Dr. Arnick Abdollahi is a multi‑award‑winning researcher and subject coordinator at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), specialising in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Earth and Space Science Informatics, and Environmental Intelligence. He completed his Ph.D. at UTS and was a research fellow at the Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence, Australian National University (ANU), where he led national AI‑driven sensing initiatives to enhance bushfire resilience. His work has advanced bushfire behaviour analysis, promoted responsible AI in environmental monitoring, and influenced strategies for remote sensing, risk assessment, and disaster preparedness.

Arnick leads transdisciplinary research at the intersection of data science, space technology, and climate resilience. His research focuses on the design and deployment of scalable, data‑centric AI systems with space technology that integrate data engineering, geospatial modelling, advanced analytics, and machine learning to support environmental decision‑making under uncertainty. He currently heads a national agricultural initiative developing AI‑enabled grazing decision‑support systems that fuse climate forecasting, satellite Earth observation, and pasture–livestock modelling to support adaptive, data‑driven management by producers.

He is also leading research to develop a national, data‑driven bushfire risk and resilience framework for Australian grazing ecosystems, integrating machine learning, Earth‑ and space‑based technologies, and land management practices to quantify risk, inform mitigation strategies, and support climate‑resilient decision‑making before and after fire events.

In addition, he leads an international research program spanning Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany, in partnership with industry and First Nations organisations. This initiative develops AI‑ and satellite‑enabled early‑warning systems for flash drought detection in complex grazing environments, advancing predictive analytics for climate‑resilient land management across diverse climatic systems.

In his teaching role, Arnick coordinates and lectures postgraduate subjects within the Master of Data Science and Innovation (MDSI), a world-leading program of study in analytics and data science at the UTS Transdisciplinary School, including core and advanced subjects in machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing and data science practice. He leads collaborative teaching teams and designs, evaluates and delivers problem‑based, transdisciplinary learning experiences with strong connections to real‑world challenges, industry engagement and applied research. His teaching emphasises responsible AI, hands‑on analytics, and the integration of data science theory with practical decision‑making in complex, real‑world contexts.

Arnick’s academic service spans postgraduate education, scholarly publishing, national research capabilities, and community engagement. He serves on postgraduate assessment panels at the UTS Transdisciplinary School and supervises honours and postgraduate students, as well as research assistants, contributing to capacity‑building and researcher development. He has chaired international webinar and conference series on advances in machine learning, Earth and space technologies, environmental intelligence, and data science. He is an active contributor to the international academic community through editorial leadership and professional service, having served as Main Editor for multiple special issues in field‑related journals and reviewed manuscripts for more than 35 international journals. His service also includes delivering invited talks at workshops, webinars, and conferences, as well as research presentations at national and international forums and conferences.

Arnick has received numerous grants and accolades in recognition of his impact and groundbreaking work, including being named the Rising Star of the Year at the 2025 Australian Space Awards—Australia’s most prestigious recognition for emerging leaders in the Earth and space sector—and being recognised at Australia’s foremost national AI honour, the 2024 and 2025 Australian AI Awards, for AI Academic/Researcher of the Year and AI Rising Star of the Year, respectively. He has also been internationally distinguished as a World's Top 2% Scientist in the Stanford global ranking (2025). 

Current Projects:

• Strategic Research Project: AI-Driven Sensing of Bushfire Risk in Australian Grazing Systems.
• Foragecaster: Build an operational and accurate AI-driven sensing prediction tool for livestock producers to enable optimised farm management and business decision-making in the face of climate variability.
• Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Project: Advancing EarthSense AI-driven Livestock Farm Management for Climate-Resilient Food Security.
• Strategic Research Project: AI-Driven Advanced Radar Imaging for Optimised Pasture Feed Quality and Production.

