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10 May 2019

The University of Queensland has a range of experts available to talk during the Federal election campaign.

Journalists can search by topic or name at or contact the following experts.

 

Children and Families

, Group Leader and Deputy Director of Research, Institute of Social Science Research, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Expertise: childcare; child development; school readiness; twins; children's sleep; early education and care parenting; children; early years workforce; childcare educators work conditions; preschool.

Contact: k.thorpe@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 7742.

 

, Research Fellow, Institute of Social Science Research, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Expertise: Children’s sleep health and sleep patterns; Child health and well-being; Developmental Psychology; Child Development; Early care environments; Early childhood education and care policy and practice; Carer and parent sleep practices; Sibling relationships; Early social interactions; Twin studies; childcare

Contact: s.staton@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 7698.

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Social Science Research, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Expertise: Early childhood education; Teacher-child interactions; childcare

Contact: s.houen@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8846.

 

Business

, Executive Dean of Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

Expertise: innovation and sustainability, corporate sustainability, climate change and business.

Contact: a.griffiths@bel.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 6204, .

 

, ¹ú²ú̽»¨ Business School:

Expertise: government and policy, comparative government, government and administration, government business relations, intergovernmental relations, public policy.

Contact: k.wiltshire@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8100.

 

, ¹ú²ú̽»¨ Business School:

Expertise: management, political rhetoric and corporate communication, community participation in corporate and social decision-making.

Contact: b.mckenna@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8149.

 

, ¹ú²ú̽»¨ Business School:

Expertise: organisational trust, trust development, stakeholder trust, leadership, organisational change.

Contact: n.gillespie@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8076, .

 

, ¹ú²ú̽»¨ Business School:

Expertise: leadership and leader-member relationships, organisational culture, emotional intelligence, ethics in organisational behaviour.

Contact: n.ashkanasy@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8006.

 

, ¹ú²ú̽»¨ Business School:

Expertise: innovation leadership, entrepreneurship, SME growth and performance, business model innovation.

Contact: s.gronum@business.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8168.

 

, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences:

Expertise: the changing nature and future of work across Australia. 

Contact: r.sobyra@uq.edu.au, +61 430 055 047.

 

Economics

, School of Economics:

Expertise: Australian economic policy, public asset sales, drought and economics, water and economics/politics, environment/climate change and economics, economic growth, tax, employment policy, political economy, and “zombie economics”.

Contact: j.quiggin@uq.edu.au, +61 400 747 165, +61 7 3346 9646, .

 

, School of Economics:

Expertise: environmental and resource economics, the economics of climate change, environmental policy, mining, pollution regulation, and recycling as it translates to economics.

Contact: i.mackenzie@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 6619.

 

, Australian Institute for Business and Economics:

Expertise: labour economics, industrial economics, taxation policy, climate change economics, water and economics, economic growth.

Contact: jmangan@bel.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 1630, +61 434 367 480.
 

, Deputy Executive Dean of Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

Expertise: macroeconomics, monetary policy, housing market/prices, mortgage crisis, inflation, fiscal policy, economic forecasting, business and labour economics.

Contact: p.bodman@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 9033, .
 

Law

, TC Beirne School of Law:

Expertise: laws and norms of electoral politics – how elections, parties, parliament and money in politics are run, and labour and employment law.

Contact: g.orr@law.uq.edu.au, +61 434 525 398, .
 

Politics

, School of Political Science and International Studies:

Expertise: Australian politics, hate speech, human rights and freedom of speech.

Contact: k.gelber@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 2910, .

 

Energy, resources and environment

, ¹ú²ú̽»¨ Centre for Policy Futures:

Expertise: climate change, sustainability and environment policy.

Contact: k.hussey@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3443 3154, +61 420 537 169.

 

, School of Political Science and International Studies:

Expertise: climate change, foreign and defence policy.

Contact: matt.mcdonald@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 3042, +61 451 302 030, .

 

Electric vehicles

, School of Civil Engineering: 

Expertise: transport energy, transport policy, road pricing, electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles. 

Contact: j.whitehead@uq.edu.au, +61 430 404 974. 

 

, School of Economics:

Expertise: the economic impact of electric vehicles, how electronic vehicles reduce emissions, the introduction of electric vehicles in other countries.

Contact: j.quiggin@uq.edu.au, +61 400 747 165, +61 7 3346 9646, .

 

Media: ¹ú²ú̽»¨ Communications, communications@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 1120.