Vision

• Contribute to society through innovation in creating knowledge and solutions using bio-inspired approaches, to improve societal outcomes
• To support our ecosystem through conservation of biodiversity and heritage

Values

• Excellence and scientific integrity
• Collaboration and sharing of knowledge
• Collegiality and respect

Mission

• Bring together local, national and international leading researchers to enable the Centre to lead international efforts in solving key biological challenges.
• Promote innovation through the creation of new technologies that are applied for the benefit of society and the environment.
• Support the advancement of knowledge and the achievement of excellence through the promotion of state-of-the-art facilities and strong national and international collaborations.
• Provide high-quality training of future scientists and ensure they are exposed to innovation and opportunities to expand their research and horizons.
• Promote productive partnerships with industry to ensure research is applied and solves real world challenges, being built on innovative basic science.
• Work closely with commercial partners to ensure research outcomes are industry relevant.
• Create an internally supportive and collegiate research environment that would foster excellence and international standing.

Governance and Management

UniSC’s Centre for Bioinnovation (formerly Genecology Research Centre) was established and operates under the framework set out in the University Research Centres and Research Institutes Academic Policy.