Research Expertise and Professional Engagement

Dr Nicole McDonald  

• Editorial board member for the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension 

Associate Professor Aaron Scanlan is a:

• Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences
• Editorial Board Member for journal Sports
• Editorial Board Member for Frontiers in Psychology (Movement Science section) 
• Member of the International Program Committee for the International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support 

Dr Elise Rivera is a: 

• Editorial Board member for PLos ONe 
• Member of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health 
• Member of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 
• Member of the Public Health Association of Australia 

Dr Bianca Zietsman is a:

• Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor for the British Journal of Sports Medicine, open (BOSEM)

Professor Sarah Blunden is a:

• Board Director on the International Paediatric Sleep Association 
• Member Australasian Sleep Association 
• Member American Academy of Sleep Medicine 
• Member Sleep Health Foundation, (SHF), Paediatric spokesperson 
• ASA representative for SHF First Nations working committee 
• Assistant Presiding Officer, Child Development Council, South Australian independent legislated body for children’s rights health and wellbeing, South Australia 
• Australasian Sleep Association Behavioural Sleep Medicine sub-committee paediatric spokesperson 
• ASA representative for SHF First Nations working committee 
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sleep Disorders Treatment and Care.

Associate Professor Anthony Weber:

• Reviewer for the Journal AIMS Public Health
• Reviewer for the Journal Australasian Emergency Care
• Reviewer for the Journal BMC Medical Education
• Reviewer for BMC Primary Care 
• Clinical Advisor member of the Country to Coast Clinical Council 

Dr Robyn Preston is the:

• Associate Editor for the Australian Journal of Primary Care

Dr. Katie de Luca is:

• on the editorial board of Chiropractic and Manual Therapies
• the section editor for the JMPT Women's Health section

Dr Saman Khalesi is the:

• Editorial board member of Critical Comments in Biomedicine
• Reviewer board member of Nutrients

Associate Professor Anjum Naweed is the:

• Editorial board member for the journal Applied Ergonomics, Eat Sleep Work

Associate Professor Matthew Thomas is the:

• Editor of Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors

Dr Grace Vincent is the:

• a member of the Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviours editorial board

Professor Jenni Judd is the:

• Deputy Editor of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia

Dr Rob Stanton is the:

• editorial board member and associate editor for the journal; Mental Health and Physical Activity
• Section editor – Mental Health, for the journal; Journal of Clinical Exercise Physiology 

Prof Corneel Vandelanotte is the:

• Editor-in-Chief Journal for activity, sedentary and sleep behaviours
• Member of the editorial board for International Journal for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity

Dr Susan Williams is the:

• Reviewer for the Journal of Nutrients

Dr Melanie Hayman is the:

• Editorial board member for BMC Journal of Pregnancy and Childbirth

Dr Gabrielle Rigney is the:

• member of the editorial board for JMIR Paediatrics

Dr Brad Smith is the:

• member of the Editorial Advisory Board- Anthrozoos, A multidisciplinary journal of the interactions of people and animals

Associate Professor Olav Muurlink is the:

• member of the organising committee for the Social Enterprise World Forum
• editor of a Special Issue "Addressing Health Disparities in Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Groups" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IF 4.614)

Professor Tania Signal is the:

• member of the editorial board for Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin (transitioning to Human-Animal Interaction Journal)

Ms Hannah Thorne is the:

• section Editor for Stress & Health (IF 3.8)

Janya McCalman is the:

• Member of the Australian Health Promotion Association
• Member of the International Society for Third Sector Research
• Member of the International Feeration for Integrated Care
• Member of the Lowitja Institute
• Member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Member of the Edward Koch Foundation
• Editor, Special Edition of BMC Health Services Research “Amplifying Marginalised Voices” 2024-25 

Dr Dawn Dane is the:

• Member of the Editorial Board on the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
• Reviewer for the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences (JMRS)

Ms Karen Smart is the:

• is on the Editorial Board and Assistant Treasurer for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Dental and Oral Health Therapy

Professor Charli Sargent is a: 

• Member of the Australasian Sleep Association’s Conference Committee 

Dr Kelly Hennessy is: 

• President of the Australian Dental Association Queensland 

Dr Emma Turley 

• Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (CPsychol) 

Professor Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald is the:

• Member of the Australian Linguistic Society
• Member of the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) panel, World Atlas of Languages (WAL)
• Member of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea
• Member of the Association of Linguistic Typology
• Member of the Associacao Linguistica Brasileira (Abralin)
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (elected 1999)
• Fellow of Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2016)
• member of Academia Europaea (elected 2021)
• member of Advisory Board of Pro-Amazonia (Sao Gabriel de Cachoeira, Brazil) (an association supporting education and health for Amazonian peoples)
• International Consultant for the Summer Institute of Linguistics

Professor Robert (Bob) Dixon is a:

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Fellow of the British Academy of the Humanities
• Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America

Professor Judith Brown AM is:

• Commissioner for the Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician, International Society of Music Education
• Member of the Queensland Advisory Committee to the Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB

Associate Professor Rickie Fisher is:

