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.