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Professor Bowen is Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology, and leads the Quantum Optics Laboratory at UQ. He is recognised both nationally and internationally for research at the interface of quantum science and nanotechnology; including bioimaging, biotechnology, nanophotonics, nanomechanics, quantum optomechanics and photonic/quantum sensing. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics.

Professor Bowen's research spans from the very fundamental, e.g. how does quantum physics transition into our everyday world at large scales?, to applied, e.g. developing next generation sensors for medical diagnostics and navigation. To pursue this research, his lab works in close partnership with industry and uses state-of-the-art facilities for nanofabrication, nanoanalysis, precision optical measurement and deep cryogenic refrigeration available in-house or on campus at UQ.

Professor Bowen has supervised more than thirty postgraduate students, who have been recognised with prizes such as Fulbright Scholarships, an Australian Youth Science Ambassadorship, a Springer PhD theses prize, the Queensland nomination for the Australian Institute of Physics Bragg Medal, the Australian Optical Society Postgraduate Student Prize and UQ Graduate of the Year. He regularly has projects available, both for postgraduate students and for postdoctoral researchers. Please check his website, above, or contact him directly for details (w.bowen@uq.edu.au).

Professor Roslyn Boyd is Scientific Director of the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre (QCPRRC) an internationally recognised research group at the University of Queensland in the School of Medicine. The centre includes a multidisciplinary team of 38 researchers and in addition provides clinical research leadership to 60 clinicians from multiple disciplines in the state-wide Queensland Paediatric Rehabilitation Service based at the Queensland Children's Hospital. After primary training and experience in Australia and London as a physiotherapist she completed her PhD in neuroscience at La Trobe University, the Brain Research Institute and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne for which she was awarded the Premier’s Commendation by the Victorian Government. Prof. Boyd arrived at the University of Queensland in 2007 as a recipient of a Smart State Fellowship and more recently has led an EBrain program grant funded by the Qld Government Department of innovation. Her research team focuses on research on the early natural history of motor and brain development for preschool aged children with CP, the efficacy of novel rehabilitation for children with Hemiplegia and very early detection and early intervention for infants at high risk of CP (all funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia). This research program is underpinned by advanced brain imaging including functional imaging of the motor and sensory motor cortex, Diffusion Imaging and Functional Connectivity to assess the impact of training on neuroplasticity (NHMRC, ARC). Prof. Boyd has been awarded the prestigious international Gayle Arnold Award on 3 occasions at the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. Prof Boyd has published over 340 manuscripts in peer-reviewed international journals and has achieved over $40M in research funding.

Stella Boyd-Ford is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow with the First Nations Cancer and Wellbeing Research Program. She has a background as an Accredited Practicing Dietitian with expertise in food security, paediatric nutrition, community health, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research. Her current focus involves co-designing culturally safe healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Stella works at the intersection of health promotion, community-based nutrition interventions, and research, with extensive experience in outreach roles and collaborating with diverse communities.

Assoc Prof Fran Boyle is a social scientist and health services researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences Research. Fran's background is in psychology and public health and her research focuses on people’s lived experiences of health, health services and the health system. Fran's research expertise is in the application of social sciences methods (including the integration quantitative and qualitative approaches) and health systems thinking to guide policy and practice.

Fran is a Principal Investigator with the Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth where she co-leads the Care after Stillbirth program. Her research addresses the psychosocial impacts of perinatal loss and is committed to improving outcomes for women and families through the implementation and evaluation of best practice parent-centred perinatal bereavement care in hospital and community settings.

My research integrates empirical data and mechanistic models to understand the dynamics of coral reef populations and ecosystems across a range of spatial scales. I am particularly interested in the processes that regulate reef populations and shape their resilience in space and time. My current research focuses on assessing the cumulative impacts of recent and future disturbances across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. I also explore scenarios of climate change and strategies of management interventions to help corals persist and adapt from the impacts of warming.

As a music-maker and language revivalist from the south coast Noongar region of Western Australia, I am interested in the connections between song, language, and landscapes. My work intersects with applied linguistics, ecomusicology, Australian studies, and Indigenous studies.

I am lead Chief Investigator for ARC DI project 'Restoring on-Country Performance' and a Chief Investigator for ARC LIEF project 'Nyingarn: A platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages', ARC DI project 'The role of First Nations’ music as a determinant of health', and ARC Linkage project 'Life After Digitisation: Future-Proofing WA's Vulnerable Cultural Heritage'.

