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Prior to his current position, A/Prof Johnstone served as deputy director of the Centre for Marine Studies at the University of Queensland for 5 years, as well as the Assessment and Monitoring theme leader in the Coastal CRC, and as a member of the scientific advisory committee for CRC Reef. He has a long professional history in coastal nutrient and ecosystem function research, as well as in the communication of science to the community, government, and private sector bodies. In addition, A/Prof Johnstone has a longstanding international reputation in his field, having spent approximately 20 years undertaking CZM research and project management in over 13 countries on behalf of government and international donor agencies including IOC-UNESCO, Sida, and the World Bank.

Within Australia, A/Prof Johnstone’s work is focussed on the understanding of benthic habitats, with an emphasis on nutrient processes and dynamics in coastal ecosystems. This includes aspects such as the influence of land-based inputs on coastal ecosystem function and its influence on specific outcomes such as toxic algal blooms.

Associate Professor Kelly Johnstone is a certified occupational hygienist (COH) and occupational health and safety (OHS) generalist with a focus on the protection of worker health. She is the Director of the Master of Occupational Hygiene in the School of the Environment, Faculty of Science, UQ. Kelly has experience in various industries, including education, the energy and resource sectors, construction, transport, and agriculture. She plays an active role in the Australian Institute of Health and Safety (AIHS) and the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH). Kelly is currently Chair of the Rural Industry Sector Standing Committee for Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.

Kelly's research interests focus on occupational health hazards including evaluating worker exposures to pesticides, respirable crystalline silica dust, and other hazardous chemicals. She has previously worked on applied and academic projects in indoor air quality, exposure to waste anaesthetic gases, thermal risk assessment, dust characterisation, and a range of OHS management-related projects.

Operations Manager - National Biologics Facility

Deputy Director - ARC Training Centre for Biopharmaceutical Innovation

Research Areas: Discovery and engineering of antibodies for diagnostic or therapeutic uses

BScApp (Biotech) Honours Class I (1998) The University of Queensland

PhD (2008) The University of Queensland

Malcolm Jones (BSc Hons PhD Qld) is Professor of Parasitology in the School of Veterinary Sciences. His research interest lie in the biology and control of helminth parasites of humans. His major research interests lie in investigations of shistosomiasis, food-borne trematodiases and echinococcosis.

Human schistosomes are a major scourge of tropical and developing nations. Currently, over 260 million people are infected with schistosomes, and the diseases caused by these parasites lead to chronic morbidity and death. Professor Jones investigates novel control stratgies for schistosomiasis, including vaccines, parasite biology and host interactions and better diagnostic methods.

Professor Jones is a former Deputy Editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and is currently Editor-in-Chief of One Health. He is President-elect of the International Federation for Tropical Medicine.

Natalie is an applied anthropologist that is dedicated to advancing the role of social science in natural resource management and agriculture within interdisciplinary teams. Her research interests involve understanding how people perceive and interact with environmental systems.

Natalie has established a strong track record in applying cognitive constructs, including mental models and values, to explore how people make sense of and relate to their environment. She has an interest in designing and implementing participatory processes to support decision-making.

She is currently leading the social component of an Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research project in Fiji which aims to develop a value chain for converting senile coconut trees into engineered wood products. This will reduce reliance on native forest harvesting, provide new income opportunities for landholders and make more productive use of agricultural landscapes.

Natalie has conducted applied social science research within a number of interdisciplinary teams involving governments, research organisations, non-governmental organisations and Indigenous groups. She has published more than 25 academic papers and book chapters.

Natalie is a Senior Lecturer within the School of the Environment. Prior to taking up her position at UQ, Natalie was a Researcher at the Australian National University working in the Resource Management of the Asia Pacific Program. This involved working as a social scientist in an international collaboration with CIRAD – Agricultural Research for Development, to evaluate 34 participatory modelling projects globally. She has undertaken consultancies with various natural resource management groups within Australia, including Healthy Land and Water and Seqwater.

Classes taught within the School of the Enviroment:

- Regulatory Frameworks for Environmental Management and Planning

- Cultural Heritage Management

- Australian Studies

I am an Associate Professor of Management at UQ Business School with expertise in human resource management, specialising in talent management, global mobility, and the future of work. My research explores how organisations can build sustainable, inclusive, and future-ready workforces that address skills shortages and strengthen leadership capability.

A key focus of my work is workforce transformation, examining how digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping jobs, skills, and careers. I am particularly interested in the digital transformation of HRM, the rise of talent marketplaces, and the emergence of skills-based and algorithmic approaches to talent management. This research provides insights into how organisations can balance innovation, ethics, and inclusion in the evolving world of work.

My work has been published in leading international journals, including Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Business Review, Journal of Vocational Behavior, MIT Sloan Management Review, and the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.

