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Naomi Wray is the Michael Davys Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. She holds an appointment at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) within the University of Queensland. She joined UQ Queensland Brain Institute in 2011 moving to the IMB in 2015. She was Head of the Centre for Population & Disease Genomics within IMB 2018-2023. Her Oxford appointment started in 2023.

Her research focuses on development and application of quantitative genetics and genomics methodologies across complex diseases, disorders and traits, but particularly psychiatric-related traits.

She is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science. In 2020 she was awarded the NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Award for Leadership in Basic Science and the 2021 International Society of Psychiatric Genetics Ming Tsuang Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a Clarivate Highly Cited researcher.

She was Director of the Program in Complex Trait Genomics (PCTG) funded as an NHMRC Program Grant 2017-2022. She plays a key role in the International Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and established the sporadic ALS Australia systems genomics consortium (SALSA) funded by the MND Research Australia IceBucket Challenge and FightMND. She is a co-investigator on the Australian Genetics of Depression Study (AGDS) and is currently launching the AGDS-Cello project focussed on establishing a cell line resource from participants with a detailed history of anti-depressant use and response measures. She is part of an NHMRC Synergy (2023-2027) "Rhythms and blues: Personalising care for body clock dysfunction in mood disorders".

She is secretary of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, and is on the editorial advisory boards of JAMA Psychiatry, Neuron, Royal Society Open and Research Directions: Depression.

Barry Wright (BA History, University of Toronto, LLB Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, LLM London School of Economics, University of London, PhD York University) is Professor Emeritus of Law and History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he has been a faculty member for over thirty-five years and at various times served as Director of Criminology, Director of Kroeger College, and an Associate Dean. He has been a frequent visiting scholar at UQ Law and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Professor Wright has published widely on colonial legal history in Canada and Australia and broader rule of law controversies in the nineteenth-century British Empire. His particular focus is the policy impact of utilitarianism on the modernisation of colonial governance and criminal law reform, as reflected in criminal law codification from Thomas Macaulay’s Benthamite India penal code and its colonial adaptations elsewhere, to the James Fitzjames Stephen-influenced Canadian (1892), New Zealand (1893), and Queensland (1899) criminal codes. A related major area of scholarship has been political trials and national security measures in Canadian history and his contributions to and lead editorship of the five-volume Canadian State Trials series. The recently published fifth volume (1939-1990) includes chapters on the early Cold War period, and his current research draws on them in a comparison of the 1945-6 Canadian Royal Commission on Espionage (Gouzenko) and the 1954-5 Australian Royal Commission on Espionage (Petrov) with a focus on questions of judicial independence, due process, and their impact on the development of national security operations.

Publications

Articles (peer reviewed)

• “Macaulay’s India Penal Code and Codification in the Nineteenth Century British Empire” (2012) 2:1 Journal of Commonwealth Criminal Law, 25-50.
• “Criminal Law Codification and Imperial Projects: The Self-governing Jurisdiction Codes of the 1890’s” (2008) 12 Legal History, 19-49.
• “Self-Governing Codifications of English Criminal Law and Empire: The Queensland and Canadian Examples” (2007) 26 University of Queensland Law Journal, 39-65.
• “Migration, Radicalism and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canadas and the United States c.1794-1804” (2002) 16 Studies in American Political Development, 48-60.
• "Quiescent Leviathan? Citizenship and National Security Measures in Late Modernity" (1998) 25 Journal of Law and Society, 213-236.
• "Sedition in Upper Canada: Contested Legality" (1992) 29 Labour/LeTravail, 7-57 (Ontario Historical Association Riddell Award for best article).
• "Criminal Proceedings and the Transformative Potential of Law: Taking Historical Experiences Seriously" (1991) 3 Journal of Human Justice, 7-26.
• "The Ideological Dimensions of Law in Upper Canada: The Treason Proceedings of 1838" (1989) 10 Criminal Justice History: An International Annual, 131-178.
• "Ned Slinker and England's Order" (1986) 24 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 699-714.
• "Towards New Canadian Legal History" (1984) 22 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 349-374.

