Scott Hanna is Principal / Senior Environmental Advisor of Roberschan Environmental based out of Brisbane, Australia, a role he assumed after retiring from a 34 year career with Hatch Ltd. Until his retirement from Hatch, Scott was Director Australia-Asia, and before this, Director North America, for Hatch's Environmental Services Group. As a senior environmental advisor, Scott has been responsible for providing strategic direction and management on projects requiring environmental and social impact assessments; environmental permits, approvals and licenses; sustainable design in development; community stakeholder and indigenous peoples consultation; and climate-change strategies.
Scott is a Senior Environmental Specialist with over 40 years experience in environmental and socioeconomic due diligence assessment, environmental and social impact assessment, natural resource and environmental management, regulatory management, strategic planning, and environmental auditing and training, in the transportation, energy and mining sectors. He has provided senior level environmental advisory services to various levels of government, as well as to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and environmental and regulatory management advice to private sector developers.
Scott has completed environmental assignments in Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Canada, China, Estonia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos PDR, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Zambia. He is a qualified ISO9001 and ISO14001 Lead Auditor, former Chair of the Transportation Association of Canada's (TAC) Environment Council, former member of TAC's Education and Human Resources Development Council, and a former Adjunct Professor in Simon Fraser University's School of Resource and Environmental Management.
He has a bachelor of science degree in biology (ecology) from the University of Victoria (Canada), and a master of natural resource and environmental management degree from Simon Fraser University (Canada). He is also a Registered Professional Biologist (British Columbia), Professional Biologist (Alberta), certified Environmental Professional (Canada), member of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand and a Certified Environmental Practitioner (Impact Assessment Specialist).
Scott joins the University of Queensland as an Adjunct Professor in joint collaboration with the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the School of Business.
Dr Amy Hanna’s research expertise includes functional characterization of skeletal and cardiac muscle, and investigation of the mechanisms underlying muscle function in health and disease. Amy is a Research Fellow in the laboratory of Assoc Prof Nathan Palpant at the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience. Amy obtained her PhD in 2014 at the John Curtin School of Medical Research under the supervision of Assoc Prof Nicole Beard and Professor Angela Dulhunty, investigating mechanisms of anthracycline-mediated cardiotoxicity using a combination of electrophysiology and calcium imaging in isolated cardiomyocytes. In 2014 Amy was awarded the Frank Fenner medal for most outstanding PhD thesis at JCSMR. Following completion of her PhD, Amy relocated to the United States to complete postdoctoral studies with Professor Susan Hamilton at Baylor College of Medicine. At BCM, Amy developed a strong interest in muscle diseases linked to calcium mishandling and protein quality control, including congenital myopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy. Amy has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences, and was co-chair of the 2019 Gordon Research Seminar of Muscle EC Coupling. Amy is currently funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the Australian Functional Genomics Network.
The continuing interest underpinning my research is that of the self-presentation of the non-native speaker, in different genres. This has led me to work on: culturally determined practices; cross-cultural comparisons; and on intercultural behaviour, how this is conceptualized and how, in practice, encounters between different expectations of appropriate behaviour play out.
One focus of my attention has been the proliferation of new intercultural encounters which are made possible by online technologies. In particular, Juliana de Nooy and I undertook a project examining discussion fora on media websites, culminating in our 2009 book. The pedagogical implications of this work, and my own teaching practices have allowed me to develop expertise in language learning and technology which I have extended through other collaborations (e.g. Cowley & Hanna, 2013 on Wikipedia; a forthcoming chapter based on a cross institutional project on AI in languages teaching) research supervisions and publications which derive from it (Gao & Hanna, 2016, on instructional software; work with Khosravi, Gyamfit et al on technology mediated peer-review; and a paper with Aljohani on online oral discussion).
I have also undertaken research on Study Abroad experiences, and particularly looking at the ‘selves’ which testimonials from returnees hold up as exemplary (see Hanna 2016 on food; also Hanna & de Nooy 2003 b; 2006). What, the student reader of these testimonials might ask, will I feel like? How will I change? What counts as successful life as a Study Abroad student? How can I be successful too? In order to tackle these questions, I draw on theories of learner motivation and imaginary or ideal selves. This work influences my current teaching in COMU3060 and COMU3065, Learning from the International Experience, taken by International Studies studies during and after their semester abroad.
