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[Chia-Yen (Chad) Chiu CV]

Chia-Yen (Chad) Chiu is an Associate Professor in Leadership and the Head of Management Discipline at the UQ Business School. He received 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 focuses on how line managers—the critical bridge between organisational strategy and employees’ daily experiences—can become more productive and resilient. He is particularly interested in leader humility as a developmental resource that enables managers to build stronger teams, foster emerging leadership, and sustain organisational performance over time. Before joining UQ, he held academic positions at the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide, where he received multiple research and teaching awards in recognition of his scholarly contributions and classroom excellence. He has attracted multiple competitive international and domestic grants to support research on leadership development in Australia.

His research has been published in leading journals in management and organisational studies (FT50/ABDC A*; with 3% - 5% acceptance rate), 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 serves as an Associate Editor at Human Relations (2022~) and a Guest Editor at the Journal of Management Scientific Reports (2025). Additionally, he is current on the Editoriall Board of Personnel Psychology (2025~) and was on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Organizational Behavior (2018 ~ 2025) and the Journal of Management (2019 ~ 2025), and has received outstanding reviewer awards from the Journal of Organizational Behavior (2023), Journal of Management (2023), and Journal of Management and Organization (2024). He also teaches various courses related to leadership and people management in organisations at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. His leadership-relevant courses (for undergraduate and MBA students) are among the top-rated courses in various Australian and US universities.

Selected Honours and Awards:

• Adelaide Business School Excellence in Research Award, University of Adelaide, 2023
• Adelaide Business School Excellence in Research Leadership Award, University of Adelaide, 2023
• UniSA Business Research Excellence, University of South Australia, 2021
• UniSA Business Teaching Excellence, University of South Australia, 2020, 2021
• UniSA Business Mid-Career Research Excellence Award, University of South Australia, 2020
• UniSA Business School Early-Career Research Excellence, University of South Australia, 2017
• Early Career Researcher Networking Awards, University of South Australia, 2017
• PhD Student Award, School of Management, University at Buffalo, 2013

Research Grants, Funding, and Scholarships:

• ABLE Research Innovator Grant, University of Adelaide, 2024 (AUD 4,763)
• ABLE Research Innovator Grant, University of Adelaide, 2023 (AUD 4,796)
• RNUDS 2020 Scheme – DSTG Grant, 2021-2022 (AUD $249,702; shared with Ruchi Sinha, Gillian Yeo, Bart De Jong, and Andrew Yu)
• UniSA Research Themes Investment Scheme (RTIS) Seed Fund, 2019 (AUD $38,500; Primary Investigator; shared with Michelle Tuckey, Carol Kulik, and Matylda Howard)
• The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) funding, 2019 (GBP £8,000)
• Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation (DAAD) Scheme Grant (No. 57379159), 2017 (AUD $30,500; Primary Investigator; shared with Brooke Gazdag and Jill Gould).
• Research Fellowship, Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness, University of Buffalo, 2014-2015 (USD $50,000)
• Research Fellowship, Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University, 2013-2015 (USD $50,000)
• Chung Hwa Rotary Scholarship, Taiwan, 2004 (NTD $ 120,000)

Professor Yeoungjee Cho is a consultant nephrologist from Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. She is a current Deputy Co-Chair of executive operations secretariat of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network. She is an elected member of Council for International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, and is Chair of ISPD International Studies Committee. She has published >190 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.

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 final stage 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, Mater Hospital, and Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH). He is dual advanced training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 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), student course representative at University of Leeds, bi-national trainee representative of RANZCP Emergency Department Steering Group (EDSG) and RANZCP Section of Psychiatry of Intellectual and Developmental Disability (SPIDD).

He is also undertaking further training with The Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) to pursue associate fellowship, whilst completing his Masters in Biomedical and Healthcare Ethics at University of Leeds with part scholarship awarded by IDEA: The Ethics Centre.

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 Divya Chopra is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology working in nanotechnology, biomaterials, and biosensing. Her research focuses on developing nano-engineered biomedical platforms for improved disease detection, antibacterial therapies, and implant technologies.

Her work combines bacterial extracellular vesicle (BEV) biology, Raman/SERS biosensing, plasmonic chip technologies, and nano-engineered biomaterials. She is particularly interested in developing sensitive diagnostic approaches using extracellular vesicles and advanced nanostructured sensing platforms.

Dr Chopra completed her PhD at The University of Queensland, where she developed bioactive and antibacterial nano-engineered zirconia and titanium implant surfaces for dental applications. Her research integrates nanofabrication, electrochemical anodization, surface engineering, spectroscopy, and biointerface analysis.

She has published in leading journals including Advanced Functional Materials, Bioactive Materials, Chemical Engineering Journal, and Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and has received several national and international research awards and competitive grants.

Dr Sakshi Chopra is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and early career researcher at the Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland, specialising in frailty, chronic disease prevention and digital models of care. She has an established research track record with 27 publications in Q1 journals, reflecting her strong and rapidly growing academic trajectory. Dr Chopra is currently co‑designing the ‘Focus on Frailty’ digital education platform, a comprehensive program featuring 12 lessons that support healthcare professionals in delivering best‑practice frailty prevention and management in hospital settings. She has also collaborated with stakeholders from 35 universities across Australia to develop the national consensus statements for frailty prevention and management in community‑dwelling older adults. Her recent funding supports consumer‑led research exploring older people’s experiences of emergency care. Dr Chopra also contributes to research capacity building as co‑supervisor of three PhD students working across hospital and community frailty care.

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.

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, Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Financial Stability, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Business Research, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Accounting Literature, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Global Finance Journal, Accounting and Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, Australian Journal of Management, and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting (JFRA). He is an editorial board member of the Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting (JIFMA). Previously, he served as an associate editor of the Accounting Research Journal (ARJ).

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.

Dr Yunil Chu is a highly experienced offshore engineer and researcher with extensive expertise across both industry and academia. Before transitioning into academia, he spent a decade in ship and offshore newbuilding, successfully delivering more than 20 projects and gaining deep insight into industry requirements, challenges, and expectations. Since earning his PhD from the University of Queensland in 2021, Dr Chu has focused his research on advancing offshore farming systems for renewable energy and aquaculture, validating concepts through cutting-edge numerical modelling and experimental testing in collaboration with industry leaders and the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre. He also holds a key leadership role as the primary organiser and session chair of the Blue Economy Symposium at the International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering (OMAE), where he has overseen more than 50 paper submissions and engaged with over 1,000 participants annually.

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.