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Associate Professor Yeoungjee Cho is a consultant nephrologist from Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. She is a clinical trialist and immediate past Chair of the Peritoneal Dialysis working group of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network. She has published >100 manuscripts in the field of peritoneal dialysis in peer-reviewed journals. She is a member of the steering committee for the Standardised Outcomes in Nephrology – Peritoneal Dialysis (SONG-PD) and a deputy editor-in-chief of Peritoneal Dialysis International. She is a current recipient of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant and Queensland Advancing Clinical Fellowship.

Dr. Ki Young Choi has been a researcher and educator in the field of Korean language, conducting research and teaching at universities in Korea, Thailand, and Australia since 2010. His key research interests include the critical analysis of Korean textbooks. Dr. Choi employs methods such as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Visual Image Analysis (VIA) to examine how ideologies, norms, and cultural values are represented in educational materials. His work significantly contributes to understanding and improving the quality of Korean language education internationally, aligning with broader efforts to promote Korean language and culture globally.

Bobae is an Associate Professor of Accounting with a specialisation in financial accounting and financial analysis. Her research expertise encompasses various areas within accounting, including financial reporting, corporate governance, CEO compensation, corporate social responsibility (CSR)/ESG, and carbon accounting. Bobae’s research focuses on exploring the relationship between corporate financial and non-financial information and firm performance. Her work has been published in several top-tier A/A* journals, such as Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, and British Accounting Review.

In addition to her research publications, Bobae has served as an academic reviewer for various prestigious journals, including the Journal of Business Ethics, European Accounting Review, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Accounting and Finance, Journal of Business, Finance & Accounting, Economic Modelling, and Journal of Business Research. Her role as an academic reviewer highlights her expertise and dedication to maintaining high research standards in the accounting field. She is also a member of the Technical Committee for AFAANZ (Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand) and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Australian Accounting Review.

Bobae is also passionate about teaching and has been coordinating and teaching introductory and intermediate financial accounting courses, as well as financial statement analysis and valuation courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Dr Yoon Kwon Choi is a Psychiatry Registrar in Brisbane and is an Associate Lecturer at The University of Queensland. Dr Choi has worked in various health services including Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Children's Health Queensland, and Mater Hospital. He has particular interest in Child and Youth Mental Health and Consultation Liaison Service, and passionate in advocating for our neurodiverse population as well as culturally and linguistically diverse people.

Dr Hasibul Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Queensland Business School. Dr Chowdhury holds BBA (Finance) and MBA (Banking) from the University of Dhaka, MBA (Finance) from Tulane University, and PhD (Finance) from the University of Queensland. In addition, he obtained the HEA fellowship (FHEA) from Advance HE, UK. His teaching philosophy is to ensure a high-quality learning environment in the classroom for the students by encouraging active learning methods so that students have clarity in their learning experiences.

Dr Chowdhury’s research focuses on corporate finance and executives’ labor market incentives. His research work has been published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, European Accounting Review, British Accounting Review, Journal of Financial Stability, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Business Research, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Global Finance Journal, Accounting and Finance, Australian Journal of Management, and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. He is an Associate Editor of the Accounting Research Journal (ARJ). He is an editorial board member of the Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting (JIFMA).

Pam Christie is Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. She has worked on post-apartheid education policy, as well as on school development and change, leadership, curriculum and pedagogy, and school desegregation. She is currently working on joint research projects on Reconciliation and Pedagogy in Australia and South Africa, and Schooling, Globalisation and Refugees in Queensland. Based in sociology of education, she teaches courses on educational change, globalisation and education, and international education and development. Professor Pam Christie has extensive international links, including a UNESCO Chair in Teacher Education for Diversity and Development.

I am a consumer co-researcher with lived experience of disability, working in the disability advocacy and entrepreneurship space. I have an MBA (Health Services Management & Entrepreneurship), lecture in health services management (KBS) and co-design in health innovation (QUT) and am a social impact founder of disability owned and led ventures including the Women with Disabilities Entrepreneur Network (WDEN), Champion Health Agency, SHH!T Happens and Against the Grain Coffee.

