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The research interests of the Hume Laboratory centre on the biology of macrophages and osteoclasts. These are cells of haematopoietic origin that are closely related to each other but have distinctly different activities.

David Hume was a group leader at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (1988-2007) and subsequently Director of the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from 2007-2017. He is currently a Professorial Research Fellow at the Mater Research Institute-UQ, located at the Translational Research Institute

Associate Professor Hume’s current research interests include: Anthropology and the Senses; religion and dress; consciousness studies; autoethnography; convict women in Tasmania in the 1830s.

Associate Professor Hume holds the following qualifications: B.A., M.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (Queensland) and is currently an Honorary Associate Professor in Studies in Religion.

She has taught in the areas of Anthropology of Religion: New Religious Movements, Aboriginal Religions, Women and Religion, Religion and the Body, and Alternative Spirituality.

She is on the editorial board of the following international journals: Journal of Contemporary Religion; Fieldwork in Religion; Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions; Australian Religion Studies Review.

In 2004, Associate Professor Hume co-edited (with Jane Mulcock) 'Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation'. New York: Columbia University Press.

Jacquelyn is an Associate Professor in finance and is the finance discipline convenor (department head).

Jacquelyn's research expertise is in sustainable finance/responsible investment i.e., how environmental, social and governance factors impact on investment decision-making for investors and corporations. She also has an active interdisciplinary research agenda in sustainability more broadly and a research interest in funds management. Jacquelyn has published in well-regarded international finance journals including Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of Business Ethics, as well as in journals outside of finance including Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change and Journal of Cleaner Production. She has edited and written an open textbook, Sustainable Finance.

Jacquelyn's research is of great interest to the wider financial community, both in Australia and internationally. Her research has been cited by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Jacquelyn has had numerous international invitations to speak about environmental, social and governance research and has led several research projects for the finance industry.

In teaching, she is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy(Advance HE), an accreditation which demonstrates advanced professional expertise in teaching and learning in higher education. Jacquelyn has received BEL Faculty awards for teaching and also for leadership.

Libby Humphries is a Lecturer, Research Fellow, and Education and Training Program Leader at the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC), University of Queensland. With over 20 years of experience in health and safety, Libby has designed and delivered comprehensive health and safety management systems and risk management plans across high-hazard industries, including mining, smelting and gas sectors. Her work spans aluminium smelting, uranium mining and coal seam gas contracting across Australia, including Gladstone (QLD), Jabiru (NT), and Parkes (NSW).

Libby specialises in the development, implementation, and evaluation of effective health and safety management systems, ensuring they are practical, sustainable, and aligned with industry and regulatory standards. Her approach integrates a layered risk management framework, critical control verification, and continuous improvement processes to drive operational excellence and safer work environments.

As a qualified ISO 45001 auditor and an experienced Trainer and Assessor aligned with Registered Training Organisation (RTO) standards, Libby is skilled in developing and delivering nationally accredited training programs. She ensures learners meet industry and regulatory requirements while fostering practical skills for workplace application.

Libby is particularly passionate about enhancing health and psychosocial risk management through robust competency frameworks and targeted education. Her industry expertise ensures that training and risk management initiatives are practical, evidence-based, and tailored to the unique needs of high-hazard operations.

Dr Natasha Hungerford is an organic chemist and has extensive experience in natural products chemistry. She is a Senior Research Fellow leading the Natural Toxin group within the Centre for Animal Science, Queensland Alliance for Agricultural and Food Innovation (QAAFI) and is based at the Health and Food Sciences Precinct (Cooper's Plains). She joined QAAFI in 2016 and specialises in natural plant toxins and their impacts on livestock and human health, including food safety and regulations. Collaborative projects with government/industry have spanned mitigation of toxin impacts on cattle, to evaluation of toxins in honey (and health impacts). Subsequent examinations of stingless bee honey serendipitously led to the ground-breaking discovery of the rare sugar trehalulose as a major component of these honeys. Dr Hungerford continues to lead and manage projects to address agricultural industry challenges, including reducing methane gas emissions for a carbon neutral beef industry and international stingless bee honey development.

