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Amanda Henderson has an extensive career in nursing education, research and leadership in both academic and clinical settings internationally and in Australia. Her substantive position is Nursing Director, Nursing Practice Development Unit at the Princess Alexandra Hospital where she provides leadership and guidance for education initiatives and directives across Metro South Health. Her scholarship is focused on the establishment of clinical settings that promote learning in practice, including the development and utilisation of health care knowledge.

Associate Professor Julie Hennegan’s research aims to improve the menstrual and reproductive health of the two billion women and adolescent girls who menstruate around the world. She is a mixed-methods researcher and disciplinary hybrid, blending expertise in social and behavioural science, epidemiology, and the design and evaluation of complex interventions.

Associate Professor Hennegan is a Principal Research Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow (2022-2026). She joined the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research (AWaGHR) Centre in 2025. She leads the Centre’s thematic pillar on Health Equity, and brings expertise in global women’s and adolescent health.

Her research impact has included developing a consensus definition of menstrual health, mid-level theory through the integrated model of menstrual experience and developing core measures used menstrual health research and global monitoring efforts. She leads the Adolescent Menstrual Experiences and Health Cohort (AMEHC) Study in Bangladesh, following 2,000 adolescent girls’ journeys to understand their changing needs and model the effect of menstrual health needs on life outcomes. She also undertakes research to advance monitoring and evaluation for menstrual health interventions across East Africa, East Asia, and the Pacific, along with studies to understand menstrual health needs among diverse groups in Australia and the role of new technologies such as reusable menstrual products.

She holds a DPhil and MSc in Evidence Based Social Intervention from the University of Oxford, following undergraduate training in psychology and social science at the University of Queensland.

Dr Joerg Henning is a Professor in Veterinary Epidemiology at the School of Veterinary Science. He is the Director of Students and Admissions, the International Student Mentor and International Recruitment Coordinator for the BVSc (Honours) program. He has over 15 years of research experience in epidemiology and biostatistics with a focus on international animal health. He was the main operational scientist in research projects in Myanmar, Vietnam and Indonesia. He also worked as a consultant for international organisations such as the FAO, World Bank, ILRI and others.

A key focus of Dr Joerg Henning’s research is to identify sustainable and acceptable interventions to improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers in developing countries. His research interests included zoonotic diseases such as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1, infectious diseases and management of poultry, attitudes and behaviours of small-scale farmers, extension programs to improve livestock health, the translation of research outcomes while considering farmer’s attitudes, behaviours, cultural background and literacy and research linking livestock production to human nutrition.

Dr Henning's research interest also includes the analysis of wildlife data, including anthropogenic threats to koalas, the development of citizen science approaches to support koala conservation and investigations into snake envenomation in domestic animals.

Dr Leah Henrickson is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Reading Computer-Generated Texts (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and other peer-reviewed articles about how we understand text generation systems and output, artificial intelligence, and digital media environments. Dr Henrickson also studies digital storytelling for critical self-reflection, pedagogy, community building, and commercial benefit. She is the author of Digital Storytelling: An Introduction (Polity, 2025).

Dr Henrickson serves as the School of Communication and Arts' Deputy Director, Teaching and Learning. She is also an elected non-professorial member of the University of Queensland's Academic Board, and a nominated member of the Academic Board's Digital Learning Sub-Committee. She is an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) and the Executive Committee of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), and serves on the Editorial Boards of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia and Anthem Press' 'Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture' series. She is an active member of the 'Death & Law - Interdisciplinary Explorations' research group (University of Aberdeen).

Dr Henrickson is especially keen to collaborate on projects involving digital methods and media, hermeneutics, digital death studies, histories of communications media, and unconventional text production and dissemination.

Professor Henry, is a graduate of the University of Queensland, B Sc (Hons), Macquarie University, M Sc (Hons) and La Trobe University (Ph D). In 2000 Professor Henry was awarded a higher doctorate (D Sc) by UQ for his work on analysis of variation in plants.

He is currently Professor of Innovation in Agriculture. Before being appointed QAAFI Director (May 2010-September 2020), he was Director of the Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics at Southern Cross University, a centre which he established in 1996. Other previous positions held by Professor Henry include Research Director of the Grain Foods Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) (until 2010) and Research Program Leader in the Queensland Agricultural Biotechnology Centre (until 1996).

Professor Henry’s speciality research area is the study of agricultural crops using molecular tools. He is particularly interested in Australian flora and plants of economic and social importance and has led the way in research into genome sequencing to capture novel genetic resources for the diversification of food crops to deliver improved food products.

Julie is a Professor in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland, and is also an Affiliate Professor at The Queensland Brain Institute as well as The Mater Research Institute. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the Association for Psychological Science.