Past Projects:

• The Australian Research Data Common (ARDC) Bushfire Data Challenges program: Designed and implemented scalable data engineering and machine learning workflows to aggregate, harmonise, and analyse multi-source fuel attribute datasets, producing nationally consistent data products for bushfire behaviour modelling, risk assessment, and decision support across Australia.
• Bushfire Risk Sensing Framework: Developing an effective, responsible AI-driven sensing framework to predict fire hazards and limit the increasing occurrence of bushfires in Australia.
• UTS Strategic Research Funding: Forecasting Grass Pollen with Satellite Sensor Time-series, Meteorology Data, and Machine Learning Tools.
• Maxar Spatial Challenge: Monitoring land type features with high-resolution remote sensing and deep learning.
• CSIRO’s national bushfire intelligence capability (NBIC) project: Develop automated machine learning–enabled workflows for generating nationally consistent, spatially continuous, and temporally dynamic layers of vegetation and fuel parameters that are multi-functional in application.

Maria has been teaching at UTS since 2012. She teaches the core subjects of Real Property and Civil Practice. Maria also taught as part of the PLT team at UTS from 2012 to 2023 training future lawyers in litigation, will drafting and in criminal practice. Maria holds a BA (history, philosophy and politics)/LLB, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, and an LLM in Criminal law and Criminology from the University of New South Wales. She is admitted as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia. Maria is also the principal of a boutique law firm. She has been a solicitor in private practice for more than 20 years. Her practice areas include litigation, wills and estates, property and criminal law. 

Isabella Alexander is a legal historian and intellectual property scholar, whose research explores how laws inform and regulate the creation, circulation and reception of knowledge and culture from an historical perspective. She researches and teaches in intellectual property law and legal history, specialising in the law of copyright.

A Professor in the Faculty of Law at UTS, Isabella is the lead Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery grant, Hacking Copyright Law in the 21st Century: Art, Law, History and Technology, investigating the tensions that underlie the legal treatment of visual works of art. She is sole CI on the ARC Discovery grant Copyright and Cartography: Understanding the past, shaping the future, uncovering the history of copyright in maps and other geographic publications.

Isabella is the author of two monographs on the history of copyright law: Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge (Hart Publishing, 2023), which received the 2023 LSAANZ Award for published scholarly book/monograph; and Copyright and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century (Hart Publishing, 2010). She is also co-editor, with Tomas Gomez-Arostegui, of Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law (Edward Elgar, 2016), which provides an overview of the field of copyright history, as well as examining potential future developments.

She is currently the President of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society and a member of the Governing Board of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property. In 2017 she was the NLSA Honorary Fellow at the State Library of NSW.

Before taking up the position at UTS in 2012, Isabella was Director of Studies in Law and Fellow in Law at Robinson College, Cambridge, and a Newton Trust Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Prior to joining Cambridge, she practised as a solicitor at Clayton Utz in Sydney.

Her published research has included articles and chapters about copyright and cartography, geographic information, and engravings, as well as the history of design rights, copyright reform in Australia, and plagiarism.

As a Lecturer in Transdisciplinary School at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), I specialise in transdisciplinary education and creative teaching and learning approaches. My work is grounded in the conviction that learning should be creative, embodied, and collaborative to foster learners that can think differently and contribute positively to the world. Informed by a background in the creative arts and innovation, my research explores the role of creative and arts-based approaches in transdisciplinary education, where learning takes place beyond disciplinary boundaries and in collaboration with industry and community partners. Through international partnerships, I am working to extend this work across universities, schools, and professional learning contexts to shape how transdisciplinary education is understood and practiced more broadly.

Michelle Alm Engvall is a PhD candidate researching sex workers' expreinces in law refrom in Australia and Sweden.

She is a Cultural Anthropologist with experience from the international humanitarian and development sector and a long history of community organsing for gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). 

Her academic writing is motivated by a drive to research for change and her research interests include sex workers' rights, gender equality, political activism, and inclusive and responsive policy making.

Thalia Anthony is a Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research examines the role of criminal laws and procedures in reproducing social relations and systemic racism. She also has expertise in First Nations stolen wages claims, Stolen Generations legal redress, prison harms and oversight, and laws governing First Nations homelands, housing and mobility. Professor Anthony's research is grounded in a critical analysis of legal institutions; legal history and theory; and emancipatory fieldwork with First Nations peoples, organisations and communities.

Since 2015, Professor Anthony has been awarded four Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage grants to generate knowledge in the areas of First Nations narratives in sentencing; sentencing practices in relation to First Nations women; criminalisation of people experiencing homelessness; and police alternatives in remote First Nations communities. These projects have contributed material change to sentencing practices and First Nations sentencing outcomes. Professor Anthony is also a lead chief investigator on the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Prisoner Reintegration. This Centre is funded for seven years (2026-2033) to build knowledge and engage with partner organisations and people with lived expertise across the country and globally to strengthen Australia's capacity to effectively reintegrate people released from prison.

