2019RESEARCHHIGHLIGHTS

WELCOME2019 was a remarkable year for the research community at Bond University. The key highlights are presented in this publication.

Engage. Influence. Impact. was the theme for Research Week 2019. Showcasing the different areas of research in evening lectures, workshops, and presentations enabled our vibrant researchers to engage with the community.

The benefits of our researchers’ collaborative efforts cannot be understated. This is what drives research growth into the future, ensuring outcomes with beneficial impact.

To our research teams, committee members, partners and collaborators - thank you. Without enquiring minds, this world would be a much poorer place.

We are pleased that, with your help, Bond can be a part of the solution.

Professor Keitha DunstanDeputy Vice Chancellor

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VICE CHANCELLOR’S RESEARCH AWARDS 2019The Vice Chancellor’s Excellence awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of Bond’s researchers.

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE

Professor Bruce Vanstone’s research focuses on applying Big Data and predictive modelling techniques to difficult business problems. He currently supervises seven PhD students and one Master of Philosophy student. In his role as Associate Dean of Research in the Business School, Professor Vanstone has demonstrated his leadership skills with the EQUIS and AACSB accreditation committees.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Associate Professor Peta Stapleton’s expertise is in Clinical Psychology. Dr Stapleton has supervised PhD, Masters and Honours students, and since commencing at Bond in 2013 she has supervised seven Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students, they have all graduated. Dr Stapleton’s approach to supervision includes supporting independence and autonomous thinking but offering guidance to develop, if needed.

EARLY CAREER RESEARCH EXCELLENCE

Associate Professor Adrian Gepp graduated with a PhD in 2015. Dr Gepp uses big data and advanced statistical modelling to reveal unique insights about problems of economic or social importance. He has secured $523,412 in external funding, 16 journal articles, six book chapters, published conference papers, 18 international peer-reviewed conference presentations and supervised two PhD completions and three Honours completions. He is currently supervising eightHDR / Honours students.

Professor Tim Brailsford (Vice Chancellor), Associate Professor Adrian Gepp, Associate Professor Peta Stapleton, Professor Bruce Vanstone

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STRENGTHS

• Professor Paul Glasziou, Director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, was awarded a prestigious $2.7M Investigator grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council to support his research project, Neglected Problems in Healthcare which addresses four main issues: Antibiotic resistance, particularly in general practice and the community; Understanding and reducing overdiagnosis and overtreatment; The use of simpler and effective non-drug treatments; and Reducing research waste.

• Professor Tammy Hoffmann of Bond University’s Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare has been elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS) as a result of her outstanding achievement and exceptional contribution to Australia’s health and medical research landscape.

• Associate Professor Nigel Barnett and Professor Helen O’Neill from the Clem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine were awarded funding of $683,062 through the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Ideas Grant scheme to lead a research project on Retinal stem cell therapy in the immunoprivileged eye.

• Associate Professor Adrian Gepp and Professor Bruce Vanstone from the Bond Business School secured funding totalling $250,000 for research projects undertaken with industry partners. They have received $100,000 from Rapid Media Pty Ltd to develop a statistical model that will enable them to quantify marketing effectiveness, as well as $150,000 from KPMG to undertake a three-year project on data analytics in risk management.

• Professor Nick Zwar was named as a Chief Investigator on a University of Newcastle-led National Health and Medical Research Council project funded for $745,056.50 under a Targeted Research Call: Improving implementation of Health Assessments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients in mainstream general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Reflecting our international institutional reputation and the regard held for our individual researchers, the research effort at Bond continues to grow. Our staff participated in successful grant applications in excess of $6.6 million during 2019. Some highlights from the year include:

• Dr Stuart Murray has secured approximately $135,000 in funding and is working on a number of projects, including one funded by Griffith University looking at Developing Australia’s Sport Diplomacy Priorities ($79,310), and two projects focused on sports diplomacy.

• Professor Terry O’Neill and Professor Steve Stern were awarded an Innovation Connections Grant worth $101,494 co-funded by the Australian Government and Healthcare Logic to work on Rapid prediction of clinical episodes in hospitals: Operating theatre procedure time duration distributions and efficient scheduling algorithms.

• Professor Liz Isenring and Dr Skye Marshall were awarded an Innovation Connections Grant worth $99,906 co-funded by the Australian Government and Weight Loss Solutions Australia to conduct an Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty Efficacy study.