Julie leads a group that particularly focuses on how social cognition and prospection are disrupted by normal adult ageing and clinical illness. Social cognition refers to how we perceive, process, and interpret social cues in our environment. Good social cognitive skills are therefore key to mental health and wellbeing because they provide the foundation on which strong social relationships are built. Prospective memory plays a different but equally important role in our everyday lives, critical if we are to appropriately anticipate, plan and/or act with the future in mind.

Julie has published more than 270 peer‑reviewed papers which appear in prestigious outlets that include Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Annual Review of Psychology, Cognition, Psychological Bulletin, Cortex, Human Brain Mapping, Developmental Science, Psychology and Aging, Emotion, Brain, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, and Nature Reviews Neurology. Her work has been cited > 22,000 times in Scopus and > 42,000 times in Google Scholar. Julie has also appeared on Stanford University’s list of the top 2% of science researchers in the world every year since the list was first published in 2019.

Julie has also received continuous prestigious and highly competitive research funding. This includes three ARC Fellowships, eight ARC Discovery Projects (seven of which she has led), four ARC Linkage Projects (two of which she has led), as well as two NHMRC grants (a Boosting Dementia Research grant, and an MRFF Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Mission grant). Between 2011 and 2017, Julie was Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, and she is currently an Associate Editor for Psychology and Aging and sits on a number of Editorial Boards, including Journal of Aging & Social Policy. Julie has been the recipient of many prestigious awards. This includes the Research Higher Degree Supervision Award (2016) and the Research Mentorship Award (2022) from UQ's Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences as well as The 2023 UQ Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Training - Supervision, competitive across all UQ, for “outstanding and exemplary supervisory practice”.

Julie is Director of The Queensland Multidisciplinary Initiative for Neurocognitive Difficulties (The QLD MIND Project) and an ARC Laureate Fellow (2026-2031).

Dr Stevie-Jae Hepburn is a Lecturer in initial teacher education (ITE) in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. Her approach to educational program design, review, and evaluation in professional and educational contexts is guided by the principles of andragogy, collaborative practice to support learning with, from, and about others.

After gaining experience as a classroom teacher and curriculum coordinator across jurisdictions in Queensland and abroad, Stevie directed her attention to educational leadership, health and wellbeing resources in schools and ITE. Her doctoral research investigated the impact of an integrated approach to health and wellbeing for teachers during the pre-service and early career period. Stevie’s research is influenced by her interest in public health and salutogenic theory, as well as the use of health promotion strategies to address the social determinants of health and influence job satisfaction, stress management, burnout, and career trajectory.

Stevie's research experience in collaborative practice spans both health disciplines and education. She investigated the impact of interprofessional education resources on promoting interprofessional collaborative practice across the continuum of health professionals' education, as well as student learning and experience on placement in rural and remote communities.

Stevie is currently focused on exploring the role of collaborative practice between school community stakeholders (e.g., parents/carers, school-based health professionals, teachers), schools as health-promoting workplaces, and preparedness for practice during the pre-service and early career period.

Dr Anthony Herbert has trained in paediatrics at both the Mater Children's and Royal Children's Hospitals in Brisbane. He also worked at the Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for a year in 2001. He completed training in paediatric medical oncology. He subsequently completed a fellowship in paediatric palliative care working with both adults at the Mater Health Services and with children at The Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) in Sydney, Australia. At CHW, he was able to gain a broad exposure to all aspects of pain medicine and palliative care including experience in the use of patient controlled analgesia (PCA), multi-disciplinary management of persistent pain and hospice care (at Bear Cottage). During this time, he developed a particular interest in cancer pain management.

Anthony commenced work as a Staff Specialist in Paediatric Palliative Care with Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service in September 2008. At this time he was based at the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, but also consulted at the Mater Children's Hospital, Brisbane. In November 2014, the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital (LCCH) opened in Brisbane. Anthony became the Director of the Paediatric Palliative Care Service at LCCH in June 2015.

Research interests have included telehealth, insomnia, music therapy, perinatal palliative care, service development, respite provision and communication in paediatric palliative care. He has also had an interest in education related to palliative care - for undergraduates and post graduate students. More recently he has been involved in the Quality of Care Collaborative of Australia (QuoCCA) which is a national project (funded by the Department of Health, Commonwealth) looking at education provision, particularly in rural and remote settings. As part of this work, Anthony has also developed an interest in the education of undergraduate students in paediatric palliative care, particularly at the time of short clinical placements. In this context, he has found the resources of the Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) particularly helpful. His interest in providing education has also extended to Vietnam and Malaysia.

Dr Anthony Herbert was Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Palliative Care National Reference Group from 2012 - 2013. He has also been chair of the Palliative Care Working Group of the Child and Youth Network in Queensland from 2012. Anthony has also been a committee member of the Chapter of Palliative Medicine linked to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He was involved in the recent writing of "Palliative Care" (Version 4) with Therapeutic Guidelines. He has also been an active contributor to the national resource "A Practical Guide to Palliative Care in Paediatrics".