Professor Anthony's research impacts public debates and class actions in relation to carceral harms, prison abolition and legal and policy remedies for state and corporate wrongs inflicted on First Nations peoples. Her research regularly appears in the radio, television and digital media. Professor Anthony’s scholarship is cited in Senate committee reports, parliamentary debates, policy announcements and law reform reports. She has provided research for High Court cases, United Nations committees, coronial inquiries, the Attorney-Generals’ Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse, and Royal Commissions. She has appeared before several parliamentary inquiries on First Nations redress schemes, incarceration and systemic racism, youth justice, and criminal law policy.

Her scholarship is published in a number of books, including her influential monograph, Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment (Routledge 2013) and, with Professor Harry Blagg, Decolonising Criminology (Palgrave 2019). She has strong connections with UTS Jumbunna Institute of Education and Research, Aboriginal legal services, Deadly Connections Community and Justice Services, Tangentyere Council and community legal centres. Through these collaborations she has conducted Australian Research Council projects in relation to First Nations Narratives in Criminal Sentencing; Criminalisation of Homelessness; First Nations Safety and Justice Strategies in Remote Communities; and First Nations women in Prison.

On three occasions, Professor Anthony has been listed as one of Australia's Top 50 Thinkers of the Year by The Conversation. In 2024, she was awarded an Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Award for instigating the Aboriginal Community Justice Reports program with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service. That year, she was also the receipient of an Engagement Australia Award for Indigenous partnerships in research. She previously received the UTS Research Impact Medal, an Order of Australia award for community service, and a NSW Young Australian of the Year Award for environmental service. In 2025, Professor Anthony was an invited expert to the United Nations Congress for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

Professor Anthony teaches Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminology, Indigenous People and the Law and Foundations of Law. She is the author of several textbooks in these areas. Her research informs her teaching approach that addresses critical perspectives on legal doctrines and procedures and engages First Nations lived experiences. In 2008, she organised the inaugural Australian and New Zealand conference on Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives in the Law Curricular. Between 2017 and 2024, she chaired the UTS Waran-gi Pyalla Indigenous Graduate Attribute in Law Working Group.

Professor Anthony serves on the UTS Council and UTS Faculty of Law Board and is co-Chair of Deadly Connections Community Services. She is of Cypriot heritage and her family were involved in the plight for self-determination from British colonisation in the 1970s. Thalia honours the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, upon whose land she works, and their ongoing struggle for self-determination.

Dr Aryal is a conservation biologist with multi-sector experience in wildlife conservation, human-wildlife coexistence, forestry, and strategic management. He completed his MSc forestry education in Germany, followed by a Ph.D. and post-doctoral research at Massey University, New Zealand. Dr. Aryal also served as an Honorary Fellow at the University of Sydney for 6 years and is currently an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in the Centre for Compassionate Conservation and an Adjunct Professor at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He also serves on the Auckland Conservation Board-Ministerial appointment.

Dr Aryal's current research focuses on endangered species conservation, forestry, foresty related risk-health safety management, climate change adaptation, sustainable land use, and the impacts of human activities on ecosystems. With over 85 peer-reviewed publications, his work bridges science and policy to promote biodiversity conservation.

He is actively seeking Ph.D. students to join in the Centre for Compassionate Conservation, TD School, offering supervision in areas related to conservation biology, human-wildlife interactions, forestry related health and safety/ecology, climate change, and ecosystem sustainability. Dr Aryal is committed to mentoring students and guiding them through impactful research that can influence both scientific understanding and conservation practices.

Dr Costa Avgoustinos teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Foundations of Law and Ethics, Law and Justice. His main area of research is Climate Change and (its impacts on) the Australian Constitution.

Alex has a variety of teaching and research interests around environmental policy, rural land use sustainability and innovation. He teaches subjects on transdisciplinary practice and industry innovation and is the Director of Teaching Learning for Transdisciplinary School at UTS. He has previously taught on environmental management, sustainable engineering and renewable energy policy.

