The vision for research in the Faculty of Business (FoB) is to create a “community of scholars” that supports the creation and dissemination of research activities both within and across schools. All HDR students are considered as staff and are able to play an active role in the research profile of the faculty. Further, the faculty wishes to increase its presence and profile in the wider community, including internationally, through strategic partnerships and projects. To support this vision FoB takes a leading role in one University-level Research Centre:

• Centre for Applied Research in Learning, Engagement, Andragogy and Pedagogy (LEAP)

FoB has also established four Faculty Research Centres which are essentially incubators for research collaboration:

1. Australian Centre for Family Business 
2. Centre for Leadership Studies
3. The Globalisation and Development Centre
4. Software Assurance Centre

During 2011 the Faculty of Business had a range of Research successes including an ARC Grant, a donation and a range of Vice-Chancellor Research Grants: 

• Associate Professor Julia Henker received an ARC Early career Researcher Award (DECRA) (2012-2017) worth $375,000. The project is entitled “Impeding the Bubble; Evidence from Experimental asset markets". The project employs an innovative experimental design to investigate factors that are intended to prevent financial asset price bubbles and crashes.
• Professor Ken Parry received a $150,000 donation from the Sunland Foundation to support research and scholarship into the leadership, spirituality and integrity of business.

The following received Vice-Chancellor Research Grants:

• Professor Noel Gaston, project entitled “How a Mining Boom affects the Australian Labour Market”.
• Professor Amy Kenworthy, project entitled “Exploring best practice guidelines for successful university-community engagement partnerships in Australia”.
• Associate Professor James Routledge, project entitled “Board Gender Diversity and Accounting Information Risk”.
• Professor Carolyn Windsor, project entitled “Corporate sustainability reporting in Australia: Antecedents of 'integrated reporting' that brings together financial, environmental, social and governance information”.
• Assistant Professor Jane Murray, Early Career Researcher Grant, project entitled “Testing a new weighting structure for the Revised Negative Acts Questionnaire - Revised (NAQ-R)”.
• Associate Professor Dirk Hovorka, project entitled “Visualization of inter-nomological nets”.
• Professor Padmanabhan Krishnan, project entitled “Specifying and Implementing Privacy Requirements”.
• Professor Zheng da Wu, project entitled “An Optimal Design for Duty Cycle Scheduling in Mobile Sensor Networks”.
• Assistant Professor Bruce Vanstone, Early Career Researcher Grant, project entitled “A study of the efficacy of short-term trading strategies in the foreign exchange markets”.