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David Cliff was Professor of Occupational Health and Safety in Mining and Director of MISHC from 2011 to 2016. In January 2017 he was appointed Professor of Risk and Knowledge Transfer, reverting to Professor of Occupational Health and Safety in Mining in 2018. His primary role is providing education, applied research and consulting in health and safety in the mining and minerals processing industry. He has been at MISHC over twenty four years.

Previously David was the Safety and Health Adviser to the Queensland Mining Council, and prior to that Manager of Mining Research at the Safety In Mines Testing and Research Station. In these capacities he has provided expert assistance in the areas of health and safety to the mining industry for over twenty three years. He has particular expertise in emergency preparedness, gas analysis, spontaneous combustion, fires and explosions, including providing expert testimony to the Moura No.2 Warden’s inquiry, the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry and the Pike River Royal Commission. In recent times he has also devoted a lot of energy to fitness for duty issues particularly fatigue management. He has been a member of the organising committee for the level one emergency exercises in Queensland underground coal mines since their inception in 1998 till 2023. He has also attended or provided assistance in over 40 incidents at mines. He has developed expertise in the development of Trigger Action Response Plans, critical controls and principal hazard management plans.

David has also extensive experience in providing training and education in OHS in mining to in many countries.

He has published widely in the area of occupational health and safety in mining including not just the physical hazards but also on the processes for the effective management of these issues. Examples of this include reviews of the annual safety performance report for the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines and assistance to the Mine Safety Advisory Council of NSW in developing Health Management Plans (HMP) and key performance indicators for HMP.

In recent years he has collaborated closely with Nikky LaBranche researching respirable dust particularly coal dust and silica.

Anton is a mixed methods researcher with primary expertise in qualitative research methods. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland.

Anton's primary interest is in working in partnership with Aboriginal community-controlled health services to co-design, implement and evaluate intervention strategies, and develop more practical and effective models of embedding evaluation into their delivery of services and programs. His work in this area focuses on participatory qualitative research with staff and patients of Aboriginal community-controlled health services to improve the acceptability of interventions and optimise their potential effectiveness.

Anton has previously worked in a research role with the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health and as a senior lecturer in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland. Following completion of his PhD in 2008, he was awarded a National Health & Medical Research Council postdoctoral research fellowship which he undertook at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of NSW.

Dr Georgina Clutterbuck is a physiotherapist who is passionate about supporting children with disability to participate in physical recreation and sport. She has worked clinically in government and not-for-profit sectors and in her own private practice and enjoys sharing her real-world experiences with the next generation of physiotherapists to help them develop pragmatic solutions to challenging problems.

Georgina’s research explores the effectiveness of practitioner-led, peer-group sports interventions to support children with disabilities, helping them transition from health-focussed interventions into long-term participation in community sport. She designed and evaluated the Sports Stars intervention for children with cerebral palsy in a Queensland-wide randomised-controlled trial and qualitative follow-up; with the positive results reported in conferences across North America, Europe and Australasia. Her current research explores the effectiveness of practitioner-led, peer-group sports interventions within different cultures and for children with other disabilities.

I received my PhD from The University of Queensland in 2014 where I studied axonal regeneration and degeneration in the laboratory of Professor Massimo Hilliard at the Queensland Brain Institute. In 2016 I was awarded an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research in Professor Hilliard's lab with the aim of discovering novel genes that regulate axonal degeneration in C. elegans. In 2018 I was awarded a UQ Early Career Researcher Grant and a Young Tall Poppy Science Award. In 2019 I was a visiting scholar in the laboratory of Professor Kang Shen in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, where I studied how mechanosensitive channels regulate dendrite branching through Ca2+ signaling during neuronal development. In 2022 I was awarded an NHMRC Ideas Grant and was recruited to the School of Biomedical Sciences at UQ as a Group Leader. My lab focuses on understanding the cellular mechanisms that protect the nervous system from damage.

Bernadette Cochrane joined UQ in 2014 as a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance in the School of Communication and Arts. She has taught on historical and contemporary drama, dramaturgical theory and performance-making. Her current teaching responsiblities include particular reference to European theatre of the twentieth-century, and directing and dramaturgy. Bernadette, as part of the UQ Drama team, was received the 2018 Award for Programs that Enhance Learning for the "UQ Drama: Building Pathways to Creative Careers" project. In 2016, again as part of the UQ Drama team, she received a Commendation for Teaching Excellence, Prior to joining UQ, Bernadette was a freelance arts worker with a particular focus on directing and dramaturgy. Bernadette completed her dramaturgical PhD at the University of Queensland in 2013.

Her co-edited anthology New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice was published by Methuen in 2014. She is a major contributor to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors and Directing, edited by Maria Delgado and Simon Williams. Bernadette is a member of the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research. She is also a Board Member for the Migrant Dramaturgies Network - the international research network developed in partnership with New Tides Platform (UK) and the Centre for Theatre Research at the University of Lisbon, Portugal - which explores emerging dramaturgies of theatrical responses to migration in light of recent migration and shifts in global politics and economics. Bernadette is currently researching the intersection of live performance, cinema, institutional dramaturgies, and cultural production; and contemporary theatrical representations of Otherness.