Kathleen Herbohn is a Professor in financial accounting. She has a PhD from the University of Adelaide concerned with full cost environmental accounting by organisations managing multiple purpose natural resources. Kathleen's research is concerned with corporate social responsibility for issues such as climate change and tax transparency with a focus on how public data can be used in debt and equity markets to inform stakeholders about organisational performance. Her other research interests include the role of financial accounting in informing capital markets in areas of ambiguity (e.g. impairment, business and operating risk, biological assets) and the accounting profession.

Kathleen's publications have appeared in various journal including Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, The Journal of Business Ethics, Accounting and Finance Journal, The British Accounting Review, Accounting Research Journal and The Australian Accounting Review. She is also a co-author on the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth editions of the Issues in Financial Accounting textbook and an editor of a book published by Edward Elgar (Cheltenham, UK) on Sustainable Small-Scale Forestry: Socio-Economic Analysis.

Kathleen is currently a member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Australian Accounting Standards Board and an Associate Editor of the Australian Accounting Review.

My research applies population genetics, evolutionary and ecological theory, and genomics to understand agricultural pests, weeds and pollination, all three are billion dollar problems facing Australian Agriculture. I am always keen to explore new approaches and cutting-edge technologies. This is important because some of the most innovative and transformative advances in genomics are coming from human genomics, and I draw upon these advances and apply them to insect and weed pests. As a result, my research combines cutting-edge genomic tools and ecological experimentation to investigate agricultural pests in an evolutionary context, with the goal of protecting agricultural crops and ensuring global food security.

I am a microeconomic theorist working in market and mechanism design, information economics, security design, auction theory, and search theory. My research studies how risk attitudes and information frictions shape strategic behaviour and market outcomes in environments with uncertainty and asymmetric information. I combine economic theory with laboratory experiments and, when appropriate, empirical and structural methods to study problems related to security-bid auctions, procurement and scoring auctions, college assignment mechanisms, dynamic pricing, search markets, and information acquisition. Much of my work focuses on how different institutions and financial instruments affect incentives, efficiency, revenue extraction, and information aggregation in markets such as natural resource auctions, mergers and acquisitions, venture finance, and digital platforms.

Lorna Hernandez Santin is a restoration ecologist whose research focuses on understanding, monitoring, and improving ecosystem recovery and biodiversity outcomes following disturbance. Her work integrates restoration ecology, fauna ecology, conservation biology, environmental monitoring, remote sensing, and spatial analysis to support evidence-based restoration and nature-positive outcomes.

As Acting Group Leader of the Ecosystem & Biodiversity Group within the Centre for Environmental Responsibility in Mining, Lorna contributes to research that assesses mining impacts on flora and fauna, develops approaches to restore ecosystem services, supports recolonisation by native species, and improves the long-term sustainability of disturbed landscapes. See the group’s website for more information: [smi.uq.edu.au].

Lorna collaborates with industry, government, and research partners to improve how restoration success is defined, measured, and achieved. Her research supports the application of the mitigation hierarchy and adaptive management, helping organisations avoid and minimise impacts, implement effective restoration strategies, and evaluate ecological recovery using robust monitoring approaches. This work aims to improve biodiversity outcomes throughout the mine life cycle, from project planning and impact mitigation to rehabilitation, mine closure, and post-closure recovery. Her research also explores the use of emerging technologies, including drone- and satellite-based remote sensing, hyperspectral imaging, and automated species detection, to improve environmental monitoring and restoration assessment.

Current research interests include:

• Mine rehabilitation and ecological restoration
• Fauna ecology and biodiversity conservation
• Restoration assessment and ecosystem recovery trajectories
• Restoration frameworks, standards, targets, and completion criteria
• Ecological indicators and monitoring frameworks
• Environmental monitoring using field-based methods and remote sensing technologies, including imagery collected from drones, aircraft, and satellites using RGB, multispectral, and hyperspectral sensors
• Species detection, habitat assessment, and spatial modelling using remote sensing approaches
• Landscape ecology and spatial analysis
• Evidence-based approaches to mine closure and environmental management

Her broader research experience includes wildlife ecology, conservation biology, habitat suitability modelling, species distributions, movement ecology, and biodiversity monitoring across Australia and the Americas.

Nicholas Heron is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Queensland. He specialises in modern political thought and theory, including the reception of pre-modern ideas in the modern period. He is the author of Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology (Fordham UP, 2018) and the translator of Giorgio Agamben’s Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Stanford UP, 2015). He is currently researching post-WWII responses to the end-of-history diagnosis.

Prior to joining the School of Political Science and International Studies, he was Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at UQ.

Ian Hesketh is Associate Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. Most broadly, his research considers the relationship between history, science, and religion with a focus on nineteenth-century Britain. More specifically, he has written extensively on the Darwinian Revolution, nineteenth-century physics, and large-scale forms of history from the nineteenth century to the present. He teaches courses on historiography (HIST2312), revolutions in history (HIST2024), American history (HIST2023), and British history (HIST2417).