Alex's research focuses on community engagement and policy options for emerging practices that offer potential environmental benefits. He has recently undertaken research on collaborative carbon farming funded by AgriFutures Australia, as well as research into the social licence of the sharing economy with colleagues from the UTS Business School. Other completed projects cover co-benefits of carbon farming, landholder collaboration for landscape-scale conservation, revegetation strategies and low-carbon tourism. In 2016 he released his first book, exploring ways in which the production of woody bioenergy crops can create incentives to restore degraded land, while addressing concerns around food security and climate change. His research has been published in the Journal of Environmental Management, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Science and Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Annals of Tourism Research, Biomass and Bioenergy, Rural Society and The Rangeland Journal.

Prior to joining UTS, Alex was based at UNSW for 10 years, teaching a range of subjects and working on research projects on landholder collaboration, low-carbon tourism and revegetation. From 2005 to 2008 he worked on the FATE (Future of Australia's Threatened Ecosystems) Program looking at commercial uses for Australian native species that could contribute to conservation goals, including kangaroos in the rangelands and multi-species plantations for bioenergy and other products. Prior to this, he spent three years at the Department of Environment and Heritage in Canberra (which has since undergone at least two name changes), working on international trade in wild plants and animals. His undergraduate studies were undertaken in Environmental Science at the University of Wollongong.

Laurie joined the UTS Law Faculty in 2009. Her research advances the rights of temporary migrant workers in Australia and the region. She is the author of the first book on the regulation of temporary labour migration in Australia and has held a number of significant national and international research grants, including one for the Fair Work Ombudsman examining the experience of international students in the Australian workplace and another for Open Society Foundations International Migration Initiative examining the use of digital technology platforms to protect and empower migrant workers. Her recent research projects include a ground-breaking empirical study of non-residents working in homes across Australia as au pairs. Laurie is currently working with Bassina Farbenblum on the first extensive research into temporary migrant workers access to remedies for employment-related harms in Australia.

Before coming to UTS, Laurie worked at Human Rights First, in New York, in the International Humanitarian Law Program of the Australian Red Cross and as Co-Convenor of the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (NSW).

Katherine Biber is a legal scholar, criminologist and historian and Professor of Law at UTS.

Her latest book is The Last Outlaws (Simon & Schuster Australia, 2025). It examines the crimes of Jimmy and Joe Governor in 1900 and how these shaped modern Australia. The Governor brothers were Wiradjuri and Wonnarua men, rural labourers in the New South Wales colony. Triggered by employer exploitation and racist remarks, they committed nine murders of settlers after which they were proclaimed outlaws. These events coincided with the commencement of Australian federation, and the same people who tried to bring the brothers to justice – lawyers, politicians, police, scientists, missionaries – were at the same time making the institutions of modern Australia.

Katherine undertook the research for The Last Outlaws in cooperation with descendants of Jimmy Governor. Her podcast trilogy, made as part of this collaboration, won multiple awards, including the NSW Premier’s History Award, the Australian Podcast Award (2022 podcast of the year) and the Australian Legal Research Award.

Katherine teaches and researches Evidence. Her scholarly interests lie in photographic evidence, documentary evidence, criminal evidence and histories of evidence.

Her previous book was In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence (Routledge, 2018). It explored what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings, where it is no longer regulated by the court, and reappears in unexpected and sometimes transgressive contexts. It won the Australian Legal Research Award.

Katherine has written and edited books on photographic evidence, surveillance, archives, documents and miscarriages of justice.

She joined the UTS Faculty of Law in 2008. Until recently, she served as co-Editor in Chief of the international journal Crime, Media, Culture. She recently completed a 4-year term on the Australian Research Council College of Experts.

Dr Lisa Billington has been a Lecturer with the UTS Faculty of Law since 2022. She teaches across two core first year subjects: Criminal Law and Procedure and Foundations of Law.

Lisa is an early career researcher with excellent cross-institutional collegial connections and a strong background in student-centred, practice-oriented legal education. Her primary areas of legal expertise are criminal law and procedure, criminology, foundations of law and the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Lisa has served as the Law Faculty Coordinator for the U@Uni Program since 2024. She has a long-standing interest in transition pedagogy and in the wellbeing aspects of tertiary legal education; in addition to her degrees in law (LLB (Hons I); PhD), Lisa holds a Graduate Diploma in Counselling (Hons). Lisa brings both legal and counselling expertise into her day-to-day student-facing work with first year law students and to support the Law Faculty's U@Uni Pathways students.

