Dr Lin Mi is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the UQ Business School. Lin's research interests include corporate finance and real estate finance. Her work has been published in well-regarded international journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, British Accounting Review, Economic Modelling, International Review of Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and Accounting and Finance.
Miriam Moeller (PhD, MBA) is an Associate Professor in International Business at The University of Queensland Business School, Australia. Her research, published in top academic and practitioner journals, explores how effective procurement, inclusion, and mobilisation of talent support firm internationalisation. As a multi-generational expatriate with experience across 5 continents, her research examines the global work relocations of globally mobile talent and their accompanying family members. She has a special interest in marginalised and minority communities, including that of LGBTIQA+ expatriates, women expatriates, and neurodivergent expatriates. In recent years, Miriam’s focus has been on championing the development of neuroinclusive workplace practices, both in Australia and globally. She is a member of the UQ Disability Inclusion Advocacy Network and serves as Associate Editor at the International Journal of Management Reviews and editorial review board member at the Journal of Global Mobility.
Associate Professor David Morrison's primary academic interests are in revenue law, corporate and insolvency law and economic analysis.
Associate Professor Morrison is an interdisciplinary researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of taxation law, corporate and insolvency law, bankruptcy, finance law and financial literacy as those interests apply to finance, the economy, social and policy framework and climate change. Associate Professor Morrison researches around law and finance especially as it applies to literacy and support for generational change. The recipient of three ARC research grants and a UQ Vice-Chancellors Research Excellence award, Associate Professor Morrison has held over 20 research grants and has published extensively including papers, conferences and as co-author of Voluntary Administration Thomson service. Associate Professor Morrison holds the degrees of BCom, LLB, MFM, LLM, GCEd and PhD (Qld), he holds the professional qualifications of Barrister-at-law, Chartered Accountant (CA), Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FFin), and is a Chartered Tax Advisor of The Taxation Institute (CTA).
Nadeem is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Co-lead of the Business Sustainability Initiative (BSI) research hub at the University of Queensland (UQ) Business School. Before joining UQ, he held academic positions at the University of Otago and Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.
Nadeem’s research spans interdisciplinary areas, including corporate governance, corporate social and environmental responsibility, and financial and non-financial disclosures, with a particular focus on climate change reporting. His work has been published in leading journals [ABDC A*/ABS4/FT50] such as The British Accounting Review, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and Corporate Governance: An International Review, among others. His research has earned multiple Best Paper Awards at prestigious conferences, including the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) and the Corporate Governance SIG of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). Additionally, he has been recognized with awards such as the Best Emerging Researcher and has contributed expert commentary to media outlets like The Conversation and Newsroom.
A sought-after speaker, Nadeem has delivered keynote addresses and research seminars at international universities and conferences. He has also organized multiple international conferences and actively engages with standard-setting bodies, including the External Reporting Board (XRB) in New Zealand and the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), contributing through research forums and panel facilitation. As a dedicated member of the academic community, Nadeem serves on the editorial boards of journals such as Meditari Accountancy Research (Associate Editor) and the Journal of Intellectual Capital (Editorial Advisory Board member) and regularly reviews for top-tier journals.
Nadeem teaches a range of accounting courses, including Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Cost and Management Accounting, and Advanced Management Accounting, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has successfully supervised six (06) PhD students to completion, with his graduates now holding faculty positions at leading international universities. He continues to welcome new supervisees in his areas of expertise. He has also served as an examiner for several PhD theses.
With a strong leadership background, Nadeem has held several academic leadership roles, including Co-lead of the BSI research hub at UQ, Deputy Associate Dean of Postgraduate Programs, and Director of the Master of Professional Accounting degree at the University of Otago.
Nadeem is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ).
Learn more about his research at the following links:
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Affiliate of Centre for the Business and Economics of Health
Centre for the Business and Economics of Health
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Affiliate of Centre for Enterprise AI
Centre for Enterprise AI
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Senior Lecturer
School of Business
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Availability:
Not available for supervision
Media expert
Dr. Morteza Namvar is a Senior Lecturer at the UQ Business School and a member of Future of health - Business School - University of Queensland. He specializes in Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLMs) in business contexts. With a foundation in computer science and IT engineering, he brings interdisciplinary expertise to his research, focusing on the application of ML-driven solutions in organizational and healthcare settings.
