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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 Dr/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 build 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 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).

Dr David Briskey is a research fellow at the UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. His major areas of research have included gastrointestinal health, liver and kidney disease and clinical trials. Within these research topics David has focused on the effects of supplementations, gastrointestinal health and exercise trials on: body composition, absorption/bioavailability (including pharmacokinetics), exercise recovery, inflammation, intestinal permeability, oxidative stress and biochemistry analysis. Clinical trials conducted have included trials on: body composition, appetite control, GIT health, inflammation, CKD, exercise and macula health. To date David has completed pharmacokinetic trials on: vitamin B12, C, D & E, CoQ10, alpha lipoic acid, glutathione, curcumin, fish oil, lutein, saffron and palmitoylethanolamine

Chiara Broccatelli is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research at University of Queensland and a member of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).

Chiara’s research focuses on the understanding of human relationships and social contexts through the applications of social network analysis theories and methods. Currently, she is looking at how people social context influence their behaviours and which are the policy implications of that in public health. In her past research she applied social network analysis to analyse environmental social movements, online networks, criminal and terrorist networks, and health behaviours such as obesity and sexual health. Chiara is always interested in broadening her methodological skills, including mix methods approaches as well as advanced statistical techniques and expanding her research interests in different areas.

Chiara held a master in Sociology and Social Research at University of Trento and she received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester, where she studied at the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis.

Prior to coming to ISSR, Chiara was a Research Assistant at MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at University of Glasgow and visiting Fellow at MelNet at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, funded by the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF).

I am interested in leveraging curvature in differential geometry to understand problems in topology, algebraic geometry, and complex analysis. More specifically, I'm interested in:

• Curvature aspects of Kaehler geometry, Hermitian geometry and Finsler geometry. In particular, the existence of Einstein metrics or metrics with distinguished curvature properties.

• Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds, and more generally, the algebro-geometric properties of complex manifolds such as the positivity of the canonical bundle, distribution of rational and entire curves.

• ​The Bochner technique, most notably the Schwarz lemma.

• Calibrated geometry.

Dr Liz Brogden is a Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning at the UQ School of Architecture, Design and Planning in Brisbane, Australia. Through her research work, she advocates for climate action in architecture and design, focusing on the central role of education in sustainability transitions through university programs and professional education.

Liz has extensive experience designing and implementing university courses focused on climate, resilience and sustainability from undergraduate through to Masters-level programs. These subjects have been developed in architecture programs and through interdisciplinary subjects that span multiple design disciplines. She received two Vice Chancellor Awards at QUT for teaching excellence and was on the winning team for the overall 2021 QS Reimagine Education Global Education Award.

A 2022 Churchill Fellow and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Liz currently sits on both the Queensland Education Committee for the State Chapter and the National Education Committee for the Australian Institute of Architects. Previously, she has been a committee member for the Institute's national Climate Action and Sustainability Taskforce (CAST) and the Climate Action and Sustainability Committee for its Queensland State Chapter.

Over the past three decades, Professor Bronitt has published widely, ranging across criminal law and criminal justice, gender violence, policing and terrorism law, and corruption. Recent publications include Federal Proceeds of Crime Law (Thomson Reuters, 2023), Law in Context (5th ed, Federation Press, 2023), Rape Law in Context (Federation Press, 2018), and Principles of Criminal Law (4th ed, Thomson Reuters, 2017). In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Professor Bronitt was a Professor at the UQ Law School for five years and served as Deputy Head of School and Deputy Dean (Research) from June 2014 to 2018. He joined the Sydney Law School in 2019 as Head and Dean (2019-2024). He previously served as the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, hosted by Griffith University (2009-2014).