• President of The Rockhampton Grammar School Music Council
• Member of the Queensland Council of Dean's of Education

Associate Professor Linda Pfeiffer is: 

• Member of Boyne Island State School Council 
• Expert advisor for Queensland Virtual STEM Academy 
• Advisor for QLD STEM Girl Power  
• Judge First Lego League 
• Judge Premiers Coding Challenge 
• Panelist Shell QGC Community Grants 
• Member of CQU/GPC First Nations working party  
• Inspiring Australia STEM Hub network Chair 
• Member of ATTEN committee 
• Member of Team Turtle CQ citizen science program 

Associate Professor Steven Pace is: 

• Member of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) Register of External Experts 
• Specialist for the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) Specialists Register 
• Member of the Papua New Guinea Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (PNG DHERST) Panel of Experts 
• Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI) 
• Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) 

Associate Professor Paul Kwan is: 

• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing 
• Section Editor “Precision and Digital Agriculture” of MDPI Agronomy  
• Editor of Research in Mathematics 
• Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery 
• Senior Member of the IEEE 
• Member of Australian Computer Society (ACS) 

Dr Jay Deagon is:

• a member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Home Economics
• Vice-President (Pacific Region) of the International Federation for Home Economics (IFHE).  The IFHE have several initiatives that directly address the UN SDG's.  
• Reviewer for the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 

Dr Abdul Mazid is:

• External Member of the Higher Education Academic Board, Chisholm Institute, Victoria, Australia

Associate Professor Anthony Weber is:

• Principle Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia
• Member of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)

Dr Trixie James is: 

• Associate Editor Special Edition on Access to Education for the Journal of University Learning and Teaching Practice 
• Executive member of the National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia 
• Chair of the Bundaberg Christian College Board 
• Co-lead of the Empower Cluster in the CREATE research centre.  

Dr Ashkan Memari is the:

• Academic Editor for the journal PLOS ONE

Dr Helen Hickson is the:

• Reviews Editor for the journal of Australian Social Work

Karen Smart is:

• Member of the Australasian Council of Dental Schools

Dr Murray Harvey is:

• Chair of the Anglican Schools Commission

Dr Gemma Mann is: 

• Member of the National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia  

Dr Emma Turley is a: 

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 
• Holds a Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice (PGC AP) 

Ms Deanne Chester is a: 

• Reviewer for the Journal of the Australasian Sonographer's Association (ASA) 
• Reviewer for the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences (JMRS) 

Dr Emma Turley is the:

• Editor of the 'British Psychology Society's Psychology of Women and Equalities Review' 
• Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Protecting Women Online 
• Reviewer for: Feminism & Psychology, Sexualities, Psychology & Sexuality 

Dr Heather Lovatt is the:

• Director, Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research
• Member of the Queensland Government Child Death Review Board
• Member of the Queensland Sexual Assault Network
• Member of the Queensland Domestic Violence Services Network
• Member of the Australian Evaluation Society

  Dr Gemma Mann is: 

• Member of LGBTIQ+ Health Australia  

Dr Amanda-Jane (AJ) George is the: 

• Board Member, Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence 
• Member, Queensland Law Society Domestic and Family Violence Committee 
• Member, Queensland Law Society Privacy, Data and Intellectual Property Committee 
• Member, SaferAI for Children Coalition 
• Member, Lived Experience Expert Advisory Group, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department 
• Reviewer, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 
• Reviewer, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 

Associate Professor Ziyad Abunda is the:

• Special Issue Editor for the "Sustainable Transport Infrastructure and Roadway Design"
• Special Issue Editor for the "Green Remediation of Groundwater Pollution"

Dr Jay Ananda is the: 

• Associate Editor for Water Policy, the journal of the World Water Council 
• Reviewer for the Water Resources Management 
• Reviewer for the Utilities Policy 

Associate Professor Nicole Flint is a: 

• Member of the Australasian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society 
• Member of the Australian Marine Sciences Association 
• Member of the Economic Society of Australia 
• Member of the Women in Economics Network 
• Member of the International River Foundation 
• Member of the International Report Card Network 
• Reviewer for the following journals: 
  • Ecological Indicators 
  • Estuaries and Coasts 
  • Journal of Environmental Management 
  • Marine and Freshwater Research 
  • Marine Environmental Research 

Professor Jamshid Aghaei is the:

• Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of the Journal Electric Power Systems Research/Elsevier

Professor Jonathan Love is  

• Reviewer for ACS Electrochemistry 
• Member of Royal Australian Chemical Institute 
• Member of Electrochemical Society  
• Program Sub-Committee member of Australian Hydrogen Research Conference 2026.  