Morteza is deeply committed to advancing ML, NLP, and LLM research in business and healthcare, mentoring PhD and HDR students in leveraging these technologies to drive innovation, automation, and efficiency across various industries. He has successfully secured competitive funding for multiple ML and NLP projects and has published extensively in leading IS and computer science journals and conferences.
Beyond research, Morteza is passionate about educating the next generation of ML practitioners. His teaching focuses on hands-on ML development using Python, equipping students with the technical skills and confidence needed to excel in the rapidly evolving field of machine learning.
Affiliate of Centre for Business and Organisational Psychology
Centre for Business and Organisational Psychology
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Professor
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Availability:
Available for supervision
Andrew is Professor of Business and Organizational Psychology. Andrew leads a large program of applied research into human performance and safety in complex environments. This program has received more than $10 million in funding from the ARC, Federal and State Governments, and industry. A key focus of this program has been on end user impact, with the ultimate goal of improving the safety and effectiveness of critical national infrastructure.
Andrew's major scientific contributions have been in two areas:
Performance, safety and effectiveness of people at work. He has published a series of influential papers on safety climate and work role performance. For example, the paper by Griffin, Neal and Parker (2007), which has been highly cited, reports the development of a theory of work role performance that explains how different forms of behaviour, such as adaptivity and proactivity, contribute to the effectiveness of individuals, as well as the teams and organizations that they work in.
Workload, decision making, and self-regulation. Andrew's research has improved our understanding of how people manage task demands in complex systems, such as air traffic control and emergency response. These environments require people to make decisions under time pressure, and often require tradeoffs to be made amongst competing goals (eg safety vs productivity). He has developed computational models to simulate the way that people make decisions in these environment, and how they manage their workload. His research has clarified the mechanisms by which people make choices amongst competing goals, and regulate the amount of effort they apply.
Dr Newey has pioneered a wellbeing approach to business and society. This framework assists leaders to integrate eight components of wellbeing: economic, environmental, social, cultural, physical, psychological, spiritual and material. Contemporary leadership in both business and society is seen to have to wrestle with competing tensions between these eight components. Dr Newey uses polarity leveraging as a way to assist leaders to create value across these eight components thus integrating businesses and societies to maximise wellbeing for their stakeholders. This integrated wellbeing model has been developed through a rigorous empirical research agenda and includes a number of conceptual papers laying out the core ideas, a measurement paper which specialises in how to measure wellbeing as well as field research. The field research has consisted of a large international study of the wellbeing beliefs and practices of leaders across Alaska, India and Norway as well as in-depth on-the-ground applied research with the City of Anchorage, Alaska. Included within the research is the study of how businesses and societies can successfully transition to wellbeing frameworks. Also included is a specialisation in circumstances of gridlock in societies where decision-making is characterized by polarization and lack of community investment. The research is currently being translated into a number of products including wellbeing frameworks for business and society as well as a wellbeing leadership development program for primary and secondary schools.
A passionate teacher, Dr Newey has won numerous internal University Teaching Awards as well as a prestigious National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. These awards were earned based on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Social Entrepreneurship. Dr Newey innovated deep experiential learning experiences for students who are challenged to develop and execute with real stakeholders a social entrepreneurship model around a social issue of their choosing. These projects have addressed and made important contributions to issues including mental health, environmental sustainability, children with severe disabilities, homelessness, human trafficking and child services for victims of domestic violence.
In 2019, Dr Newey will launch his new course 'Entrepreneurial Leadership' which utilises insights from his groundbreaking research to develop a generation of leader able to deal with complex challenges as well as undertake ongoing personal development.
From the politics of climate change to defending democracy, Professor Daniel Nyberg is seeking to understand how corporations, governments, and citizens negotiate different priorities when facing key challenges of our time.
This qualitative researcher takes an interdisciplinary approach to his work across two main areas:
climate change, where he interrogates the links between climate change and corporate capitalism, and
defending democracy, where he seeks to untangle the relationships between industry and government.
“These are some of the biggest threats facing humankind,” he affirms.
“How could you not be interested?”
Climate Change
Professor Nyberg’s interest in climate change came from a growing sense of urgency. As public interest in green products grew, corporations were beginning to address climate change internally, through the design and delivery of green products and services. At the same time, the climate emergency led to attempts to contain or regulate polluting industries, for example through carbon offsets and other measures.
“It’s important to understand what corporations are doing in order to mitigate and/or minimise the effects of climate change,” Professor Nyberg explains.
