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Katherine Cullerton is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health. She joined the School in 2018 following postdoctoral research at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK, where her work explored the question of whether, and under what circumstances, it is appropriate for nutrition researchers to engage with the food industry. Katherine’s current research focuses on understanding why evidence does not consistently inform public policy. In particular, she examines the strategies employed by the corporate sector to influence policy and investigates how public health advocates can more effectively shape policy outcomes in Australia, with a special emphasis on the roles of framing and public opinion.

A/Prof Cullerton is also the academic lead for external engagement for the School of Public Health.

Shane Culpepper is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Queensland in St. Lucia, Australia. Before joining the University of Queensland in 2023, Professor Culpepper held a continuing academic position at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne in 2008. His research focuses primarily on building better Search and Recommendation Systems and is primarily interested how to responsibly integrate efficient and scalable generative AI models for search, recommendation, and question answering. Professor Culpepper’s work has applications in a number of downstream applications for Legal, Health, real estate speculation. He has been instrumental in founding the AI Research Network and the Research Center for Enterprise AI at the University of Queensland.

Over his 17 year career, Professor Culpepper has supervised 19 PhD students and co-authored more than 140 peer reviewed papers with 132 different research collaborators on problems that range from core basic research, such as algorithm efficiency and scalability, to practical real world problems on building and deploying new machine learning algorithms for search and recommendation systems. While often technical, his work is always user-driven as humans are the main consumers of this technology. This user-centric research focus has led to several papers on controlled user studies which guide the development of better evaluation techniques which model human behaviour. In the last 5 years, Professor Culpepper has been a program co-chair for international conferences such as SIGIR and CIKM, and co-organized conferences such as WSDM and SWIRL. Professor Culpepper previously held an ARC DECRA fellowship in 2013 as well as an RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Principal Researcher fellowship in 2017. Before joining the University of Queensland. Professor Culpepper was the founding director of the Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics at RMIT University. In total, he has been a chief investigator on 11 research grants totalling ~$3.8 Million AUD.

My research focuses on Action and Attention in the human brain, examining neural activity underlying the preparation for voluntary movement and the recognition of others' actions

I am a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the School of Psychology, University of Queensland. My major research interests include understanding the brain processes involved in attention and the preparation and readiness for voluntary action, the "mirror neuron" system and how we perceive and understand the actions of others.

Associate Professor in International Relations. Her research and teaching interests include Southeast Asian politics and international relations, Cambodian politics and post-conflict reconstruction, and non-traditional security in East Asia (including trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling, pandemic disease and child protection issues). Dr. Curley co-facilitated the UQ Working Group on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in the T.C Bernie School of Law (http://www.law.uq.edu.au/humantrafficking) from 2012-2016. She has published in internationally peer reviewed journals including: Review of International Studies, The Journal of Law and Society, Australian Journal of Human Rights, and Australian Journal of International Affairs, amongst others. Her most recent book is Migration and Security in Asia (Routledge 2008) with S.L. Wong. Before joining the School in January 2006, Dr. Curley was a researcher in the China-ASEAN project at the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, where she also coordinated a consultancy project on Southeast Asian affairs for the Hong Kong Government's Central Policy Unit. She holds a Ph.D in International Relations from Nottingham Trent University in the UK, and BA(Hons) in Government from UQ.

In 2015, Dr Curley joined the Executive Advisory Board of Bravehearts, an Australian not-for profit organisation that aims to educate, empower and protect Australian children from sexual assault, and in 2016 was made a Paul Harris Fellow, in recognition of her services to The Rotary Foundation. In 2020 she gained Fellowship status with the Higher Education Academy (UK).

Matthew Curry is a sociologist whose research focuses primarily on inequalities, stratification, and mobility in labor markets, education, and social disadvantage. His research uses Australian population-level administrative data and longitudinal surveys in the United States and Australia to study the interrelations between family and socioeconomic background, education, and labor market outcomes. He is also involved in work seeking to improve social science research infrastructure in Australia, in collaboration with the Australian Research Data Commons. Another strain of research applies a stratification and mobility lens to ethnic self-identification, investigating intra- and inter-generational 'mobility' in self-identification responses over time. His work has been published in European Sociological Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Science Research, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. At ISSR, he has also contributed to projects related to equity in employment, education, and social disadvantage more broadly in partnership with the Paul Ramsay Foundation, Health and Wellebing Queensland, the NSW Department of Education, Mission Australia, and others.

Prior to joining ISSR, he was the Rondald Henderson Research Fellow, a position jointly appointed by the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne and the Research and Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence, a large non-profit organisation based in Melbourne. He received his PhD in sociology from UCLA in 2016.

Dr Caitlin Curtis is a research specialising in responsible AI, applied ethics, and emerging technologies. She leads national collaborations on AI governance and digital rights, shapes public policy and discourse, and created one of Australia’s first Responsible AI university courses.

Dr Curtis is a recipient of the 'ABC Top 5 Scientist Media Residency Award', and the Australian Institute of Science & Policy Tall Poppy Science Award', recognizing excellence in both research and science communication.

Teaching

• Caitlin currently teaches the UQ Master of Business Analytics course: Responsible Artificial Intelligence - which looks at the ethical, legal, and social issues relating to AI and automated systems.
• She also lectures into Responsible Management for the Global Economy, particularly around the ethical and responsible management of artificial intelligence and similar technologies.

