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Dr Walters has published on Cavendish, Shakespeare, and Renaissance women in relation to science, philosophy, gender, sexuality and political thought. She welcomes research proposals relating to these topics.

She is author of Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science and Politics (Cambridge University Press, hardback 2014, paperback 2017) and is editor of The Blazing World and other Writings, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 2025). She is also co-editor of Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which won Co-Honorable Mention for the 2022 Collaborative Project Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. Dr Walters is also one of the joint editors of the Restoration section of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing.

She is currently co-editing Cavendish and Milton, which is under contract with Oxford University Press and Cavendish's Philosophy of Literature, which is under contract with Routledge.

Dr Walters is also Deputy Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS).

She obtained her doctorate and masters degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and her BA from the University of California Santa Cruz. Previously, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Ghent University, Belgium. She has also held academic positions in England, America, and Scotland and was a visiting professor at Université Catholique de Lille, France. Between studies, she worked in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2016 she won a Teaching and Innovation Award from Liverpool Hope University, UK and has served on the Education Committee for Shakespeare North, a world-class Jacobean replican theatre in England.

Currently, she serves on the Editorial Board of ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Anthem Press, and was President of the International Margaret Cavendish Society. She is the founder and managing editor of Margaret Cavendish: A Multidisciplinary Journal.

Books

Lisa Walters. Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science and Politics (Cambridge University Press, hardback 2014, paperback 2017)

Lisa Walters and Brandie Siegfried, eds. Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Lisa Walters, ed. The Blazing World and other Writings, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Suzanne Trill, Natasha Simonova, and Lisa Walters, eds. "Restoration."Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing (Palgrave 2020-2025).

Ann Coiro, Lara Dodds, and Lisa Walters, eds. Cavendish and Milton (under contract with Oxford University Press), under contract.

Associate Professor Gabby Walters has a substantial background in tourism marketing with an emphasis on consumer psychology. Gabby has focused much of her research towards image and reputation management and in particular tourism market recovery following crises and disastrous events. She has conducted numerous consultancies and projects with tourism destinations from different parts of the world seeking to enhance or revitalise their reputations and regain trust among the tourism market as a result one or many critical events.

Her expertise also encompasses advanced methodological approaches to the study of tourist behaviour and in particular biometric research technologies. Gabby has a well-established publication record in tourism and hospitality and currently serves on several editorial boards. She is currently the Editor in Chief for the Journal of Vacation Marketing, an ABDC A Ranked and Q1 Journal.

In 2017 Gabby was awarded the Centre of Australian Universities Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Fellows Award. An esteemed accolade that recognises significant contributions to the tourism and hospitality field.

I am an urban sociologist and an expert in urban community in all its forms. My research encompasses the outer suburbs in Australia, the gentrifying inner city and informal communities in cities in the Global South. My work focuses on how different urban places and spatial logic in the city impact our opportunities to form attachments to neighbourhoods and each other.

Internationally, I have written extensively on urban poverty in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia and I am currently involved in work on climate change and its effects on the urban poor in collaboration with colleagues in Indonesia, Brazil and Solomon Islands. My latest research concerns the impact of climate change and natural disasters on the urban poor. More than 1 billion people live in informal urban settlements or slums. These people are among the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. However, adaptation and mitigation policies are being formulated at multiple scales, often without considering the voices of the poor.

I am the Bachelor of Arts Sociology program convenor and an award-winning teacher. I teach courses at all levels in our undergraduate sociology program, including Introduction to Sociology (SOCY1050), An Urban World (SOCY2340) and Advanced Studies in Social Thought: Getting the Big Picture (SOCY3345).

I am also an award-winning photographer (you can see some of my work on my Flickr page.

I am open to proposals from potential Honours and PhD students who share my passion for understanding the social life of cities. Whether you're from Australia, the Global South, or anywhere else in the world, I look forward to the possibility of working together.

Dr Walweel is an electrophysiologist specializing in calcium-released channels (RyR2) regulation in heart. Walweel's research project is to understand how RyR2 regulates heart contraction and rhythm, how their dysregulation leads to cardiac arrhythmias, and how pharmacological interventions targeting RyR2 restore normal heart rhythm. She is expert in bilayer work, single channel recording and biochemistry. Walweel's discoveries are clinically important for understanding arrhythmia generation in patients with heart failure and CPVT. Dr Walweel works with the purpose to promote human heart research and health. She aims to reduce heart failure burden and death by advancing pathophysiological research and discovering suitable medication to prevent arrhythmias. Over a relatively short time, Dr Walweel's research resulted in notable and meritorious publications in high quality journals (JACC, Circ Res, Mol Pharmacol, J Gen Physiol, J Mol Cell Cardiol and J Biomed Sciences).

