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My work currently focuses on the intersection between environmental management and the mining industry. My research aims to better quantify the environmental impacts of mining and to identfy solutions for reducing these impacts. I have specialist expertise in carbon management and carbon accounting, so much of my research focuses on the carbon impacts of mining. I also conduct research on how mining can best supply materials that can support the transition to a low-carbon economy, for example the metals needed for renewable energy technologies and the rocks needed for carbon dioxide removal through enhanced rock weathering.

In the past I have also been involved in a number of geochemistry and geochronology studies, including many focused on mineral deposits.

In addition to my adjunct position at UQ, I work full-time in the mining industry and lead various research collaborations between the mining industry and academia.

I am a writer and enjoy writing about science for a general audience. My book "Rocks & Minerals: An Illustrated Field Guide" was published by Cider Mill Press (an imprint of HarperCollins) in 2023.

Professor Frederic Meunier obtained his Masters degree in Neurophysiology at the Paris XI University, France in 1992 and completed his Ph.D in Neurobiology at the CNRS in Gif-sur-Yvette, France in 1996. He was the recipient of a European Biotechnology Fellowship and went on to postgraduate work at the Department of Biochemistry at Imperial College (1997-1999) and at Cancer Research UK (2000-2002) in London, UK. After a short sabbatical at the LMB-MRC in Cambridge (UK), he became a group leader at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Queensland (Australia) in 2003. He joined the Queensland Brain Institute of the University of Queensland in 2007 and obtained an NHMRC senior research fellowship in 2009 renewed in 2014 with promotion. He became Professor in 2014 at the Queensland Brain Institute and is currently part of the Centre for Ageing Dementia Research.

Dr Lin Mi is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the UQ Business School. Lin's research interests include corporate finance and real estate finance. Her work has been published in well-regarded international journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, British Accounting Review, Economic Modelling, International Review of Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and Accounting and Finance.

Dr Silvia Micheli (BArch Politecnico di Milano; PhD, IUAV, Venice) is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Program Convener of the Bachelor of Architectural Design. She joined The University of Queensland in 2012 after 5-year of teaching and research at the Politecnico di Milano. Dr Micheli works across design and history of architecture.

Her design research is cross-disciplinary, focusing on the notion of ‘productive city’ and how small-scale projects can enhance liveability and resilience in our communities. Her forthcoming co-authored book, House, Precinct and Territory: Design Strategies for the Productive City (ORO, 2024) discusses concrete scenarios for urban production. Dr Micheli is concurrently investigating strategies to enhance urban horticulture and farming practices through design to increase food security in the urban environment.

Dr Micheli is an accomplished scholar with a strong track record in contemporary architectural studies and a wide range of outputs, including exhibitions, NTROs and publications. She is co-curator of the forthcoming exhibition on the work of AIA gold medallist Enrico Taglietti, in partnership with the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG). She co-designed the Blue Bower Pavilion, recipient of the Crossroads Prize at the 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, as a manifesto of urban resilience during COVID19. In 2018, Silvia's co-designed the multi-awarded residential building One Room Tower, a demonstration project for the densification of the city.

Amongst Dr Micheli’s publications, there is her co-authored critical book on the mechanism of cultural production in late 20th century, Paolo Portoghesi: Architecture between History, Politics and Media (Bloomsbury, 2023); the co-edited volume Italy/Australia: Postmodern Architecture in Translation (URO, 2018), that reflects on the influence of Italian design culture on Australian architecture; the co-edited book Aalto beyond Finland: Buildings, Projects and Network (Helsinki, 2018), which explores the global reach of the work of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and her contribution to the travelling exhibition catalogue Alvar Aalto: Second Nature, (Vitra Design Musem, 2014), with an essay on the impact of Italian urban culture on Aalto’s design approach.

Contextually, Silvia has also co-authored the book Storia dell’architettura italiana 1985–2015 (Turin, 2013), which reflects on the mechanisms of architectural production in contemporary Italy; co-edited the volume Italia 60/70. Una stagione dell’architettura (Padua, 2010); solo-authored the volume Erik Bryggman 1891–1955. Architettura Moderna in Finlandia (Rome, 2009). Her first co-authored book, Lo spettacolo dell'Architettura: Profilo dell'ArchistarÓ, looks at the power of media in the making of design culture.