“We also need to have knowledge about what they’re doing so we can regulate their activities.”
Working alongside Professor Christopher Wright from the University of Sydney's Business School, and Dr Vanessa Bowden from the University of Newcastle's School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, this ground-breaking research has been published in a number of leading international journals. The three colleagues collaborated on the book, Organising Responses to Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering (2022, Cambridge University Press), building on the success of Professor Nyberg and Professor Wright's book, Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction (2015, Cambridge University Press), which attracted wide attention across both the social and natural sciences.
Defending Democracy
Building on this work, Professor Nyberg has developed a strong interest in corporate political activity, both in how public policy is interpreted and implemented in practice, as well as in how corporations seek to influence public policy. This shift from the narrow focus on corporate outcomes to the broader understanding of democratic processes, is particularly relevant in the fraught debates around climate policy.
“I’m currently exploring how corporations influence democracy,” he states.
“The clearest example is the Labor Government’s super profit tax proposal of 2010, which the mining industry vehemently opposed. Even though it spent $22 million doing so, calculations by the Australian Financial Review suggest it saved $10 billion by agreeing to a truce with then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard. So, you can see it’s often much easier and cheaper for corporations to deal with public policies than it is for them to deal with their processes.”
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Lecturer in Management & Leadership
School of Business
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Availability:
Not available for supervision
Richard teaches courses on leadership, strategic decision-making, and strategic human resource management in the graduate, MBA, Executive Education, and online education programs at The Business School, University of Queensland. Richard's research interests include leadership, strategic decision-making, and organization studies using practice and process perspectives. His interest in these fields stems from his previous 23-year career as a commissioned officer in the US Army Special Operations Forces. Richard routinely advises leaders and organizations in leadership, strategy, and organization improvement.
Affiliate of Centre of Architecture, Theory, Culture, and History
Centre of Architecture, Theory, Culture and History
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Availability:
Available for supervision
Media expert
Tim O’Rourke's research investigates past and present applications of cross-cultural design across different building types and settings. Such projects often require multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of architectural problems, informed by the histories of buildings and the people who use them. A Discovery Project on healthcare architecture combined different research methods to ask if design can improve the experience and participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in hospitals and clinics.
Tim's current research focuses on the design and social histories of Indigenous housing from the 1950s assimilation era to the 2000s. These studies seek to answer questions about design intentions and the origins, development and evaluation of architectural methods that improved public housing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. His PhD examined the history and use of Aboriginal building traditions in the Wet Tropics Region of Queensland. He has contributed to a range of research projects related to Indigenous housing, settlements and landscapes. Research topics include self-constructed dwellings and vernacular building technologies, cultural tourism, adaption to climate change and housing sustainability. Results from these studies have been published in technical reports, conference proceedings, journals and book chapters.
Tim is a registered architect, having worked in architectural practices in Brisbane and Sydney, and he maintains an interest in timber construction and joinery. As a sole practitioner, he has designed residential projects and worked on a range of building types for Aboriginal communities. He teaches architectural technology and design and has offered a range of research topics in the Master of Architecture program.
Memberships
Fellow Australian Institute of Architects
Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand
Dr Faith Ong's research focus lies in the role of events, tourism and hospitality as tools of social change. Thus, she researches into the social impacts of events and tourism on communities. Her work explores how different forms of festivals, community gatherings and targeted events impact the social inclusivity of places. Volunteering is also one of Faith’s areas of expertise, determining the impacts of volunteering in tourism and events on the individual.
Faith is interested in enabling full and inclusive participation of communities across a broad spectrum of events and travel. In particular, her work has focused on communities that are sexually and culturally diverse, as well as people with disabilities. She continues to explore the signals of inclusion and exclusion at occasions that are meant to bring communities together.
Dr Jan Packer has a background in Psychology having completed a BA (Hons) at UQ in 1976. Her PhD (Education, QUT, 2004) focussed on motivations for learning in educational leisure settings. She has published broadly in the area of educational psychology over many years. The current major focus of her research is in applying the principles of educational, environmental and positive psychology to understand and facilitate visitor experiences in leisure settings such as museums and other tourist and leisure contexts. Jan was co-editor of the international journal, Visitor Studies from 2005 through 2011.
Ravi Pappu is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. He teaches topics related to applying quantitative research methods in business to honours and PhD students and market and consumer research to postgraduate students.
