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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 non-Indigenous woman living and working on the lands of the Peramangk and Kaurna peoples. She is a Senior Research Fellow within the Trauma & Injury group at Flinders University’s College of Medicine and Public Health and an Honorary SRF with the University of Queensland's Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. With over two decades in health and aged care services research, Clare’s work has focused on injury and infectious disease surveillance, health services research and Big Data infrastructures.

Following over a decade's work in injury epidemiolology and aged care services research, Bradley’s First Nations health research experience was advanced by roles at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and UQ Poche. Here she supported Professor James Ward’s sexual health and infectious diseases research program and established the ATLAS Indigenous Primary Care Surveillance Network—Australia’s leading Indigenous health research data infrastructure (2017–2024). Working directly with ACCHOs nationally, Clare led the development of ATLAS’s data extraction, linkage and analysis pipeline and collaboration with stakeholders to embed use of the surveillance data in Continuous Quality Improvement activities, national infectious disease surveillance reporting, and research. Her MRFF 2020 Primary Health Care Research Data Infrastructure Grant (PHRDI000054, CI-A) contributed substantially to the success of this work.

Now back at Flinders University, Clare's role as Study Coordinator with Associate Professor Courtney Ryder's Transforming HEalth and Wellbeing Outcomes from Injury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait IsLander Children (HEAL) Cohort Study brings together her expertise in developing research infrastructures using person-linked data, injury epidemiology and outcomes research, and her strong advocacy for health equity, culturally safe research, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty.

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.

Dr Noreen Breakey joined the tourism team at UQ in 2005. She has been the Director for Undergraduate Programs, Coordinator of the First Year Experience, and is currently a member of the award-winning MTHEM Foundation Year Teaching Team. Individually, Dr Breakey received a UQ Excellence in Teaching & Learning Award - Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. She actively undertakes scholarship of teaching and learning and has numerous research publications on tourism and hospitality education. Dr Breakey developed the Masters course, Disciplinary Foundations of Tourism, Hospitality & Events, which she continues to Course Coordinate, encouraging students to understand how the theories and approaches from different social science and humanities disciplines can help us to address the challenges and issues in tourism, hospitality, and events.

Dr Breakey received her PhD on tourism destination development from UQ in 2006. Since then her research has explored the relationships between people, tourism and the natural environment, through her principal research areas of environmental ethics, sustainable tourism, ecotourism, community-based tourism, and tourism in protected areas. She has successfully supervised six PhD scholars through to completion.

Dr Breakey is an active member of Ecotourism Australia. She was a member of their Policy and Advocacy Committee (2011 to 2014), and subsequently on their Board of Directors (2019-2023).

Prior to her academic career, Dr Breakey worked for over a decade in industry, including hotels, resorts, tour operations, travel agencies, and events in Australia and overseas, as well as in government, developing the Destination Management Plans at Tourism Events Queensland.

Research in the Bredy laboratory is aimed at elucidating how the genome is connected to the environment through epigenetic modifications, and how this relationship shapes brain and behaviour throughout life. The group is particularly interested in how epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation, histone modifications. the activity of non-coding RNAs, and RNA modification regulate the formation and maintenance of associative fear-related memory.

Dr Christoph Breidbach is Associate Professor of Business Information Systems at UQ Business School, where he also serves as Co-Lead of the UQ Service Innovation Alliance Research Hub and as Associate Director PRME Industry Engagement. He previously held positions at The Unversity of Melbourne, the University of California Merced, and was a visiting researcher at IBM’s Almaden Research Center.

Associate Professor Breidbach is internationally recognised for his sustained contributions to the Service Science field. Specifically, his program of research contributes to our understanding of how digital technologies transform professional, financial, or health services, and resulted in over 50 peer-reviewed publications in leading outlets to date, including the Journal of the Association for Information Systems [ABDC-A*], Information Systems Journal [ABDC-A*], The Journal of Strategic Information Systems [ABDC-A*], Organizational Research Methods [ABDC-A*], Journal of Service Research [ABDC-A*], MIS Quarterly Executive [ABDC-A], as well as in the ICIS, ECIS, PACIS and HICSS Proceedings.

