Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC)

Professor Ali Abbas, FIEAust FRSN

Professor Ali Abbas is an internationally recognised leader in process systems engineering, circular economy innovation, and sustainability transitions. He currently serves as the Associate Dean (Research) within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney, driving strategic research initiatives and fostering significant industry and government collaborations. He is also the Founding Director of the Waste Transformation Research Hub, a national research centre addressing technological challenges in Australia's waste industry.

Ali completed his Bachelor's degree and PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Sydney. He previously held academic appointments at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of New South Wales (UNSW Asia) in Singapore, along with visiting professorships at leading international institutions, including Harvard University.

With over 20 years' experience in Process Systems Engineering (PSE), Ali's expertise encompasses process intensification, techno-economic feasibility, multiscale modelling, process scale-up, optimisation, and the design of low-emissions technologies. His work spans applications in eco-industrial parks, clean energy, biotechnology, waste transformation, carbon capture, and biomedical systems.

Ali has been at the forefront of circular economy transitions in Australia, identifying practical pathways to implement circular economy principles effectively. As Australia's inaugural Chief Circular Engineer at Circular Australia, he actively shapes national sustainability policies and strategies. He is the founding Chair of theAustralian Circular Economy Conference, an influential national platform driving collaboration on circular economy solutions across industry, government, and academia.

A prolific researcher, Ali conducts fundamental computational and applied research, with a strong emphasis on resource optimisation and efficiency across multiple scales. He has authored over 160 scientific and engineering publications, and is recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, placing him among the top 2% globally in his field.

Ali has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Australia-Harvard Fellowship (2011), the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Fellowship as an Australia-China Future Leader in Clean Coal Technologies (2012), the international PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize (London, 2008; runner-up 2015), and the Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellowship for outstanding research leadership. He was also a finalist in the 2023 Eureka Prize for Innovative Research in Sustainability.

Ali translates his research into impactful commercial outcomes through deep-tech ventures, including Scimita Group and Trofica, developing breakthrough technologies in clean energy, circular economy, and sustainable urban agriculture. He provides strategic advisory services to industry and government bodies, leveraging his expertise to advance sustainable technologies and policies. Additionally, Ali serves on the board of the Australian Government's Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR), actively fostering international research and innovation partnerships.

Dania Abu Awwad is a lecturer and researcher within the Discipline of Medical Imaging Sciences at the University of Sydney. She completed her Bachelor of Applied Science (Diagnostic Radiography) (Hons) degree in 2018 and her PhD in 2021 at the University of Sydney. Dania has been teaching at the University of Sydney since 2019 and continues to work clinically as a diagnostic radiographer.

Dania's research revolves around breast cancer, overimaging, and patient care. 

Associate Professor Dr Akhtar's research interests are broad, and include: Governance, ESG, AI/ML, Financial and Cyber-crime, Corporate Finance (Share market and Bond market), Multinationals, Tax, M&A, International Finance, Innovation, Superannuation/Pension systems, Banking, Risk Management, Behavioural Finance, Cross-Cultural & Indigenous Studies, Islamic Finance and Higher Education. Her research publications have appeared in leading international and local journals. Dr Akhtar has received a number of competitive external research grants, with total funding in excess of 1.7 million dollars. She was a recipient of an ARC DECRA Fellowship. Her research has been acknowledged by the Australian-US Fulbright and Oxford Fellowship. Her research has been instrumental in policy and regulatory space especially in Bond, Tax and international trade. She has been invited several times by the Australian Federal Parliament to serve as Expert Witness on critical local and international policy matters. She is an active researcher and presents her work regularly at international and Australian conferences including the American Finance Association Conference. A number of her research papers received local and international prestigious awards. She has engaged in invited research visits to several top US Universities, including Harvard, MIT and Stanford among others.

Dr Akhtar has a broad teaching portfolio encompassing both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She also supervises Honours, Masters and PhD students. She has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and also the "Top Supervisor" Award.

Associate Professor Alam is a health social scientist with expertise in integrating qualitative studies within randomised trials to improve their design, conduct and interpretation. His research focuses on implementation research in maternal, child and adolescent nutrition across South and Southeast Asia and Africa - including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, Malawi and Senegal - as well as gender equality, disability and social inclusion in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Island nations. He has expertise in nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social safety net interventions. His research area also includes the impact of household air pollution on perinatal outcomes. His research on neonatal skincare has translated into policy and practice in newborn care in Bangladesh, Nepal and sub-Saharan Africa. He teaches at the postgraduate level in global health and qualitative and health social science methods. A/Prof Alam’s higher degree students conduct research in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Fiji, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan, Vietnam and South Sudan.