Over the years, he has received the UQ Business School Teaching Excellence Award and the UQ Business School Research Excellence Award. Twice he was a Finalist for a UQ Teaching Excellence award.
Ravi received a PhD in marketing from the University of New England, Australia, and an MBA and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing, both awarded with Distinction from the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Earlier, he received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering from JNTU, Anantapur in India, awarded with First Class and Distinction.
Ravi's research interests include the areas of advertising, branding, international marketing, new products and innovation. His research has been published in several internationally recognised journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of the Academy of the Marketing Science. His research has been funded through several competitive grants, including ARC.
Ravi serves on the editorial review boards of premier international journals, including the Journal of International Marketing, the Journal of Business Research and the European Journal of Marketing. He is a member of the American Marketing Association (AMA) and Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP), a Fellow of the Academy of the Marketing Science (AMS) and a Fellow CPM of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI).
Further information about Ravi is available at the following links.
Ravi's current research focuses on modelling consumer decision-making concerning different types of brands (e.g. manufacturers, retailers, nonprofits and countries). He is also interested in understanding how marketing communications (e.g. advertising, celebrity endorsement, sponsorship) can shape consumer attitudes and brand perceptions.
Ravi's research on sponsorship, brand equity, brand innovativeness, country-of-origin effects, celebrity endorsement, country branding and retailer branding has been published in scholarly international journals, including. His research papers have been read or downloaded over 370,000 times.
|Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Journal of Business Research | International Business Review | Journal of International Business Studies | European Journal of Marketing | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | Journal of Marketing Education | Journal of Public Policy and Marketing | Journal of Product and Brand Management | Journal of Travel Research | Psychology & Marketing |
Research Grants
Ravi was the lead Chief Investigator of an Australian Research Council Linkage project (with Bettina Cornwell) supported by the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. Major outcomes of this research include a model for explaining communication portfolio effects on the image and equity of non-profit brands. Ravi's research has also attracted several internal competitive grants from the University of New England and the University of Queensland.
Awards & Distinctions
2018 - Inaugural JPBM Award for most impactful article, Emerald Literati Network (with P.G. Quester & R.W. Cooksey)
2016 - Outstanding Reviewer of the Year Award, Emerald Literati Network
2015 - UQ Business School Teaching Excellence Award
2009 - Outstanding Reviewer of the Year Award, Emerald Literati Network
2006 - UQ Business School Research Excellence Award
2000 - Best Marketing Research Paper Award, American Marketing Association (with A. Sinha & P. Leszeczyc)
1998 - Highly Commended Paper, Doctoral Colloquium, Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference
TEACHING
As of 2025, Ravi teaches courses in quantitative research methods and applied statistics.
RBUS6902 Quantitative Business Research Methods I
MKTG7502 Strategic Branding
Distinctions (Teaching)
2015 - UQ Business School Teaching Excellence Award
2015 - Finalist - University of Queensland Teaching Excellence Award
2014 - Finalist - University of Queensland Teaching Excellence Award
Teaching Evaluations (Click on the following links to view student evaluations in pdf)
Honours/PhD
RBUS6903 Quantitative Business Research Methods II (SEM) |2020 | 2019 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
RBUS6931 Scientific Method in Management II | 2018 |2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
RBUS6931 Scientific Method in Management I | 2018 |2017|
Postgraduate
MKTG 7502 Strategic Branding | 2025 (s2) |
MKTG7510 Market and Consumer Research |2019 | 2018 |2017| | 2016 | 2015 |
PhD Supervision
Ravi is available for research supervision. His previous research students have achieved publications in internationally recognised journals (e.g., European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Travel Research) and conferences (e.g., AMA, AMS, WMC). Following are some of the areas of his research interest.
