Jie Wang

Associate Professor Jie Wang is a scholar in disaster resilience, risk management and inclusive communication, with a particular focus on how humans perceive and act in relation to risk, crisis and disaster, with the aim of understanding how behaviour changes can improve the resilience of people, organisations and destinations. She co‑leads the Security and Resilience Research Hub at UQ Business School and was the Co‑Director of the DFAT‑funded Australia–Indonesia Business ResilienceHub, working closely with governments, councils and industry partners in Australia and the Asia‑Pacific.

Research expertise and excellence Her research examines risk perception, preparedness behaviours, crisis communication and resilience planning, with applications across disaster‑prone communities, tourism and small businesses. She has led or contributed to more than $500,000 in competitive and industry‑funded grants and published extensively in leading journals such as Tourism Management and Annals of Tourism Research. Her work has received multiple national and international awards, including recognition from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and Emerald Publishing, as well as the UQ Business School Early Career Researcher Excellence Award in Research.

Her research also advances accessible and inclusive travel for people with disabilities and older adults, with a focus on building destination accessibility readiness, designing disability‑inclusive communication and marketing, and developing accessibility‑aware digital and algorithmic systems to enable equitable participation in tourism.

Teaching and HDR supervision Dr Wang is an award‑winning educator recognised for excellence in work‑integrated learning, employability and graduate research supervision. She supervises PhD, MPhil and Honours students across disaster resilience, inclusive innovation and risk communication, and was awarded the UQ BEL Faculty Award for Excellence in HDR Supervision (2023), UQ BEL Faculty Award for Excellence in Education (2018, 2025), a Commendation for UQ Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2019), UQ Business School Teaching and Learning Awards (2024) in Work-integrated-Learning and Employability. In 2026, she is working with faculty champions across multiple disciplines to co‑design neuroinclusive curriculum, assessment and pedagogy, grounded in the lived experiences of neurodivergent students.

She is strongly committed to mentoring the next generation of researchers and translating her teaching and research into meaningful real‑world impact.