Research Fellowships and Chairs
Leading research to benefit society.
These individuals lead research excellence across the Faculty. Their research benefits society by informing policy and influencing organisational and consumer behaviour.
UQ Business School
ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship
Understanding and overcoming community roadblocks to achieving net-zero
In the last 15 years, humans emitted a quarter of the greenhouse gases ever emitted by our species. Reversing this trajectory will require extraordinary levels of community support in the face of painful transformations of our society. This project will understand the psychological factors underpinning climate (in)action, test strategies capable of catalysing action, and deliver a suite of impact tools for government, industry, and green innovators. The significant benefits that will emerge will assist in future-proofing the economy, increasing government flexibility to drive change, and reducing social conflict. The project will inform Australia¿s transition from a fossil fuel dependent economy to a leader in rapid decarbonisation.
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ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Maintaining Human Expertise in an AI-driven World
While information systems with artificial intelligence are increasingly used to support or automate work tasks, this can come at a cost to the development and retention of essential skills in workers. Skill erosion can jeopardise safety and fairness in contexts where humans' skills are needed. This innovative project leverages systems thinking, case studies and action design research to investigate how leveraging artificial intelligence shapes workers' skills. Its expected outcomes include a new systems theory of skill erosion and organisational guidelines for managing artificial intelligence. These can help organisations maximise human potential by striking a balance between relying on automation and maintaining workers' skills.
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Paris-compliance: assessing companies and portfolios
This research project aims to turn the tide on misleading corporate climate pledges and systematise the assessment of companies' climate performance by using a science-based approach. A critical strategic priority urgently called for during recent international climate negotiations, the research conducted will be translated into a global platform where corporate Paris Compliance information will be shared openly and transparently. This will bolster businesses' climate action by outlining meaningful and effective decarbonisation pathways, allowing all stakeholders to make climate-safe decisions, and guiding policymakers to enforce the required changes for any business to become Paris-compliant.
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ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
The Role of Emotions in Marketing Cultured Meat
Traditional agriculture has a strong environmental impact. One solution to reduce this impact is cultured meat, which is meat created via a cell culture, rather than from a slaughtered animal. This project aims to examine the role of emotions in promoting consumer acceptance, which is the greatest barrier facing the commercialisation of cultured meat. The expected outcome is insight into factors influencing the acceptance of cultured meat, allowing development of effective marketing communication strategies. This should provide benefits including reduced environmental and ethical impact of conventional meat and improvement to Australian agribusiness. Similar strategies could also potentially be applied to other emerging food technologies.
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Charitable triad: How donors, beneficiaries, & fundraisers influence giving
Cassandra is testing a new model of charitable giving to examine how donors, beneficiaries, and fundraisers together influence donor decisions. Until now, no holistic model has existed to explain donor behaviour: past research has focused on donors but neglected beneficiaries and fundraisers. This project is expected to provide evidence for a new bedrock theory of philanthropy. Findings can also inform practitioner toolkits, offering advice to nonprofits on how to raise money effectively by understanding how the particular organisation and its beneficiaries can influence donor decisions. By helping ensure the survival of charities, this research will contribute to the delivery of essential social services that benefit many Australians.
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Empowering Users to Protect their Personal Privacy on Social Media
This Information Systems project aims to take a bold approach to finally overcome the paradoxical inertia of people who care about their privacy but do not protect it. This project integrates different psychological theories proposing a paradigm shift expecting to generate new knowledge in privacy research, which can currently neither explain nor provide means to overcome the vexing issue. Expected outcomes of the project include a privacy behaviour model (PIM), privacy training program and system design solutions. This should offer substantial benefits as it integrates privacy research and guides behavioural models beyond Information Systems, provide means to solve the paradox, guide legislation and the privacy consent mechanism design.
ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship
Making a sustainable tourist
Sara is trying to predict pro-environmental consumer behaviour in hedonic contexts, such as on vacation. Such interventions have the potential of reducing the negative environmental impacts of industries catering to enjoyment-focused activities.
Malcolm Broomhead Chair in Finance
Stephen is well known for his work on empirical finance, asset-pricing and corporate finance. He is an active consultant to industry on issues relating to valuation, cost of capital, corporate financial strategy, financial modelling and financial risk management.
Chair in Ethics
Thomas is global authority in the field of responsible leadership, business ethics, and the micro-foundations of CSR. His research links the individual, group, and organizational levels, combining ethical theory, political philosophy, relational thinking and stakeholder theory. His research interests include ethical decision-making, political CSR, and organizational neuroscience.
Frank Finn Chair in Finance
Shaun has research interests in the areas of real estate finance and financial economics. Prior to joining the UQ Business School, Shaun was the West Shell Professor of Real Estate in the Department of Finance at the University of Cincinnati and the Director of the UC Real Estate Center.
School of Economics
Colin Clark Chair
Claudio’s research focuses predominantly on microeconomic theory, particularly mechanism design, game theory and their applications, which can include competition policy, dispute resolution, procurement, blockchains, ransomware attacks, data breaches and cybersecurity.
TC Beirne School of Law
ARC DAATSIA Fellow
The past, present and future of Indigenous ethnobotanical knowledge
As part of ARC Discovery Indigenous (IN230100065), Henrietta’s research aims to resolve the interrelated and compounding problems that Indigenous Australians face in relation to their ethnobotanical knowledge, such as biopiracy, loss of biodiversity, knowledge, and opportunity. This Indigenous-led project aims to build community-based databases to protect, preserve and facilitate community controlled use of ethnobotanical knowledge. This will support and promote Indigenous economic self-sufficiency and sustainability which will be of direct benefit to the partner communities. In addition to providing direct benefits to the communities involved in the research, the project is designed to be replicated across Australia, bringing benefits to Indigenous communities throughout the country.
ARC Future Fellowship
Normalising Ability Diversity through Career Transitions: Disability at Work
Paul is investigating how the higher education sector can better support people with disabilities to transition from economic exclusion to work. One in five Australians have a disability and of these, 47.3% are not employed. This is a significant issue with regulatory failures and challenges often affecting rights to education and work being exercised on an equal basis. This project seeks to examine international legal norms, theories and strategic and operational practices in the higher education sector. Expected outcomes include advances in scholarship on ableism, informed policy reform, and transferable operational processes for the education and employment sectors, to improve the transition of people with disabilities to work.
Centre for the Business and Economics of Health
Taylor Family Chair
Lisa’s research focuses on strategic collaborations across the healthcare continuum with key partnerships in government, professional boards, associations, university, and other industry and consumer groups. These have led to the implementation of multiple complex practice change interventions. She has a proven record of bringing together these groups to focus on establishing multidisciplinary care teams to provide consumer-centric health care. This often means challenging currently held views of the scope of practice of health professionals, drawing on her high-level collaboration and negotiation skills.
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