Dr Jihong Wang (English name: Lily) has the following NAATI credentials: Certified Interpreter (Mandarin/English), Certified Translator (from English into Chinese) and Certified Translator (from Chinese into English).

She completed a PhD thesis entitled "Working Memory and Signed Language Interpreting" at Macquarie University in 2013 and then worked there as a full-time researcher on a research project regarding the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) for one and a half years. She is working full-time as a Lecturer in the Master of Arts in Translation and Interpreting (MATI) program at The University of Queensland.

Lily conducts empirical and interdisciplinary research on Mandarin/English interpreting, Auslan (Australian Sign Language)/English interpreting, simultaneous interpreting, cognitive processing in interpreting and translation (e.g., cognitive load, processing time/time lag/ear-voice span, working memory), expertise in interpreting, telephone interpreting, machine interpreting versus professional interpreting, interpreting performance assessment, sight translation and deaf signers' working memory capacity.

She uses a wide range of research methods such as questionnaire-based surveys, interviews, experiments, case studies (of authentic simultaneous interpreting data and real-life telephone interpreting data), role-plays (of face-to-face and remote interpreting), corpus (of interpretation data) and microanalysis (i.e., local analysis) to conduct empirical studies on various aspects of interpreting and translation. Moreover, she also employs useful tools such as SPSS, NVivo (for analysing qualitative data such as interviews) and ELAN (for analysing audio- and video-recordings of interpretation data, see https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan) to analyse research data.

She has published a book, some book chapters and many research articles in high-quality journals in Translation and Interpreting Studies, including Interpreting, Target, Perspectives, Meta, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Translation and Interpreting Studies and The Interpreters' Newsletter.

In October 2019, she gave a presentation entitled 'What goes around comes around: How interpreting practice informs research and vice versa' when she was a visiting scholar at Gallaudet University, Washington DC, United States. Here is the link to the video and transcript:

https://www.gallaudet.edu/department-of-interpretation-and-translation/department-of-interpretation-and-translation-research/colloquium-lecture-series.

Associate Professor Jie Wang is a scholar in disaster resilience, risk management and inclusive communication, with a particular focus on how humans perceive and act in relation to risk, crisis and disaster, with the aim of understanding how behaviour changes can improve the resilience of people, organisations and destinations. She co‑leads the Security and Resilience Research Hub at UQ Business School and was the Co‑Director of the DFAT‑funded Australia–Indonesia Business ResilienceHub, working closely with governments, councils and industry partners in Australia and the Asia‑Pacific.

Research expertise and excellence Her research examines risk perception, preparedness behaviours, crisis communication and resilience planning, with applications across disaster‑prone communities, tourism and small businesses. She has led or contributed to more than $500,000 in competitive and industry‑funded grants and published extensively in leading journals such as Tourism Management and Annals of Tourism Research. Her work has received multiple national and international awards, including recognition from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and Emerald Publishing, as well as the UQ Business School Early Career Researcher Excellence Award in Research.

Her research also advances accessible and inclusive travel for people with disabilities and older adults, with a focus on building destination accessibility readiness, designing disability‑inclusive communication and marketing, and developing accessibility‑aware digital and algorithmic systems to enable equitable participation in tourism.

Teaching and HDR supervision Dr Wang is an award‑winning educator recognised for excellence in work‑integrated learning, employability and graduate research supervision. She supervises PhD, MPhil and Honours students across disaster resilience, inclusive innovation and risk communication, and was awarded the UQ BEL Faculty Award for Excellence in HDR Supervision (2023), UQ BEL Faculty Award for Excellence in Education (2018, 2025), a Commendation for UQ Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2019), UQ Business School Teaching and Learning Awards (2024) in Work-integrated-Learning and Employability. In 2026, she is working with faculty champions across multiple disciplines to co‑design neuroinclusive curriculum, assessment and pedagogy, grounded in the lived experiences of neurodivergent students.

She is strongly committed to mentoring the next generation of researchers and translating her teaching and research into meaningful real‑world impact.

