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I am an Honorary Senior Researcher with the Parenting and Family Support Centre at UQ, and a Senior Lecturer at Central Queensland University. I also work as a Senior Research Fellow in the Indigenous Engagement Division at CQUniversity.

Professor Loc Do is a dentist and an oral epidemiologist with special interest in social and clinical oral epidemiology. He completed his PhD in Oral Epidemiology at the University of Adelaide. He was a lead investigator in the National Child Oral Health Study 2012-14 and the National Study of Adult Oral Health 2017-19.

Loc is currently Director of Research at the School of Dentistry, University of Queensland.

Research funding: Currently, he is the Chief Investigator A of five major NHMRC- and MRFF-funded research projects: a population-based birth cohort study investigating impact of socioeconomic inequality on child oral health, a longitudinal study investigating effect of early life exposure to fluoride, a study to investigate effectiveness of water fluoridation in Queensland, a study to develop and implement a package to improve oral health in residents of Aged Care Facilities in Queensland and NSW, and a study to develop and implement an intervention package to improve oral health of young people with intellectual disabilities.

Qualifications: BDS, MScDent, PhD

Research Interests: Oral epidemiological measurement of dental diseases. Quantitative analysis of oral epidemiological data including multilevel analysis. Risk and benefit trade-off in the use of fluorides in children. Natural history of dental fluorosis. Socio-economic inequality in oral health. Oral health-related quality of life. Smoking as a risk factor for periodontal diseases. Effectiveness and safety of water fluoridation in children. Complex systems science in dental research.

Awards and Honours: In 2025, Loc is the recipient of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Distinguished Scientist John Greenspan Global Oral Health Research Award. In 2022, Loc is the recipient of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Distinguished Scientist H Trendley Dean Award 2022. In 2023, his paper in Journal of Dental Research was awarded the IADR Abrey Sheiham Award for Distringuished Research in Dental Public Health.

Dr Truc (Peter) Do joined UQ Business School after having graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also been a visiting scholar at London Business School. His primary research lies in financial accounting domain. His is particularly interested in examining how cultural norms and peer interaction affect corporate outcomes, especially corporate information flow. He is also interested in examining the importance of business sustainability and employee welfare. He has published in UTD-24, FT-50, ABDC A* and A journals, including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Research Policy and Accounting & Finance. He is an Associate Editor for Accounting Research Journal and also an editorial board member of Accounting and Finance academic journal. He has also been regularly invited to serve as referees for Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, British Accounting Review, Accounting & Finance, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Abacus, Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Accounting and Business Research, Australian Accounting Review (on behalf of CPA Australia), Pacific Accounting Review (where he was recognised with Outstanding Reviewer Award), etc. His research works have also been featured at many conferences around the world, including American Accounting Association (AAA) Conference, European Accounting Association (EAA) Congress, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, MIT Accounting Conference, Japanese Accounting Review Conference, Financial Research Network (FIRN) Conference, Vietnam International Conference in Finance and Chinese Accounting Professors' Association of North America (CAPANA) Conference. His research has also received media mention in the FinReg Blog (run by Duke University). He has been awarded various research grants by AFAANZ (Developing Researcher Grant) and CPA (Global Perspectives Research Programme). He is also the winner of the AFAANZ section of the InSPiR2eS Global Pitching Research Competition (IGPRC) (2021). He has been awarded Researcher Excellence Award (Early Career) and Excellence in Developing the Accounting Discipline by UQ Business School in 2022. He teaches Financial Accounting at the undegraduate and postgraduate levels. He is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) of Australia and a Chartered Accountant (CA) of Singapore.

Dr Chelsea Dobbins is an Associate Professor within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at The University of Queensland. Before relocating to Australia, Dr Dobbins was a full-time continuing Senior Lecturer within the Department of Computer Science at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in the UK (2013-2018). She has a background in Software Engineering and expertise in Digital Signal Processing, Applied Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction. Her research focuses on the detection of emotion using smartphones/wearable sensors and personal informatics. This includes areas such as lifelogging, affective computing, pervasive computing, digital health, human computer interaction, machine learning, mobile computing, mobile/wearable sensors, human digital memories, signal processing, and physiological computing. Her research has been supported by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for work related to developing a mobile lifelogging platform to detect negative emotions during real-life driving. In 2016 she received an ACM Computing Review Notable Article award for work related to mining multivariate temporal smart mobile data.

Professor Annette Dobson's research interests are in: Biostatistics (generalised linear modelling, clinical biostatistics, statistical methods relevant to longitudinal studies), and Epidemiology (tobacco control, cardiovascular disease, women's health).