After working as an ESL and music teacher, I helped establish the major in Indigenous Knowledge at the University of Western Australia, where I completed a PhD in Noongar song. At the University of Sydney I co-developed the major in contemporary music for Sydney Conservatorium of Music, before returning to Western Australia at Edith Cowan University to bolster humanities research in my home state. Recent arts-language projects I have collaborated on include a mainstage production of Shakespeare's Macbeth in Noongar (Hecate 2020), a Bruce Lee film dubbed in Noongar (Fist of Fury Noongar Daa 2021), and the multi-sensory ‘Noongar Wonderland’ performance installation in Perth Festival 2022.

I serve as Deputy Chair of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and received the 2020 Barrett Award for Australian Studies.

My research is in the area of Economics of Banking, with a particular interest for modelling of competition and contract design in asymmetric information environments. Since 2012 my interests have increasingly moved towards Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Qualifications

PhD (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium)

MSC (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) ;

Profile Employment record

Since October 2006

Lecturer at the School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

September, 2000 - August, 2006

Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Keele University, UK.

September, 1998 - August, 2000

Lecturer at the Department of Economics and Accounting, University of Liverpool, UK.

October, 1989 - December, 1997

Teaching and Research Assistant at Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium.

Research Interests

My research in Banking theory revolves around five main areas:

Money supply endogeneity

Bank deposit optimal contracts

Auctions applied to central banking

Modelling of banking competition

Asymmetric information and credit rationing by banks

My interests in Scholarship of Teaching are:

Financial literacy of university students

Incentive mechanisms in students` commitment to learning

Publications

Bracoud, F. (2007) “Double Bertrand Competition among Intermediaries when Consumers can Default”, The Economics Bulletin, Vol. 4.

Bracoud, F. and Hillier, B. (2000) “Equity or Debt? Contracts in Markets with Asymmetric Information”, the Manchester School, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp 1-22.

Working Papers

Bracoud, F. (2002) “Sequential Models of Bertrand Competition for Deposits and Loans under Asymmetric Information”, Keele Economic Research Paper, KERP 2002/15

Bracoud, F. (2000) “On Monetary Implications of Credit Rationing under Asymmetric Information”, Keele Economic Research Paper, KERP 2000/10

Stress, reproduction and chemical communication in marsupials. Effects of stress on ageing and neurodegenerative diseases. Vertebrate ecophysiology.

Adrian Bradley’s laboratory focuses on the following areas:

The role of hormones on behaviour in vertebrates, especially marsupials.Chemical communication in vertebratesStructure and function of the vomeronasal and olfactory organs in marsupials and their role in stress and reproduction.Vertebrate ecophysiology, with emphasis upon marsupials inhabiting environments ranging from cool temperate to subtropical rainforests.Metabolic strategies in adaptation in vertebrates.The effect of stress upon the brain, and modulation of adrenocortical and reproductive axes.Effect of stress on accelerated ageing and neurodegenerative processes in the brain of marsupials.Effect of stress and ageing upon cognitive performance and the role of the hippocampus. Includes the effect of stress on hippocampal neuronal connectivity and function.The pathogenesis of peptic ulcer in small marsupials, a model in which Helicobacter sp. do not appear to be involved. Reproduction, chemical communication and social organization in marsupial glidersThe Bradley laboratory has carried out some of the pioneering work on pituitary-adrenocortical and pituitary-gonadal function in marsupials and was the first to describe the role of free cortisol in the spectacular annual mortality of males in populations of small dasyurid marsupials. These studies also demonstrated the significant role of haemorrhage from gastric ulcers in contributing to the male mortality.This laboratory employs a range of sensitive endocrine techniques both in the laboratory and in the field to interpret metabolic and reproductive strategies that are used by a range of vertebrates as they adapt to changes in the physical and social environment during their life history.Neuroendocrine studies use immunohistochemical, confocal and EM techniques to examine neurons and glial cells within the hippocampus and in the olfactory and vomeronasal pathways..Dr Bradley has ongoing collaborative projects in various locations that include the Daintree World Heritage Rainforest Region, North Queensland, South Stradbroke Island, Tasmania and in Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada. Previous collaborative projects have been carried out on mammal populations in the following locations:In Western Australia, the Kimberley, the SW wheatbelt, Karri forests and islands off the West Australian coast,Moreton Island, North & South Stradbroke Islands, QueenslandKakadu National Park, Northern TerritoryThe Daintree World Heritage area, North QueenslandForest and alpine mammals in Tasmania and VictoriaYunnan Province, SW ChinaKluane National Park, Yukon, Canada

Dr Clare Bradley is a Senior Research Fellow with the UQ Poche Centre and the Program Manager for the ATLAS Indigenous Primary Care Surveillance Network. She has a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Adelaide and has been working in the health surveillance and health services research sectors for nearly two decades.

