Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Dr Georgia Black is an Associate Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland. Dr Black completed her PhD in Sport Science at Australian Catholic University and holds qualifications in exercise science (BExSci). Her current research interests surround the female athlete - how to maintain and improve physical qualities and the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to exercise performance.
Centre Director of Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law
Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Affiliate of Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law
Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
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School of Law
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
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Professor Ann Black researches in the field of comparative law, law & religion, and legal pluralism, with particular interest in Islamic law and the law and legal cultures of Asia, especially Brunei Darussalam. She taught two comparative law courses in the undergraduate program - Asian Legal Systems and Introduction to Islamic law in addition to Fundamentals of the Common Law and Comparative Criminal Law in the School's Master's program. Professor Black received the UQ Teaching Excellence Award in 2022, and in 2023 the prestigious Award for Teaching Excellence at the Australian Awards for University Teaching.
Professor Black is a co-author with Gary Bell, of Law and Legal Institutions of Asia: Traditions, adaptations and innovations (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law, with Hossein Esmaeili and Nadirsyah Hosen, (Edward Elgar, 2013), Religious Freedom in a Secular Society, with Jahid Hussein in Brill’s Studies in Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights (2022) and Religious Freedom and Accommodating Religious Diversity: Challenges and Responses (2023) and Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity: State Accommodation of Religious Minorities (2024).
Until 2025, Professor Black was the Executive Director, Comparative Law, in the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and is the Program manager for the Centre's Indonesian Law Program, the Legal Pluralism Program, and the Korean Law Program and was a member of the Law and Religion in the Asia-Pacific and the Federalism and Multilevel Governance Program.
Affiliate of Clem Jones Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research
Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Research Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Animal Behaviour Facility Manager
Queensland Brain Institute
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Dr Daniel Blackmore is a senior post-doctoral research fellow in the Bartlett Laboratory at QBI. His research is focused on the ageing brain and developing approaches to slow or even reverse cognitive decline. Dr Blackmore was one of the first to discover the age-associated decrease in neural stem cells. These stem cells are critical as they are able to generate new neurons which are essential for the formation of new memories. Daniel uses mice to study the exact mechanisms involved in these processes. He has shown that physical exercise is very effective at increasing neuron number and improving memory in very old animals. This research formed the basis for a recent human exercise study that demonstrated a significant improvement in the cognitive function of elderly Australians.
Dr Victoria Bladen is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Queensland. Her publications include The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature (Routledge, 2022); seven Shakespearean text guides in the Insight Publications (Melbourne) series: The Taming of the Shrew (2021); Much Ado About Nothing (2020); The Merchant of Venice (2020); Measure for Measure (2015), Henry IV Part 1 (2012), Julius Caesar (2011), and Romeo and Juliet (2010); and nine co-edited volumes including Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge UP, 2023), Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2022); Shakespeare and the Supernatural (Manchester UP 2020) and Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (Cambridge UP 2019).
PhD (UQ), Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (UQ), MPhil (Medieval and Renaissance Studies) (UWA), LLB (Hons) (UWA), BA (UWA).
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Tamara is an early career researcher (7 years post-doc) and a trained respiratory scientist with over 10 years’ experience in measuring the lung function of children aged between 3-18 years across a range of disease modalities including asthma, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis (CF). Her PhD validated the use of normal healthy reference values for two lung function tests (spirometry and fractional exhaled nitric oxide) for children who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. She is experienced in performing a wide range of clinically available lung function tests as well as several new emerging techniques including oscillometry and multiple breath washout. These techniques are attractive additions to clinical practice due to improved sensitivity to early lung disease progression. She has a particular interest in childhood respiratory illnesses such as cystic fibrosis and asthma, emerging clinical measurement techniques, as well as Australian First Nations respiratory health. Her current research aims to i) better understand the mechanisms of early lung disease including asthma, CF, preterm and neuromusccular conditions, ii) to improve current clinical outcome measures to aid in appropriate management, and iii) to establish the clinical utility of new techniques for use in both teritary and home-based settings.