The sustained esteem for his work is evident through a ‘Distinguished Member Award’ (2019) by the Association for Information Systems (AIS), the premier global association for BIS research and practice, appointment to the Advisory Council of the INFORMS Service Science section, or invitations to present keynotes and research seminars at conferences and universities in the USA, Germany, Sweden, Iran, UK, and New Zealand. In addition, Associate Professor Breidbach serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, as well as the Journal of Business Research, led the AIS Special Interest Group Services as elected President from 2018-2021, and recently commenced a three-year tenure as Associate Editor at Information Systems Journal.

He successfully secured over $1 million in external research funding as Chief Investigator from ARC Linkage, Innovation Connections, National Industry PhD grants, or direct industry funding.

Research Awards:

• Best Short Paper Award, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2024
• Paul Gray Award for the ‘Most Thought-Provoking Paper’ Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2020
• Distinguished Member Award, Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2019
• Outstanding Paper Award, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, 2018
• Outstanding Paper Award, Managing Service Quality, 2015
• Best Paper of the Year, INFORMS Service Science, 2014
• Best Paper Award, Naples Forum on Service, 2013
• Lifetime Membership, Beta Gamma Sigma, 2013

Leadership and Service Awards:

• SIGSVC Leadership Award, Association for Information Systems, 2022
• Award for Outstanding Contribution as Track Chair, European Conference on Information Systems, 2021
• Research Team Engagement Award, UQ Business School, 2019
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, 2016
• Outstanding Contributions in Reviewing Award, Journal of Business Research, 2015

Teaching Awards:

• Award for Innovation in Assessment Design, UQ Business School, 2021
• Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Melbourne, 2015

Dr Zachary Breig received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 2017 and is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics. He is a member of UQ's Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences and is the manager of the CUBES laboratory.

Dr Breig specialises in the fields of behavioural economics, game theory, and decision theory. His research has been published in the Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Letters, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

I am a specialist in Italian art of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, with research interests in the social history of art, cross-cultural mobility, and discourses of modernity.

My current book project, provisionally titled Thresholds of Art in Renaissance Italy, studies the role that migration and slavery played in Italian art of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Crucial to this project is archival work on little-known artists, such as a Syrian metalworker in Venice, an Egyptian textile designer in Ferrara, and West African musicians in Rome, among others. In particular, I focus on how the work of these artists stimulated multilingual, theoretical conversations that shaped and conditioned emergent Italian concepts of “art.” In my first article related to this project, recently published in The Art Bulletin (March 2023), I map the emergence of the "arabesque" (arabesco) as a concept that developed in tandem with conscious projects of imperialist appropriation, but also inadvertently furnished a theoretical basis for a highly conflicted affirmation of female needleworkers as "divine" artists.

My first book, Painting as a Modern Art in Early Renaissance Italy (2019), establishes a novel interdisciplinary nexus between painting, intellectual life, and material culture, showing how a period-specific concept of “modern art” (ars moderna) emerged out of dialogue between painting and a wide variety of other “arts,” including music, poetry, medicine, textile manufacture, tailoring, and cosmetics, by the year 1400.

One longstanding topic of my research has been the relationship between art and language, which I most recently explored in an article on temporality in Raphael and Michelangelo for Oxford Art Journal (Spring, 2022), and a co-edited volume (with Marco Mascolo, Alessandro Nova, and C. Oliver O’Donnel) titled Art History before English: Negotiating a European Lingua Franca from Vasari to the Present (2021). Another focus is the relationship between art and capitalism, which I developed in an essay on late fourteenth-century painting for the volume Renaissance Metapainting (2020), and in an article on Albrecht Dürer and the Protestant Reformation, published in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2016-17). I am currently developing two further co-edited volumes, one with Katie Anania and Andrew Leach titled Early Modern Imaginaries in the Long Twentieth Century, and the other with Fabian Jonietz and Romana Sammern titled Ut pictura medicina? Visual Arts and Medicine.

