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Chris O’Donnell obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, an Associate Editor of Empirical Economics, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. His current research is focused on economic and statistical methods for measuring and explaining productivity and efficiency change. He has authored or co-authored three books on this topic. His work has been published in leading economics and econometrics journals, including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometric Reviews and the European Journal of Operational Research. He has provided in-house training and/or been a consultant for organisations including the World Bank, the Asian Productivity Organisation, the International Rice Research Institute, the Australian Energy Regulator, the New South Wales Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal, and the Australian Independent Hospital Pricing Authority.

Dr Martin O’Flahertyis a research fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course located in the Institute for Social Science Research. Martin has made important contributions to the evaluation of nationally significant social policy, often working with the Department of Social Services. Notable highlights include designing the impact evaluation for the $90 million Try, Test, and Learn Fund and leading the evaluation of the Building Capacity in Australia’s Parents trial and the National Community Awareness Raising initiative. He is the quantitative lead for recently announced Community Refugee Integration and Sponsorship Pilot, funded by the Department of Home Affairs, which is investigating the feasibility of alternative settlement pathways for unlinked humanitarian migrants.

Martin’s broader research centres on the intersection of family, health, and disadvantage over the life course, using advanced quantitative methods to unlock causal and longitudinal perspectives on important social problems. Recent work has investigated patterns and determinants of children’s and adolescents’ time-use, including for adolescents with disability and LGBTQ adolescents. He has also led research using state-of-the-art machine learning methodology to study heterogeneous effects of teenage motherhood on later life mental health. Martin’s current research is primarily focussed on understanding the nature, causes of, and solutions to, poverty and financial insecurity among children with disabilities and their families. His work has appeared in leading international journals including Demography, Child Development, and The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health among others.

Neurologist with special interest in electrodiagnosis and neuromuscular disease. Research interests include neuroimmunology, point-of-care ultrasound and the neuropsychiatric interface.

Ass. Prof. Jacinta O’Hagan is an Associate Professor in International Relations in the School of Political Science and International Studies. A former diplomat with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, Jacinta O’Hagan has held prior appointments at the Australian National University and held visiting fellowships and affiliations at the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the European University Institute.

Her principal areas of teaching are international history, humanitarianism and culture in world politics. Her research and publications have focused on the role of culture and civilizational in world politics and the politics of humanitarianism, including the role of non-state actors in humanitarianism, and humanitarian diplomacy. She has worked on collaborative projects on the relationship between digital media and political violence and the globalization of international society. Her most recent research and publications have focused on the international humanitarian system, and civilizational politics in international society.

Dr Denis O’Hara is the Program Lead for the Master of Counselling within the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work. He is a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society and member of the Psychotherapist and Counsellors Federation of Australia. Dr O’Hara is a past Head of School of Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Australian College of Applied Psychology (ACAP) and is Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Dr O’Hara has taught in several universities and colleges both in Australia and overseas across faculties of education, psychology, and counselling. He enjoys research and writing and has published several books and book chapters, and multiple peer reviewed journal articles. Some of his research interests include hope studies, psychological trauma, ADHD, self-differentiation, and psychotherapy integration. One of Dr O'Hara's principal areas of reearch is on hope studies and apart from reports in research papers, a detailed examination of hope can be found in two of his books. The most recent volume is an edited book which provides an examination of hope from multiple perspectives including psychological, sociological, fiction and film, and is entitled “Phoenix Rising from Contemporary Global Society”. A second text is a full examination of hope and its application within the context of counselling and psychotherapy and is entitled " Hope in Counselling and Psychotherapy'.