Dr Hungerford achieved her PhD in 1998, through the UQ School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research in natural products chemistry and in synthetic organic chemistry, at the University of Oxford, Australian National University, The University of Sydney, Griffith University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Professor Ian Hunter is currently pursuing two research themes, one concerns the history of early modern political and philosophical thought, and the other concerns the history of theory in the modern humanities academy.

Ian Hunter is a distinguished international scholar working on the history of early modern political and philosophical thought, and on the emergence of theory in the 1960s humanities academy. His Rival Enlightenments appeared in 2001 and his most recent monograph is The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). In collaboration with Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh) and Frank Grunert (Halle), he completed the first English translation of Thomasius’s works: Christian Thomasius: Essays on Church, State, and Politics (Liberty Fund, 2007). He has recently edited and introduced two volumes for the German edition of Thomasius's Selected Works.

Recently published articles include ‘Kant’s Religion and Prussian Religious Policy’, Modern Intellectual History, vol. 2, 2005, 1-27; ‘The History of Theory’, Critical Inquiry, vol. 33, 2006, 78-112; ‘The Time of Theory: The Return of Metaphysics to the Anglo-American Humanities Academy’, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 10, 2007, 5-22; and 'A Jus Gentium for America. The Rules of War and the Rule of Law in the Revolutionary United States', Journal of the History of International Law 14, 2012, pp. 173-206. Recent book chapters include 'Natural Law as Political Philosophy', in Desmond Clarke and Catherine Wilson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 475-99; and 'Kant’s Political Thought in the Prussian Enlightenment', in Elizabeth Ellis (ed), Kant’s Political Theory: Interpretations and Applications, Pittsburg: Penn State Press, 2012, pp. 170-207.

He is currently working on the theme of the persona of the philosopher, and the intellectual history of 1960s humanities theory.

Associate Professor Richard Hutch is an Honorary Associate Professor and Reader in Religion and Psychological Studies in the School of Historical and Philosopical Inquiry. His research interests include psychology of religion, sport and spirituality, self-narrations and life-writing, and death and dying.

His current research projects include:

• The American Civil Rights Movement: A Personal Narrative
• Sport, Spirituality and Productive Ageing
• History and Phenomenology of Religion

TO NOTE: Richard Hutch presented the keynote address at a symposium on the American Civil Rights Movement held at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in the United States on the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, 9 April 1865. It was also the 50th anniversary of the "Summer Community Organization and Political Education" project (SCOPE), which was sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded and led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Richard volunteered for the SCOPE project in rural counties in Alabama and Louisiana in the summer of 1965. The project spearheaded a massive voter registration drive throughout the South after "Bloody Sunday," the violent racial conflict that occurred at the beginning of the Selma to Montgomery march on March 7th that year. Through the efforts of SCOPE volunteers and others, who often faced life-threatening incidents of racial violence (as Richard himself did), the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was finally passed by the American Congress and signed by the President in August. The keynote address at Gettysburg College presented Richard's experiences in the South during his harrowing time there. He was honoured by his alma mater on the occasion with the establishment of an archive in his name in the Musselman Library at Gettysburg College, including the journal he kept during his summer in the South and other unique materials from the Civil Rights Movement. It can be noted at the town of Gettysburg was the site where the Civil War "Battle of Gettysburg" took place in July, 1863. Northern Union troops pushed the Southern Confederate troops from their so-called "high-water mark" back south across the Mason-Dixon Line (which separated "slave" states from "free" states, and was drawn on maps just beyond the southern border of the state of Pennsylvania near Gettysburg). The battle represented the beginning of the end of the Civil War, with the final defeat of the Confederacy by Abraham Lincoln's Union Army two years later on 9 April, 1865 at 3:15 in the afternoon, when church bells rang out throughout the North.

Associate Professor Hutch was the Director of Studies for the Faculty of Arts (2001-05) and Head of the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics (2005-08) at the University of Queensland. Before taking up his appointment at UQ in 1978, he was Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Illinois University in the United States (1974-78). He graduated from Gettysburg College (BA, 1967), Yale University (BD, 1970) and the University of Chicago (MA, 1971; PhD, 1974).

