extend the lifetime of battery energy storage systems for power grids by developing innovative approaches to control th
GrantUp to $461KCloses 30/06/2028arc-grants
Examining the impact of remand and the utility of bail risk assessments. Australia has experienced soaring incarceration rates, driven by the pre-trial detention of unsentenced people pending trial, n
GrantUp to $762KCloses 31/08/2028arc-grants
Multi-feed system for 3D printing of fibrous earth for social housing. This project aims to develop systematic methodologies for processing fibrous earth materials for 3D construction printing by util
GrantUp to $451KCloses 29/09/2028arc-grants
Green fabrication of robust micro/nano hierarchical surface morphology. This project aims to fabricate coating material with robust micro/nano hierarchical structured surface in ambient conditions thr
GrantUp to $504KCloses 31/12/2028arc-grants
Inverse design of wave metamaterials for energy concentration. This project aims to develop an advanced topology optimisation framework for the automatic discovery of wave metamaterials for energy con
GrantUp to $530KCloses 31/12/2028arc-grants
Audiences, equity, and the future of free-to-air television . Australia’s free-to-air television industry is in structural decline, with concerning implications for media access, emergency communicati
GrantUp to $479KCloses 31/12/2028arc-grants
Localizing sources of failures in metamorphic testing and allied methods. This project aims to build a theoretical foundation to develop novel approaches that improve the efficacy of metamorphic testi
GrantUp to $550KCloses 31/03/2029arc-grants
Understanding the contributions of neural noise to biases in risky choices. Choices that maximise value under risk are crucial for many sectors, from asset management to border protection. Undetected
GrantUp to $928KCloses 30/06/2029arc-grants
ARC Research Hub for Future Digital Manufacturing. This Hub aims to grow and accelerate Australian digital manufacturing (DM) transformation by devising novel DM technology and commercialisation/adopt
GrantUp to $5.5MCloses 06/09/2029arc-grants
Developing serial crystallography for room temperature structure & dynamics. This project aims to uncover the molecular structural dynamics of a bacterial enzyme responsible for protein folding in bac
GrantUp to $986KCloses 27/10/2029arc-grants
ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. The mission of our Centre is to use gravitational waves to investigate the fundame
GrantUp to $37.5MCloses 31/03/2031arc-grants
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Financial Details
Source of Wealth
As a university, its primary revenue sources typically include government funding, student tuition fees, research grants, commercial activities (such as professional short courses), and philanthropic donations received from external parties.
Board & Leadership
Anthony Mackay
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Bilal Ahmed
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Bronwyn Smith
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John Chambers
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John Pollaers
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Karen Clarke
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Leonie Walsh
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Michael O'Shea
public officer
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Pascale Quester
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Rae Johnston
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Richard Simpson
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Tara Magdalinski
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Tien Kieu
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William Lye
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