Before joining Professor Ward’s team in 2017 as the Study Coordinator for the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Sexual Health and Blood-Borne Viruses (which established the ATLAS network), Clare spent 14 years at Flinders University; first with the Research Centre for Injury Studies (2003–2014) where she led the AIHW National Injury Surveillance Unit’s falls and older people’s injury research program, and then with the NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre as the Senior Research Fellow for the Understanding long-term care services for older people with cognitive decline in Australia project. Clare has extensive project coordination, health surveillance and data linkage skills and wide-ranging research interests, now focused on Indigenous health.

Clare is the Chief Investigator for the recently awarded Improving surveillance infrastructure for Indigenous primary health care project, receiving $1.99m through the Medical Research Future Fund (PHRDI000054). She is also a CI on two current NHMRC Ideas grants: Leaving no-one behind: Informing Indigenous aged care policy with big data (GNT2004089, CI-C), and Implementing a precision public health approach to eliminate STIs and control HIV in regional Australia (GNT1185073, CI-D). Through these and her ongoing involvement in the maintenance and development of the ATLAS network and research infrastructure, Clare is committed to excellence and innovation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services research and passionate about strengthening research capacity and supporting Indigenous Data Sovereignty in all aspects her research activity.

Clare has successfully co-supervised one PhD and two honours students to completion and is available for collaboration or supervision across a range of topics, including Indigenous primary care and infectious disease surveillance; health services research; dementia and aged care services research; falls injury; suicide and self-harm; use of linked administrative datasets; development of disease classification structures; and descriptive epidemiology for public health purposes.

Basiram is a materials scientist focusing on the development of advanced polymeric membranes for gas separation and ion exchange applications aimed at environmental sustainability.

He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, UK, under the guidance of Prof. Charl F. J. Faul. His doctoral research focused on the design and synthesis of metal-free porous polyimides, with a particular emphasis on their application in CO₂ capture and catalytic conversion.

Angela Brandenburg is the Academic Lead for Medical Student Selection (Admissions) and a Senior Lecturer in Medical Education within the Academy for Medical Education at the UQ Medical School. She provides strategic leadership in admissions, overseeing the design and delivery of Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) and broader selection processes. Angela champions innovation, equity, and quality in medical student selection, working collaboratively across UQ and with partner institutions to help shape the future medical workforce.

Angela is a highly experienced leader in medical education with a background in public health and education research. She has held several senior academic leadership roles at UQ Medical School, including Academic Lead for Years 1 and 2, where she oversaw teaching and curriculum, and Academic Lead for Student Support (Years 1 and 2), providing academic leadership for the Medical Student Support Strategy. She also chaired the Year 1 Course Design and Implementation Group for the UQ MD Design from October 2021 to April 2022.

Earlier in her career, Angela served as a Course Coordinator and academic in both the Medical and Public Health programs. From 2004 to 2015, she was a Case-Based Learning tutor for Years 1 and 2, before transitioning to a full-time medical education role in 2015, where she led the design, development, and delivery of courses within the Medical Program.

Her research in prevention and cost-effectiveness has been published in leading journals including The Lancet, Addiction, and The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA).

Research to improve balance and gait in older adults and those with Neurological Disorders.

Impaired postural control, or poor balance, can have devastating effects on the lives of individuals, resulting in falls, dependence, and reduced quality of life. Prof Brauer leads a number of studies to better understand the underlying motor control mechanisms contributing to altered postural control, particularly in populations with neurological disorders or advanced age, and use this information to better develop physiotherapy assessment techniques and rehabilitation strategies. This research has subsequently developed to encompass prevention strategies and the investigation of the cost-effectiveness of intervention, to better facilitate the translation of research evidence into clinical practice.

Current research themes include:

Improving physical activity after stroke

Training dual tasking when walking in people with Parkinson’s Disease.

Community mobility in older adults, particularly in people with Parkinson’s Disease and stroke.

Retraining reaching following stroke, using the SMART Arm device.

The prevention of falls, particularly in hospitals.

Edgar Brea is a Lecturer in Innovation at UQ Business School, where he leads research and teaching on technology and innovation management. Edgar holds a PhD in Innovation Management from The University of Queensland, as well as a Master of Technology and Innovation Management and a Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering. He has over 15 years of consulting and research experience providing guidance on the development and management of technological innovation across a variety of industries including banking, oil and gas, food and beverage, bioinformatics, as well as science organisations such as the CSIRO.

His research focuses on the intersection of technology, innovation, and strategic management, with particular emphasis on AI and digital technologies. He explores the implications of these technologies for knowledge creation, collective problem solving, and innovation processes in organisations and ecosystems. He aims to develop effective strategies for technology and innovation management that both unlock the potential of emerging technologies and help diverse actors innovate collaboratively in increasingly complex digital ecosystems.