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Professor Heather Zwicker (BA Hons UAlberta 1988, PhD Stanford 1993) holds three roles concurrently.

1. As Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at The University of Queensland, Professor Zwicker leads seven schools and one reserach institute across fields including communications, political science, history, education, languages, sociology, criminology, anthropology, archaeology, classics, western civilisation, applied social sciences, policy, literature, and music.
2. As President of the Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH), Heather leads the peak body of deans in humanities, social sciences and the arts from across Australia and Aotearoa/NZ.
3. As Pro Vice Chancellor for Campus Culture and Leadership (PVC CCL), Professor Zwicker has three main responsibilities: management of UQ's cultural assets, overseeing and improving social cohesion on campus, and developing leadership programs and opportunities for academic staff.

Professor Zwicker's background as a cultural studies researcher enables her to bring postcolonial and feminist theories to bear on problems such as stereotypes, universities, classrooms, cities and grief. She is the winner of several teaching awards including the 3M Fellowship (2013).

She is available to speak on sector-wide issues facing the humanities, arts and social sciences including Job Ready Graduates, the skills agenda, the future of languages, equity access to higher education, EDI, and racism on campus.

Michael Zyphur is a Professor of Quantitative Methods at UQ Business School, University of Queensland. He graduated in 2006 with a PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from Tulane University (New Orleans). He is a former ARC Future Fellow and he has been the lead CI on multiple successful ARC Discovery Project applications. He is currently Professor of Quantitative Methods at the University of Queensland and Director of Instats, and he has held academic positions at the University of Melbourne, University of Washington, and the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the application of quantitative methods to answer questions in the social and health sciences, particularly with latent variable methods including structural equation modeling (SEM), multilevel modeling (MLM), and multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM). The new empirical dynamic modeling (EDM) Stata and R packages resulting from his collaborations are now available for download at https://edm-developers.github.io/EDM/

For over a decade Dr Zyphur has taught statistical modeling to over 10,000 researchers and PhD students in seminars and university classes across the globe. He is proficient in Mplus, Stata, SPSS, R, LISREL, and HLM, and he has published roughly 100 academic papers using these software packages in a variety of top-tier journals. His work on statistical modeling and related topics in the social sciences with over 10,000 citations, and Dr Zyphur has helped thousands of researchers and research teams across the globe with their research problems, including in universities, research institutes, corporations, non-profits, government agencies, and the military. Dr Zyphur is currently Director of the Society for Quantitative Methods (SQM), and the Director of Instats, the Institute for Statistical and Data Science (instats.org).