Through collaborations with industry, government, and international research partners, my research delivers evidence-based insights to help organisations and policymakers navigate ongoing workforce and technological transformation.

Ree's research focus explores the broad theme of organisational outliers, constructively challenging dominant belief structures and impact on leadership practice. Specific topics include mavericks and maverickism (beneficial non-conformity), game-changers, innovation, entrepreneurship, decision-making, and leadership (including Indigenous womens leadership) in enacting effective, responsive, and adaptive change in a rapidly changing world.

Ree has extensive professional experience in leading organisational change and leadership development initiatives across whole-of-organisations, as well as teams. She has worked with government departments, universities, not-for-profit organisations, and industry.

Dr Jordan is a medically trained cancer epidemiologist who is currently Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. Before starting her PhD, she worked in rural and urban general practice for over 10 years and brings that clinical experience to her research. She is currently a NHMRC Leadership Fellow and leads projects on ovarian and thyroid cancers, examining aetiology, patterns of care and survival. Her research employs a broad range of methods including individual patient and clinician surveys, molecular epidemiology and pooling of consortia data, but she has particular expertise in large-scale data linkage.

Prof. David Jordan is a sorghum breeder and geneticist with more than 20 years experience working in both the public and private sector.

For the last decade he has led the public sorghum pre-breeding program in Australia which is a partnership between the University of Queensland (UQ), The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) and the Grains research and Develop Corporation (GRDC). This is a long running and successful research effort with a reputation for integrating across disciplines and linking research efforts from the strategic to the applied. Breeding lines from this program are widely used commercially in Australia and internationally with 100% of the commercial sorghum grown in Australia having genetics from the program. At the same time the research group continues to produce research papers at the forefront of sorghum research.

In recent years he had led projects focused on improving the lives of resource poor farmers in Africa that rely on sorghum.

Qualifications: 1988 - BA Hons (First Class), University of Western Australia 1998 - PhD (Southeast Asian History), Australian National University

Employment History

1995 - 2001: Department of Asian Studies, University of Western Australia 2001 - 2009: Regional Studies Program (Southeast Asia), Walailak University, Thailand 2011- : School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland

I completed my PhD at the Institute for Molecular Biology at UQ and have ~10 years experience in biochemistry and cell biology. I am currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the lab of A Prof Fiona Simpson at UQ Frazer Institute, TRI. My current research interests are focussed on intracellular protein trafficking, in particular how this relates to monoclonal antibody therapies and biomarkers for cancer treatment with overall aspirations to improve patient outcomes. I lead Simpson lab teams involved in translating this work into clinical trials and analysing how drug pharmacokinetics can be improved.

Dr. Vaibhavi Joshi is a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research. She is part of the Molecular Breast Pathology Lab alongside Prof. Sunil Lakhani, A/Prof Amy McCart Reed, and A/Prof Peter Simpson. Currently, she is working with with A/Prof Peter Simpson to investigate the molecular basis of breast cancer in young women, focusing on identifying novel biomarkers and potential targets to improve outcomes for this high-risk group.

Her research explores the hallmarks of metastasis, including tumor invasion,colonisation, and the tumor microenvironment. Dr. Joshi employs advanced molecular biology techniques to study cancer progression and uncover clinically relevant targets.

Dr. Joshi welcomes students and collaborators interested in cancer biology, metastasis, and innovative therapeutic strategies to join her in exploring cutting-edge projects.

Dr Alison M Joubert is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing Legacy) Program Director at Adelaide University. Dr Joubert is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UQ Business School, The University of Queensland. She graduated from the University of Queensland with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), a Bachelor of Business Management in Marketing with First Class Honours. Key achievements in her research career include recognition by the RRBM Honor Roll in 2023, being awarded finalist/runner up for the 2025 AMA Robert Lusch Early Career Research Award, and winning the 2025 Academy of Marketing Conference Overall Best Paper, 2024 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Marketing, 2023 ANZMAC CCT Track Best Paper, 2021 ANZMAC Layton Dissertation Award, 2020 Rama Krishna Sastry Pappu Memorial Prize for Research in Business in 2020, Highly Commended Paper in the 2019 Emerald Literati - JOSM Robert Johnston Awards, and Best Poster Award at the 2016 Consumer Culture Theory Conference. She has also published in journals such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Service Research, Marketing Theory and Journal of Service Management, and authored a number of manuscripts accepted in the annual Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conferences (ANZMAC), and Consumer Culture Theory Conferences. Dr Joubert has over ten years of experience teaching marketing and management courses; in the positions of tutor, associate lecturer, and lecturer and course coordinator. Of particular interest to her is digital marketing and services marketing. She has a proven ability to conduct qualitative marketing research in consumer and service research. Dr Joubert also has practical quantitative research experience and skills developed through lecturing and tutoring Business Research Methods, and supervising quantitative marketing honours and PhD students. She also has demonstrated commitment to leadership and service to the institution and the academy.