Dr Abdul Mazid is the:

• Section Editor of the International Journal of Engineering Materials and Manufacture (IJEMM)

Dr Upamali Amarakoon is the:

• Associate Editor of the South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management
• Reviewer Human Resource Management (US) journal 

Associate Professor Olav Muurlink is the:

• Board Member of the Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations

Professor Maksym Spiryagin is the: 

• Associate Editor for the journal Vehicle System Dynamics 
• Associate Editor for the Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit 
• Associate Editor for the journal of Railway Engineering Science 
• on the Editorial Board for the journal Transport  

Dr Qing Wu is the: 

• Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems 
• Editorial Board Member for the journal Railway Engineering Science 
• Editorial Board for the journal Electronic Research Achieve 
• Editorial Board for the Advances in Mechanical Engineering 

Professor Jamshid Aghaei is the: 

• Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 
• Editor of the Electric Power Systems Research/Elsevier 

Sr Shah Neyamat Ullah is the: 

• Reviewer for the Computers and Geotechnics Journal 
• Reviewer for the Applied Ocean Research journal 
• Reviewer for Ocean Engineering journal 
• Author for the journal Marine Structures 

Deanne Chester is a: 

• Mentor for Australasian Sonographer’s Association (ASA) mentoring program 
• Expert panel member for Australasian Sonographer’s Association (ASA) Sonographer Scope of Practice delphi study 

Professor Jamshid Aghaei is the:

• Editor on the Editorial Board of the journal IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
• Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of IET Renewable Power Generation
• Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of the Journal Electric Power Systems Research/Elsevier

Associate Professor Xianbo (Bill) Zhao is the:

• Associate Editor for the Journal 'Advances in Civil Engineering'
• Associate Editor for the Journal 'Frontiers in Built Environment'
• Editorial Board Member for the 'Journal of Green Buildings'
• Editorial Board Member for the Journal 'Buildings'
• Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of 'Project Organisation and Management'

Dr Amlan Haque is the:

• Lead for the Editorial Team for the Special Issue of Sustainability, “Social Sustainability in Times of Crisis: Putting People’s Happiness First" (MDPI)

Associate Professor Huong Le is:

• on the Editorial Team for the Special Issue of Sustainability, “Social Sustainability in Times of Crisis: Putting People’s Happiness First" (MDPI)

Dr Mehdi Mirzababaei is the: 

• Associate Editor ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering 

Dr Jay Ananda is the: 

• Consultant on the EndFood Waste Australia 
• Reviewer for the Journal of Cleaner Production 
• Reviewer for Sustainable Consumption and Production 
• Reviewer for Resources, Conservation and Recycling 
• Reviewer for Food Quality and Preference 
• Reviewer for Waste Management 
• Reviewer for the Journal of Environmental Management 
• Reviewer for Food Policy 
• Reviewer for the Journal of Agriculture and Food Research 
• Reviewer for the Journal, Appetite 
• Reviewer for the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science 
• Reviewer for Current Development in Nutrition

Professor Emma Jackson is the:

• Associate Editor for Elsevier Journal Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science
• Reviewer for the following Journals:
  • Aquatic Botany
  • Austral Ecology
  • Biological Conservation
  • Biologia Marina Mediterranea
  • Botanica Marina
  • Bulletin of Marine Science
  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Marine Biology
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin

Associate Professor Nicole Flint is a: 

• Member of the Australian Society for Fish Biology 
• Member of the Australasian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society 
• Member of the Australian Marine Sciences Association 
• Member of the Economic Society of Australia 
• Member of the Women in Economics Network 
• Member of the International River Foundation 
• Member of the International Report Card Network 
• Reviewer for the following journals: 
  • Aquaculture 
  • Ecological Indicators 
  • Estuaries and Coasts 
  • Fisheries Research 
  • Journal of Environmental Management 
  • Marine and Freshwater Research 
  • Marine Environmental Research  

Dr Shaneel Chandra is a:  

• Member of the International Society for Electrochemistry 
• Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute 
• Guest Editor – Electrochemical Analysis of Functional Materials (MDPI) 
• Lead Author – The United Nations Environment Program’s Global Environment Outlook 7 
• Fellow – the Higher Education Academy  
• Reviewer for Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Israel 
• Reviewer for Frontiers 
• Reviewer for Science of the Total Environment  
• Reviewer for Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 

Dr Nahina Islam is the:

• Guest Editor, “Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Sustainable Smart Farming” in Remote Sensing
• Guest Editor, Special Issue "AI, IoT and Smart Sensors for Precision Agriculture", Sensors
• Committee Member of the IEEE Victorian Section and IEEE Vic IoT Community contributing in best practices, policies with IoT and IEEE related matters

Dr Simon Quigley is a:

• Member of the Australian Association of Animal Sciences

Dr Vicki Saunders is the:

• Member of Gungarri Nation TAC mums and bubs subcommittee
• Mayi Kuwayu study Indigenous data governance committee
• Australian Research Council (ARC) Medical Research Advisory Group
• Muliyan Research Consortium

Professor Quamrul Alam is the:

• Guest Co-editor of Public Administration and Development Journal

Dr Amanda-Jane (AJ) George is the: 

• Board Member, Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence 
• Member, Queensland Law Society Domestic and Family Violence Committee 
• Member, Queensland Law Society Privacy, Data and Intellectual Property Committee 
• Member, SaferAI for Children Coalition 
• Member, Lived Experience Expert Advisory Group, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department 
• Reviewer, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 
• Reviewer, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology