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Dr Daniela Castro de Jong

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Occupational therapy, Geriatrics and gerontology, Higher education, People with disability, Urban design, Allied health and rehabilitation science
Keywords:

interprofessional

cultural diversity

occupational therapy

student learning in higher education

I am a registered occupational therapist with vast experience working with clients living with a disability and in community settings.

Dr Jiaojiao Jiang

Faculty: Engineering
Fields of Research (FoR): Modelling and simulation, Cybersecurity and privacy, Complex systems, System and network security
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Communication Networks and Services

Computer Software and Services

Keywords:

online social networks

information dissemination

complex networks

cyber intelligence

artificial neural network

deep learning

Dr Jane Mowll

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Social Work, Clinical Social Work Practice

Jane Mowll (she/her) holds a BSW, and PhD from the University of NSW (UNSW) Australia. Her research interests include social work and counselling practices, education, and experiences of care

Dr Erin Goddard

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Vision science, Sensory processes, perception and performance, Neurosciences, Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Cognitive neuroscience
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Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Keywords:

neuroscience

sensory processing

functional neuroimaging

I received my PhD in 2011 from the University of Sydney, before completing postdoctoral positions at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University in Sydney, and at McGill University in Montréa

Dr Tanya Kwee

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Keywords:

teacher efficacy

teacher identity

education for sustainability

online learning

english language teaching

professional development

emigrants and immigrants

Dr Tanya Kwee is a Lecturer in the School of Education at UNSW Sydney.

Dr Kristin Bindley

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Keywords:

grief/bereavement/complicated grief

carers

caring

palliative care

social determinants of health

qualitative methodology

end-of-life

Kristin (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Fellow in

Professor Scott Eacott

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Specialist studies in education, Educational administration, management and leadership, Education systems, Housing markets, development and management, Housing policy, Urban analysis and development, Strategic, metropolitan and regional planning
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Management and Leadership of Schools/Institutions

Keywords:

educational leadership

educational administration

educational management

housing affordability

Scott Eacott, PhD is Professor of Education and Principal Investigator of the Housing Affordability and the Teacher Shortage (HATS) Lab in the School of Education, and a Fellow of

Dr Maryam Amoke Folarin

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Communication and media studies, Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies, Organisational, interpersonal and intercultural communication
Keywords:

public relations

intercultural studies

cultural sensitivity

qualitative methods

Dr. Maryam Folarin is a Lecturer in public relations and advertising in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Dr Sonya Lifschitz

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Music performance, Music, Performing arts
Keywords:

interdisciplinary practice

music

creative and performing arts

performing arts

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Dr Vikneswary Batumalai

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Fields of Research (FoR): Radiation Therapy, Health and Community Services, Health Economics
Keywords:

radiation therapy

equity

Dr Batumalai is a Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. She has extensive research and clinical expertise in the field of radiation therapy and health services rese

Dr Maria Soledad Gonzalez

Faculty: Medicine & Health
Keywords:

implementation science

Cancer Survivorship

exercise

I’m Maria Gonzalez — an implementation-focused researcher who cares about making evidence useful in practice.

Dr Giddy Pillai

Faculty: Law & Justice
Fields of Research (FoR): Constitutional Law, Citizenship, Migration

Dr Sangeetha Pillai is a constitutional lawyer and a Senior Research Associate at the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.

Dr Ron Haines

Faculty: Science
Fields of Research (FoR): Catalysis and Mechanisms of Reactions, Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
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Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences

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I obtained B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees from UNSW and completed postdoctoral work with Prof. Brian Orr on time resolved laser spectroscopy.

Dr Deborah Mayersen

Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Keywords:

Rwanda genocide

Armenian genocide

genocide studies

Dr Dave Sullivan

Faculty: Business
Fields of Research (FoR): Human resources management, Organisational behaviour
Keywords:

performance management

person-environment fit

recruitment

job search

Dave Sullivan is a senior lecturer in Human Resources

Dr Peter Robert White

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Communication and media studies, Journalism studies, Linguistics, Corpus linguistics, Computational linguistics, Applied linguistics and educational linguistics, Translation and interpretation studies, Communication and Media Studies, Discourse and Pragmatics, Journalism Studies, Translation and Interpretation Studies, Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics, Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics), Comparative Language Studies, Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
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Languages and Literacy

Communication Across Languages and Culture

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

Keywords:

linguistics

discourse analysis

systemic functional linguistics

Dr White is one of the principal architects of the Appraisal framework,an account of the means by which texts convey evaluative and attitudinal meanings.

Dr Shu Geng

Faculty: Engineering

Dr. Shu Geng is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia.

Associate Professor Melrose Brown

Faculty: UNSW Canberra
Fields of Research (FoR): Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerospace Engineering, Mesospheric, Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Physics, Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design
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Space Transport

Atmosphere and Weather not elsewhere classified

Expanding Knowledge in Engineering

Dr Kathryn Thorburn

Faculty: Medicine & Health

I specialise in participatory, lived experience, co-designed and co-produced research. I have a longstanding reputation for promoting lived experience partnerships in health and social ca

Associate Professor Daniel Joyce

Faculty: Law & Justice
Fields of Research (FoR): International and comparative law, Media and communication law

Dr Sujith Prankumar

Faculty: Medicine & Health

Sujith is a sociologist, educator and evaluator with a research focus on health equity and justice.

Dr Xiaoran (Daisy) Chu

Faculty: Engineering
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Xiaoran (Daisy) Chu is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering.

Dr Jennifer Wen Ying Lim

Faculty: Medicine & Health

Jennifer is a medical oncologist and a conjoint senior lecturer working at St George Hospital. She completed her PhD at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in 2026.