The University of Western Australia (UWA) was established in 1911 as Western Australia’s first university and opened in 1913, according to its history page. Its main campus is in Perth, on the banks of the Swan River, and it also has a campus in Albany. UWA says more than 28,000 students are enrolled from 115 countries.
Agricultural teaching and research sit in the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, which spans agricultural and resource economics, agricultural science and environmental science. The UWA Institute of Agriculture, directed by Hackett Professor Kadambot Siddique, coordinates research themes including sustainable cropping systems, water for food production and engineering for agriculture, and its industry advisory board includes farmers, farm consultants and a deputy director general of DPIRD, the state’s primary industries department. The university runs UWA Farm Ridgefield, a 1,600-hectare mixed-enterprise farm near Pingelly in the state’s grain belt, which hosts the Best Practice Farming Systems project and, the university says, is open to research collaborators including industry.