Dr Brydon Wang is an author, lawyer, and scholar researching the trustworthy regulation of technology. His work focuses on how we design and govern benevolent data structures and decision-making systems that support human-centric, climate-resilient cities. Dually qualified in law and architecture, Brydon brings more than twenty years of experience across construction, legal practice, and academia. He is currently an Associate Director at KPMG, advising on major infrastructure transactions, and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland.

​Brydon’s research investigates how regulation can increase the perceived trustworthiness of decision-makers, particularly in contexts of automated systems and informational asymmetry. His interdisciplinary methods blend doctrinal legal analysis with creative research strategies. He was lead editor of Automating Cities: Design, Construction, Operation and Future Impact (Springer, 2021) and lead editor of the forthcoming Large Floating Solutions (Springer, 2025), a volume exploring sustainable marine infrastructure and governance, that follows on from the previous edited collection Large Floating Structures: Technological Advances (Springer 2015). His work has been featured by the Centre for Digital Built Britain (Cambridge University), The Conversation, ABC Radio National’s Future Tense, and Seeker’s How Close Are We to Living in the Ocean?

Before joining KPMG, Brydon taught contract law, data privacy, and AI regulation at the Queensland University of Technology, where he received the 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Teaching. He also taught Responsible Data Science in UQ’s Master of Data Science programme. His PhD thesis, The Role of Trustworthiness in Automated Decision-making Systems and the Law, was awarded the 2022 Faculty of Business and Law Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. His research combines doctrinal legal research with creative research methodologies to explore the governance of automation, digital infrastructure, and smart urban systems. Through his creative research strategies, Brydon has also become an award-winning artist.

​Brydon began his career in architecture and contract administration on award-winning construction projects, before practising as a technology and construction lawyer at Allens Linklaters. He remains passionate about integrating policy, law, and infrastructure to ensure technological systems are designed with trust and transparency at their core.

Liguang Wang is an internationally recognised researcher in mineral processing, with research leadership in flotation science and process intensification to enable efficient recovery of critical and energy-transition minerals. His research group has delivered patented and patent-pending technologies for flotation process intensification, monitoring, and control, bridging fundamental understanding with industrial application. He held visiting roles at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (visiting PhD student, 2002) and the University of Cambridge (visiting academic, 2020). He received his PhD from Virginia Tech (Supervisor: Roe-Hoan Yoon) in 2006 and was awarded the ACARP Research and Industry Excellence Award in 2022.

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Dr Ai Wang has been actively involved in fundamental and applied research into multiphase systems over the last 10 years in mineral and pyro-metallurgical processing. She obtained her doctor degree of Chemical Engineering in the University of Newcastle. Her research involves a combination of experimental measurement, theoretical and computational modelling (e.g. CFD) using either commercial software ANSYS or self-developed codes. Using computationally modelling methods, Dr Ai optimized the structure of flotation column; modelled the collision between particles and bubbles in the presence of turbulence; simulated the diffusion of reactant gas through coke microstructure while reacting with carbon. Using experimental methods, Ai investigated the flow field inside flotation columns using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV); examined the rise dynamics of particle-laden bubbles in pure water and in surfactant solution using high-speed camera. Ai was also involved in gasification of coke in the thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) under both CO2 and H2O environment wherein she developed image processing algorithms to analysis coke maceral composition and reacted microstructure. A summary of her current and past research can be found in

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=l_ZPjRUAAAAJ&hl=en

Examples of Dr Ai’s role as leading researchers includes the following projects: “Optimization of a cyclonic-static micro-bubble flotation column using CFD” with the National Engineering Research Centre of Coal Preparation and Purification (in China); “National 973 Key Basic Research Development Program: Basic Research of Large-Scale Quality Improvement and Utilization of Low-Quality coal" (in China); “Hydrodynamics of Flow Regime Transition in a Reflux Flotation Cell” Project 24 with Australia Research Council, Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals, (in Australia); “Coke Reactivity with CO2 and H20 and Impacts on Coke Microstructure and Gas Diffusion” with the Centre for Ironmaking Materials Research etc. In acknowledgement of her work in the multiphase flow and reacting engineering, Dr Ai is selected to be reviewers for abstracts submitted to the 16th International Conference on Gas–Liquid and Gas–Liquid–Solid Reactor Engineering (GLS-16). She is also the lead guest editor in the Special issue "Recent Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation of Flotation" in the journal Minerals in MDPI publication group. Ai also co-supervised final-year graduate students. Dr Ai was also reviewer for Q1 journals such as “the Colloids and Surfaces A”, “ACS Omega” and Q2 journals such as “materials” and “powders” etc.