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Tony Barnett is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Psychology, and an affiliate of the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, University of Queensland. Tony's work explores the social and cultural contexts of alcohol and other drug use, treatment (including novel therapeutic interventions) and policy change. His work draws on critical social science methods to provide in-depth accounts of consumers, carers and clinicians’ experiences of addiction treatment, care and recovery. His current work applies a critical lens to the social and policy dimensions of psychedelic therapies for the treatment of addiction: he is particularly keen to supervise student projects in this area.

In 2020, Tony completed his PhD thesis at Monash University. His work explored clinicians’ views about the brain disease model of addiction and how neuroscientific models and interventions integrate within clinical practice. His research interests include: Qualitative research; Harm reduction; Opioid addiction; Treatment policy, evaluation and outcome monitoring.

Katelyn Barney is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work spans Indigenous studies, ethnomusicology and Indigenous higher education. Through collaborative research, teaching and engagement, she contributes to strengthening partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, advancing Indigenous student success and supporting more equitable practices across universities.

She has published across these fields with her scholarship reaching academic and public audiences through books, journal articles, podcasts and digital resources. Her edited book, Musical Collaboration between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Australia: Exchanges in the Third Space, received the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize in recognition of its contribution to scholarship on Indigenous music and collaboration.

Katelyn is recognised for her leadership in higher education, research partnerships and teaching. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Principal Practitioner with the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation, an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow and Managing Editor of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. She has held an Equity Fellowship with the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success and has led initiatives to strengthen the evaluation of programs and practices that support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student success.

Prof Michael Barras is the Director of Pharmacy at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and a Research conjoint with the School of Pharmacy (Hospital 0.8 FTE / UQ 0.2 FTE). He currently supervises 10 HDR students who are conducting research related to medication safety, health informatics and advanced scope clinical pharmacy. He has a strong interest in designing, testing and monitoring individualised dosing strategies for high-risk patients in the hospital setting. Michael has many significant research relationships in hospital, university, and industry settings. He is a member of the SoP research committee.

Dr Ben Barry is an allied health professional working clinically in aged care with Wesley Mission Queensland.

Dr Barry has a research background in adaptations of the nervous system to exercise and ageing. His research interests have progressed to health professional education, spanning digital health, interprofessional education and workforce development. Dr Barry's clinical work as a physiotherapist and exercise physiologist with a focus on healthy ageing links nicely with his PhD thesis on "Resistance training and movement control in older adults".

Dr Barry has extensive experience teaching allied health (exercise physiology), medical science and medical students. This has included coordinating degree programs and courses, leading teaching teams and discipline-wide curriculum reviews, expanding and enhancing clinical placement programs and student clinics, and innovations in online teaching of health professionals.

Dr Barry completed postdoctoral training in the Neurophysiology of Movement Laboratory at the Department of Integrative Physiology, the University of Colorado - Boulder USA, and subsequently worked for a decade at the School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, as well as holding an honorary appointment at Neuroscience Research Australia, before returning to The University of Queensland in 2017. He has a track record of external research funding and postgraduate research supervision as well as several teaching awards.

Markus graduated from the Vienna University of Technology in Technical Physics in 1995 and was awarded his Doctorate in 1999 after which he worked as postdoctoral research associate and then Assistant Professor at the Department of Radiodiagnostics, Medical University Vienna (AT). From 2004 he worked as Senior Researcher at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) and at the Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (University Essen-Duisburg, DE). In 2014 he relocated to the University of Queensland to lead the Ultra-high Field Human MR Research program at the Centre for Advanced Imaging and was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship. Since 2019 he is Professor Biomedical Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a focus on Medical Imaging and MR Physics research. He served in various roles including Director for the National Imaging Facility – Queensland Node, Deputy Head of School – Research, and member of the ARC College of Experts, and is currently serving as Discipline Lead for Imaging, Sensing and Biomedical Engineering.

Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett lectures in Ethics and the Legal Profession and Family Law. She is the Deputy Dean of the Law School. She is a Fellow of the Centre for Public, Comparative and International Law and researches in the area of lawyers' ethics and practice, access to justice and women and the law. She was a CI on the Australian Feminist Judgments Project funded by the Australian Research Council under a Discovery Project Grant. She is undertaking a number of projects relating to lawyers working across Australia including around family law and family violence, abuse of process and duty of competence, as well as legal professions in the Pacific. She has led a project concerning technology and access to justice in the legal assistance sector funded under an AIBE Applied Research Fund grant and was a CI on a project funded by the Queensland Law Society concerning disruption to and innovation by small law firms across Queensland. Francesca was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre on the Legal Profession at Stanford University in November 2018. She is the co-author (with Holmes) of textbook, Parker & Evans' Inside Legal Ethics in 2023 and forthcoming 2026. She also has an interest in clinical legal education and runs an international placement course funded by New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant funding.

She is a member of the Queensland Law Society Ethics Advsory Committee and is the Vice President of the International Association of Legal Ethics. Francesca is an Academic Member of the School's Pro Bono Centre Advisory Board, and has held a senior administrative position as Director of teaching and Learning in the Law School. Before joining the Law School, she practiced for a number of years as a commercial solicitor at a national law firm in Melbourne and Brisbane.

Karly is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian committed to improving the lives of older people through quality nutrition care and food systems. Her research program is built on three interconnected pillars: 1) nutrition and food services in aged care, 2) gerontology and dietetics education and workforce development and 3) co-design and participatory nutrition research for healthy ageing. Karly's experience working as a dietitian with older adults in community and residential aged care, combined with her lived experience supporting loved ones through the aged care sector, provides a strong foundation for her research.

As an emerging research leader, she has a growing track record of publishing in nutrition and aged care journals, presenting at national and international conferences, contributing to media and securing research investment to advance her research program. Karly currently leads the Nutrition and Food and Nutrition in Aged Care Research Collaborative and has experience supervising Honours, Masters and PhD students. She is an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal on Ageing and holds leadership roles within Dietitians Australia and the Australian Association of Gerontology.

Lemi Baruh (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication, 2007) is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. He is the co-founder of the Social Interaction and Media Lab at Koç University, Istanbul. His research spans various topics, including the effects of social media on interpersonal attraction, surveillance, online security, privacy in online environments, and the role of media in shaping public opinion. His recent work also investigates misinformation and conspiracy theories in the context of health communication, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and the influence of news and social media on public perceptions and behaviors related to health.

A/Prof Federica Barzi is a Principal Research Fellow in Biostatistics at the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and within the Faculty of Health and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Queensland. She was awarded a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Sydney University in 2004 and has a BSc degree in Statistics from the University of Padova, Italy.

A/Prof Barzi is an applied Biostatistician with extensive experience on study design and data analysis of randomized clinical trials, very large observational studies and data linkage. She has worked across a variety of specialties including cardiology, nephrology, nutrition, oncology and emergency care. She has been involved in Indigenous Health since 2005 and from April 2014, with her appointment at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, A/Prof Barzi’s contribution to research focuses solely on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. She has co-authored over a hundred and thirty peer reviewed journal articles with colleagues from various institutions and has secured, as a CI, over 24M in research funding since 2006.

Professor of Biometry

Research Interests:

Research at the interface between applied statistics and quantitative genetics with extensive publications on the analysis and interpretation of multi-way data from large-scale plant breeding experiments, particularly those involving genotype by environment interaction. Theory and application of pattern analysis - clustering and ordination procedures - appropriate for data collected from plant breeding experiments and/or stored in germplasm databases. Analysis, interpretation and impact of genotype x environment interaction for primary economic plant attributes (yield and quality) and data management, integration and analysis (bioinformatics).

Other Activities:

Past President of the International Biometric Society (2010-11) and the Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated (2005-07). Life member of the Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated (2010). Australian Medal for Agricultural Science from the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (1998).

Previous Head of the School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences (2001-10).

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology and Institute of Statisticians (which has merged with the Royal Statistical Society).

Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Rice Research Institute (2013-15).

Dr Taryn Bashford is an award-winning author of young adult fiction. Her debut novel, The Harper Effect, was published by Pan Macmillan in Australia and Skyhorse Publishing in the USA, followed by her second novel, The Astrid Notes, also published by Pan Macmillan. Both novels explore young people who push beyond expectations and pursue ambitious goals despite the risk of failure. The Harper Effect follows an international tennis player, while The Astrid Notes follows a seventeen-year-old who becomes a world-renowned singer. Taryn draws on both personal experience and research to explore what it takes for young people to reach the top—and remain there.