BA (Hons) AdMU; MBA ESCP Europe; PhD Sydney; GradCertEdStudies Sydney; GradDipTrainHRM Leicester

Sandra Alday is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School. Extending her experience in international strategy and organisation development consulting, her scholarly research explores the nature of risk, how it is perceived and communicated, and how it is managed. She also investigates the impact of risk management approaches on equity and sustainability particularly in Southeast Asian contexts. Because pathways to sustainable futures require different ways of thinking and doing, she further examines how learning experiences can transform the way people and organisations think about risk and sustainability. 

Sandra is Deputy Director (Partnerships) of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) at the University of Sydney and Program Director of the Master of Management and Master of Management (CEMS) programs at the University of Sydney Business School. She is Vice President of the Academy of International Business Sustainability Interest Group (AIB SIG), Past President of the Society for Risk Analysis-Australia and New Zealand (SRA-ANZ), and Past Councillor of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Education (JME) and a member of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) Oceania Committee. Committed to excellence and innovation in higher education, Sandra is a recipient of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Robert Aldrich, Professor Emeritus of European History, carries out research in modern European and colonial history, especially the history of the French and British overseas empires; the history of modern monarchy; and the history of gender and sexuality.

Professor Tooran Alizadeh is an intersectional feminist from the Global Majority - born, raised, educated, and practised in Southern cities as a built environment professional. She, nevertheless, acknowledges two decades of living, studying, and working on the unceded lands of the First Nations people in Australia. Her ongoing research spans smart urbanism, digital geographies, infrastructure, and Southern urbanism.

Tooran has an established track record on the equity implications of telecommunication infrastructure in Australia, as the first academic who demonstrated the ups and downs of the National Broadband Network (NBN) with attention to the spatial patterns of the mixed-technology NBN rollout. More recently, however, she has advanced an intersectoral approach towards infrastructure arguing for an integrated public-led infrastructure governance in Australia and beyond - laying the foundation for mutually respectful coexistence of the Western urban planning governance and Indigenous governance. This distinct line of inquiry builds solidarity with Indigenous sovereignties while making significant contribution to urban studies.

A second prominent research trajectory focuses on the global trends of smart urbanism from a 'Southern urban critique' - defining 'South' not as a location, but as a power relation that has long been used to silence and sideline. In this line of inquiry, Tooran has increasingly adopted an intersectional feminist lens to investigate the socio-spatial implications of smart city development and unfolding digital geographies in India - as part of a broader research agenda 'the right to the smart city in the Global South' to 1) 'expose' in the sense of analysing and articulating the roots of smart city shortcomings; 2) 'propose' in the sense of working with those affected or excluded to construct normative alternative visions for 'just smart city'; and 3) 'politicise' in the sense of clarifying the political implications of what is exposed and proposed, and supporting, organising, and mobilising around the alternative visions.

Tooran's research is supported by a variety of funding sources (including an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship), has resulted in over 100 refereed publications, and made meaningful contribution to the public discourse around the urban and equity implications of infrastructure development in Australia and beyond - evidenced by numerous prime time TV and radio interviews, and hundreds of quotations in the print media. She is also the Associate Editor of Telematics and Informatics - an interdisciplinary high impact journal on the social impacts of new technologies. Tooran was the co-convener of Smart Urbanism (Research) Lab at the University of Sydney (2021-2025), the lead investigator on the Infrastructure Governance Incubator (2020-2024) funded by the Henry Halloran Research Trust, and a recipient of the prestigious Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellowship at the University of Sydney (2019 and 2020).

BAppScPhysiotherapy(First Class Hons)(Syd), PhD (Syd)

A/Prof Natalie Allen is an Associate Professor in the Neurological Physiotherapy team within the Discipline of Physiotherapy. Natalie is recognised internationally as an expert on physiotherapy interventions for people with Parkinson's disease. Natalie leads a research team in three key areas: 1) development of interventionsto improve safe mobility and reduce falls; 2) exploring the potential for exercise to assist in the management of pain; 3) investigation of models of service delivery, including the use of technology and exercise self-management.

Natalie's research expertiseincludes clinical research of a variety of methodologies including randomised controlled trials (RCTs), uncontrolled trials, observational, translational and qualitative studies, and systematic reviews. She regularly presents her work nationally and internationally and has been invited to present at prestigious international Parkinson's disease conferences.Her work is published in in top journals in the fields of rehabilitation and clinical neurology.