My field of expertise is communication, cultural and media studies. My work investigates how media, science, and culture intersect – especially in relation to the nonhuman, the environment, and the limits of human-centred ("anthropocentric") thinking.

Some of my major research interests include:

Science media & natural history media: how media represent nonhuman life forms (especially insects), and how those representations shape human understanding of the natural world.

Insect-human relations, history of entomology: exploring cultural, historical, and aesthetic dimensions of insects and how they are understood and "anthropomorphised" (i.e., portrayed with human qualities)

Anthropocentrism, anthropomorphism, the nonhuman and more-than-human: critiquing human-centred ways of seeing, exploring how elusive and unusual nonhuman actors and entities (such as very small animals and UFOs) are constructed in media and cultural histories.

Ignorance, UFOs, and scientific controversy: e.g. how UFOs are marginalized by scientific discourse, how ignorance is socially constructed, how media and public culture deal with phenomena at the margins of accepted science.

My published works include the book, Beetle (2016), which traces the natural and cultural history of beetles.

Overall, I combine cultural history, media studies, and environmental humanities to question how humans perceive, represent, and often privilege themselves relative to non-humans, drawing on historical, phenomenological, and philosophical tools.

Skye Doherty is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at UQ. She is an expert in using creative and design-led research methods to explore alternative futures and address wicked problems. Her work has responded to issues in the news media, law, disaster resilience, and energy and water security, among others, and has led to both conceptual and practical outcomes.

Her design artefacts include the NewsCube, an award-winning storytelling tool, Vim, a tangible energy story, a suite of concepts for community-led bushfire management, and Wicked Thinking, an independent magazine. She has developed frameworks for journalism innovation and used codesign methods to improve the experiences of injured workers, a project that led to legislative change.

Her current and recent projects include the GEF-funded Coral Reef Rescue project and the ARC Training Centre for Climate-Resilient Water. She is the current Treasurer of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and is a member of UQ’s Human-Centred Computing research group in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Previously, she led the Global Change Scholars Program in the UQ Graduate School – a year-long PhD experience focused on industry research collaboration and impact.

She came to academic research after an international career as a journalist, and her experience spans leading international media companies as well as startups.

Dr Tom Doig is a creative nonfiction author, investigative journalist and scholar. Tom was the recipient of the 2023 CLNZ-NZSA Writer's Award for his work on prepper subcultures in Aotearoa New Zealand. He has written two books about the unprecedented 2014 Hazelwood mine fire disaster: Hazelwood (Penguin Random House, 2020) and The Coal Face (Penguin Books Australia, 2015). Hazelwood was a finalist for the 2020 Walkley Book Award, Journalism and the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards, Best True Crime and Highly Commended in the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Non-Fiction. The Coal Face was joint winner of the 2015 Oral History Victoria Education Innovation Award. Dr Doig has also written a humorous travel memoir, Mörön to Mörön: Two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure (Allen & Unwin, 2013). He is the contributing editor of the interdisciplinary collection Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books, 2020).

Dr Doig teaches creative nonfiction and poetry.

As a scholar, Dr Doig is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the accelerating climate crisis, with a focus on the cultural, social and psychological aspects of climate breakdown. He is currently researching a new book: We Are All Preppers Now (forthcoming with Scribe Publications), documenting survivalists, doomsday preppers, climate activists and other subcultures of imminent collapse around the world.

Emmah is an experienced occupational therapist and researcher in the field of brain injury rehabilitation. Emmah's PhD, completed in 2010, compared the effectiveness of an outpatient brain injury rehabilitation program in home and hospital settings.

Research Interests

Emmah has conducted collaborative research in the field of neurorehabilitation, partnering with consumers and clinicians to develop and trial rehabilitation approaches to enhance person-centred care, goal setting and cognitive rehabilitation. Other research interest areas include metacognitive and occupation-based treatment approaches, the use of technology in rehabilitation, outcome measurement, and community-based rehabilitation.

Research Expertise

Emmah has conducted research using quantitative and qualitative methodologies including randomised controlled trials and single case experimental design. Emmah has an interest in knowledge translation, has conducted implementation research using a range of implementation frameworks, and codesigned with end-users including consumers and clinicians.

Sara and her research group, the Low Harm Hedonism Initiative, develop theories of environmentally significant human behaviour and leverage them to design practical measures that trigger pro-environmental behaviour without undermining consumer satisfaction. These new behavoiur change interventions are then tested in real-world contexts, so their effectiveness on actual behaviour change with environmental consequences can be established. Sara’s research is driven by scholarly curiosity and the desire to create meaningful change. Sara is a dedicated supervisor and mentor of early career researchers.

