Companies, statutory bodies and development partners come to UPNG for expertise, for contract research, for testing and analysis, and for people to hire. Here is what the University can do and how to commission it.
UPNG holds concentrations of expertise that exist nowhere else in the country: PNG legal systems and customary land, tropical medicine and public health, marine and terrestrial biodiversity, resource economics and public policy, and the national languages.
That expertise is available to industry — as advice, as commissioned research, as laboratory analysis, or as training designed around a problem. Work is contracted through the University rather than privately with staff, so the organisation gets the University's insurance, quality assurance and continuity.
Each is commissioned through the University and priced on scope.
Named academics advise on policy, regulation, environmental and social impact, and technical questions in their field — as a written opinion, a review panel or an advisory role over a project.
Field studies, surveys, baseline data and evaluations commissioned by an industry or government client and carried out by a School under a research agreement.
Analytical work in the science and medical laboratories — water and soil, biological samples, materials — where the University holds the equipment and the accreditation.
Short courses redesigned around your workforce and delivered in-house or on campus, taught by the academics who teach the degree programmes.
Industry representatives sit on School advisory boards, review course content against what employers actually need, and help set the standard for graduate skills.
Present to final-year students, list vacancies with the Schools, host interns, and sponsor prizes or scholarships in the disciplines you recruit from.
Write to the Planning Division with what you need to know or solve, your timeframe and any budget envelope. The University will identify who is best placed to do it.
A short meeting with the relevant School establishes whether the University can do the work, who would lead it, and whether the timeframe is realistic alongside teaching.
The School prepares a scope of work, a timeline, the team and a fee. Consultancy and contract research carry a University overhead on top of the direct costs.
Ethics approval is required before any work involving human participants begins.
Work is contracted with the University, not with individual staff. The contract covers deliverables, payment, confidentiality, intellectual property and the right to publish.
The School reports against the agreed milestones and hands over the deliverables. Most clients also ask for a briefing session with their own team.
The Planning Division is the first point of contact for industry and government bodies, and will connect you with the right School.
Planning Division — Industry Engagement
Services, lead times and pricing bases on this page are indicative. Each engagement is scoped and quoted individually.