Edited Books (peer reviewed)

• Canadian State Trials Volume Five: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990 (co-edited with Susan Binnie and Eric Tucker) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022 (530 pages).
• Canadian State Trials Volume Four: Security, Dissent and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939 (co-edited with Eric Tucker and Susan Binnie) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015 (517 pages).
• Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform (co-edited with Wing-Cheong Chan and Stanley Yeo) Ashgate UK, 2011 (379 pages).
• Canadian State Trials Volume Three: Political Trials and Security Measures 1840-1914 (coedited with Susan Binnie) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 (648 pages).
• Canadian State Trials Volume Two: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-39 (co-edited with F.M. Greenwood) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002 (499 pages).
• Canadian State Trials Volume One: Law, Politics and Security Measures, 1608-1837 (co-edited with F.M. Greenwood) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996 (742 pages).
• Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society: Issues in Legal History (co-edited with W.W. Pue) Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988 (353 pages).

Chapters in Peer Reviewed Edited Books

• “Introduction: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty” (with Susan Binnie and Eric Tucker) Canadian State Trials Volume 5 (2022), 3-43.
• “Epilogue: The Canadian State Trials Series in Retrospect” Canadian State Trials Volume 5 (2022), 462-503.
• “State Trials in Post-revolution British North America” in M. Davis, E. Macleod, and G. Pentland eds., Political Trials in an Age of Revolution: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 357-383.
• “Introduction: War Measures and the Repression of Radicalism” (with Eric Tucker and Susan Binnie) Canadian State Trials Volume 4, 3-41.
• “Macaulay’s India Law Reforms and Labour in the British Empire” in Shaunnagh Dorsett and John McLaren eds., Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies London:Routledge, 2014, 218-33.
• “Renovate or Rebuild?: Treatises, Digests, and Criminal Law Codification” in A. Fernandez and M. Dubber eds., Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise Oxford: Hart, 2012, 181-201.
• “Revitalising Macaulay’s Indian Penal Code” (co-authored with Stanley Yeo) in Chan, Wright, and Yeo eds., Codification (2011), 3-17.
• “Macaulay’s Indian Penal Code: Historical Context and Originating Principles” in Chan, Wright, and Yeo eds., Codification (2011), 19-55.
• “Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures” (with Susan Binnie) Canadian State Trials Volume 3 (2009), 3-32.
• “Summary and Incompetent Justice: An Overview of Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis” (with Bob Beal) Canadian State Trials Volume 3 (2009), 353-410.
• “Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892” (with Desmond H. Brown) Canadian State Trials Volume 3 (2009), 516-63.
• “Libel and the Colonial Administration of Justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales c.1825-30” in H. Foster, B. Berger and A. Buck eds., The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2008, 157.
• “Imaginary Sedition: Law and the Emerging Public Sphere in Upper Canada c.1798-1828” in Logan Atkinson and Diana Majury eds., Law, Mystery, and the Humanities: Collected Essays Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2008, 167-213.
• "Introduction: Rebellion, Invasion and the Crisis of the Colonial State" (co-authored with F.M. Greenwood) in Canadian State Trials Volume 2 (2002), 3-37.
• "The Toronto Treason Trials, March-May 1838" (co-authored with P. Romney) in Canadian State Trials Volume 2 (2002), 62-99.
• "The Kingston and London Courts Martial, 1838-9" in Canadian State Trials Volume 2 (2002), 130-59.
• "The Legal Regulation of Politics: Governance, National Security and the Rule of Law in the Modern State" in M. MacNeil, N. Sargent and P. Swan eds., Law. Regulation and Governance Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2002, 78-96.
• "Harshness and Forbearance: The Politics of Pardons and the Upper Canadian Rebellion" in C. Strange ed., Mercy and the Modifications of Punishment Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1996, 77-103.
• "The Gourlay Affair: Seditious Libel and the Sedition Act in Upper Canada, 1818-19" in Canadian State Trials Volume 1 (1996), 487-504.
• "State Trials, the Rule of Law and Executive Powers in Early Canada" (co-authored with F.M. Greenwood) in Canadian State Trials Volume 1 (1996), 3-51.
• "State Trials and Security Proceedings in the Upper Canada During the War of 1812" (coauthored with Paul Romney) in Canadian State Trials Volume 1 (1996), 379-405.
• "Parliamentary Privilege and the Repression of Dissent in the Canadas" (co-authored with F.M. Greenwood) in Canadian State Trials Volume 1 (1996), 409-49.
• "An Introduction to Canadian Law in History" in Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society (1988), 7-19.
• "Issues in Criminal Law and Authority: Civil Liberties and Morality" in Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society (1988), 245-48.

Other Scholarly Publications

Books

• Looking at Law: Canada's Legal System 7th. ed. (co-authored with Vincent Kazmierski, Betina Kuzmarov and Rebecca Bromwich) Toronto: LexisNexis, 2019 (221 pages) (I was co-author with the late Patrick Fitzgerald of the 5th and 6th editions of this book).

