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Professor Maureen Hassall

Affiliate of Leading for High Reliability Centre
Leading for High Reliability Centre
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Centre Director of Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre
Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Professorial Research Fellow and Centre Director, MISHC
Sustainable Minerals Institute
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Maureen Hassall is Professor and Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute's Industrial Safety and Health Centre at the University of Queensland. Her expertises crosses the fields of industrial risk management, safety engineering and human factors. Maureen works collaboratively with industry professionals to develop better human-centred risk management and safety engineering approaches that improve companies’ operational performance and competitiveness. Maureen also develops and delivers process safety, systems safety engineering, risk management and human factors training, education and expert advice to students and to industry. Her industry-focused research is motivated by 18 years of industry experience working in a number of different countries and in a variety of roles including specialist engineering, line management, organisational change and business performance improvement roles.

Maureen Hassall
Maureen Hassall

Professor Lydia Kavanagh

President of the Academic Board
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
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Since returning to academia from industry in 1998, Professor Lydia Kavanagh has become a leader in engineering education and has used her background as a professional engineer to design both curricula and courses for active learning by combining real-world projects and specialist knowledge. She has had a significant impact on the delivery of UQ’s undergraduate engineering program through creative new teaching pedagogies including the Flipped Classroom, innovative authentic approaches to assessment, and the introduction of multi-disciplinary courses. As Director of First Year Engineering for almost a decade, Lydia was responsible for a significant program of extra-curricular transition support for first year students and she co-coordinated two compulsory courses that delivered what could arguably be the world's largest flipped classroom for 600 students. Recently, she has set up a Leadership and Mentoring Program for all EAIT faculty students (undergraduate and postgraduates), and continued this into a Leaders@EAIT, an ongoing academy for these students to continue to develop leadership competencies.

Lydia is now the Deputy Associate Dean Academic (Curriculum Review and Teaching Innovation) for the Faculty of Science where she has overseen a faculty-wide overview of curriculum resulting in streamlined undergraduate and postgraduate offerings. She holds a concurrent fractional position with the Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovations, where she has developed frameworks and systems for UQ shorter form credentials.

Lydia is also heavily involved institutionally with training and mentoring academics and professional staff with teaching responsibilities through the development and implementation of the Graduate Teaching Assistant program (for PhD scholars and postdocs), Teaching@UQ (for staff new to teaching), and TeachingPlus@UQ (for emerging leaders in Teaching and Learning).

Lydia’s work was recognised with a Principal Fellowship of the HEA, an ALTC Excellence in teaching award in 2011 and she has lead and participated in Carrick/ ALTC/ OLT projects on teamwork, online learning, curriculum innovation (2x), preparing students for first year engineering, and Flipped Classrooms.

Lydia Kavanagh
Lydia Kavanagh

Associate Professor David Lange

Affiliate of ARC Research Hub to Advance Timber for Australia's Future Built Environment (ARC Advanc
ARC Research Hub to Advance Timber for Australia's Future Built Environment
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Director of HDR Students of School of Civil Engineering
School of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Associate Professor - Structural Engineering
School of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Dr David Lange joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland in early 2018. Originally from the the UK, he has a Masters and a PhD, both from the University of Edinburgh. Following completion of his studies, he spent a number of years working in the UK developing fire safety strategies for a range of premises including laboratory and commercial facilities, and residential buildings; as well as conducting fire risk assessments and risk engineering projects in a range of industrail areas including HPR facilities. He then spent 6 years working as a senior research scientist for SP / RISE in Sweden, conducting research in a range of different areas such as fire resistance, facade fire safety, crisis management and infrastructure resilience. His work at the University of Queensland covers a broad range of areas related to fire safety.

David is a Registered Professional Engineering in Queensland (RPEQ), a registered engineer in New South Wales, as well as a Chartered Engineer (CPEng) at the member grade of Fellow with Engineers Australia (FIEAust). He is on the National Engineers Register (NER) in Australia and is an APEC Engineer and an International Professional Engineering registered in Australia (IntPE). He is also a member of the SFPE.

His current research projects are in the areas of:

  • Fire safety of timber buildings
  • Design of buildings for vertical fire spread
  • Lithium Ion Battery fire safety
  • Structural fire engineering
  • Fire engineering design
  • Application and development of risk analysis techniques in fire safety engineering
David Lange
David Lange

Dr Shuanglei Wu

Honorary Research Fellow
School of the Environment
Faculty of Science
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Shuanglei Wu