Professor Tim Allender's principal research over the past 30 years concerns Indian education and empire studies using multidisciplinary approaches that focus on gender and feminism. His most recent book with Manchester University Press (Studies in Imperialism Series), entitled Empire Religiosity, explores female Roman Catholicism in colonial and postcolonial India and is now available in paperback. This book is the WINNER of the Triennial Distinguished Book Award, 2022-25, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USA. His previous book, Learning Femininity in Colonial India, also with Manchester University Press (Studies in Imperialism Series), now also available in paperback, develops key gender, feminist and knowledge transfer themes concerning India. This book is the WINNER of the Anne Bloomfield Triennial book prize awarded by the HES (UK) for best history of education book published between 2014 and 2017. As the nominee of the NSW/ACT Committee of Chairs of Academic Boards and Senates, Tim has consulted over many years with the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) on the development of the Australian National Curriculum (History).

Tim has held visiting fellowships at the University of Winchester and the University of London. He has held research Professorships at the Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany; at the University of Toronto, Canada; at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla, India; at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; at the National Institute of Education, Singapore, at the University of Birmingham, UK and, most recently, at Heidelberg University, Germany. He is co-editor of a forthcoming book on visual literacies and history. Tim was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain in 2024.

Tim has published earlier single-authored books, 53 mostly single-authored international journal articles and book chapters, illuminating other sociological, medical and cultural aspects of empire. He is the lead co-editor of four edited books, five special issues of international journals and he is on the editorial boards of six leading international journals. Tim is founding co-editor of two successful international book series: ISCHE global histories (Europe); and Studies in Visual History (de Gruyter, Berlin). He has held two successfully completed ARC grants. In recognition of his international standing as a scholar of education of India he delivered the keynote address to the world ISCHE conference in Turkey (June 2015) - the first Australian invited to do so. He has also delivered 45 invited keynotes and other sole presentations in international and national forums in Europe, the US and in Asia.

Mark Allon teaches Sanskrit and other ancient languages of South Asia (Pali and Gandhari) and Buddhist and Asian studies. His primary research interests are the composition and transmission of early Buddhist literature, the ways in which texts have been used by Buddhist communities, and the Indic languages of early Buddhist texts (Pali, Gandhari, Sanskrit).

Children, youth, work and education are at the centre of my academic work. I research, develop curriculum, teach, and develop and evaluate programs that connect these four interrelated domains. As an anthropologist and education-focused academic I am interested in the connections between children/youth, education and livelihoods, and in developing insights into life transitions and into how education and work intersect in specific sociocultural settings. I am also deeply committed to contributing to a more sustainable world and have developed expertise in Education for Sustainability. The education-focused role I hold in the Division of Curriculum Futures enables me to embed sustainability and transdisciplinary thinking into our Industry Community Project Units (ICPUs). I help students reflect on how sustainability thinking can be embedded in all disciplines, and how they can contribute to a sustainable planet through the research projects they work on in partnership with our sponsoring organisations. My education philosophy focuses on promoting how small actions can bring about big changes.

Dr Kim Anastasiou is a Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. Her work is focused on understanding and improving the health, environmental and equity impacts of food systems. Her current research focuses on understanding the environmental impacts of ultra-processed foods and; conceptualising the drivers and impacts of first-food systems on outcomes for infants and young children. Previous work has included: determining the health, equity and environmental impacts of Australian food policies, working on EAT-Lancet 2.0, investigating the environmental impacts of ultra-processed foods (PhD topic) and a wide variety of public health nutrition research projects. 

Kim is an advocate for the transformative changes needed to create healthier, more equitable and more sustainable food systems. She is currently an executive board member of Healthy Food Systems Australia, working towards holistic food policy changes. Previously, Kim has held the roles of ‘Young Scientist’ for the UN FAO’s World Food Forum (2022-23) and ‘Youth Liaison’ for the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (2021). She has also been involved in advocacy activities relating to the Nyéléni Declaration on Food Sovereignty (2024-25) and the Climate Conference of Parties (2021-22).

