College of Business, Law & Governance
Carrie Wilson
- Senior Research Officer
- carrie.wilson1@jcu.edu.au
Louise Floyd
- Associate Professor
- louise.floyd@jcu.edu.au
Karnika Bansal
- Lecturer
- karnika.bansal@jcu.edu.au
Skye Zhu
- Lecturer, Financial Accounting/Auditing
- skye.zhu@jcu.edu.au
Diana Castorina
- Lecturer, Economics
- diana.castorina@jcu.edu.au
Zhanming Liang
- Associate Dean, Research Education
- zhanming.liang@jcu.edu.au
Siggi Gudergan
- Professor of Strategy
- siggi.gudergan@jcu.edu.au
Barry Yau
- Lecturer, Law
- barry.yau@jcu.edu.au
Eijaz Khan
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer
- eijaz.khan@jcu.edu.au
Arusha Cooray
- Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow
- arusha.cooray@jcu.edu.au
BeefVantage: AI-Powered Beef Agriculture Solution Hub (Old ID 31108)
Rachel Hay
01 Sep 2023 - 29 Nov 2024
The project is to develop a language-based AI-powered tool that will rapidly guide beef producers to relevant solutions to solve their on-farm problems. The BeefVantage interface efficiently connects farmers and their advisors to relevant solutions, swiftly navigating them through on-farm challenges for enhanced productivity and sustainable outcomes. First, by analysing domain-specific data, we aim to create a dataset that is pre-processed. This dataset will be used to fine-tune a Large Language Model, so that farmers and their advisors can enter queries (such as problems or challenges that they are facing), and the system will recommend solutions (such as AgTech products or relevant knowledge) for their consideration. The AI MVP will create value by revealing insights from existing data that have previously been missed, and help facilitate conversations between extension agents and producers, and ultimately provide a platform for beef producers to rapidly find solutions that are relevant to their situation and needs. Additionally, this system will help provide consistency in information provided by different extension officers/bodies, as it can be confusing for farmers when they receive differing advice from different advisors.
Smart Islands Program: Fostering Collaboration between Australians and Polynesians (Old ID 26900)
Stephane Le Queux
01 Jun 2020 - 31 Jul 2024
This project primarily aims at contributing to the French Polynesian Smart Islands program, a spearhead initiative of the Polynesian Government. Research wise, the objective is to focus on two of the four core pillars of the program: Tourism and the Circular Economy. While applied research and transfer of expertise remain the catalyst of our contribution as a team, the project also involves broader aspects: education to issues specific to the Pacific (e.g. climate change) and student exchanges (DFTA NCP); commercial relations through the French Polynesia Regional Group and institutional partnership with Tahiti Business School, of key importance to diplomatic funding.
Townsville Tourism Growth Initiative (Old ID 26634)
Jenny Panchal
16 Sep 2019 - 31 Jul 2022
The aim of the Townsville Regional Visitor Survey would be to form a cooperative of regional tourism business to build a research tool that provides local tourism businesses and destination stakeholders with access to data on the profiles, preferences and satisfaction of visitors to the Townsville region. It would also provide specific information on the performance of tourism products and industry sectors within visitor markets. This localised information would be specific to the needs of Townsville businesses and would supplement the data collected through International Visitor Surveys/National Visitor Surveys from Tourism Research Australia.
Western Cape Agricultural Park Feasibility Study
Taha Chaiechi
01 Mar 2024 - 30 Jun 2025
The project will • Examine the potential benefits and merits of the WCAP to the region in the short, medium and long term
The Queensland Decarbonisation Knowledge Translation Hub Collaborative Research Agreement
Siggi Gudergan
02 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
Under a Grant agreement between UQ and the Queensland Government, the Queensland Government is establishing a 3 year approach to developing stronger relationships with Queensland Universities to progress decarbonisation of the State’s economy. This sub-agreement underpins JCU contribution in demonstrating that the parties wish to work together in The Queensland Decarbonisation Knowledge Translation Hub (Hub) and engage with each other on various research Projects from time to time relating.
Developing a model for multidisciplinary team-based care for General Practice (Phase one)
Zhanming Liang
30 Oct 2024 - 31 Mar 2025
This is the first phase of a multi-phase project aiming to develop a sellable model that guide the implementaiton and adoption of multidisciplinary team-based care for general practice across primary health networks in Australia. The current project (Phase one) includes conducting a systematic literature review, development of one publication and constructing a survey Instrument informed by findings of the systematic review.