This interest in self-presentation underpins a current project on employability and language students (SLC funded project, undertaken with Alicia Toohey; work with Peter Cowley on employability and French).
School of Political Science and International Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Availability:
Available for supervision
Adam is a public policy scholar and teacher, an expert in health policy and recent recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA). He is also the Program Director of the Master of Governance and Public Policy, one of Australia's leading postgraduate qualifications for public servants and policy practitioners.
His research primarily concerns how governments draw on ideas and knowledge and negotiate capacity constraints in the policy process. His recent research has addressed policy responses to health crisis, such vaccine hesitancy and anti-microbial resistance, and the role of ignorance and non-knowledge in generating policy failure, such as regarding the Robodebt scandal. He has published in a range of high-ranking international journals, such as Nature, Public Administration, Policy Sciences and Policy and Society.
Adam's DECRA project is entitled Health workforce crisis: understanding political capacity for policy change, and addresses the political factors that constrain and enable health workforce policymaking in Australia, Canada, England and New Zealand.
Adam is available for PhD supervision and is keen to work with students who are interested in the following topics:
Major issues in health policy, such as workforce shortages, access issues, vaccine hesitancy.
The politics of health policymaking.
The role of ideas and knowledge in health and social/welfare policy.
Policy capacity challenges.
Non-knowledge, ignorance and misinformation in public policy.
School of Political Science and International Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Availability:
Available for supervision
Media expert
Reader in International Relations, Director, Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Background:
Dr Hanson was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford University before she joined the University of Queensland in 1995. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Liu Centre for the Study of Global Issues, Department of International Relations at the University of British Columbia, a Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a Visiting Scholar at Sciences Po in Paris.
Research Interests:
International security - especially from a critical security studies perspective, and focussing on the role of law, institutions and norms in shaping security policies; European security - the role of institutions such as NATO and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); Arms control and disarmament - particularly the debate on the elimination of nuclear weapons and the efforts to delegitimise the use or possession of weapons of mass destruction: human rights - both within Australia and at the global level, and with a strong focus on the creation of legal institutions (such as the International Criminal Court) designed to uphold human rights; humanitarian intervention - the theory and practice of humanitarian interventions and the implications of these for issues such as state sovereignty, human rights and global justice; normative International Relations theory and the role of ethics in world politics - the evolution of a series of norms and other constraints affecting world politics, and which includes an emphasis on concepts such as good international citizenship and human security. The 'English School' of thought in International Relations theory - the theoretical framework most closely associated with Hedley Bull, John Vincent and others focussing on the construction and operation of an 'international society'. Dr Hanson is currently working on a book titled 'Humanitarianism and nuclear weapons: building a global prohibition regime without the great powers' which examines the growth of norms and legal constraints on the possession and use of nuclear weapons.
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Availability:
Available for supervision
Dr Mejbaul Haque is a Senior Engineer (Power System Stability Assessment) with Energy Queensland and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow/Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia. He joined as a UQ Stimulus Research Fellow/Lecturer at the same school in June 2022. Prior to joining University of Queensland, Dr. Haque was a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering at Australian National University (ANU). He led the technical research of Realising Electric Vehicle-to-Grid Services (REVS) project with a total budget of $6.59m at ANU which was funded by Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and ACT Government. Dr Haque started his professional career as a Lecturer in EEE department of KUET, Bangladesh in June 2010 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in September 2013.
Dr Haque received Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master of Engineering (MEng) degrees in Electrical Engineering from CQUniversity Australia in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He received Thesis Academic Excellence Awards in recognition of high-quality research theses and outstanding performance in PhD and MEng research studies at CQUniversity Australia. Previously, he completed B.Sc. degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET) on 19 April 2010 and M.Sc. degree in EEE from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) on 31 October 2013.
