Centre for Western Sydney

Western Sydney University is a university driven to make a regional, national and global impact.

We have four research themes defining our focus:

• Urban living and society
• Health and well-being
• Education and aspirational change
• Environmental sustainability.

The Centre for Western Sydney is a vehicle for promoting high-impact, policy-related research within these four themes.

Here you will find our recent research on issues affecting Western Sydney.

The search engine enables you to retrieve and select material from the University's vast research collection, including internationally published books and papers, doctoral theses, and commissioned reports.

Featured Research 

Sydney's Agricultural Lands

Western Sydney contains much of Greater Sydney's remaining agricultural land. But the data on the size and value of this land is complicated, and various studies have found different results.

This paper untangles the data to understand the most reliable estimates of agricultural land under use in the Sydney basin.