Shaun O’Leary, BPHTY (Hon), MPHTY (Msk), PhD, is an Associate Professor in Physiotherapy between the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Physiotherapy Department, in Brisbane, Australia. He is also a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists (ACP) in 2008). Shaun is a longstanding member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association and Fellow of the ACP. Shaun is across clinical education at all levels of physiotherapy training. He has had a major teaching role in the University of Queensland’s postgraduate specialty Masters of Physiotherapy (Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy) programs since 2001, and nationally has served the ACP as an examiner, and former council member and Chair of the Fellowships Program Standing Committee. In 2021 Shaun was awarded a Senior Fellowship within the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Shaun has over 130 publications relating to the management of musculoskeletal conditions (including >110 research articles, 6 book chapters, 2 books translated to multiple languages), > 50 conference presentations, nearly AUD$6 million career grant funding, and have delivered over 60 clinical workshops worldwide, and received clinical research awards nationally and internationally, and supervised 13 research higher degrees.

Karina O'Leary is the Interprofessional Conjoint Fellow at the Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) Education and Research Alliance. A physiotherapist with extensive experience working within public and private musculoskeletal physiotherapy settings, Karina has also worked within academic settings in education and research roles.

Delivering high quality healthcare needs high functioning interprofessional teams. Karina's focus at STARS and her research is firstly, ensuring health professional students opportunities to develop interprofessional competencies, secondly, developing educators capability to deliver interprofessional work integrated learning opportunities and thirdly designing innovative ways to develop interprofessional practice within healthcare teams.

Karina 's PhD will use an experience based co-design framework to understand interprofessional practice within a local hospital setting, then designing interventions for students, educators and healthcare teams to engance interprofessional practice.

Qualifications

• PhD candidate, The University of Queensland (commenced 2021)
• Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, The University of Queensland (2009)
• Master of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland (2005)
• BSc (Honours) Physiotherapy, Leeds Metropolitan University (1997)

Awards and Fellowships

• Heath and Behavioural Sciences Faculty Excellence in Clinical and Professional Skill Education Award (2022)

Megan O’Mara is a Professor and Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), UQ. Her group uses multiscale modelling techniques to understand how changes in the biochemical environment of the cell membranes alters membrane properties and modulates the function of membrane proteins. She has research interests in multidrug resistance, computational drug design and delivery, biopolymers, and personalized medicine. Megan completed her PhD in biophysics at the Australian National University in 2005 before moving to the University of Calgary, Canada, to take up a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2009, she returned to Australia to join University of Queensland’s School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences as a UQ Postdoctoral Fellow, before commencing an ARC DECRA in 2012 where she continued her computational work on membrane protein dynamics. In 2015, Megan joined the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University in 2015 as Rita Cornforth Fellow and Senior Lecturer. In 2019 she was promoted to Associate Professor and was Associate Director (Education) of the Research School of Chemistry ANU in 2019-2021. In April 2022 she relocated to AIBN.

I study how people lead, decide, and organize under the most demanding conditions imaginable, and what those environments reveal about leadership and practice more broadly. My research examines how leaders make consequential decisions under uncertainty and time pressure, how embodied skill and expertise develop in operational settings, and how teams sustain coordinated performance when conditions are most demanding. My central argument is that organizations at the edge of their capability show us things about leadership and human coordination that ordinary settings conceal. This work sits at the intersection of practice-process theory and phenomenology, and draws on my twenty-three years of service across the US Army Infantry, the 75th Ranger Regiment, and Special Forces, experience that affords access to empirical settings and practitioner networks rarely available to management researchers. I bring this research and experience directly into the classroom and engagements with industry, government, defense, and law enforcement partners, using what extreme contexts reveal about leadership to help practitioners in any organizational setting decide, lead, and act more effectively.

Dr Patrick (Paddy) O'Regan is a social work lecturer in the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work at the University of Queensland. Previously, he worked at Griffith University in Australia and was the director of Gestalt Therapy Brisbane.

Paddy began his social work education in Townsville, completing a Bachelor of Social Work in 1991, then extending that knowledge with a Master of Social Policy and a Master of Gestalt Therapy before completing a PhD in 2020. He is known for his extensive experience working alongside those who have been involved in potentially traumatic events, especially in emergency and industrial settings.

Paddy’s research areas are peer support in suicide prevention, working with trauma, contemporary issues in professional education, the ethics of lifelong learning, and social work with migrants and culturally and linguistically diverse communities. His research skill set comprises a wide range of qualitative methodologies.