His research interests include power electronics and its application to power system networks, smart EV charging and vehicle-to-grid technology, microgrid energy management systems, grid integration of large-scale solar farms and battery energy storage systems, stability analysis of high penetration of grid forming inverters in power systems, power quality and renewable energy technologies. He collaborates with national and international researchers and local industry partners on various research projects. He has published over 40 articles including book chapters, journals, conference papers and technical reports in electrical engineering.
He has served in the committee of IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Engineering (i-COSTE) as a member and industry & local arrangement co-chair in 2020 and 2021, respectively. He has been working as a student activities chair in 7th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (SPEC) 2022. He was elected as a member of IEEE PELS student subcommittee in 2020. He was a recipient of the best paper award in IEEE R10 HTC 2017 and received travel grants in IEEE R10 HTC 2017, IEEE IAS 2019, and IEEE PESGRE 2020 conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Engineers Australia and a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Queensland.
Teaching
His teaching interests includes Power Electronics, Signals and Systems, Fundamental of Energy and Electricity, Power System Analysis, Power System Protection, Electrical Circuits Analysis, Control System Analysis & Design, Integration of Renewable Energy into Power Systems and Microgrids, Grid Integration of Renewable and Storage Technologies and EV Charging Technologies. He has been active in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate electrical engineering courses since 2014 in CQUniversity, Australian National University and University of Queensland. He has been coordinating ELEC4410 course in S2 2022 at UQ and previously coordinated ENEE13019 course at CQUniversity in T1 2014. He has also delivered the following courses in various capacities such as Lecturer, Tutor, or Marker as Sessional Academic at CQUniversity, UQ and ANU. The available overall students’ feedback assessment is shown within the brackets out of 5.0.
ENEE13019 – Control Systems Analysis and Design (4.6/5.0 – T1 2014, 2017, 2018)
ENEE13021 – Power System Analysis and Design (5.0/5.0 - T1 2017)
ENEE14016 – Power System Protection (4.6/5.0 – T1 2018)
ENEE12015 – Electrical Power Engineering (4.0/5.0 – T1 2017)
ENEG11005 – Fundamental of Professional Engineering (4.1/5.0 - T1 2018)
ENAE12003 – Control Technology (4.4/5.0 – T2 2018)
ENEG11009 – Fundamentals of Energy and Electricity (4.1/5.0 – T1 2019)
ENEE12016 – Signals and Systems (4.8/5.0 – T2 2016, T2 2021)
COIT20148 – Information System Analysis and Design (4.9/5.0 – T2 2018)
ENGN4625/6625 – Power Systems and Power Electronics (S2 - 2021)
ENGN8831 – Integration of Renewable Energy into Power Systems and Microgrids (S1 2022)
ELEC4410 – Advance Electronics and Power Electronic Design (4.83/5.0 – S2 2022)
Honours Student Project and HDR Supervision
Dr Haque has been active in research project supervision activities. As a UQ Stimulus Research Fellow, he has been supervising a PhD student who is working on “electric vehicle project” at UQ in the capacity of Associate Supervisor. He is also supervising a HDR (Masters by Research) student who is working on “remote isolated microgrid project” at CQUniversity in the capacity of Associate Supervisor. He has successfully completed supervision of two coursework Honours students from ANU solar racing project (https://solarracinganu.com.au/). He has completed the Foundations of HDR Supervision at ANU (HDRIN) and HDR at ANU: New Supervisors (HDRFN) courses. Dr Haque is available to supervise more research students.
Honors and Awards
Dr Haque has received several awards including research fellowship, best thesis awards, best paper award and travel awards in his professional career such as:
UQ Research Stimulus Fellowship (2022-2023)
Recipient of Thesis Academic Excellence Award 2020 for best PhD thesis and academic performance at CQUniversity
Winner of 2020 RHD Candidate Experience Survey Prize
Student Travel Grant awarded by IEEE Industry Applications Society to join IEEE PESGRE 2020 conference in Cochin, India
Student Travel Grant awarded by IEEE Industry Applications Society to join IEEE IAS 2019 conference in Baltimore, USA
Recipient of a Best Paper Award in 5th IEEE R10 HTC, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2017
Student Travel Grant awarded by IEEE Industry Applications Society to join 5th IEEE R10 HTC 2017 conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Recipient of Thesis Academic Excellence Award 2016 for best Master by Research thesis and academic performance at CQUniversity.
