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Dr Monica Chien has multidisciplinary training in marketing, psychology and tourism, and has an extensive background in hospitality. She has won multiple awards for her teaching and research, and has been invited as a visiting scholar to universities in Japan.

Dr Chien’s scholarly interest and expertise lie in the field of Consumer Behaviour, and she is an active researcher in the associated fields of traveller behaviour, sports fan behaviour, resident study, branding and marketing communications with demonstrated research impact on industry, government and policy both within Australia and internationally. She has particular expertise and interest in experimental studies, and has published in leading international marketing and tourism journals.

Dr Chien has conducted research and consultancy with industry and government, leading several international and national projects. She is currently investigating how sport scandals affect sponsoring brands and stakeholders in sport. Her recent projects also examine the nexus between international education and tourism, as well as residents’ response to tourism and mega-event development.

Dr. Childs has taught into several courses in GPEM/SEES and has been involved with research projects in the Queensland Centre for Population Research and on slum upgrading in Southeast Asia. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Geography at QUT where she directed the Geography program and taught in Human, Australian and Asia-Pacific Geography and Environmental Hazards. During 2010 she was Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Resources at QUT. Dr. Childs previously held teaching and research positions in the former Dept. of Geography at UQ, the East-West Center in Hawaii. She holds a Masters degree in Japanese language and has lived and worked in Japan for several years. She volunteers with the Australian Red Cross in Queensland and over the past few years has been deployed with Red Cross to assist in evacuation centres in several parts of Queensland during cylcone and flood emergencies.

Chad Chiu receives his PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. As a behavioural scientist specialising in leadership and organisational behaviour, his research examines how leadership can be transformed from an individual role into an organisational capacity—a capability that is shared, sustained, and supported across different levels of the organisation. Central to this work is his interest in leader humility, a developmental resource that helps formal leaders nurture emerging leadership in others. Rather than focusing solely on improving individual leaders, He investigates how leadership practices—especially those grounded in humility—can create environments where more people are encouraged and enabled to take on leadership responsibilities, thereby strengthening the organisation’s long-term leadership capacity.

His research has been published in leading journals in the field of management and organisational studies (FT50/ABDC A*), including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at Human Relations and sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior and Journal of Management.

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.

Dr Yoon Kwon Choi is a psychiatry registrar in Brisbane and 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 Psychiatry, and passionate in advocating for our neurodiverse population as well as culturally and linguistically diverse people. He was awarded the Beverely Raphael New Investigator Research Grant in 2024 by The Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).

Outside of clinical work and academia, he sits on multiple leadership and advocacy roles including President of Queensland Psychiatry Trainee Association (QPTA), Queensland's jurisdictional representative for RANZCP Bi-National Committee for Trainees (BCT), bi-national trainee representative of RANZCP Emergency Department Steering Group (EDSG) and RANZCP Section of Psychiatry of Intellectual and Developmental Disability (SPIDD).

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 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 editorial board member of the Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting (JIFMA).

Silvia Chowdhury is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. She received her PhD in Materials Science from AIBN, UQ in May 2025. Prior to that, she earned a Master of Science (by Research) in Mechatronics Engineering from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). Her current research focuses on the design and fabrication of metal-organic frameworks with precisely tailored composition and morphology to optimise their performance in gas sensing and biosensing applications.

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.