Dr Micheli has a range of international collaborations with cultural institutions, such as the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Triennale di Milano, Centre Pompidou, MAXXI Museum, Alvar Aalto Foundation and Vitra Design Museum. She has also liaised with prestigious academic institutions, including Seoul National University, Berlage Institute, Politecnico di Milano and University of Manchester. In 2019, Dr Micheli was Visiting Professor at the School of Art and Design at the Guangdong University of Technology, China.

Since 2016, Dr Micheli has assisted to secure DFAT funding to foster UQ students mobility in the Asia Pacific Region, liaising with international academic and industry partners in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul.

Dr Silvia Micheli is a registered architect (Board of Architects, Lecco, Italy) and member of the editorial board of the Springer book series Transnational Histories of Design Cultures and Production.

Dr Renée Mickelburgh is a communication scholar at the University of Queensland (UQ). With over two decades of experience in communication — from journalism and political communication, through to civil society and now academia — Renée lectures and coordinates courses in media strategies and strategic communication. Her research considers how emotions circulate in the communication of wicked problems: specifically, gender violence and environmental justice. She is also concerned with how emerging technologies — particularly artificial intelligence — are reshaping strategic communication, advocacy, and public discourse.

Renée is the author of The ecofeminist storyteller: environmental communication through women's digital garden stories and has co-authored book chapters and journal articles focussed on the communicaiton of sexual consent among young adults. She has worked as a research fellow for UQ’s Sexual and Gender Violence Research Network and is now deputy lead of the School of Communication and Arts AI working Party. The AI Working Party aims to connect teachers, researchers and industry experts across disciplines including strategic communication, creative writing, literary studies, drama, digital media, and museum studies and provide a coordinated response to the opportunities and risks posed by AI. As an affiliate of UQ’s Centre for Communication and Social Change, she contributes to discussions on AI for public good and AI's impact on women.

Renée follows the transformative approaches of leading feminist writers and scholars by engaging with creative methods of inquiry in her teaching and research.

Renée is open to supervision and welcomes inquires from potential post-graduate students in the following areas:

• Feminist environmental communication
• Gender violence
• Feminist media studies
• Participatory research methods
• Affective and creative methodologies
• Strategic communication and advocacy
• Digital intimacies

Dr Stuart Middleton is a scholar in the field of management education. He is interested in topics related to the evolution of the management education field, storytelling in teaching, and philosophical approaches to management education. His work has been published in leading management education journals such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Management Education, and Management Teaching Review. He is an Associate Editor at Journal of Management Education, as well as Academy of Management Learning and Education. He has been awarded the Management and Organization Behavior Teaching Society's Distinguished Mid-Career Educational Leader for 2023.

Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, Midwinter MJ, Recent Advances in Surgery; RSM Press 2004, Editors: C Johnson & I Taylor

Acute Pancreatitis, MJ Midwinter, Horizons in Medicine, Vol 20. Pub Royal College of Physicians 2009, Editor P Mathieson

Perforated Peptic Ulcer MJ Midwinter, Emergency Surgery, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, Eds: Brooks, Cotton, Tai and Mahoney

Damage Control Resuscitation. Midwinter, M. In Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery (pp. 25-29) CRC Press 2021, Editors Mansoor Khan, David Nott.

My academic training is in language teaching and linguistics. I hold a BA/MA equivalent in Teaching Foreign Languages from Ryazan State Pedagogical University, Russia, MA in English with concentration in Linguistics and TESOL from East Carolina University, USA, and PhD in Linguistics from University of South Carolina. Before coming to UQ, I taught at tertiary level for 13 in three universities in Russia and USA. I have supervised teaching practicums and research projects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and have taught a range of Russian, English, Linguistics and Language Teaching courses.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching. I am interested in cognitive, social and pedagogical implications of bilingualism in its broad sense and specifically in the similarities and differences between language development in foreign/second language learners and heritage speakers. I am interested in finding which linguistic phenomena are more difficult to acquire and why. I study factors that can potentially affect the success of bilingual language acquisition. The broad goal of my research is to gain a better understanding of how language works in the case of bilingual acquisition and, as a result, to inform classroom language pedagogy and policy.