Dr Daniel Liang-Dar Hwang is a genetic epidemiologist and statistical geneticist by training. His research interests include sensory nutrition, causal modelling, and personalized nutrition. Dr Hwang applies statistical models to big data to understand genetic and environmental factors contributing to individual differences in taste and olfactory perception and their relationship with dietary behaviour and chronic conditions (See his research on taste perception in The Conversation). He develops methods for increasing statistical power for gene discovery, estimating intergenerational causal relationships, and personalized intervention. He also works with clinicians to investigate impaired chemosensory perception in cancer patients and COVID-19.

Daniel has a B.Sc from the National Taiwan University, majoring in Biochemical Science and Technology, and an M.Biotech from the University of Pennsylvania. Following graduation, he worked as a research technician in Danielle Reed's lab at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, where he first developed a keen interest in genetics and chemosensory perception. Later, he was awarded scholarships to complete an M.Sc in Nutrition at the University of Washington, under the supervision of Glen Duncan, and a PhD in Genetic Epidemiology at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, under the supervision of Nicholas Martin and Margaret Wright. He then joined David Evans's group as a postdoc at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute (now the Frazer Institute). Dr Hwang is an ARC DECRA Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. He is also an Affiliated Scientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center.

Dr Hwang has published more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. His work has been referred to in international health policy guidelines and a WHO report for the intervention of childhood obesity and in a global patent for personalized wine selection. He is on the editorial boards of BMC Medicine and Twin Research and Human Genetics. Dr Hwang is a Leadership Team member of the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research, a global initiative to understand the relationship between smell loss and COVID-19 and foster the advancement of chemosensory science. He currently drives an international collaborative project to investigate the impact of COVID-19 vaccinations on long-COVID symptoms. Dr Hwang is a member of the National Committee for Nutrition of the Australian Academy of Science. He contributes to implementing the decadal plan for the science of nutrition in Australia.

Dr Dominic Hyde’s research interests include: philosophical logic, formal logic and metaphysics.

Dr Hyde holds a PhD from the Australian National University and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy.

He studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Western Australia before moving to the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University to work on his doctorate with the late Richard Sylvan (formerly Richard Routley). After teaching Philosophy there for a few years, Dr Hyde moved to the Philosophy Department at the University of Queensland in 1997 where he currently teaches introductory philosophy, logic and critical reasoning.

Dr. David Hyland-Wood is a multi-disciplinary engineer based in Brisbane, Australia. He is currently inventing next generation blockchain solutions for enterprise use and space exploration within the PegaSys division of ConsenSys. In 2018, he led the acquisition of pioneering space technology company Planetary Resources for ConsenSys, and led the creation of the first international blockchain standard, the Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification by the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. David serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at The University of Queensland. He advises several Australian space startup companies in Queensland and New South Wales.

Jayden is an environmental engineer and scientist focusing on the assessment and management of impacts from human activities on biodiversity and ecosystems. His postdoctoral research, as part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, informs ecologically responsible mining of critical energy transition minerals. Currently, his work involves modelling global mineral supply to meet future demand for decarbonisation, aiming to inform decisions that mitigate the impacts of mining on biodiversity and ecosystem services.

His PhD investigated the potential impacts of the nascent deep-sea mining industry on remote and data-limited ecosystems in the Pacific. In collaboration with a CSIRO-led consortium, he developed an integrated ecosystem assessment and adaptive management framework. Jayden has broad interests in ecosystem modelling, environmental impact assessment, environmental management, and conservation decision making.

Dr Mohammad Zafar Imam is a Research Officer at the Centre for Integrated Preclinical Drug Development (CIPDD) which is a University of Queensland (UQ) Tier 2 Research Infrastructure Centre located in the School of Biomedical Sciences. His specialisation includes development of rodent disease models using different surgical techniques, behavioural pharmacological readouts, and toxicity study to facilitate new drug development process. He has published 31 articles in high impact journals and 1 book chapter.