Tiho Ancev is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He holds degrees from Saints Cyril and Methodius University (Bachelor), University of Iceland (Master) and Oklahoma State University (PhD). His main research areas are agricultural, environmental, natural resource and energy economics. Tiho’s main contributions have been in water economics and policy, economics of energy, economics of air pollution and climate change policies, and economics of precision agriculture and agricultural input use. He has published widely on these topics in top international peer reviewed journals. Tiho has led and contributed to national and international research projects in these research areas. He is currently the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

B.Med.Sc., M.B., B.S., M.D. (Melbourne), M.A., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania); FAHA, FASSA, FAHMS, FRSN

Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Discipline of Health and leader of the Politics, Governance and Ethics Theme with the Charles Perkins Centre. From 2012-17 Warwick Anderson was ARC Laureate Fellow in the Department of History and the Center for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. Additionally, he has an affiliation with History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney and is a Professorial Fellow of the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. In 2018-19 he was the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, based in the Department of the History of Science.

As an historian of science, medicine and public health, focusing on Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the United States, Professor Anderson is especially interested in ideas about race, human difference, and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has also studied the history of immunology (particularly autoimmunity) and perceptions of 'waste'. Occasionally he writes programmatically on postcolonial science studies and, more generally, on science and globalisation. In recent years, his research has focussed on the conceptual development of disease ecology and planetary health, i.e., the population health impacts of climate change.

Before moving to Sydney in 2007, Prof. Anderson was Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health, Professor of the History of Science, and Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At Wisconsin he also served on the steering committee of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies and was a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Previously Prof. Anderson taught at Harvard, Melbourne (where he founded the Centre for Health and Society, now the Centre for Health Equity), UCSF and Berkeley. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Australian Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (US), and the Rockefeller and Mellon Foundations. He was the Frederick Burkhardt Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2005-6), and a Guggenheim Fellow (2007-8). He has held visiting professorships at Harvard, Manchester and McMaster universities. In 2013 he was John Hope Franklin Fellow at Duke University and the Whitney J. Oakes Fellow in the Humanities Center at Princeton University. His books have been awarded the W.K. Hancock Prize (AHA, 2004); the Philippines National Book Award for Social Science (2008); the NSW Premier's General History Prize (2009 and 2014); the William H. Welch Medal (AAHM, 2010); and the Ludwik Fleck Prize (4S, 2010).

Prof. Anderson is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (FAHA), the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS), and the Royal Society of NSW (FRSN). In 2023, he was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science for distinguished contributions to science and technology studies, the Society's lifetime achievement award. In 2025, he was awarded the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for lifetime achievement in public health history by the American Public Health Association. The Australian's research review named him Australia's 'top historian' for 2026.

BPharm(Hons) MSc PhD G Cert Ed Stud (Higher Ed), MPS MRPharmS, FFIP

Professor Parisa Aslani, PhD, BPharm(Hons), MSc, G Cert Ed Stud (Higher Ed), is the Professor in Medicines Use Optimisation at the School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney.

Professor Parisa Aslani holds a BPharm(Hons) (1990) from Kings College (University of London); MSc (in Pharmaceutics; 1995), PhD (in Pharmacy Practice; 2000) and Grad Cert Ed Stud (Higher Ed) (2001) from the University of Sydney. She has worked as a community pharmacist in the UK and Australia.

Professor Aslani has been a researcher and educator in the field of consumer medicine information and adherence for the past 25 years. She has received the University of Sydney’s prestigious Thompson Equity Fellowship (2013), which recognizes research excellence and aims to promote and enhance the career of academic women. She was awarded the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (UK) Pharmacy Research UK Award 2013, in recognition of a significant contribution to the field of pharmacy research.

She is a registered pharmacist in Australia and the UK. Prof Aslani is Honorary Professor in the School of Healthcare, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Leeds; and Academic Advisor to Luto Research Limited, UK (which develops healthcare material for consumers in partnership with consumers). She is a fellow of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), and immediate past FIP Vice President (2020-2024), and Immediate Past President of the Health and Medicines Information Section. She was Chair of the 81st FIP World Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Congress 2023 held in Brisbane, Australia. She is also a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy. During her employment she has held a number of significant leadership roles within the University, and externally in the profession, and has had a number of career breaks. She has just completed a 5-year term as Deputy Head and Director of Academic Career Development at the School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney.

Prof Aslani has published over 190 research articles in peer-review journals; 7 books and 11 book chapters; 4455 citations of her articles since 2020 (career total: 9410); h-index of 52 (Google Scholar). She has been a CI on 46, and AI on 2 grants (total over $7 million). Key research funding include a competitive tender (2008) in the area of Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing managed through the Pharmacy Guild of Australia; a recent (2017-2019) NHMRC grant on Question Prompt Lists for parents and carers of children with ADHD; a recent (2020-2024) NHMRC Partnership Project on Community Health workers Extending Care in the Community; and an Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care tendered project on the Dose Administration Aid (DAA) program to evaluate current program and provide recommendations for future directions.