Anne-Maree O'Rourke is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the UQ Business School and holds a PhD (University of Technology Sydney), a Master of Business Administration (Macquarie Graduate School of Management) and a Bachelor of Commerce (University of New South Wales). She currently teaches Brand Management to undergraduate students and Fundamentals of Advertising to postgraduate students.

She is the Academic Mentor of Newish - UQ's student-led marketing agency.

Anne-Maree brings over 12 years of management and consulting experience in marketing, market research and branding into both her teaching and research, having worked with a vast range of commercial brands and government entities including Kimberly-Clark, Yahoo!, Telstra, FOXTEL, QSuper and The Department of Transport and Main Roads (QLD State Gov.)

Her primary research interests lie in two areas: 1) Brand strategy and management (e.g., brand perceptions, celebrity endorsement, brand purpose, luxury branding) and 2. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the marketplace (e.g., LGBT+ brands, plus-sized consumers, racial stereotypes in service settings).

Her research has been published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, the Journal of Product and Brand Management and Psychology and Marketing. In addition, her work has been presented at international marketing conferences such as the Association of Consumer Research Asia Pacific (ACR-AP), the European Marketing Academy Conference and the Global Marketing Conference. She received the Runner Up Best Competitive Paper Award in Consumer Behavior at ACR-AP 2024.

Anne-Maree sits on the Editorial Review Board of the European Journal of Marketing.

Tim O’Rourke's research investigates past and present applications of cross-cultural design across different building types and settings. Such projects often require multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of architectural problems, informed by the histories of buildings and the people who use them. A Discovery Project on healthcare architecture combined different research methods to ask if design can improve the experience and participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in hospitals and clinics.

Tim's current research focuses on the design and social histories of Indigenous housing from the 1950s assimilation era to the 2000s. These studies seek to answer questions about design intentions and the origins, development and evaluation of architectural methods that improved public housing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. His PhD examined the history and use of Aboriginal building traditions in the Wet Tropics Region of Queensland. He has contributed to a range of research projects related to Indigenous housing, settlements and landscapes. Research topics include self-constructed dwellings and vernacular building technologies, cultural tourism, adaption to climate change and housing sustainability. Results from these studies have been published in technical reports, conference proceedings, journals and book chapters.

Tim is a registered architect, having worked in architectural practices in Brisbane and Sydney, and he maintains an interest in timber construction and joinery. As a sole practitioner, he has designed residential projects and worked on a range of building types for Aboriginal communities. He teaches architectural technology and design and has offered a range of research topics in the Master of Architecture program.

Memberships

Fellow Australian Institute of Architects

Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand

Environmental Design Research Association,

Dr O’Shea has a long and proud association with the Law School. As an undergraduate he was President of the University of Queensland Law Society and Law Representative on the Union Council. After post graduate studies in the United States, he practiced as a commercial lawyer in the Brisbane CBD and as a community legal service lawyer specializing in consumer law.

Returning to The University of Queensland in 2000, he taught Business and Commercial Law. He developed and taught the first courses in consumer law and clinical legal education and co-founded the UQ Pro Bono Centre as well as representing the Law School teaching in China, Thailand, Singapore and Brunei.

His doctoral thesis, on “Addressing Inequality in Consumer Transactions” received the Commendation of the Dean of Post-Graduate Studies and his research has been cited with approval in a number of state Supreme Court judgments and, on several occasions, Hansard. He has published in a wide variety of areas with a focus on consumer law and has been described by the publishers of his last co-authored book, Routledge of London as “one of Australia’s leading consumer law researchers.”

Now practicing as principal of his own firm, he continues to teach courses for the Law School every year. He has advised government, industry and consumer groups on consumer law and is a Panel Member of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority; an External Compliance Reviewer approved by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and serves on several boards and Queensland Law Society committees.

Selected publications

Books and book chapters

• Current author of “Mortgages and Securities” title of Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, Lexis Nexis, June 2017.
• Credit, Consumers and the Law, Joint Editor with Karen Fairweather and Ross Grantham, Routledge, London, 2017. Contribution to Introduction, curation of text and authored a chapter.
• “Regulatory Consistency and Powers”, Chapter 14 in Consumer Law and Policy in Australia and New Zealand, Malbon and L. Nottage (eds), Federation Press, 2013.
• The Legal Environment of Business, Thompson Law Book Co., Sydney, 2006.
• “Concerning Privacy of Debtor’s Information” Chapter in Consumer Credit Law, Butterworths, 2000
• “Consumer and Credit Law” in Lawyers Practice Manual 1998 update, (First Published 1994) Law Book Company.
• “Credit Law” Chapter in The Queensland Law Handbook, Caxton Legal Service, 1995
• “Edmund Barton” and “Herbert Evatt” chapters in Magill’s Great Lives in History: British and Commonwealth Edition, Salem Press, 1987.

Journal articles

• “Consumer Credit: Too much disclosure is not enough” (2009) 90(Jan-Feb) Precedent 22
• “The Lions’ Question applied to industry-based consumer dispute resolution schemes” (2006) 26(1) The Arbitrator and Mediator 63
• “In Defence of Consumer Law: The Resolution of Consumer Disputes” (2006) 28:1 Sydney Law Review
• “Style and Substance – The New Insurance Code of Practice” (2005) Insurance Law Journal 227
• “Consumer Credit Code Disclosure: Does it work?” (2005) 16 Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice
• “The complete law school-avoiding the production of ‘half-lawyers’”(2004) 29:6 Alternative Law Journal 272
• “All’s fair in love and war – but not contract” (2004) 23 University of Queensland Law Journal 226
• “Underneath the Radar: The largely unnoticed phenomenon of industry based consumer dispute resolution schemes in Australia” (2004) 15 Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 156

Plant nutrition, specialising in tropical root crops.

Since joining the University of Queensland in 1992, Dr. O'Sullivan has completed a series of projects characterising deficiencies and toxicities of mineral nutrients, in species of sweetpotato, aroids and yams, and identifying and remediating nutritional disorders in semi-subsistence production contexts in collaboration with project partners in Pacific Island countries.

Belinda is a post-doc researcher leading international scale research about rural health systems, workforce capacity building, access, quality and distribution at The University of Queensland Rural Clinical School.

Belinda did her PhD with the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life Survey (MABEL), applying the large longitudinal panel survey of Australian doctors to research rural outreach service patterns by specialists. She continues to work in the MABEL research team, collaborating between Melbourne University, University Queensland and Monash colleagues to support the rural work stream.

She was the Chief Investigator of the Monash Medical School rural medical workforce tracking study (2016-2019), producing substantial new evidence about the design effectiveness of the Monash rural medical program, attracting new funding for end to end rural medical training from the Murray Darling Medical Network.

Belinda was the Director of Research and Evaluation in the Office of the National Rural Health Commissioner (2018-2019). She played a lead role in consulting and developing national Taskforce Advice and brokered a national evaluation framework for the Pathway, along with supporting rural allied health policy options.

She worked with rural wonca in 2018 to lead a WHO consultancy producing a Checklist for implementing rural pathways for training and supporting health workers in low and middle income countries, of significant global interest for supporting stakeholders implement training in all disciplines, from any starting point.

Belinda has been the CI of Education Research Grants about rural GP supervisors and is leading partnership projects with GPSA about the quality and distribution of the GP supervisor workforce.

She graduated from the NSW Public Health Officer Training Program at NSW Health in 2002, after completing her MPH (Hons) in the area of tobacco control. Before that, she worked as a physiotherapy clinician at the Austin and in private practice.

She has nearly twenty years’ experience of developing and implementing workplace-based training and development to produce health workers with the right skills, distributed and working in areas of community need. Her experience spans writing competencies, developing training tools, training needs assessment and planning and formative and summative assessment.

Belinda supervises Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours), PhD students, and supports people doing projects which advance knowledge of rural health systems.