Bernadette is unavailable for new supervisions.

Antoinette Cole is a Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures (ARC-IFC), based in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. She has maternal bloodlines to the Torres Strait with connections to Boigu Island and Erub (Darnley Island). Antoinette’s research area is in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, and school leadership. Her research explores the role of culturally responsive pedagogical practices in school leadership.

Prior to undertaking her research, Antoinette has over 25 years in the field of education in various leadership positions. She is passionate about working with educators to explore dispositions and build capabilities using strengths-based approaches and critical self-reflection. Antoinette has led many projects specifically focused on partnership and engagement across a range of contexts, including boarding contexts.

Antoinette is a recipient of the School of Education’s Carolyn D. Baker Award (2024), the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HDR Award for Excellence in Education Research (2024), the Grassie and Bassett Prize in Educational Administration (2023), and the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Postgraduate Student Award (2023).

Dr Emma Cole is an award-winning scholar and Director of the Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing. A dramaturg, classicist, and a theatre and performance studies scholar, Emma works across industry and academia, with particular expertise in the performance of Greek tragedy in contemporary theatre. She has received funding from the Australian Research Council for her work on tragedy and translation, and from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK for her work with British theatre company Punchdrunk. Her monograph Punchdrunk on the Classics showcased the research emerging from her work with Punchdrunk and won the 2024 ADSA Rob Jordan Prize for best book. Her work with Punchdrunk was profiled in the New York Times here. She is currently working on her own translations of Euripides' final trilogy (Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Alcmaeon in Corinth) and a Beckett-inspired methodology for translating tragic fragments for performance.

Emma's research interests lie primarily in translation and adaptation studies, particularly regarding the translation and adaptation of Greek tragedy in contemporary theatre, and in immersive and experimental forms of theatre. Her other publications include the edited collection Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity (2025), a student edition of Women of Troy (2024), a co-edited special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on the director Simon Stone, the book Postdramatic Tragedies (OUP, 2019), and the co-edited collection Adapting Translation for the Stage (with Geraldine Brodie, for Routledge's Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies series, shortlisted for the 2019 TaPRA prize for editing), as well as articles and chapters on Punchdrunk, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, and Katie Mitchell. Her pieces for a general audience have appeared in popular publications including The Theatre Times, The Conversation, and Exeunt Magazine. Dictionary and encyclopedia entries include the 'drama, reception of' entry for the Oxford Classical Dictionary, and 'Ancient Greek Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century' in the Methuen Drama Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre (forthcoming).

Emma is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Historical Society, a UQ Ally and a friend of the Reconcilliation Action Network. She joined the University of Queensland in 2023. Prior to this, she worked at the University of Bristol.

Dr Laetitia Coles is a health sociologist whose research focuses on improving health and developmental outcomes for children with disability by embedding lived experience into research design, policy, and practice. Her work spans sociology, education, and health, with a strong emphasis on early childhood inclusion, family wellbeing, and workforce development.

Laetitia leads transdisciplinary research projects that centre the voices of children, families, and educators. She leads the Workforces component of the Thriving Queensland Kids Brain Builders Initiative (https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-builders) in support of the generation, translation, and application of knowledge from neurosciences into policy and practice, as well as leading the award-winning project entitled Families in Focus: Amplifying the voices of children with disability and their families (https://child-health-research.centre.uq.edu.au/event/5632/families-focus), in collaboration with Queensland Children's Hospital.

She was recently awarded a HERA Collaborate grant for the project Early childhood inclusion in focus, which co-develops tools and priorities to support inclusive early childhood education and care (ECEC). She is also the Workforces Lead for the $3 million Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership – Brain Builders Initiative.

With over $3.5 million in research funding and a portfolio of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and policy reports, Laetitia’s work has informed strategic planning at Children’s Health Queensland and contributed to national policy evaluations. She sits on the Foundational Supports 0–9 Working Group (Autism Queensland) and serves on editorial boards for Health Sociology Review and Community, Work and Family.

Laetitia welcomes collaboration with researchers, policymakers, and community organisations committed to inclusive, impact-driven research.

Andrew is a trained paediatric respiratory and sleep scientist working at the Queensland Children's Hospital. He has recently completed his PhD looking at (1) the effect of early childhood respiratory infection on lifelong lung function, (2) lung function as a future predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and all-cause mortality, (3) the effect specialist paediatric and adult respiratory outreach services are having on the lung function of children and adults seen and treated, and (4) which spirometry reference equation is most appropriate for use in Australian First Nations children and adults, and (5) has developed moving age-for-height fractional exhaled nitirc oxide (FeNO) reference values for use Australian First Nations childen and adults to faciliate better interpretation of FeNO test results. His current research is focused around improving paediatriac sleep disordered breathing diagnosis and monitoring using technologies such as novel devices and artificial intelligence, particularly in children with neurodisability.