Support during COVID-19

Professor Lidia Morawska is director of the QUT International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health. Her specific research focus is on airborne particulate matter, and her global scientific leadership has seen international and national authorities recognise the potential for airborne spread of COVID-19 and change the approaches to controlling the infection.

Distinguished Professor Mengersen focuses on using and developing new statistical and computational methods that can help to solve complex problems in the real world. These problems are in the fields of environment, genetics, health and medicine, and industry.

Professor Raja Jurdak specialises in distributed systems and is the Chair in Applied Data Sciences at QUT. He is available to provide insights into the role of data in infectious disease control.

Professor Gerard Fitzgerald is Professor of Public Health at QUT and discipline Leader of Health Management and Disaster Management. He is available to give insights into the impacts of COVID-19 on the health system, how th disease is spread, and how we can flatten the curve.

Professor David Kavanagh is an expert in the fields of psychology and counselling. He is available to provide insights into the mental health impacts of the pandemic.

Doctor Elke Hacker specialises in public health research. She is available to provide insight into positive health and hygiene practices to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Professor Robert Schweitzer is an expert in psychology and counselling. He is available for insights into maintaining relationships together and apart during the pandemic.

Professor Lisa Nissen is the head of our School of Clinical Sciences and an educator who has worked in hospital and community pharmacy in metropolitan and rural areas of Queensland, Australia. Her focus is on improving the quality use of medicines in the wider community, and she is available for insights into the pressures the pandemic is placing on pharmacies.

Associate Professor Patricia Obst has been an active researcher for almost 20 years in a variety of areas including volunteering, aging, wellbeing, sense of community, contectedness and social support, alcohol use in specific populations, and community engagement. She is available for advice on the importance of staying connected during the pandemic.

Dr Vince Kelly has over 20 years' experience in elite sport working in high performance, sport science and strength and conditioning roles with professional football teams, the Queensland Academy of Sport and individual athletes. He is available for tips on how to keep fit during the pandemic.

Dr Olivia Fisher is a research fellow with our School of Public Health and Social Work. She is available to provide insights into coping with anxiety and sleeplessness during the pandemic.

Professor Susan Danby is an expert in education systems, linguistics, sociology, health communication and pragmatics. She is available for insights in the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across all these areas, as well as providing advice on staying connected during isolation.

Christina Chalmers is a senior lecturer in Mathematics and Technologies Education in our School of Teacher Education & Leadership. Her research focuses on group metacognition, computer supported collaborative learning, digital pedagogies, and robotics-based STEM education.

Associate Professor Jill Willis explores how learners navigate performance expectations in assessment systems, so learners of all ages can be supported to experience greater success and agency. She is available for insights into the impacts of the pandemic on the education system and ATAR scores.

Dr Rebecca English is available to provide tips on home-schooling during the pandemic lockdown.

Jean Burgess is Director of the Digital Media Research Centre. Her research focuses on the social implications of digital media technologies, platforms, and cultures, as well as critical, qualitative and computational methods for studying them. She is also incoming Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Professor Axel Bruns is a part of our Digital Media Research Centr and a chief investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. He is available to provide insights into the role of social media during pandemics.

Professor Clive Bean is an expert in political science. He is available to give insights into people's immunity to messaging during the pandemic.

Professor Amanda Lotz is an expert in media studies at our Digital Media Research Centre and a fellow at the Peabody Media Center. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of eight books that explore television and media industries. She is available to provide insights into the impacts of COVID-19 on the media and streaming services.

Daniel Angus is Associate Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication at Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on the development of visual computational analysis methods for communication data, with a specific focus on conversation data. He is available for advice on the best technologies to use to stay connected.

Professor Gene Moyle is an expert performance psychologist. She is available for insights into how dance and exercise can help people cope through the pandemic.

John Willsteed is an expert in creative practice and has had a rich career as a musician, sound editor and composer. He is available for advice on how playing and learning music at home can help through the pandemic.

Professor Gary Mortimer is an active researcher in the areas of food retailing, retail marketing and consumer behaviour. He is available to provide insights into consumer behaviours and business adaptability during the crisis.

Professor Rowena Barrett is Executive Director, QUT Entrepreneurship. She is available to provide insight into business adaptability and entrepreneurial pivots during a time of crisis.

Paula McDonald is Professor of Work and Organisation, Associate Dean, Research in the QUT Business School and visiting Professor at Queen Mary University London. She is available for insights into the risks to the casual workforce and young works as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Char-lee Moyle is a DITID Innovation Metrics Mid-Career Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at QUT. Her esearch is focused on regional economic development and transformation, strategic policy and planning, and the adoption of sustainability.

Professor Uwe Dulleck is an active public speaker on behavioural economics and its applications to public policy, business decision-making and regulation. He is available for insights into the impacts of COVID-19 on behavioural economics.

Associate Professor Amisha Mehta specialises in risk and crisis management and organisational change at the QUT Business School. Her research supports organisational and individual decision-making in the context of risk and uncertainty.

Professor Rebekah Russell-Bennett has an international reputation for research and industry relevance in the field of social marketing, which uses commercial marketing to address social problems such as alcohol consumption, chronic disease, water usage, electricity use, public transport and diet. She is available for insights into people's willingness to share and resource scarcity.

Professor Ross Gordon is an interdisciplinary social change activist with degree qualifications in marketing, public policy, and politics and history and president of the Australian Association of Social Marketing (AASM). He is available for insights into social marketing and behaviour change during the pandemic.

Bridget Harris is an interdisciplinary early career researcher and has published and presented her work in the areas of intimate partner, domestic, family and sexual violence, technology-facilitated violence, advocacy and justice administration in the context of intimate partner, domestic, family and sexual violence, and access to justice. She is available to give insights into dealing with domestic violence due to COVID-19.

Dr Matthew Rimmer is a Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law. He has published widely on copyright law and information technology, patent law and biotechnology, access to medicines, plain packaging of tobacco products, intellectual property and climate change, Indigenous intellectual property, and intellectual property and trade. He is available for insights into conflicts over intellectual property and access to medicines in regards to COVID-19 technologies, as well as open access, open medicine and open science.