She also coordinates and moderates the UQ AI Collaboratory's 'Ask Me Anything about AI' series, which is a unique forum that brings together panellists with technical expertise in artificial intelligence, along with experts from across social science, communication, policy, or law to answer audience questions and spark multidisciplinary discussion around important topics relating to AI systems, including: AI social media predictions, facial recognition systems, misinformation and AI, and deep learning.

Robert is a Research Fellow who joined the RECOVER Injury Research Centre in 2024. He is part of the Technology-enabled rehabilitation team, which focuses on developing more effective and efficient health services supported by technology innovation.

Robert's previous research revolved around the application of Virtual Reality (VR) for burn injury rehabilitation. Using collaborative design with burn survivors and healthcare professionals, he has developed functional VR rehabilitation prototypes tailored for burn injuries.

Robert's research interests include the application of serious games in healthcare settings.

Marie-Pierre Cyr is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland. She is a member of the research team led by Professor Paul W. Hodges. Marie-Pierre's current research projects focus on chronic pelvic pain, men's health, and innovative assessment tools to further understand the neurophysiological and biomechanical mechanisms involved in musculoskeletal conditions. She received the Banting Fellowship (discipline Muscle, Bone, or Joint) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, which is Canada's most prestigious postdoctoral award.

Marie-Pierre is a physiotherapist with certification in pelvic health practice from the Université de Montréal (Quebec, Canada). She has done clinical work in the fields of musculoskeletal and pelvic health. She is an early career researcher who completed her MSc and PhD at the School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada). She received three fellowships from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé to conduct a series of research projects. She led research to improve assessment and treatment of women who developed pain during sexual intercourse following gynecological cancer. She applied quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a multimodal pelvic floor physiotherapy treatment in gynecological cancer survivors with dyspareunia, and to explore the changes in pain, pelvic floor disorder symptoms as well as psychosexual and physical (muscle function) outcomes following treatment. Marie-Pierre received prestigious Excellence and Engagement awards. She was on the Dean’s List four times, she received the Dean's Award and the Jean-Pierre-Caillé Award. Her leadership in innovative activities to disseminate the knowledge to the population was awarded three times by Forces AVENIR, a Canadian non-profit organization that aims to recognize, honour and promote the commitment of young people in projects that contribute to the development of socially conscious, active and responsible citizens who are both dedicated to their community and open to the world.

political philosophy, methodology of science, the disciplines

Fred D'Agostino was educated at Amherst College (BA, 1968), Princeton University (MA, 1973), and the London School of Economics (PhD, 1978). He was Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Australian National University from 1978 to 1984, and worked at the University of New England from 1984 to 2004, where he was Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Dean of Arts, Head of the School of Social Science, and Member of the University Council. He is now Professor Emeritus of Humanities and was President of the Academic Board and Executive Dean of Arts at The University of Queensland. He has edited the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and PPE: Politics, Philosophy and Economics and has published four books--Chomsky's System of Ideas (Clarendon Press, 1986), Free Public Reason (OUP, 1996), Incommensurability and Commensuration (Ashgate, 2003), and Naturalizing Epistemology (Palgrave, 2010). He is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Political and Social Philosophy. His current research is on disciplinarity and complexity. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Caiti D'Gluyas is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Queensland and a researcher in archaeology, cultural heritage and history. In Australia her work examines the impacts and outcomes of British colonisation on people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly encompassing convictism and expressions of capitalism and ideology at different scales, from individuals to landscapes. Caiti has recently also been contributing to research on Bronze Age cultural and environmental change on the Arabian Peninsula in southwest Asia. She is also interested in environmental history, Indigenous experiences of the colonial world, landscape archaeology, historical studies of young people, more-than-human approaches, archaeological archives and data management, archaeological theory and methods, spatial analysis, Georgian period artefacts, and archaeological applications of GIS.

With more than 12 years practical experience on archaeological investigations, Caiti has worked on a variety of archaeological projects across Australia and further afield in the United Arab Emirates and Norfolk Island, in both research and industry settings. She worked for a decade in cultural heritage management and commercial archaeology, bringing key skills in project management, technical report writing and excavation to her current work. She maintains connections to the heritage management sector, in particular, through the synthesis of archaeological legacy projects from across colonial Australia. Caiti has prior experience teaching practical field skills, artefact analysis and introductory archaeology courses and currently teaches ARCS2050 Historical Archaeology and ARCS3118 Managing Cultural Heritage.

Dr. Matthew D'Souza is a Lecturer with the School of ITEE, The University of Queensland. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Visiting Research Scientist with the CSIRO Autonomous Systems Laboratory and the Australian E-Health Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia. His research interests include Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Wireless Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks, Embedded Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Mobile Computing and Cyber Physical Systems.

Sahar Daer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology. Sahar Daer obtained her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University. She also holds a Masters by Research in Water and Environmental Engineering from Masdar Institute (now Khalifa University, UAE) and a Masters in Environment and Sustainability from The University of Western Ontario (Canada).

During her PhD, Sahar investigated the potential development of microbial resistance against frequent exposure to disinfectants within potable water reuse. Sahar also was involved in the optimization and development of novel polymeric membranes for application in forward osmosis for seawater desalination in the United Arab Emirates.

Sahar’s current research interests include polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) removal from contaminated water sources, advanced oxidation processes for water treatment, as well as efficient potable water reuse strategies. Her other research interests include environmental microbiology and water disinfection.