Before joining UQ, I completed a PhD at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, and went on to hold postdoctoral fellowships at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut) and the University of Sydney. I have also taught at the Parson’s School of Design (The New School, New York), and worked in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. I was recently awarded an RSA-Samuel H. Kress Research Fellowship in Renaissance Art History, which will allow me to conduct archival research in Venice.

I am an environmental psychologist interested in the intersection of psychology and environmental behaviour. As such, I have researched the psychological mechanisms underpinning individual support for climate policies, sustainable transport and food waste behaviour. More recently, I have become interested in how misinformation shapes (or impedes) environmental behaviour, the sources and consequences of misinformation beliefs, and in examining possible avenues to reduce beliefs in misinformation.

Dr Kim Bridle is currently Senior Research Officer within the Greenslopes Clinical Unit, Faculty of Medicine. Her current research focuses on liver disease treatment and pathogenesis with a focus on hepatic fibrosis, metabolic fatty liver disease and liver cancer. Dr Bridle has made important contributions to the understanding of diseases associated with altered iron metabolism and mechanisms of hepatic fibrosis.

Dr Bridle currently serves on the Research and Grants Committee of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and is a member of the Ramsay Health Care Human Research Ethics Committee. Dr Bridle is a Section Editor for the journal, BioMed Research International.

Justin joined UQ Business School in 2020, after teaching at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. His teaching is focused on Organisational Behaviour, Manager Skiils and Communication, and Wise Leadership. Justin earned his Honors Bachelor of Science with a double degree in Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence and Psychology at the University of Toronto, and his Masters and PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Waterloo.

Justin's principle research interest is in understanding how people reason through complex social problems, with interest in reducing bias and developing and practicing wisdom and balance. Justin's work has been published in prestigious scientific journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Journal of Intelligence, Nature Communications, Social and Personality Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, as well as the latest edition of the renown Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom. These studies have examined wisdom at interpersonal, group, organizational, and societal levels, in topics such as cooperation, social economic status, teamwork, intergroup bias, and leadership. Ongoing projects include studies on the dynamics of wise leadership, training for wisdom (Business and Army Leadership), media attention and science denialism, prejudice in artificial intelligence, self-sabotage, and gender pay-gap denialism.

Justin has presented his research at international conferences such as the Academy of Management, International Association of Conflict Management, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and was presented with the Kellogg School of Management's Dispute Resolution Center Scholar Award. Justin serves as peer reviewer for journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Journal of Intelligence, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Journal of Cognitive Development. Justin's work has been featured in popular media outlets such as TIME, NewsWeek, and Sciencemag.com, and one of his articles is in the top 10 most upvoted social psychology papers on Reddit.

***Applications for HDR/PhD student supervision are welcome***

Courses taught:

MGTS1601: Organisational Behaviour

MGTS2606: Manager Skills/Contemporary Business Communication and Organisation

MGTS7618: Wise Leadership

RBUS6933: Research Design for Honours

Morgan worked in conflict resolution prior to his academic career and continues to practice as a nationally accredited mediator and facilitator. He is a political scientist focusing on cultural difference in peace and conflict, and also researches and publishes in international relations, law and dispute resolution, Indigenous politics, governance and public policy, and international development.

Much of Morgan’s research develops and applies ideas of relationism that emphasise the dynamic and interconnected nature of political life among people, cultures and nations. He has developed these ideas in peace and conflict studies to consider foundational questions about how humans organise being together while addressing practical challenges of how to manage and resolve conflict non-violently.

A key part of Morgan work is collaboration with Indigenous colleagues and peoples to understand Indigenous political systems and governance, challenge the discipline of political science to better engage with Indigenous peoples, and contribute ways of knowing and working across difference. He works closely with Prof-Aunty Mary Graham in developing Indigenous diplomacy and Aboriginal political philosophy and has completed projects on improving governance for organisations in the Aboriginal community-controlled sector.