Reviews

• William Twining, The Great Juristic Bazaar: Jurists’ Texts and Lawyers’ Stories (2002) in (2004) 42 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 533-7.
• G.B. Baker and J. Phillips eds., Essays in the History of Canadian Law Vol.VIII (1999) in (2001) 39 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 249-59.
• David Kairys, ed., The Politics of Law: A Progressivist Critique 3rd ed., (1998) in (1999) 29 Canadian Review of American Studies, 149-52.
• F.M. Sniderman, J.F. Fletcher, P.H. Russell, P.E. Tetlock, The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy (1996) in (1998) 35 Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 426-28.
• J.S. Cockburn and T.A. Green eds., Twelve Good Men and True: The Criminal Trial Jury in England, 1200-1800 (1988) in (1995) 10 Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 266-71.
• K. Cope, Criteria of Certainty: Truth and Judgement in the English Enlightenment (1990) in (1995) 10 Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 272-77.
• C. Wilton ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law Vol. IV: Beyond the Law, Lawyers and Business in Canada 1830-1930 (1990) in (1992) 21 Canadian Business Law Journal, 146-56.
• P.C. Stenning, Appearing for the Crown: A Legal and Historical Review of Prosecutorial Authority in Canada (1986); and the Law Reform Commission of Canada, Private Prosecutions (1986) in (1988) 67 Canadian Bar Review, 152-156.

Olivia is a Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics and Director of Teaching and Learning at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland.

Her work sits at the intersection of nutrition science, the microbiome, and interprofessional practice, with a focus on nutritional resilience and personalised nutrition. She leads a program of research that explores how dietary patterns shape microbiome resilience and health outcomes, and how this knowledge can be translated into clinical practice, education, and policy.

Olivia’s research draws together diverse strands - including culinary nutrition, chronic disease prevention, Indigenous food systems, and AI-enabled analysis - into a cohesive program aimed at improving the lived experience of patients and communities. She has published widely in nutrition science and dietetics, and is actively pursuing national and international collaborations to advance understanding of the microbiome and its role in health resilience.

As a recognised leader in teaching and learning innovation, Olivia plays a central role in shaping the next generation of dietitians. She integrates AI, cultural safety, and inclusive design into her teaching to strengthen student confidence, belonging, and leadership. Her approach bridges education, research, and community engagement, ensuring that evidence does not just build knowledge but drives real-world impact across health systems and society.

Dr Cara Wrigley is currently Professor of Design within the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at The University of Queensland. Prior to this appointment she was the Jericho Chair of Design Innovation at The University of Sydney, leading an interdisciplinary research group sponsored by the Royal Australian Air Force. This multi-million-dollar engagement brought together the Australian Defence Force and world-leading researchers to investigate the role that design plays in the creation of disruptive technologies for military capability.

During her time at the University of Sydney Professor Wrigley established the Defence by Design Group, where she ran applied research projects in the military domain. This collaboration contributed to the theoretical development of ‘military design thinking’ that has been taught and applied widely throughout the Australian Defence Force. In 2018, she also established and directed the Design Innovation Research Group, leading a research team that focused on design-led exploratory research, conducting applied and theoretical research into people, emotions, strategy and business.

Professor Wrigley holds extensive experience in curriculum development and delivery, during her time at the University of Sydney she developed and delivered a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Design Innovation (2018), rolled out a university wide Design Major (2018) and launched the Master of Design Innovation and Strategic Design (2019) program. This new degree has been reported on in the Book ‘Design Thinking Pedagogy: Facilitating Innovation and Impact in Tertiary Education’ by Routledge published in 2022.

Professor Wrigley has secured over $60M in competitive industry and government grants and is currently Chief Investigator on ARC Discovery and Linkage projects as well as a Medical Research Future Fund. Her research projects have received funding from industry partners such as the Brisbane Airport Corporation, Suncorp Insurance Australia, TAFE NSW, WaterCo Ltd, Bank of Queensland, BiVACOR and the Royal Australian Airforce. She is a reviewer for the Australian Research Council (ARC) and provides advice to organisations and their executives from diverse industries. For this work she has received Australian Good Design Awards.