My research aims to elevate the lived experience of health consumers, especially fellow health system 'frequent flyers' - people with chronic illness and disability. Improving how we create consumer researcher career pathways and better partner with the community is of great interest, and improve the holistic experience of people with chronic illness and disability within the healthcare system and beyond. I have engaged as a health consumer and disability advocate on state, national and international stages, committees and projects, and received the QLD Young Achiever of the Year Leadership (2020) and Women in Technology Consumer Strength Champion Award (2023), and health service research and quality improvement excellence awards (2022-3).

Work that I am most proud of includes co-leading the development of a Health Service Co-Design Framework for Metro North Health, freely accessible online - https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/get-involved/co-design

I have a special interest in consumer and community involvement in research and co-design, having coordinated consumer engagement for a range of projects and events, facilitated workshops with diverse stakeholders in research institutes and health services, and first hand experience as a co-design participant and consumer representative.

Robynne has a background in academia and more recently consulting. She started off her career at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa where she held a lecturing position in the Civil Engineering Department. During this time she was involved in research projects including ecohydrology, estuarine and coastal modelling. Robynne has spent the last 5 years in consulting, where she worked as a water resources engineer on a wide array of projects including urban and industrial drainage, creek diversions, water management, erosion and sediment control, mine closure and rehabilitation, green urban development and estuarine modelling. Robynne has a Bsc in Agricultural/Bioresources Engineering, a Msc in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Engineering from UKZN.

I am a primary health care researcher with unique insights into the development of practical solutions for the delivery of general practice and allied health care. My core strengths are pragmatic implementation and evaluation methods, leading advocacy for evidence-based practice and policy change and bringing multidisciplinary teams of researchers and community stakeholders together to perform meaningful, co-developed research partnerships. My interests are multicultural health care equity, primary care systems innovation, pragmatic use of primary care data to improve services and outcomes and strengthening how primary care supports healthier lifestyles.

I prioritise collaborative cross-disciplinary partnerships. Not only do I contribute to impact and knowledge creation at the UQ Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing, I also work at the UQ Centre for Health Services Research and I am an adjunct at the UQ General Practice Clinical Unit. My contributions to the field extend beyond UQ; I am a Research, Collaborations and Audits Manager at a not-for-profit general practice clinic, Inala Primary Care, giving me an invaluable look of what work at the ‘coalface’ is really like and how we should shape our research and innovations to leverage real-world strengths and meet the practical challenges.

I am collaborative and deeply value progress towards greater health care equity for all, especially people from priority populations.

Dr Kai-Hsiang Chuang received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and biomedical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2001. During his graduate study, he developed methods for improving the detection of brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). He undertook postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health, USA, from 2003 to 2007, where he focused on understanding brain connectivity using novel functional and molecular imaging. He developed manganese-enhanced MRI for high-resolution imaging functional neural pathways in the rodent brain and cerebral blood flow imaging for mapping the resting-state network of the human brain. He joined the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, in 2008 as the head of MRI Group in the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (a national research institute). He established the first preclinical imaging facility in Singapore and facilitated research collaboration across academia, clinic and industry. His lab pioneered functional connectivity imaging of the rodent brain to understand the neural basis and function of resting-state brain network, and the development and application of MRI biomarkers for treatment development. In late 2015, he moved to the University of Queensland, Australia, as an Associate Professor with the Queensland Brain Institute and the Centre for Advanced Imaging. His current research focuses on understanding the structure and function of brain network that underlies cognition and behavior, such as learning, memory and dementia. He is developing multimodal techniques, including fMRI, calcium recording, electrophysiology and optogenetic/chemogenetic neuromodulation, to test hypothesis in transgenic mouse models and then translating to humans to improve the diagnosis and intervention of disorders. The imaging and analysis techniques he developed have been widely used in the research community and some in clinical trials. He is serving on the editorial boards of Frontiers in Neuroscience: Brain Imaging Methods, Imaging Neuroscience and Scientific Reports.