Michelle Blake is a dedicated legal researcher and professional historian with a background in heritage and collection management. Currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Technology Sydney on the history of abortion law in Australia. Michelle has undertaken previous research on how abortion law was practiced in Tasmania. The aims of her PhD research is to undertake a comparative analysis of how abortion law was practiced between the 1860s to 1960 in each state and territory in Australia. Although this is a broad topic it will be refined through archival research and the use of microhistory.

As a professional historian, Michelle has worked on a number of projects for local and state government in Tasmania, and as a freelance historian with experise in Lands Title and house history research. She has previous experience as a heritage consultant, research assistant, and collection manager for local museum collections. 

Associate Professor Martin Bliemel is the Director of Innovation at TD School (ex Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Prior to this, he served as the inaugural Director of Research (aka ADR) for TD School for 4 years. In 2024, with colleague Jochen Schweitzer, he co-instigated the Innovation & Entreprenuership Collaborative (IEC) across UTS, more formally bringing together 30 researchers from across UTS with a common interest in evidence-based innovation policy and producivitiy improvements (https://iec.uts.edu.au/). 

Martin’s research interests include startups, entrepreneurial networks, accelerators, education, research commercialisation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the entrepreneurial university. Martin’s research has been published in several prestigious journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Technovation, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Education+Training, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, and the Entrepreneurship Research Journal where one of his articles on entrepreneurship education is ERJ’s most downloaded article. 

His work frequently informs innovation policy, such as the $23m Incubator Support Programme by the Australian Government's Department of Industry, the evaluation of the $150m Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). He has been an expert advisor and author on several innovation policy reports for the New South Wales Innovation and Productivity Council, and has led projects for various levels of government, including Georges River Council, Greater Cities Commission, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT Australia-Indonesia Institute), and OECD. 

In 2020, Martin had the privilege to host the UTS Impact Studios 7+1-part podcast series, which was also featured as part of an article for The Conversation titled "Who cares about university research? The answer depends on its impacts"

Martin is a recipient of the nationally competitive Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for “For preparing students studying management to become entrepreneurs by creating authentic and respectful learning experiences that immerse students in collaborative interactions with external stakeholders."

He is a member of the committee for the Australasian Consortium for Entrepreneurship Research Excellence (ACERE), was a subcommittee and Expert Advisory Group member of the NSW Innovation & Productivity Council, and was on the executive committee for the Network of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research Organisations (NITRO Oceania).

In previous careers, he's worked with Canada's oldest Angel Network, Canada's largest startup pitch competiton, various startups, launched his own startup consultancy, engineered the tuned mass damper for Taipei 101, worked assembly line in a car manufacturing plant, and a few more mechanical engineering experiences. 

Bindi supports the large-scale delivery of the TD Electives program and the successful setup of high-value internship experiences for our students. With extensive administrative expertise and organisational skills, Bindi infuses her knowledge and experience from various industries spanning leading companies and Government departments to deliver meaningful industry-student engagements. Passionate about relationship management, Bindi ensures the smooth recruitment of internship host organisations and the onboarding and positive experience of partners in the Transdisciplinary School network.

Dr Rachel Bolton is the HDR Officer in the Law Faculty Research Office. She brings to the role her experience in completing a PhD herself in the UTS Law Faculty, which she completed in 2020. With her unique insights into both reserach administration and the joys and trials of PhD research, Rachel is provides accurate, timely and detailed advice to HDR students, supervisors and the HDR Director on higher degree research administration.

Rached also has experience in digital archives research and the history of civil procedure in the British Empire 1800-1850, gained through her role as Research Manager (2020-2022) to Prof Shaunnagh Dorsett on the ARC Discovery Project: Colonial Innovations, the Foundations of Civil Justice in Australia.

Robin Bowley teaches and researches in the fields of Corporate Law and Insurance Law.

He also teaches electives in related subject areas including Advanced Contracts, Personal Injury Law in Practice and Work Health and Safety Law.