Professor Wrigley has published extensively on the application and adoption of design disseminated through seven (7) books. Including the Research Handbook on Design Thinking (2023), Design Innovation and Integration (2021), Design Innovation for Health and Medicine (2020) and Affected: Emotionally Engaging Customers in the Digital Age (2018). She has more than 100 refereed research papers in outlets such Design Issues, Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy Policy, California Management Review, ASAIO Journal, and Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the leading design research journal Design Studies published by Elsevier.

Professor Wrigley has delivered invited keynotes at prestigious global academic conferences in the medical field including the European Mechanical Circulatory Support Summit (EUMS) Conference (2019, Vienna), the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 65th Annual Conference (San Francisco (2019) and the Asia-Pacific Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (APELSO) Conference (2018). Furthermore, she is a regular invited speaker at the Australian Defence College and the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra for her work in Defence.

She is passionate about providing positive student and supervisor experiences and has presented at a number of universities on the topic of academic development and PhD supervision. She has advised a number of colleagues and high degree students on how to develop efficient and successful ways of collaboration, building professional networks and working with industry partners.

I am a research fellow working with Professor Geoffrey J. McLachlan on semi-supervised learning, specifically investigating missingness mechanisms and mixture modelling.

Associate Professor Wuethrich is an NHMRC Emerging Leader fellow and ARC DECRA awardee at the Centre for Personalised Nanomedicine, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland (UQ). He obtained his PhD from the University of Tasmania in 2016 after completing a Master’s degree in Switzerland. His research expertise lies in liquid biopsy, nanotechnology, and diagnostics. He held positions in international pharmaceutical companies and became lead inventor on a European patent. He has actively engaged with national and international companies to translate diagnostic nanotechnologies. Since 2017 he has provided continuous research mentoring to the group and has supervised >30 postgraduate and graduate students in nanotechnological strategies to detect cancer and other diseases.

Stephanie Wyeth is the Professional Planner in Residence and Senior Lecturer within the Planning Program, and Director of Engagement for the School of Architecture, Design and Planning.

Stephanie is an experienced urban and social planning practitioner with significant research, project and leadership experience in the public and private sectors. She joined The University of Queensland in 2019 following several years as a Director with a multidisciplinary planning and design firm, where she led projects focussed on complex social, urban planning and development issues. Her motivation for joining academia is a belief that a values-led and practice intensive university experience is critical if the next generation of urban planning professionals are to be equipped with the skills, knowledge and mindsets to lead, sustained positive change in our cities, towns and communities.

As a pracademic, Stephanie seeks to bridge the theory – practice divide, by promoting the exchange of knowledge, ideas and capabilities across university, industry and community. She regularly facilitates and brokers opportunities for the university’s world-leading researchers to share their expertise with government and community for projects with a strong public interest focus. Stephanie is regularly invited to join advisory forums and judging panels, and to speak at industry and community events.

Between 2016 – 2022 Stephanie served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the South Bank Corporation. In 2020 she was appointed a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia for services to the profession. Her most recent panel appointments include Logan Urban Design Awards, Lord Mayor’s Business Awards (Brisbane), and an advisory committee for a national design project.

Memberships

• Planning Institute of Australia
• Committee for Brisbane

Teaching Responsibilities

PLAN1000 The Planning Challenge (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2019 to date)

PLAN1100 Foundational Ideas in Planning (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2019 to 2024)

PLAN4001/PLAN7120 Citymaking: Theory and Practice (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2020-2022)

PLAN4100 Advanced Planning Practice (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2021 to date)

PLAN4130 | PLAN7130 Planning Industry Placements (Course Coordinator and Lecturer – 2019 to February 2025 (Semesters 1, 2 and Summer)

ADPS3300 | ADPS7300 Industry Placement (Course Coordinator and Lecturer - 2025 to date)

ENVM3103 Regulatory Frameworks for Environmental Management and Planning (Guest lecturer 2021-2023)

Various guest lectures providing insights into urban planning, employability and planning practice.

Student supervision for PHD, Honours and research projects

Awards

2022 Teaching Award - Planning Program, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

2022 Staff Award, Organisation of Planning Students

Service and Engagement

Director of Engagement – School of Architecture, Design and Planning (2023 to date)

Academic Program Advisor for Bachelor of Regional and Town Planning (2021 to date)

Deputy Director of Engagement School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (2022 – 2023)

Co-founder and Director of UQ City Impact Lab (2021 to date)

Research Affiliate – UQ Sustainable Infrastructure Research Hub (since 2022)

Member - UQ Community Engagement Community of Practice – Leadership Group (since 2023)

Planning Institute of Australia (Qld) - Fellow