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Principal Research Fellow - CAI
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
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Associate Professor Blakey is a group leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and the Centre for Advanced Imaging. During his appointment at UQ he has been a recipient of a Vice Chancellor’s Research and Teaching Fellowship, an ARC Future Fellowship, a Linkage Projects International Fellowship, and a Queensland Government Smart State Fellowship. Prior to joining UQ he worked at Polymerat, a materials biotechnology startup company now listed on the ASX as AnteoTech.
Director of Biotechnology Programs of School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
Faculty of Science
Professor and Deputy Head of School
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
Faculty of Science
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Natural Products from Traditional Medicines and drug development.
My group focuses on isolating bioactive natural products from plants and organisms used in traditional and herbal medicines in cultures across the globe. We screen extracts and purified compounds for biological activity and for bioavailability using cell techniques. We are also involved in synthesising analogues of natural compounds and components of subunit vaccines. We also work with first responders to develop methods for detection and decompostion of dangerous chemicals.
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Dr. Bland is a cognitive neuroscientist with expertise in brain stimulation, neural oscillations, and neuroplasticity. His research explores how patterns of rhythmic brain activity underpin neural communication and computation, and how non-invasive brain stimulation can be used to effectively manipulate brain oscillations that shape human consciousness and cognition.
Dr. Bland completed his PhD at the Queensland Brain Institute, where he investigated oscillatory neural networks and their dynamic role in brain communication. Together with his research students and collaborators, he combines advanced neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and research methodologies to study brain function.
As a researcher and academic advisor at The University of Queensland, Dr. Bland is dedicated to advancing knowledge at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and statistics, with applications ranging from cognitive enhancement to rehabilitation.
Affiliate Professor of School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
Faculty of Science
Centre Director of ARC Training Centre for Environmental and Agricultural Solutions to Antimicrobial
ARC Training Centre for Environmental and Agricultural Solutions to Antimicrobia
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Affiliate of Centre for Superbug Solutions
Centre for Superbug Solutions
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Professorial Research Fellow & Group Leader
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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Professor Mark Blaskovich is an antibiotic hunter and Director of Translation at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The University of Queensland. He is co-founder and former Director of the Centre for Superbug Solutions at IMB.
A medicinal chemist with 15 years of industrial drug development experience prior to his academic career, Mark has been developing new antibiotics to treat drug resistant pathogens and using modified antibiotics to detect bacterial infections. He is a co-founder of the Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery, a global antibiotic discovery initiative, and has led a number of UQ-industry collaborations focused on antibiotic development. An inventor on eleven patent families, Mark has developed drugs in clinical trials, published more than eighty research articles, and received over $10m in grant funding.
School of Political Science and International Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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Roland is Professor of International Relations and Coordinator of the Visual Politics Research Program. His research explores how images and emotions shape political phenomena, including humanitarianism, security, peacebuilding, protest movements and the conflict in Korea. Books include Visual Global Politics (Routledge, 2018); Aesthetics and World Politics (Palgrave, 2009/2012); Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation (University of Minnesota Press, 2005/2008) and Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (CUP, 2000).
Roland’s main current research project is an interdisciplinary ARC Linkage collaboration (2022-2026) on The Politics and Ethics of Visualising Humanitarian Crises. The project involves eight researchers and the World Press Photo Foundation, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Australian Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières.
Roland grew up in Zürich, Switzerland, where he was educated and worked as a lawyer. He studied international relations in Paris, Seoul, Toronto, Vancouver and Canberra. Roland also worked for two years in a Swiss diplomatic mission in the Korean DMZ and held visiting affiliations at Harvard, Cambridge, Humboldt, Tampere, Yonsei and Pusan National University as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
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Selection of Recent Publications
“Decolonising Affect" Cooperation and Conflict (2024)
“Un-Disciplining the International” Alternatives: Local, Global, Political (2023)
"Visualizing International Relations” Journal of Visual Political Communication, 10,(2023
"Visual Violence" Interview with Brad Evans, Los Angeles Review of Books, 3 Jan 2022.
