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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 with a research focus on the influence of utilitarianism on the modernisation of colonial governance and criminal law reform, notably 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. Political trials and national security measures in Canadian history is another major area of research, including his scholarship and contributions to and lead editorship of the five-volume Canadian State Trials series. His current research and recent publications compare the 1946 Canadian and 1954-5 Australian Espionage Commissions and legal responses to the Gouzenko and Petrov affairs, placed in the context of early Cold War international and domestic political pressures, rule of law issues, and longer-term impact on Canadian and Australian security operations.

Publications

Articles (peer reviewed)

• "The 1946 Canadian Royal Commission on Espionage (Gouzenko) and the 1954-55 Australian Royal Commission on Espionage (Petrov): Judicial Independence or Complicity?" (2026) vol.45 University of Queensland Law Journal, 90
• "Gouzenko, Petrov, and the Canadian and Australian Espionage Commissions: The Rule of Law and the Neo-colonial development of Cold War Security States" (2025) vol.36 (3) King's Law Journal, 425.
• “Macaulay’s India Penal Code and Codification in the Nineteenth Century British Empire” (2012) 2 (1) Journal of Commonwealth Criminal Law, 25.
• “Criminal Law Codification and Imperial Projects: The Self-governing Jurisdiction Codes of the 1890’s” (2008) 12 Legal History, 19.
• “Self-Governing Codifications of English Criminal Law and Empire: The Queensland and Canadian Examples” (2007) 26 University of Queensland Law Journal, 39.
• “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.
• "Quiescent Leviathan? Citizenship and National Security Measures in Late Modernity" (1998) 25 Journal of Law and Society, 213.
• "Sedition in Upper Canada: Contested Legality" (1992) 29 Labour/LeTravail, 7 (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.
• "The Ideological Dimensions of Law in Upper Canada: The Treason Proceedings of 1838" (1989) 10 Criminal Justice History: An International Annual, 131.
• "Ned Slinker and England's Order" (1986) 24 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 699.
• "Towards New Canadian Legal History" (1984) 22 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 349.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Canadian State Trials Volume Three: Political Trials and Security Measures 1840-1914 (coedited with Susan Binnie) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
• 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.
• Canadian State Trials Volume One: Law, Politics and Security Measures, 1608-1837 (co-edited with F.M. Greenwood) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
• Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society: Issues in Legal History (co-edited with W.W. Pue) Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988.

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.
• “Epilogue: The Canadian State Trials Series in Retrospect” Canadian State Trials Volume 5 (2022), 462.
• “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.
• “Introduction: War Measures and the Repression of Radicalism” (with Eric Tucker and Susan Binnie) Canadian State Trials Volume 4 (2015), 3.
• “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.
• “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.
• “Revitalising Macaulay’s Indian Penal Code” (co-authored with Stanley Yeo) in Chan, Wright, and Yeo eds., Codification (2011), 3.
• “Macaulay’s Indian Penal Code: Historical Context and Originating Principles” in Chan, Wright, and Yeo eds., Codification (2011), 19.
• “Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures” (with Susan Binnie) Canadian State Trials Volume 3 (2009), 3.
• “Summary and Incompetent Justice: An Overview of Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis” (with Bob Beal) Canadian State Trials Volume 3 (2009), 353.
• “Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892” (with Desmond H. Brown) Canadian State Trials Volume 3 (2009), 516.
• “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.
• "The Toronto Treason Trials, March-May 1838" (co-authored with P. Romney) in Canadian State Trials Volume 2 (2002), 62.
• "The Kingston and London Courts Martial, 1838-9" in Canadian State Trials Volume 2 (2002), 130.
• "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.
• "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.
• "The Gourlay Affair: Seditious Libel and the Sedition Act in Upper Canada, 1818-19" in Canadian State Trials Volume 1 (1996), 487.
• "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.
• "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.
• "Parliamentary Privilege and the Repression of Dissent in the Canadas" (co-authored with F.M. Greenwood) in Canadian State Trials Volume 1 (1996), 409.
• "An Introduction to Canadian Law in History" in Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society (1988), 7.
• "Issues in Criminal Law and Authority: Civil Liberties and Morality" in Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society (1988), 245.

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 (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.
• 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.
• David Kairys, ed., The Politics of Law: A Progressivist Critique 3rd ed., (1998) in (1999) 29 Canadian Review of American Studies, 149.
• 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.
• 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.
• K. Cope, Criteria of Certainty: Truth and Judgement in the English Enlightenment (1990) in (1995) 10 Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 272.
• 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.
• 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.

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.​

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This program integrates culinary nutrition, chronic disease prevention, Indigenous bush‑food and food sovereignty projects, and AI‑enabled analysis to improve the lived experience of patients, students and communities. Olivia has published widely in nutrition science and dietetics and works in partnership with First Nations communities, industry and government to advance understanding of how food systems can support health, equity and cultural continuity.​

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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.

Dr Yuao Wu is a Research Fellow specializing in nanotechnology, nanosensors, and theranostic medicine. He obtained his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland (UQ) in 2021 , after completing a Master of Biotechnology at UQ in 2016. His research expertise lies in nanotechnology-enabled molecular bioanalysis, single-particle detection, and the deep molecular profiling of extracellular vesicles (EVs). He has established a strong academic track record in advancing diagnostic nanotechnologies, having published over 30 peer-reviewed papers that have attracted more than 1,200 citations(h-index 20). Actively engaged in national scientific leadership, he serves as the Secretary of the Australian Society of Molecular Imaging (ASMI). Alongside his research, he provides continuous academic mentoring to his research group and co-supervises multiple PhD students developing nanotechnological strategies to detect and treat cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases.

Expertise:

• Nanomaterial Engineering: Surface engineering and functionalization of nanoparticles and liposomes.

• Advanced Analysis & Imaging: High-resolution single-particle analysis and advanced fluorescence imaging.

• Translational Disease Models: Complex in vitro cell culture (including 3D models) and in vivo preclinical models for cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases.

Dr Wenxuan Wu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the UQ Fire group at The University of Queensland. His current research focuses on cladding and façade fire safety, flame spread, material fire behaviour, and experimental methods for assessing fire hazards in the built environment, including battery fire safety.

Wenxuan has a strong background in timber fire safety, smouldering combustion, fire dynamics, and materials characterisation. His PhD investigated the self-sustained smouldering behaviour of preservative-treated timber, with a focus on how thermal conditions and material properties influence fire persistence and severity.

His research combines experimental fire testing, thermal analysis, gas measurement, and data analysis to better understand how construction materials ignite, burn, spread flame, and contribute to fire risk. He has experience with a wide range of fire and material testing methods, including cone calorimetry, fire propagation apparatus, thermogravimetric analysis, bomb calorimetry, FTIR, LIFT, H-TRIS, SEM-EDS, and other interdisciplinary laboratory and analytical techniques.

Dr Miaomiao Wu is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr Run Zhang’s group in the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland (UQ).

Dr Wu obtained her PhD degree under the supervision of Dr Run Zhang and Professor Zhiping Xu in AIBN, UQ in 2025. Her doctoral research focused on developing ultrasound-based cancer therapies to suppress tumour growth and metastasis. After that she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr Changkui Fu and Professor Andrew Whittaker's group on mRNA delivery with designed lipid nanoparticles to overcome PEG immunogenicity.

Dr Wu’s research focuses on developing non-invasive ultrasound-based strategies for tumour diagnostics and precision immunotherapy, integrating cancer imaging, in-situ ROS monitoring and regulation, immune response regulation and targeted cancer treatment. She has published a number of articles in leading scientific journals including Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Nature Plants, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Chemical Society Reviews, and others. To date, these publications have received more than 1300 citations with an h-index of 20. She has two highly cited papers, two hot papers and two papers featured as journal cover (Angewandte Chemie and Advanced Healthcare Materials).

Research interests in Artificial Heart and Lung therapies.

Charted Engineering (Biomedical) with Engineers Australia and BPEQ. Industry experience in nonclinical device testing and regulatory submissions of total artificial heart.

Engineering Lead at Innovative Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology Laboratory (ICETLab), Critical Care Research Group, The Prince Charles Hospital

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.

Associate Professor Stephanie Wyeth is a academic within the Urban 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 professional practice.

Student supervision for PHD, Honours and research projects

Awards

2025 Industry Engagement Award - Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

2025 Research Award - Citizen Science - Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

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 Advisor for Bachelor of Urban Planning / 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