Belinda's PhD: "Rural outreach by specialist doctors in Australia"

Monash University - APA, PPA Awards and Advancing Women's Research Awards http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/1268685

WHO Rural Pathways Checklist https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/News/RuralRound-upLandmarkGlobalRuralFramework.aspx

MABEL longitudinal study of Australian doctors www.mabel.org.au

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University

Member RFDS Victoria Research Committee

Overview

Professor Michael O’Sullivan is a neuroscientist, neurologist and group leader at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB). His main research interest is the neurobiology of brain injury, with an emphasis on mechanisms of resilience and recovery of the brain after injury. His previous work has developed understanding in two broad areas:

• The cognitive neuroscience of memory and cognitive control – and how distributed and dynamic networks in the brain support these functions, which are often affected by injury.
• How injury alters network structure and function leading to symptoms in day-to-day life - and intrinsic mechanisms of neural adaptation that modulate the effect of injury

At the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, O’Sullivan is building a research program on cellular and molecular events that influence adaptation and recovery, including the role of innate immunity and glial cells. This program includes novel approaches to neuroprotection and the role of astrocytes as key regulators of glutamate and neuroinflammation. A major theme is identification of therapeutic targets, and evaluation of disease progression or treatment response in vivo, using advanced human imaging with MRI, PET and novel radiotracers. In addition to his Institute work, O’Sullivan leads clinical and biomarker projects in stroke and traumatic brain injury and is a member of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in vascular mechanisms of cognitive impairment.

The group is at the forefront in the application of advanced techniques to investigate brain structure and function in vivo, including diffusion MRI and tractography, the use of functional MRI and EEG to examine to examine dynamic network interactions, and PET to examine neurochemistry.

Supervision

Professor O’Sullivan supervises PhD projects across multiple research areas, including clinical science, cognitive neuroscience, animal models and computational neuroscience (such as machine learning and deep learning algorithms for diagnosis and prediction of prognosis). Expressions of interest from potential PhD and honours students are welcome.

Dr Eoin O’Sullivan is a consultant nephrologist and clinician scientist whose research focuses on understanding kidney disease through the integration of diverse biological, clinical and population-level data.

His work spans molecular biology and multi-omics, large-scale clinical datasets, geospatial epidemiology and environmental health. A central theme is connecting information across different biological and population scales to better understand disease mechanisms, identify unmet need and develop more targeted approaches to healthcare.

His research interests include kidney ageing and senescence, autoimmune kidney disease, dialysis outcomes, and the influence of geography and environmental exposures on kidney health. An emerging focus is cardiovascular–kidney–metabolic (CKM) health, exploring how linked clinical, pathology, genomic and population datasets can identify overlapping disease burden, improve risk stratification and inform precision screening.

Through this work, he aims to translate insights from diverse datasets into practical, equitable and data-driven models of care that bridge hospital, primary care and community settings.

Alongside his research, he practises clinical nephrology at Metro North Health, with clinical leadership roles in haemodialysis and autoimmune kidney disease.

In addition to his research, Dr. O'Sullivan is actively involved in medical education and mentorship, involved with ANZSN Educational an scientific comittees, with national level educational experiences both in Australia and in UK.

Current Research Focus

Theme 1: Kidney Ageing and Cellular Senescence

Investigating the molecular mechanisms of kidney ageing and cellular senescence using single-cell RNA sequencing and multi-omics approaches, with a focus on identifying novel therapeutic targets and translating biological discoveries into clinical interventions.

Theme 2: Translational Data Science and Precision Medicine

Integrating diverse molecular, genomic, pathology and clinical datasets to better understand kidney disease. Applying advanced statistical methods, machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve disease classification, prognostication, biomarker discovery and clinical decision support.

Theme 3: Population Health and Cardiovascular–Kidney–Metabolic Disease

Using large-scale linked health datasets, geospatial epidemiology and environmental exposure data to investigate patterns of kidney and cardiovascular–kidney–metabolic (CKM) disease. Developing data-driven approaches to identify unmet need, inform precision screening and improve equitable access to healthcare through integrated models of care.