Associate Professor Jie Wang completed a PhD in the field of crisis management at the University of Queensland. Her research interests are associated with risk, crisis and disaster management in tourism and hospitality. Her research focuses 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 tourism destinations.
Her research on enhancing crisis preparedness won the Outstanding Doctoral Research Award from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and Emerald Publishing. Dr Wang has also received Early Career Researcher Excellence Award (in Research) from UQ Business School in 2019. She works across disciplinary boundaries including management, strategy, psychology, economics and medicine. She also works with international collaborators from North America, Europe and Asia. She has received an Australian Government grant in 2021 to establish the 'Australia-Indonesia Business Resilience Hub' focusing on tourism thriving and capability building.
Dr Wang has been actively involved in a number of teaching and learning innovation projects. In 2019, she received a Commendation for UQ Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the University of Queensland. In 2018, she received Excellence in Education Award for Enhancing Employability from UQ Faculty of Business, Economics & Law. In 2023, she has been shortlisted for UQ Awards for Excellence in Graduate Research Training, and received a UQ BEL Excellence Award in ‘Research for HDR Supervision’.
Centre of Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Affiliate of Queensland Centre for
Queensland Centre for Population Research
Faculty of Science
Affiliate Senior Lecturer of School
School of the Environment
Faculty of Science
Snr Lecturer- Planner in Residence
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Availability:
Available for supervision
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Stephanie Wyeth is the Professional Planner in Residence and Senior Lecturer within the Planning Program, and Director of Engagement for the School of Architecture, Design and Planning.
Stephanie is an experienced urban and social planning practitioner with significant research, project and leadership experience in the public and private sectors. She joined The University of Queensland in 2019 following several years as a Director with a multidisciplinary planning and design firm, where she led projects focussed on complex social, urban planning and development issues. Her motivation for joining academia is a belief that a values-led and practice intensive university experience is critical if the next generation of urban planning professionals are to be equipped with the skills, knowledge and mindsets to lead, sustained positive change in our cities, towns and communities.
As a pracademic, Stephanie seeks to bridge the theory – practice divide, by promoting the exchange of knowledge, ideas and capabilities across university, industry and community. She regularly facilitates and brokers opportunities for the university’s world-leading researchers to share their expertise with government and community for projects with a strong public interest focus. Stephanie is regularly invited to join advisory forums and judging panels, and to speak at industry and community events.
Between 2016 – 2022 Stephanie served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the South Bank Corporation. In 2020 she was appointed a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia for services to the profession. Her most recent panel appointments include Logan Urban Design Awards, Lord Mayor’s Business Awards (Brisbane), and an advisory committee for a national design project.
Memberships
Planning Institute of Australia
Committee for Brisbane
Teaching Responsibilities
PLAN1000 The Planning Challenge (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2019 to date)
PLAN1100 Foundational Ideas in Planning (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2019 to date)
PLAN4001/PLAN7120 Citymaking: Theory and Practice (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2020-2022)
PLAN4100 Advanced Planning Practice (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2021 to date)
PLAN4130 / PLAN7130 Planning Industry Placements (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2019 to date (Semesters 1, 2 and Summer)
ENVM3103 Regulatory Frameworks for Environmental Management and Planning (Guest lecturer 2021-2023)
Various guest lectures providing insights into urban planning, employability and planning practice.
Student supervision for PHD, Honours and research projects
Awards
2022 Teaching Award - Planning Program, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
2022 Staff Award, Organisation of Planning Students
Service and Engagement
Director of Engagement – School of Architecture, Design and Planning (2023 to date)
Academic Program Advisor for Bachelor of Regional and Town Planning (2021 to date)
Deputy Director of Engagement School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (2022 – 2023)
Co-founder and Director of UQ City Impact Lab (2021 to date)
Research Affiliate – UQ Sustainable Infrastructure Research Hub (since 2022)
Member - UQ Community Engagement Community of Practice – Leadership Group (since 2023)