| Maddy Nugent (2022) - Sponsorship authenticity | B.D.C. Tang (2021) - Sponsorship engagement | M.G. Guerra Calvo (2020) - Celebrity endorsement | S. Caulton (2019) - Brand crises | I. Goh (2018) - Sponsorship portfolios | I. C. Y. Lim (2016) - Brand innovativeness | S.C. Yu (2013) - Celebrity portfolios | A. Spry (2007) - Celebrity endorsement | M. Chong (2006) - Consumer innovativeness | P. Stower (2006) - Multiple celebrity endorsement |
SERVICE
Associate Editor
International Journal of Consumer Studies (2020 - 2024)
Co-Guest-Editor
Journal of Strategic Marketing - Special issue on Research in Strategic Marketing
Journal of Product & Brand Management - Special issue on Brand Equity
Editorial Board Membership
| Journal of International Marketing | Journal of Business Research | European Journal of Marketing | International Marketing Review | Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics | Australasian Marketing Journal |
Assessor
Australian Research Council
Invited Seminars
| Australian National University | IIM-Calcutta | IIM-Ahmedabad | Indian Institute of Science | IIM - Bangalore | University of Melbourne | University of New South Wales | University of Adelaide | University of New England |
Visiting Positions
| Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore 2016 | University of Oregon 2013 | University of Adelaide 2009 | University of Michigan 2009 | Indian School of Business 2003 |
Affiliate of ARC Research Hub to Advance Timber for Australia's Future Built Environment (ARC Advanc
ARC Research Hub to Advance Timber for Australia's Future Built Environment
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Affiliate of Centre for Business and Organisational Psychology
Centre for Business and Organisational Psychology
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Associate Professor
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Availability:
Available for supervision
I am an Associate Professor and Organisational Psychologist at UQ's School of Psychology. I research, supervise, teach, and consult on a broad range of work and organisational topics. Through my research, I aim to help organisations and their employees devise new strategies for balancing and realising the dual concerns of feeling well and performing well. To this end, I have researched employee stress, well-being, motivation, and performance in a range of high-performance settings (e.g., small business owners, professional musicians, elite athletes, and safety critical work in healthcare and transport industries). I also supplement this field research with a program of basic research in my laboratory using work simulation paradigms.
Some of my specific research topics include: how workers manage their energy during work; how workers recover from work stress in off-the-job time; how jobs and careers can be designed to maximise well-being, motivation, and performance; and I also explore the 'hidden costs' of performance management systems. Beyond these core areas, I have also contributed to other topics through theoretical (i.e., self-determination theory) and methodological (i.e., physiology, experience sampling, work simulation) expertise in academic, industry, and student-based collaborations. For example, in areas like supervisor support, diversity and inclusion, employee voice, employee green behaviour, compassion science, and social identity.
Passionate about doing practically-relevant research, though my consulting and advisory work I have helped both public and private organisations tackle issues with selection and recruitment, training and development, career management, work design, culture change, and operational safety. I also regularly engage with the media on topics related to my expertise and my research and/or commentary has been featured in outlets like TIME Magazine, Harvard Business Review, HR Magazine, and ABC’s popular podcast This Working Life.
I currently serve on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and the European Journal of Work and Organisational Psychology.
Dr. Andre A. Pekerti is an Associate Professor in International Management within the International Business Discipline at The University of Queensland Business School. He is an n-Cultural: a Christian of Indonesian-Chinese heritage who grew up in Jakarta, Southern California, and New Zealand, and is a naturalised New Zealander and Australian. Andre’s multicultural background complements his research interest and teaching in international management.
His primary research topics are attributions, acculturation, cultural intelligence, cross-cultural communication, multi-method assessment on n-Culturals and cognitive complexity, ethics, family business, human factors, n-Culturals, servant leadership, social justice, trustworthiness, and wellbeing.
Andre consistently publishes in international journals including, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, and Journal of International Business Studies.
He served as Vice President of the Australia New Zealand International Business Academy for two terms. He consistently serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several international journals. Currently, he is on the following editorial review boards: Asia-Pacific Journal of Management; Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management; Human Resource Management Review; International Journal of Intercultural Relations; Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of World Business; and Honorary Editor of Andalas Management Review.
Andre initiated the Rapid Acculturation Mateship Program (RAMP) at UQBS. A precursor to Global Mates and BEL Buddies, RAMP is a 19-week program connecting local students with incoming international students. RAMP “Serves to facilitate adjustment to UQ, Australia and the reciprocal learning of cultures”, and has positively affected the experiences of domestic and international students.
Dr. Pekerti has taught in MBA Programs at The University of Auckland, Bond University and UQ Business School. He consulted for Diner’s Club, Singapore; the Department of Transport Victoria, Australia; and the Ministry of Trade, Indonesia. Most recently, I collaborated with BiasSync, a science-based solution designed to help organisations more effectively assess and manage unconscious bias in the work environment.
Author of n-Culturalism in Managing Work and Life: A new within individual multicultural model.
Dr Wendy Pham is a Research Fellow at UQ Business School, specialising in individual and organisational resilience to disasters and crises. Her current research integrates disaster management, risk mitigation and insurance risk pooling against the increasing challenges posed by climate risks, with a strong focus on resilience and capability building for communities and small businesses.