Morgan’s current research is focused on building capacity to respond to geopolitical disorder by drawing on relationist and Indigenous methods, improving Indigenous-state relations in Australia, and advancing conflict management by developing online tools for conflict coaching and advice.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(with Mary Graham) Politics: Philosophical Ordering by Country, Thames and Hudson (2026)

(with Druckman, Daniel, Serge Loode, and Hannibal A Thai) "The conflict coaching challenge: design and evaluation of an online conflict coach", International Journal of Conflict Management. doi: 10.1108/ijcma-07-2024-0159 (2025).

"Furthering relational approaches to peace", Journal of Peace Research. doi: 10.1177/00223433241267811 (2024).

(with Mary Graham) "Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism", Australian Journal of International Affairs, 77 (6), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2023.2265847 (2023)

(with Mary Graham and Martin Weber) "Relational Indigenous systems: Aboriginal Australian political ordering and reconfiguring IR", Review of International Studies, 48 (5), doi: 10.1017/s0260210521000425 (2022)

"The spatial-relational challenge: emplacing the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies" Cooperation and Conflict, 55 (4), 001083672095447-552. doi: 10.1177/0010836720954479 (2020)

"Relational and Essential: Theorising Difference for Peacebuilding", Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. doi: 10.1080/17502977.2018.1482078 (2018)

"Beyond the thrall of the state: governance as a relational-affective effect in Solomon Islands", Cooperation and Conflict. 53, 2 doi:10.1177/0010836718769096 (2018)

Humanitarian symbolic exchange: extending Responsibility to Protect through individual and local engagement. Third World Quarterly, . doi:10.1080/01436597.2017.1396534 (2017)

(with Jodie Curth-Bibb) "Recalibrating intercultural governance in Australian Indigenous organisations: the case of Aboriginal community controlled health", Australian Journal of Political Science, doi:10.1080/10361146.2017.1281379 (2017)

"Beyond accommodation: The cultural politics of recognition and relationality in dispute resolution." Australian Journal of Family Law 29 (3, Religion, culture and dispute resolution): 188-202 (2015)

“Old Cultures and New Possibilities: Marege’-Makassar Diplomacy in Southeast Asia”, The Pacific Review 24, no.5 : 601-623 (2011)

"Autoethnographic International Relations: exploring the self as a source of knowledge" (with Roland Bleiker) Review of International Studies 36, no. 3:779-798 (2010)

“Wantokism and State Building in the Solomon Islands: A Response to Fukuyama”. Pacific Economic Bulletin 24, no. 3: 148-16 (2009)

“The Developer’s Self: A Non-Deterministic Foucauldian Frame”. Third World Quarterly 30, no. 8 (2009): 1411-1426.

“Biopolitics Meets Terrapolitics: Political Ontologies and Governance in Settler-Colonial Australia”.Australian Journal of Political Science 42, no. 3 (2007): 403-417.

“Governance and Susceptibility in Conflict Resolution: Possibilities beyond Control”. Social and Legal Studies 16, no. 1: 27-47. (2007)

“Post-Development, Foucault, and the Colonisation Metaphor”. Third World Quarterly 23, no. 3 : 421-436.(2002)

"Relational Peacebuilding: Promise beyond Crisis", Peacebuilding in Crisis? Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation, eds Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held, Ulrich Schneckener. Routledge, 56-69, (2016).

“Beyond Captives and Captors: Settler-Indigenous Governance for the 21st Century” (with Lyndon Murphy). In Unsettling the Settler State: Creativity and Resistance in Indigenous-Settler State Governance, eds. S. Maddison and M. Brigg. Sydney: Federation Press, (2011).

“Conflict Murri Way: Managing Through Place and Relatedness” (with Mary Graham and Polly Walker). InMediating Across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution, eds. M. Brigg and R. Bleiker. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, (2011).

“Disciplining the Developmental Subject: Neoliberal Power and Governance through Microcredit”. In Prospects and Perils of Microcredit: Neoliberalism and Cultural Politics of Empowerment, ed. J. Fernando. London: Routledge, (2006).