AM, PhD, FRCPI, FRACP, DCH, MSc, MBBCh

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Dr Francesco Bailo is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney. He is interested in researching forms of political engagement and political talk on social media. He has researched the emergence and dynamics of online communities, the role between news organisations and social media, and the interdependence between social media activists and news organisations. He has engaged and applied quantitative research methods developing expertise in quantitative text analysis (NLP) and network analysis.

Marian Baird AO is Professor of Gender and Employment Relations and Co-Director of the Sydney Employment Relations Research Group in the University of Sydney Business School. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia.

Marian is a leading researcher in the fields of industrial relations, women, work and care. Her research focuses on policy responses at all levels, including government, business and unions. She has a long history of policy engagement on gender equitable organisational change, flexible work, women and leadership, paid family and domestic violence leave and reproductive support policies. Through her career as an engaged researcher, she has worked with federal and state government departments, organisations, unions and not-for-profits to improve the position for women in the workforce and society. Marian has contributed to the development of government and company policies on maternity and parental leaves, flexibility, discrimination and the ageing workforce. Her pathbreaking research on paid parental leave contributed to the introduction of Australia's paid Parental Leave Scheme in 2010. In 2022-23, she advised the Australian Government on extensions and changes to the Scheme.

Currently, she is a Chief Investigator on the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) and leader of the mature workers and care stream. Other current research projects include the female body@work project, women's economic empowerment and workplace violence in female dominated sectors. Marian is an Expert Panel Member of the Fair Work Commission, appointed in March 2023. She is a member of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations' Parent Advisory Group to improve the economic security of Australian parents, appointed in 2024.

As the first female professor in industrial relations at the University of Sydney, Marian has developed the next generation of researchers and policymakers in her teaching of industrial relations policy and strategic human resource management and as a supervisor of 13 PhD students. She received the SUPRA Supervisor of the Year Award in 2022

Marian's work is widely published and she is co-author of Human Resource Management (published by Cengage), Australia's leading text book in the field. Marian contributes to the discipline internationally as a Coordinator of the International Network of Leave Policies and Research and the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) Gender and Employment Study Group. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta, MIT, Michigan State University, University of Nottingham, Leeds University Business School and Queen Mary University of London Business School.

In 2016 Marian was awarded an AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) for outstanding services to improving the quality of women's working lives and for contributions to tertiary education. Other awards include the Best Paper Award at AIRAANZ 2023, the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association Award in 2021, the AIRAANZ Lifetime Service Award in 2020, and being named in Apolitical's Top 100 Most Influential People in Gender Equality list in 2019 and 2018. In 2014 she received the Edna Ryan Award for making positive change for women in the workforce, in 2013 she received the AFR/Westpac Women of Influence Award in Public Policy, and in 2015 and 2003 she won the University of Sydney Business School's most engaged researcher awards.

Shuvo Bakar holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Southampton, UK. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Yale University, USA; Lecturer at the Australian National University; and as a Scientist at Data61, CSIRO.

He teaches several postgraduate programs (statistics and biostatistics units) at The University of Sydney. He serves on the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports and Discover Public Health (Springer-Nature), and is the Statistics Editor for Kidney International. Shuvo also leads BayesHealth: A Bayesian Hub for Health Sciences, an initiative dedicated to advancing statistical innovation and evidence-based health research through Bayesian methodologies and collaborative learning. He has further been recognised as a GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor for his contributions to open-source scientific and computational research projects.

Dr Max Baker is a Professor and the Research Director of the Discipline of Accounting, Regulation and Governance at the University of Sydney Business School. Before his academic career, Max worked as an accountant and auditor for PwC and Macquarie Bank. Since being awarded his PhD, Max has developed, taught and coordinated a range of accounting and business subjects. His research focuses on corporate social responsibility, prison reform and Big Data. Max has published extensively in top-tier academic journals and serves on the editorial board of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Accounting and Business Research and is an Associate Editor of ABACUS. In 2022, Max won an ARC discovery grant to study the data breach disclosure rules and practices in Australian companies. The policy recommendation report based on this research is available at (DOI: https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32980).

