Neal M. Ashkanasy OAM, PhD is an Emeritus Professor of Management at the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland in Australia. He came to academe in after an 18-year career in water resources engineering. He received his PhD in social/organizational psychology from the same university. His research is in leadership, organizational culture, ethics, and emotions in organizations, and his work has been published in leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal and Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is Associate Editor for Emotion Review and Series Co-Editor of Research on Emotion in Organizations. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review and Academy of Management Learning and Education. Prof. Ashkanasy is a Fellow of the Academy for the Social Sciences in the UK (AcSS) and Australia (ASSA); the Association for Psychological Science (APS); the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP); Southern Management Association (SMA), and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS). In 2017, he was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia.
Srin Chaudhury received her PhD in Marketing from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She has a Masters’ degree in Psychology from the University of Texas and Bachelors’ degrees in Biological Sciences and Psychology from the University at Buffalo. Prior to joining UQ, Srin was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Katz School of Business in the University of Pittsburgh.
Srin’s research prioritizes individual and collective well-bring and examines how psychological, social, and interpersonal factors influence consumer behaviour. Within this broad domain, she is interested in how emotions, cognitions, and cultures affect how consumers interpret and respond to information about brands and products. Her research has been published in highly respected journals such as Emotion, Nature Scientific Reports, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (in-principal acceptance). Her research has also been presented at premier international marketing conferences including the conferences of the Association of Consumer Research (ACR), the Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP), and the American Marketing Association (AMA). Srin’s work has also received the Best paper in the Sustainability and Public Policy track and the Best paper in the Conference awards in Summer AMA 2021.
Sara Dolnicar was born in Ljubljana (Slovenia), grew up in Vienna (Austria) and now lives and works in Brisbane (Australia). She holds university degrees in psychology and business administration.
Sara is an expert on Airbnb and Airbnb regulation, making hotels operate in more environmentallyb sustainable ways while reducing operating cost, public acceptance of recycled waster and social marketing more generally.
To date, Sara has (co-)authored more than 300 refereed papers and led 16 Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, including the prestigous QEII and Laureate Fellowships. She won more than 30 awards, including two lifetime achievement awards: The US-based Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) Distinguished Researcher Award (2017) for ground-breaking research that positively impacts the tourism industry, and outstanding service to the tourism research community (in the association’s 48-year history this award has been given to only four people); and the Slovenian Ambassador of Science 2016, the highest honour the Republic of Slovenia bestows on expatriate Slovenian researchers in recognition of global excellence, impact, and knowledge transfer.