Maria is a Principal Research Fellow with the Primary Care Clinical Unit and Associate Professor Research Strategy affiliated with the Centre for Health System Reform and Integration (CHSRI). Her research uses a collaborative framework to investigate scalable and transformative primary health care interventions to improve patient health outcomes.

Maria has over twenty-five years’ experience in evaluating health innovations and health services research. She is an experienced implementation scientist with a strong background in primary care research, and skilled in operationalising pragmatic RCTs in general practice. She has an emerging track record researching long-term antidepressant prescribing in general practice with two successful research grants commencing in 2022 (CIB in collaboration with CIA Professor Katharine Wallis) https://medical-school.uq.edu.au/release:

• NHMRC Partnership Project. RELEASE+: REdressing Long-tErm Antidepressant uSE in general practice (2022-2027)
• Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) 2020 Clinician Researchers: Applied Research in Health. RELEASE: REdressing Long-tErm Antidepressant uSE in adults. A cluster RCT effectiveness-implementation hybrid type 1 design in general practice. (2022-2025)

She is a highly experienced mixed methods researcher whose academic career has involved public health research, health psychology, primary care, mental health, integrated GP-specialist care, chronic disease prevention and management, and sexual health. Prior to taking up her current positions, between 2012 and 2018, she was Senior Research Fellow with UQs NHMRC CRE in Quality & Safety in Integrated Primary-Secondary Care where she directed the evaluation (RCT of effectiveness, cost-analysis, and implementation) of a GP-based primary-secondary integrated model of care (the ‘Beacon model). Before that she was teaching and researching with The University of Queensland’s School of Public Health where she was a Senior Lecturer between 2006 and 2012. She also spent seven years in teaching and research at The University of Queensland’s Centre for Primary Health Care and five years before that as a researcher with the National Centre for HIV Social Research.

I am an electrochemist and materials scientist focused on designing advanced catalysts and electrolyte systems for sustainable energy storage and conversion. My research integrates operando spectroscopy, electrochemical engineering, and data-driven analysis to understand and control reactions at the solid–liquid interface.

My work aims to improve the efficiency, stability, and manufacturability of redox flow batteries and related electrochemical technologies that enable large-scale integration of renewable energy. By combining fundamental mechanistic studies with practical system development, I seek to bridge the gap between laboratory discovery and industrial deployment.

Research Keywords

• Electrocatalysis

• Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs)

• Electrolyte design and stability

• Operando / in situ spectroscopy (XAS, WAXS, IR)

• Reaction mechanisms at electrified interfaces

• Sustainable energy storage materials

• Electrochemical process optimisation

• Structure–property–performance relationships

My interdisciplinary approach connects materials chemistry, electrochemical engineering, and advanced characterization to develop monitorable and scalable electrochemical systems. This work supports the transition to reliable, long-duration energy storage solutions for renewable-powered grids.

I welcome collaboration with researchers and industry partners interested in electrochemical technologies, advanced diagnostics, and translation of fundamental insights into practical energy systems.

Dr. Naipeng Dong is an expert in automatic formal verification of security and privacy in cryptographic protocols, Android applications and blockchain systems.

She has developed efficient automatic formal verification techniques with a focus on attacker reasoning and analysis on cryptogrpahic protocols, developed algorithms to verify fault-tolerance of systems with dishonest participants, and analysed systems in e-auction, e-health, Single-Sign-on authentication, and blockchain consensus.

Professor Denise Doolan is Director of Research at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. She joined IMB in 2022 and was previously Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, and Director of the JCU Centre for Molecular Therapeutics, at James Cook University.

She is a molecular immunologist, working on the development of vaccines, diagnostics and host-directed therapeutics for infectious and chronic diseases that impact global public health, with a particular focus on malaria. Her cross-disciplinary research program spans host-pathogen immunity, antigen discovery, vaccine engineering, and biomarker discovery. A particular interest is the application of state-of-the-art genome-based technologies and human models of disease system to identify novel targets for intervention against disease or that predict risk of disease.

She is a recognized world expert in malaria immunology, vaccinology, and omic-based approaches for therapeutic and diagnostic development. She has been honoured as a Fellow of the International Society for Vaccines (2017) and a Fellow of the Australian Society of Parasitology (2019) in recognition of her leadership and contribution to health and medical science in Australia and internationally.

Professor Doolan serves on a number of Executive Boards and Advisory Boards. Most recently, she has been elected as President of the International Society for Vaccines (2021-2023), and has been appointed to the Federal Government’s Australian Medical Research Advisory Board (AMRAB; 2021-2026) to provide specialist insights into Australia’s medical research and innovation priorities.