Her third YA novel, Girl Alive (2027), extends this practice into the world of art and draws on her research into the ethical representation of diverse characters. This research also informs her forthcoming Routledge UK textbook, Revision, Inclusion, and AI in Creative Writing: Harnessing the MEDIC Method (2027), which provides a systematic approach to revision that considers representation, inclusion and responsible creative practice. Taryn has also achieved success in independent publishing with her romantic-suspense Tide trilogy, beginning with The Heartless Tide.

Her PhD research, both as a creative practitioner and a scholar, emerged out of the predominance of traumatic topics in young adult novels. Using trauma theory and affect theory, and experimenting with the effects of magic realism when narrating trauma, Taryn's work attempts to depict 'in scene' trauma without sensationalising or glorifying. This is preferable to banning trauma novels and treating traumatic topics as taboo. For trauma novels to trigger positive change in society and culture, deep reader engagement is key and the use of techniques within magic realism can have the effect of buffering the trauma depicted while still safely allowing the reader to explore and engage with the trauma. Following on from her PhD, Taryn’s research has expanded into the critical areas of inclusion and diversity in creative writing, with a particular focus on developing systematic approaches to revising creative work. Her research examines how revision can be used to critically evaluate the representation of diverse characters, cultures, dialogue, voice, themes and settings, ensuring these dimensions are thoughtfully considered as an integral stage of the writing process before publication. Her new creative writing textbook also examines the implications of generative AI for authorship and creative practice, exploring how writers can engage with these technologies ethically and responsibly while maintaining the integrity of their work.

Taryn has spoken at numerous literary conferences, including Great Writing International in London, and has worked extensively with Queensland Writers Centre, delivering writing workshops and mentoring unpublished writers.

I am a health psychologist and researcher with a strong focus on health psychology and mental health, particularly within First Nations and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. My research expertise lies in the development and evaluation of health and wellbeing programs, and cultural adaptations to programs and research methods to more effectively measure mental health and wellness. I have extensive clinical and industry experience, including roles in program design, evaluation, and advocacy within First Nations health, chronic disease management and chronic pain.

Currently, my work spans several projects, including evaluating mental health services for First Nations Australians and investigating the needs of First Nations carers for loved ones with mental health concerns. I also have a keen interest in cultural correlates and expressions of mental disorder, in empowering people to make health behaviour changes, and to engage more effectively with healthcare services through individual, group and health promotion interventions.

Prof. Damien Batstone is Director of the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, where he leads environmental biotechnology and resource recovery research programmes. His research work has focused on renewable energy from biomass, production of commodity chemicals from renewable sources, and the water-energy-food nexus, including production of novel chemicals and feeds for aquaculture from gases such as hydrogen.

Anaerobic and Environmental Biotechnology

Our group specialises in processes which use anaerobic (or without air) conversions to produce bioenergy, green electricity, and other high-value products from wastes and other low value feeds.

My research aim is to better understand the hydrogeological and hydrochemical processes that occur in large sedimentary basins such as the Surat Basin in Queensland. Understanding the fluid-rock and microbial interactions that influence the composition of the groundwater and gas, allows us to better manage this natural resource use now and for the future. I achieve this by the interpretation of geochemical and isotopic data against geological context (stratigraphic and tectonic) to determine the dominant processes controlling the down-dip geochemical evolution of the groundwater and gas.

My daily focus is manager of the Stable Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory which provides stable isotope analyses (C, H, O, N, S) for researchers across UQ and Australia as well as governement and industry. As a mass spectroscopist I advise researchers on sample collection protocols how best to collect their field samples (water and gas), develop equipment, methods and offer interpretation as required.

Manager of the Stable Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory (SIGL)

SIGL is one of the 3 analytical research laboratories which comprises the Centre for Geoanalytical Mass Spectrometry (CGMS) within the School of of Earth and Environmental Sciences and offers researchers stable isotope analyses of geological, ecological and biomedical samples.

To access services see details on the laboratory websites https://sigl.earth.uq.edu.au or https://sees.uq.edu.au/research/facilities/stable-isotope-geochemistry-laboratory