Student Travel Grant awarded by Australasian Power Engineering Conference committee to join AUPEC2014 conference in Perth, Australia.
Awarded CQUniversity Top-up Scholarship (January 2018 – August 2019)
Recipient of RTP living stipend by Commonwealth Government, Australia (August 2016 – February 2020)
CQUniversity Postgraduate Research Award (UPRA) (November 2013 – November 2015)
International Postgraduate Research Award (IPRA) (November 2013 – November 2015)
Awarded Technical Scholarship, RUET, Bangladesh (March 2007 – March 2010)
Editorial Membership:
Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal, October 2021 – present
Associate Editor for Smart Grid Technologies of Frontiers in Smart Grids Journal, June 2022 – present
Professional Membership and Services
Secretary, Engineers Australia Rockhampton Region Committee (2019-2020)
Member, Engineers Australia Rockhampton Region Committee (2017-2018 & 2018-2019)
Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) (2020 - present)
Member, The Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust) (2015- 2021)
Member, The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (MIEB) (2011 - present)
Member, IEEE Power Electronics Society Student Subcommittee (2020 - present)
Member, The Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE) (2015 - present)
Member, IEEE Smart Grid Community, IEEE Industry Application, Power Electronics & Industrial Electronics Society (2015 - present)
Affiliate of ARC COE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
ARC COE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
Faculty of Science
Principal Research Fellow
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
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Associate Professor Craig Hardner holds a bachelor in Forest Science awarded by the University of Melbourne, and BSc (Hons) and PhD from the University of Tasmania. Prior to his PhD, A/Prof Hardner worked as a Research Fellow at Swedish Agricultural University 1988-1990 supporting willow breeding for energy production. Between 1996-2007, A/Prof Hardner lead the CSIRO macadamia breeding program. A/Prof Hardner joined the University of Queensland in 2007 and commenced a joint appointment with Queensland Government as a research fellow in horticulture breeding and genetics. He has an extensive collaboration network in horticulture breeding and conservation including domestic and international organisations and Universities.
A/Prof Hardner was lead author on a 128 page review of macadamia genetics and domestication published in 2009 and is curator of macadamia cultivar descriptions for HortScience. He was awarded a Churchill fellowship in 2012 to travel to Hawaii to trace the domestication pathway of macadamia.
Dr Hardy researches and teaches in the areas of educational policy and politics, particularly in relation to institutionalized educational settings (schools; universities), at the School of Education, University of Queensland. He is also increasingly involved in policy studies relating to international and comparative education in schooling, higher education and vocational education. Dr Hardy's teaching at Undergraduate, Masters and PhD levels, and his service to the research, professional and wider community is informed by research into the relationship between education and society, particularly broader policy and political discourses, and educators' responses to the socio-political contexts in which their work is undertaken. Dr Hardy is currently undertaking national (Queensland) and international (England, Singapore, Bangladesh) work into the nature of teacher and other educator and policy officer's engagement with data in schools and schooling systems and settings. Dr Hardy is continuing to work on research undertaken during his recent Future Fellowship (2014-2018); this includes in relation to how policy support for the Australian Curriculum influenced teacher learning in diverse schooling settings in Queensland, within a broader global policy context. This work has also involved exploring how concurrent policy reform in Scandinavian (Finland and Sweden) and North American (Ontario and Connecticut) contexts has constituted and influenced practice in these settings. This research builds upon earlier work (2012-2014; ARC-DECRA) which focused upon teacher learning practices in Queensland under globalised policy conditions. Dr Hardy also researches the nature of academic work under current conditions in Australian and international university settings.
Current and future research focuses upon continued work on the nature and effects of data as currently constituted in educational (particularly schooling) settings in different national and international contexts (including in the Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America). Current and future research also includes work in relation to the nature and effects of Artificial Intelligence in educational settings, including how this influences educators' work and learning in schooling and other (formal and informal) educational settings. Current and future work also includes research into enhancing East-West relations, particularly as this pertains to international students studying in higher education settings in Australia and east-Asia.