• Dr Terry Goldsworthy was awarded funding of $76,125 by the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety Directorate to conduct a Review of the effectiveness of ACT police crime scene powers and powers to target, disrupt, investigate and prosecute criminal gang members.

• Professor Bruce Vanstone and Dr Libby Sander were awarded an Innovation Connections grant worth $58,678 co-funded by the Australian Government and Resonate Consultants to undertake a study looking at The Effects of Acoustic Treatment in Open-Plan Offices on Psychophysiological and Cognitive Responses to Noise and Distraction.

• Professor Jeffrey Brand is working with the Queensland University of Technology on a project funded by Film Victoria for $97,050 to provide insights into regional and global trends in the digital games sector, so as to inform the direction the Victorian Government takes in supporting the future growth of the local sector.

Associate Professor Nigel Barnett and Professor Helen O’Neill from the Clem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine

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PROFESSOR NICK ZWARExecutive Dean Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine

Professor Nick Zwar joined Bond University in 2019 as Executive Dean. Professor Zwar’s background is in medicine as a general practitioner and as a primary healthcare teacher and researcher. He has a national and international reputation in health services research on prevention and management of chronic illness, with a focus on respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

Professor Zwar has led the development of and contributed to several sets of Australian and international clinical practice guidelines and has reviewed over 200 peer-reviewed publications. Over the course of his academic career, Professor Zwar has maintained involvement in clinical practice, working part time as a general practitioner for over 30 years.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CLAUDIA DOBLERInstitute of Evidence-Based Healthcare

Associate Professor Dobler joined the Institute of Evidence-Based Practice in 2019 and is also a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Liverpool Hospital, Sydney.

Associate Professor Dobler’s key interest is to improve clinical practice, especially for patients with respiratory conditions, through high quality research.

Her research focuses on epidemiology and large database analysis, evidence-based medicine, knowledge synthesis (systematic reviews, meta-analysis) and knowledge translation, and medical decision-making at a system and patient encounter level (using the tools of decision analysis and decision aids for shared decision-making).

PROFILING NEW APPOINTMENTS

PROFESSOR SHARON MICKAN Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine

Professor Mickan is the inaugural head of program for Healthcare Innovations, an inter-disciplinary program, run in conjunction with the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Bond Business School. Professor Mickan will facilitate mid-career professionals who are ready to be health leaders to:

1. Navigate the research evidence,

2. Critically evaluate health systems and practices, and

3. Implement clinical improvements.

Professor Mickan’s research interests are focused on translating research evidence, implementing organisational improvement and building clinicians’ research capacity and engagement.

DR DOUGLAS ANGUS Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine

Dr Angus’ research primarily focuses on how theories of motivation and emotion are informed by neuroscience and psychophysiology. His PhD research used electroencephalography to examine the time-course of neural activity involved in reward anticipation and consumption, and how these processes interact with anger and aggression. Dr Angus’ current research agenda encompasses five broad areas;

1. Temporally and psychologically discrete aspects of reward processing

2. Anger and its association with positive emotional states

3. Self-regulation and decision making in emotional contexts

4. Meta-cognition about affective states

5. Frontal cortical-subcortical imbalances, cognitive function, and healthy ageing.

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DR ZOE MICHALEFF Institute of Evidence-Based Healthcare

Dr Michaleff is a Post-Doctoral Fellow. As a physiotherapist, she has a strong interest in research methods and the evidence-based diagnosis, prognosis and sustainable management of musculoskeletal conditions across the life course.

Other interests include health literacy and how research evidence is accessed, appraised and used by the public and clinicians to inform health decisions and promote shared decision making.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WENDY BONYTHON Centre for Professional Legal Education

Associate Professor Bonython’s research interests include torts, health law, and regulation and ethics of technology.

She has published widely on issues including:

• Research ethics and regulation,

• Legal capacity and culpability,

• Genetic privacy,

• Property in body parts and derivative data,

• Regulation of medical devices and pharmaceuticals, and

• Medical negligence.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR STIJN SOENEN Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine

Dr Soenen is a clinical researcher with a passion to teach, who specialises in nutrition. Dr Soenen has established an international reputation in the field of physiological mechanisms underlying energy balance (the regulation of energy intake and energy expenditure), particularly on the role of dietary protein on body weight, muscle mass and function, which is of major importance to health outcomes.