Economic impact of various non-tariff measures (NTMs) on Australian grains industry
Sizhong Sun
20 Nov 2024 - 31 Oct 2025
This project aims to provide an in-depth analysis on the economic impact of various non-tariff measures (NTMs) with a focus on Australian grains industry and provide comprehensive empirical evidence (and evidence-based modelling tool) to policy makers and industrial stakeholders for mitigating negative impacts and enhancing positive outcomes associated with NTMs. In particular, the project will apply the state-of-art approach (including both the structural gravity model and the computable general equilibrium CGE model) to the product-level data to systematically investigate how NTMs affect trade, production and the overall economic health of the Australian grains sector
Leveraging GenAI in Enhancing Professional Scepticism in Auditing
Abhijit Das
01 Nov 2024 - 28 Feb 2026
An individual auditor’s professional scepticism is considered to be the epitome of the auditing profession. Research highlights the crucial role of regulators, professional bodies, and educators in actively fostering professional scepticism among junior auditors and students, particularly given the increasing complexity of business and financial reporting, as well as the technological developments impacting business. Increasing expectations from regulators and other stakeholders for auditors to demonstrate professional scepticism further emphasise the need for educators to enhance awareness of these essential skills and cultivate the necessary attitudes. Given the global accounting community's sustained interest in professional scepticism, it is crucial to understand how AI mechanisms can enhance the skills that enable junior auditors and students to apply professional scepticism appropriately and sufficiently. GenAI can significantly enhance am abstract concept like professional scepticism among junior auditors and students by providing tools and methodologies that promote critical and logical thinking, rigorous analysis, and objective evaluation of evidence. GenAI achieves this through sophisticated machine learning algorithms that identify patterns, anomalies, and trends in large datasets. By exposing junior auditors and students to these AI-driven tools, helps students to develop a critical mindset, encouraging them to question and investigate unusual patterns in financial data, evaluate evidence appropriately, thereby enhancing their level of professional scepticism. This project will entail training a custom GPT on the OpenAI platform before using the OpenAI wrapper API and a web based front end to create a virtual avatar for junior auditors and students to interact with. This methodology aims to create an interactive and personalised training and learning experience for users, supported by AI-driven virtual assistance tailored to their needs.
Virtual Reality Approach to Improve Public Speaking
Arushi
14 Aug 2019 - 12 Jul 2025
Interdisciplinary Research in Affective Computing focusing on investigation of voice analysis techniques for development of real-time Stress Detection Model (SDM) and its implementation for VR public speaking training
Climate-resilient landscapes: an adaptation case study in NSW’s Northern Rivers region and the Wet Tropics of Queensland
Diane Jarvis
01 Jan 2025 - 30 Jun 2027
This project aims to develop a climate change adaptation plan for focal threatened species and ecosystems of the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales (component 1) (already approved and underway) and the Wet Tropics of Queensland (component 2) (seeking approval for commencement 2025).
This project addresses the escalating climate risks in the region for species, habitats and ecosystems. These are interacting with existing threatening processes such as feral animals, weeds and development pressures. Species distributions are shifting in response to warming temperatures and changing patterns of rainfall. Sea level rise is impacting coastal processes and ecosystems. In addition to these climate trends, the region has experienced unprecedented drought, bushfires and floods in rapid succession over a 3-year period. These have impacted and stressed both natural and human systems. Future climate projections point to ongoing increases in the intensity, frequency and duration of these extreme weather events with cascading, compounding and aggregating impacts.
The Northern Rivers region contains significant natural and cultural assets and has vulnerable species at increasing risk of local or global extinction. Many vulnerable ecosystems are at risk of degradation and ecological collapse. Climate change adaptation planning is urgently needed to identify actions that can reduce the climate-related risks to focal species and ecosystems in the region. Furthermore, because adaptation is needed now and in the long term, adaptation strategies and options must be feasible and effective, have social licence, be culturally appropriate, and be informed by local knowledge including traditional knowledge to be sustainable. This is a problem facing all landscapes and communities throughout Australia. The Northern Rivers region is a suitable case study to develop and test the necessary approaches because of its rich natural and cultural assets, the experienced impacts from a rapidly changing climate, and well-organised and mature community networks, with supportive local and state government initiatives.
This project will develop a climate change adaptation plan which identifies the key climate risks for selected species and ecosystems, and documents feasible strategies and options to manage these risks. We will also develop a web-based decision-support platform that provides data, information, guidance and planning tools for stakeholders and decision-makers. A community-centred approach will better enable sustainable outcomes with adaptation solutions that are locally supported, aligned and culturally appropriate.
We will work with local Landcare and wildlife conservation groups, federal, state and local government agencies, and natural resource management (NRM) groups to develop a climate adaptation plan and associated data information and decision support.
We will draw on community-centred adaptation planning processes developed and tested over the last 4 years in a project funded by the Australian Research Council and undertaken by Griffith University in collaboration with the Shoalhaven City Council. This research has identified effective approaches for engaging with local communities, eliciting values, principles and feasible adaptation responses, and integrating these into formal local-government planning processes. Our use of risk and decision-support models builds on Griffith University’s application of them in prior climate adaptation research. We will also draw on spatial modelling approaches recently developed by Griffith University that enable fine-resolution mapping of habitat for arboreal wildlife, including old-growth structures critical for hollow-dependent fauna and species-specific connectivity corridor analysis. We will also use existing species and habitat data, including from federal and state government sources, current and future climate data from the Climate Systems Hub, and other relevant data such as flooding risks from CSIRO.
Our approach is based on the climate adaptation process and will involve 4 components: (i) Focal species and ecosystems; (ii) Climate risk assessment; (iii) Adaptation Plan; and (iv) Decision Support. Socio-economic and cultural considerations will be incorporated into all components of the project including the identification of focal species and ecosystems.
Breakout the breakout rooms: increasing online student engagement and collaboration
- 2016
- Blackboard
- Researchers:Jodie Maxfield
Managing diversity in the South Pacific
- 2016
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Researchers:Stephane Le Queux
Perspectives on effective coaching by those who have been coached
- 2017
- Wiley Blackwell
- Researchers:Rachel Hay
Association between energy prices and US hospital patient outcomes
- 2017
- Southern Medical Assn
- Researchers:Taha Chaiechi
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