Since 2004, Dr Hardy has also been a member of the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis international research consortium, involving researchers from Australia (University of Queensland, Griffith University, Charles Sturt University, Monash), UK (University of Sheffield), Sweden (University of Gothenburg), Norway (University of Tromso), and Finland (Abo Akademi). This group is primarily engaged in researching and theorising professional practice, including the politics of teachers' learning, throughout the teaching career in primary, secondary, tertiary and other adult education settings.
Dr Hardy worked previously at Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga, Australia; 2004-2010), commenced at The University of Queensland in 2010, and has occupied his current continuing substantive position as Associate Professor at the School of Education since 2019.
Affiliate of Australian Women's and Girls' Health Research Centre
Australian Women and Girls' Health Research Centre
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Senior Research Fellow
UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Availability:
Not available for supervision
Stephen Harfield is a Narungga and Ngarrindjeri man from South Australia. He is a public health researcher and epidemiologist. His research focuses on centring the health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and their communities through Indigenous-led research.
Stephen’s research employs mixed methods that combine both quantitative and qualitative approaches, grounded in Indigenous methodologies. His research privileges the knowledges of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and adopts a strength-based approach to ensure that the research positively impacts and benefits Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.
Stephen has more than 10 years of experience conducting research in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and health services. His work focuses on the health and wellbeing of adolescents and young people, sexual health, men’s health, health services research, and enhancing research quality.
In March 2025, Stephen submitted his PhD thesis, titled "Strengthening Primary Health Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young People Living in Urban Southeast Queensland”. In recognition of his PhD work, he was awarded the Lowitja Institute’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Award at the 4th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference 2025.
Stephen holds a Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology from The Australian National University (2019), a Master of Public Health from Flinders University (2013), a Graduate Certificate in Health Services Research and Development from The University of Wollongong (2012), and a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Public Health) from The University of Adelaide (2008).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Heart Transplant and scientific lead for The Living Heart Project at The Critical Care Research Facility at The Prince Charles Hospital. Assessing the Feasibility and Therapeutic Potential of Mitochondrial Transplantation for DCD Donor Hearts for Heart Transplantation - Determine the feasibility, safety and efficacy of mitochondrial transplantation (MTx) and hypothermic oxygenated perfusion (HOPE) in clinically relevant DCD donor heart transplant model. This pilot study aims to support future efforts to expand the clinical use of DCD donor hearts and challenge the arbitrary limits imposed by Australian DCD clinical protocols for heart transplantation. My background is in molecular ecological physiology focusing on underlying structural and functional disruption to mitochondrial bioenergetics and ultrastructure in cardiac and neural tissue during stress (i.e. oxygen limitation and thermal stress). My interests lie in the adaptive physiology of species inhabiting extreme and variable environments, as well as measuring the capacity and plasticity of these systems to compensate and maintain performance under changing environmental conditions. This is primarily focused at the level of the mitochondria, and examines their function, composition and stability under ecological stressors.
Affiliate of ARC Training Centre for Bioplastics and Biocomposites
ARC Training Centre for Bioplastics and Biocomposites
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Affiliate of Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformati
ARC COE for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Availability:
Available for supervision
Dr Hima Haridevan is a translational materials scientist, who specializes in making bio-based materials more accessible and cost-effective for sustainable living using scalable and economical approaches. Her expertise lies in the valorization of engineering biomass and biomass resources such as cellulose and lignin, including agricultural waste, to produce green chemicals and bio-based polymer composites. These materials find applications in various fields including building materials, packaging, rheological modifiers, polymer processing, and agricultural products. Currently, her research focuses on bio-gel fertilizers and biomass-based mulch films.
Hima earned undergraduate and postgraduate engineering degrees in Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials Engineering from the SRM Institute of Science and Technology (India) and the University of Sheffield (UK), respectively. Before joining UQ, she participated in the Erasmus Mundus program as a visiting postgraduate student at Universite de Montpellier 2, Universite de Paul Sabatier in France, and the University of Chemical Technology in the Czech Republic.
Additionally, Hima serves as an associate lecturer for the Engineering Innovation and Leadership course (ENGG7902) and contributes as a content developer for Engineering the Circular Economy (ENVE4610).