RN, BSN, MAN(Adult Health Nursing), GradCertClinEd, MACN, FHEA

Jay is a nurse academic and researcher within the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, with extensive teaching and clinical experience across medical and surgical nursing and palliative care. He currently teaches and coordinates acute care nursing practice and palliative care units of study across pre-registration and post-registration nursing programs, in both Australian and Singapore-based programs.

His doctoral research examined how nurses reconcile cultural values and care approaches in end-of-life care. This body of work, supported by the inaugural Daffodil Centre Postgraduate Research Scholarship, was a multi-study, cross-country investigation conducted in Australia and Malaysia, generating evidence on the tensions nurses experience delivering end-of-life care within culturally situated contexts. Findings were presented at several national and international conferences. Building on this work, Jay's research program aims to generate evidence to strengthen workforce inclusion and belonging, and culturally responsive healthcare practice.

Summary: Dr Madhan Balasubramanian is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, School of Public Health. He is currently based at Flinders University, Adelaide, as a Senior Lecturer in Health Care Management. Madhan's interests broadly lie at the intersection of health policy, health systems and health services. He has a public health and health services background, with focus on the future design and sustainable development of core health system components and developing integrated systems to address the sustainable development goals. He brings an excellent track record, relative to opportunity.

Research: Madhan has published over 35+ scientific research articles. He has won three nationally competitive Australian Government fellowships. Overall, he has received over a million Australian dollars in nationally/internationally competitive fellowships (as CIA), in addition to scholarships and academic prizes. Madhan has active research projects that he conceptualised and developed across two states in Australia (NSW and SA), and internationally in the United Kingdom and India. He has also worked extensively on national surveys and longitudinal studies and has several ongoing studies on health data science, health services, health workforce and aged care.

Teaching: Madhan brings experience teaching at four Australian Universities (Universities of Sydney, Adelaide, New England and Griffith), and two overseas institutions (Kings College London, the United Kingdom and Osmania University, India). He is involved in public health, health services, health research methods and health policy programs. Madhan has supervised or mentored seven postgraduate students to completion.

Leadership: Madhan serves as an Editorial Board Member of BMC Health Services Research and Section Editor (Non-Communicable Diseases) for Journal of Global Oral Health. He has also edited special issues for Nature and MDPI journals. He is current President of the Network for Practice-Based Research, and Board member of the Constitution Committee at the International Association for Dental Research. Madhan was previously Board Member of the Australasian College of Health Service Executives and was Branch Councillor in South Australia. Madhan has served as a panel member of NHMRC investigator and ideas grants for the last 3 yrs. He has been successful in being funded with NHMRC, ARC and other major funders (both nationally and internationally).

Susan Banki studies the political, institutional, and social contexts that explain the roots of and solutions to human rights violations and social justice abuses. In particular, she is interested in the ways that questions of sovereignty, transnationalism, and citizenship/membership have shaped our responses to conflict and injustice, particularly examining institutions such as the international refugee regime, diasporas, and the humanitarian system. Susan's focus is in the Asia-Pacific region, where she has conducted extensive field research in Thailand, Myanmar/Burma, Cambodia, Nepal, Bangladesh and Japan on refugee/migrant protection, statelessness and border control. Her current projects include: the work of diasporas in responding to acute crises at home; humanitarian responses to complex displacement contexts; and the role of creative arts in transnational activism.

• 2016 Professor in Conservation Biology, SOLES
• 2011 Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, USYD
• 2010 Associate Professor, School of BEES, UNSW
• 2005 Senior Lecturer, School of BEES, UNSW
• 1999 Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, UNSW
• 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Turku, Finland
• 1997 PhD, USYD
• 1991 BSc, USYD

Emeritus Professor Lesley Barclay is an educational leader, health services researcher and systems reformer whose projects have improved maternal child health services in urban and remote Australia and internationally. Much of her recent research has been rural, remote or Indigenous focussed. Her most recent employed role was Professor and Director of the Centre for Rural Health in Lismore for Sydney University.

Lesley Barclayis known for her mentoring and training. This is exemplified by 14 of the 35 PhD students she has supervised over the last decade who have been appointed associate or full professors in midwifery or maternal child health. Professor Barclay has written or edited 2 books in the last decade and 65 published refereed papers in the last 5 years..

Lesley was awarded an AO in 2004 in recognition of her contribution to professional and international development and child health. She is one of the very few Distinguished Fellows of the Australian College of Midwives and one of the few foreign women designated a Samoan Chief; recognising 20 years of work with colleagues in that country.