After a brief stint in the Royal Australian Navy, Robin qualified as a solicitor and worked for six years with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, where he was involved in numerous investigations into possible breaches of corporate and financial services laws. He draws upon this experience to bring a highly practical approach to his teaching and research.

Robin’s teaching in the above areas has been recognised - in 2019 with a Vice Chancellor’s Teaching and Learning Citation, and in 2020 with the UTS Law Faculty’s Lyndal Taylor Teaching Award.   

His postgraduate qualifications include a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the University of Wollongong. Robin’s PhD thesis, which evaluated international legal responses to the risk of maritime terrorism, was ranked second out of 14 dissertations internationally in the 2014 “Best PhD Thesis in the Field of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies”, conducted annually by the Terrorism Research Initiative.

In 2023 he published his updated research in this field in two books with Routledge – with the first book focusing on measures to prevent attacks on ships, and the second book focusing on preventing the maritime facilitation of terrorism.

He is currently undertaking a number of research projects comparing approaches to insurance regulation across common law jurisdictions.

Robin is actively involved in several industry bodies, including the Australian Insurance Law Association (AILA). In 2023, Robin was the recipient of AILA’s Insurance Law Prize, which is awarded annually to a person who has made a substantial contribution to the field of insurance law.

He is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance.  

Dr. Chris L. Brown is an Industry Professor in the Data Science Institute who helps leaders harness customer-centric culture, data science, and AI to drive better outcomes for customers, employees, and communities.

He is also the co-founder of MarketCulture and the MRI Benchmark SaaS business, and a customer-centric leader, culture, and strategy expert. His award-winning book, “The Customer Culture Imperative: A Leader’s Guide to Driving Superior Performance,” is published by McGraw-Hill, New York. Chris is part of Harvard Business School’s global faculty for Customer-Centric Organizations. He has contributed to the Harvard Business Review, Strategy and Leadership, and CEO Magazine. He is the host of The Relentless Customer Leader Podcast.

Chris received his Doctorate from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He is a Beta Gamma Sigma Society member, representing the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive. Chris has worked with Vodafone, Google, Blue Shield, and many more. After 18 years in Silicon Valley, he lives back in his native Sydney with his wife and their dog, Coco.

Paul is a national and international award-winning academic specialising in production economics, integrated modelling to understand and evaluate the sustainability of production systems, innovative and innovation-management practices, and teaches Creative Intelligence and Innovation at UTS.

Paul is a leader in several multi-disciplinary teams and has successfully led or contributed to over 15 externally funded research engagements, leading to over 28 policy papers and industry reports on various topics. Several of his projects have significance at the national level, such as his work on Management Capability, Innovation and Productivity, and, more recently, Waste Avoidance Measurement. Paul’s work has been published in leading international journals, including Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, British Accounting Review and Business Strategy and the Environment.

Paul has been part of the teaching and development teams for a range of innovative subjects and courses which have been recognised as being at the leading edge of innovation in education and industry engagement, including the international award-winning Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (Bronze Award - Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Award 2016 (category of Presence Learning Innovation). Awarded for “the most innovative classroom-based pedagogy resulting in enhanced student learning” for BCII: Create The Future (University of Technology Sydney, Australia). One of the key characteristics of the BCII degree is that it has been recognized as being at the leading edge of work-integrated learning and other teaching and learning strategies that involve information transfers and innovation at the interface of the university and industry.

Paul completed a Master of Business Administration degree in Accounting, graduating with Distinction at UTS in 2004. He received the ACCA prize for being judged the best graduating student in the Master of Business in Accounting. Paul joined the UTS School of Accounting in 2005 as an associate lecturer, subsequently completing a PhD in 2009 on the topic 'Group versus Individual Compensation Schemes for Senior Executives and Firm Performance'.

Roberto Buonamano has research interests in the fields of legal and political philosophy, the theory and history of rights, human rights jurisprudence, and constitutional theory. He teaches in the areas of International Human Rights Law, Australian Constitutional Law, and Criminal Law and Procedure.

He has published primarily in the fields of legal and political theory, through readings of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser, among others. Current areas of interest include the application of continental philosophy to human rights, hermeneutical methods within human rights jurisprudence, and theories of democracy and constitutionalism.