Wendy holds a joint PhD from the University of Queensland (Australia) and the University of Exeter (UK), where her doctoral research examined the disaster management practices of tourism-hospitality SMEs and the role of social networks in building organisational resilience. With extensive experiences in both academic and applied research, she is committed to advancing knowledge that supports businesses and communities in creating sustainable and resilient futures.Wendy has collaborated on consulting projects for various government and industry partners, including Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation, Natural Hazards Research Australia, Parks Australia, and Brisbane City Council, contributing to policy-relevant insights and practical strategies for disaster preparedness and sustainable development.
In addition to her research, Wendy is actively engaged in teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the Business School. She has been recognised with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship.
Professor Pitsis is a globally renowned expert in the strategic design and management of complex and high-risk projects. These projects range from Olympic infrastructure, deep tech quantum computing. Most recently, he is working on AI agent adoption and trust and its role in decision-making under extremely volatile conditions. He is an ideal person to speak on making the impossible possible, and the strategic and managerial constraints and opportunities of engaging and investing in high-risk, but high-reward, projects.
He is the recipient of several awards for his research. Most recently, he and his co-authors were Finalists for the 2025 Responsible Research in Management Award, co-sponsored by the Academy of Management Fellows Group and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) at The Academy of Management Annual Conference for their research on ColaLife, a temporary organisation that successfully eradicated childhood mortality due to diarrhoea in Zambia. Other awards have included the Emerald Science Citation of Excellence and the Paper of the Year Award (Human Relations).
He has published in several FT50 and other highly regarded academic and practitioner journals (including Academy of Management Learning and Education, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Long Range Planning, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, California Management Review, and Management Learning, amongst others). He is also a co-author of critically acclaimed and best-selling texts in management and innovation.
He has appeared on the radio (ABC) and television (BBC), in addition to podcasts in the UK and the USA. He has also provided strategic advice and leadership development for several major projects and organisations, including the Royal Air Force (Plan Astra), Royal Australian Air Force (Air Force Improvement Program), Reserve Bank of Australia, Reserve Bank of India, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, BorgWarner (Sevcon), TNT, KONNE, just to name a few.
Nicolas Pontes is an Award-winning academic who brings his prior industry experience in roles such as marketing research coordinator, marketing manager, and marketing consultant to his teaching and research practices. Dr Pontes has had the role of Program Coordinator for Advertising and IMC majors at both Undergraduate and Post-Graduate levels and he is the Founder and Academic Advisor at Newish Communications Inc., the first student-run communications agency in Australia. His research interests are in the area of consumer decision-making and information processing with a particular interest in online consumer behaviour, social media engagement, price and promotion advertising, and branding. His research has been published in the European Journal of Marketing, Psychology & Marketing, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Product & Brand Management, and Journal of Brand Management. His work has also been presented at international advertising and marketing conferences such as Association for Consumer Research [North America], American Marketing Association, and American Academic of Advertising.
Research Supervision I am not accepting new HDR (Mphil or PhD) students.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Queensland Digital Health Centre
Queensland Digital Health Centre
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Availability:
Not available for supervision
Javad Pool is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. He completed his PhD in Business Information Systems at UQ Business School in 2022, with a focus on data privacy and the effective use of information systems, specifically in the digital health context. By employing a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, Javad has conducted studies in a wide range of organizational and technological contexts, including healthcare, artificial intelligence, digital health, and social media. His work includes the development of inductive and theory-driven models, contributing to the existing body of knowledge on the effective use of information systems and health informatics research. Passionate about collaboration, Javad seeks to engage with diverse stakeholders, encompassing multidisciplinary researchers, industry professionals, and government partners, to advance research on information resilience and data protection practices. His research endeavors to better understand and address socio-technical challenges within information systems use, including data governance, privacy risks, cybersecurity, data breaches, data protection, misinformation, and responsible use of data.
Research Hub Co Leader (Alliance for Social Impact) of UQ Business School
School of Business
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Professor
School of Business
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Availability:
Not available for supervision
Media expert
I am the Co-Lead for the Alliance for Social Impact Research Hub. The Alliance for Social Impact is a community of UQ Business School researchers focused on organisations with a social purpose. This includes charities, nonprofits, social enterprises, hybrid organisations, and businesses engaged in socially responsible practices.