United Nations (UN) member states in 2015 agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Dr Deirdre Mikkelsen is a microbiologist and Senior Lecturer in Food Science at the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, where her teaching and research contribute to several UN SDGs, including:

• Goal 2 – Zero Hunger
• Goal 3 – Good Health and Well-being
• Goal 4 – Quality Education
• Goal 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
• Goal 13 – Climate Action
• Goal 15 – Life on Land

Deirdre holds a B.Sc. (First Class Honours, 1999) and a PhD in Microbiology (2005), both from UQ. She has expertise in molecular microbial ecology, bioinformatics and fermentation microbiology. Her academic journey includes research roles at the Advanced Wastewater Management Centre (2005) and from 2006 at the Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences (CNAFS), Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), where she held Postdoctoral and Research Fellow positions. She joined her current School in 2019.

Program Coordination and Teaching

Dr Deirdre Mikkelsen is the Program Coordinator for the following postgraduate programs:

• Master of Food Science and Technology
• Master of Food Science and Technology (Research Extensive)
• Graduate Certificate in Food Science and Technology

She also coordinates and teaches:

• FOOD2000 – Food Science
• FOOD3017 – Food Safety & Quality Management
• FOOD7021 – Professional Experience (Work Integrated Learning)

Professional Memberships and Engagement

• Member, Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST) – Queensland Branch Committee
• Member, International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) Education Oversight Group – Australasia representative
• Member, IUFoST – Food Safety Working Committee 2.2 (Education focus)
• Academic Advisory Group Member, Ag Connections Agriskills Accelerator Program
• Member, Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM)

Jared is a proud Yuwi man, pharmacist and early-career researcher with interests spanning from culturally safe and effective pharmacy practice through to new technologies for pharmaceutical development and delivery. After graduating from UQ with a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) in 2012, he worked as a community pharmacist before returning to undertake a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences, focusing on discovering new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout his PhD, Jared developed an interest in teaching and tutored for many pharmacy courses. Ultimately this led to his current role as a Senior Lecturer with UQ School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences upon finishing his PhD in 2021. Jared also works as a clinical and research pharmacist with the Institute of Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH).

Elissa is an Intensivist and clinician researcher. She is a full-time Intensive Care Specialist in the Australian Army through which she works at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. She holds honorary academic titles at the University of Queensland and Monash University. Her PhD was on the role of the endothelial glycocalyx in severe trauma, and she is building a research program that spans the management of severe burns, trauma, blood transfusion, military medicine, and endothelial dysfunction in critical illness. She also has a strong interest in the design of novel clinical trials and is currently completing a Masters in Biostatistics. She is an emerging leader in critical care clinical trials, currently leading the Australian sites of the international, multi-centre, Threshold for Platelets (T4P) clinical trial, and is on the management committee of several other large multi-centre clinical trials. She is an active member of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group community and supervises several student research projects.

I received a BA in Biology from Columbia University in New York City. After taking two years off to work as a research assistant, I began graduate school at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, also in New York. My graduate advisor was Andrew Koff at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute. I studied the cdk inhibitor, p27, and discovered that it is regulated at the level of translation as cells exit the cell cycle. I received my PhD in Molecular Biology in 2001. My postdoctoral work was carried out in Larry Zipursky's lab at UCLA. Here, I learned both Drosophila genetics and neurobiology and began working on the Dscam-family of cell recognition molecules. I identified Dscam2 as the first tiling receptor and discovered that Dscam2 and Dscam1 are redundantly required for photoreceptor synaptic specificity. I moved to Brisbane and began as a lecturer at the UQ School of Biomedical Sciences, in December 2009. I am also an affiliate of the Queensland Brain Institute.

Dr Jodie Miller is an Associate Professor in mathematics education, in the School of Education at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on improving the educational outcomes of students most at risk of marginalisation in school, particularly in the fields of Mathematics and Indigenous education.

Jodie is internationally recognised for her research in early algebraic thinking and evidenced based strategies to support engagement in mathematics in primary school settings. She leads research projects with a focus on classroom and mathematical practices, teacher professional development, culturally responsive teaching, and examining student understanding. This research has been conducted in countries including Australia, New Zealand, and Germany.

In addition to this, Jodie’s recent research collaborations focus on examining excellence in Indigenous education. This work is led by Associate Professor Marnee Shay, where the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are brought to the forefront to re-imagine the notion of excellence in Indigenous education.