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Emeritius Professor Laurence J. Walsh AO is a registered specialist in special needs dentistry.

Laurence received his undergraduate education in dentistry at The University of Queensland and then undertook a PhD in immunopathology. He started his postdoctoral education at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and undertook his executive education at the Stanford University Graduate School of Management and at Harvard University.

His research interests are in advanced technologies such as lasers and biomaterials, and in dental microbiology. Laurence was Professor of Dental Science and the research grouip leader for advanced materials and technologies in the UQ School of Dentistry from January 2000 until his retirement in December 2020. During his retirement he remains active in hands-on research work and in supervision of research students.

My research concerns the relationship between politics and economics and how that nexus has been shaped by the rise of economists as a new class of prestigious intellectual c. 1800-present. This concerns the skill sets and ethics of economists, above all, in relation to empirical evidence and their own political beliefs.

I wrote my PhD on the history of economic thought in Britain, focusing on how the rise of political economy changed political discourse. My current research continues this inquiry but in relation to the emergence of the political economist as a distinctive intellectual persona, focusing on Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, and David Ricardo. A major result has been to clarify the nature of the opposition that greeted the first economists. In short, 'theorising' had not been established as a prestigious activity; the presumption of intellectuals to reform their societies on the basis of 'theory' was perceived as an instance of philosophical enthusiasm, an intellectual pathology thought to underlie the French Revolution. Political economists responded to this opposition in divergent ways, producing fractiousness within their own ranks.

The long-range hypothesis to test in future work is that these teething issues were never resolved, with the result that the office of the economist in relation to government has never been stabilised by the development of a set of professional ethics and disciplines internal to economics of the type that lawyers and doctors innovated. If correct, this suggests that, while some economists have been domesticated by the imposition of bureaucratic offices, as for those working in central banks and treasury departments, most economists continue to roam wild, leaving our political institutions as exposed to their enthusiasm/truth as they were 200 years ago. The key statement of the initial stage of this research is Before Method and Models (Oxford, 2021). A series of subsidiary findings are published in Modern Intellectual History, Journal of the History of Ideas, Historical Journal, and Intellectual History Review.

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.

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.

Dr Walters has published on Cavendish, Shakespeare, Milton, and Renaissance women in relation to gender, science, philosophy, 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), which is the first edition to modernise the spelling and grammar of Cavendish’s prose fiction.

Her co-edited volume, Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (2022), was published by Cambridge University Press and won Co-Honorable Mention for the 2022 Collaborative Project Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender.She is also co-editor of the Restoration section of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing (2021-2026); the General Editors won the 2025 Digital Scholarship, New Media, & Art Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. In addition, she is co-editor of Cavendish and Milton, which is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Currently, she is co-editing Cavendish's Philosophy of Literature, which is under contract with Routledge.

Dr Walters is the managing and founding editor of Margaret Cavendish: A Multidisciplinary Journal. 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.

Dr Walters is also Deputy Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) and is the Honours Thesis Coordinator for the Western Civilisation Centre.

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.

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 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Daniel Whiting and Lisa Walters, eds. Cavendish's Philosophy of Literature (under contract with Routledge)

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.

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.

Dr Haolu Wang currently is a Medical Registrar and Basic Physician Trainee with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians - The Prince Charles Hospital and Redcliffe Hospital (Northside) Rotation. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the joint liver cancer research program of Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland and Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation. Dr Wang received his Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He was awarded his PhD in Clinical Medicine from The University of Queensland. Dr Wang has worked as a Medical Officer at Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and as a Researcher Officer at Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland.

Dr Wang has authored over 30 publications of clinical and translational research in liver diseases, including Hepatology, Theranostics, Int J Cancer, J Exp Clin Cancer Res and Pharmacol Ther. His standing in this field is reflected by awards from Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, United European Gastroenterology, European Microscopy Congress, The University of Queensland, Frazer Family Foundation and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.