He leads a program of research relating to malnutrition, over- (eg bariatric surgery patients) and undernutrition (frailty), and type 2 diabetes, in older people.

His complex and technically demanding clinical studies have been published in leading journals in his field e.g. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

DR TSE-LING TEHBond Business School

The major topic of Dr Teh’s research is the analysis of risk on economic welfare using applied microeconomic theory and economic experiments.

She examines how risk affects individual decisions, as well as decisions in a group context, from an informational and behavioural perspective.

Dr Teh has research experience in insurance economics specialising in the analysis of risk transfer instruments for natural disaster risks and the impact on economic welfare, as well as research experience in development economics.

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RESEARCH CENTRESINSTITUTE OF EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTHCARE

Established in 2010 as the Centre for Evidence-Based Practice (CREBP) the Centre transitioned into the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare (IEBH) in 2019. Over the past nine years, CREBP has attracted in excess of $25 million in external funding. In the past five years, the CREBP team has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles in some of the top international journals including The Lancet, JAMA, BMJ and PLOS One. IEBH will continue to conduct world-class research focusing on four high-impact areas:

• Antibiotic resistance

• Overdiagnosis

• Non-pharmaceutical treatments, and

• Waste in medical research.

The effective integration of research into practice will contribute to the health and healthcare of Australians and influence health policy, improve global health outcomes and continue to enhance Bond University’s reputation as a leading private and independent University.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL LEGAL EDUCATION

The Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLE) is a community of legal educators, researchers, practitioners and administrators who collaborate in defining, understanding, and promoting best practice in the teaching of law, with an emphasis upon professional legal education and training, and understanding and responding to the changing nature of the legal services sector. The CPLE’s emphasis is on professional legal education; they develop and deliver professional legal training programs. The CPLE seeks to stimulate and enrich legal education by:

• Being a leading contributor to research and scholarship about professional legal education and training.

• Being a leading designer and developer of high quality, innovative, personalised legal education and training programs and courses.

• Earning a national and international reputation in the legal education sector as a leader in professional legal education research and program design.

• Efficiently managing the CPLE’s human, physical and financial resources and successfully manage its relations with key stakeholders.

CENTRE FOR ACTUARIAL AND FINANCIAL BIG DATA ANALYTICS

Established in 2014, the Centre consists of staff from the Finance, Statistics and Informatics disciplines. Professor Terry O’Neill, whose research capabilities span a range of areas including applied statistics, big data, economic models, forecasting and finance, leads the Centre. The Centre’s specific big data analytic interests include finance, machine learning and risk management and climate change.

CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH

The Centre is focused on creating new insights into the performance of the built environment through an interdisciplinary evidence-based process of:

• Translating sustainable design into superior urban infrastructure,

• Transforming intelligent assembly into safer and more productive construction practices, and

• Transcending benefits realisation into successful economic, social, political and environmental outcomes.

CENTRE FOR UROLOGY RESEARCH

The Centre’s aim is to enhance researcher’s knowledge of the lower urinary tract with the aim of developing new treatments or enhancing current treatments for a range of conditions, including overactive bladder, prostate cancer, stress incontinence, and interstitial cystitis.

CLEM JONES CENTRE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

The Centre was established to investigate the therapeutic use of stem cells in tissue repair and disease. An important goal of the Centre is to combine research excellence in stem cell science with clinical translation and to enhance, induce or transplant stem cells for patient benefits. Current research projects include stem cell therapy for age-related macular degeneration, retinal degeneration, regeneration of spleen from stem cells and enhancing hematopoiesis during ageing and disease.

INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTRE FOR THE ARTIFICIAL MIND

iCAM undertakes innovative research on the mind’s development over a lifespan, in interaction with artificial environments.

iCAM is dedicated to making the following over-arching contributions:

• Guiding new investigation into human-artificial environment interaction,

• Analyse the development of mind within artificial environments,

• Provide preventive solutions for human health disorders, and explore treatments of neurological diseases.

Health Sciences & Medicine Building and also the home of the Institute of Evidence-Based Healthcare

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HIGHER DEGREE BY RESEARCHHIGHER DEGREE BY RESEARCH UNIT

Candidates undertaking a Research Degree have unique needs and navigating the complexities along the way can be challenging. Bond University recognises the need to provide specialist advice, training and support to HDR candidates throughout their journey in order to enhance the student experience. The HDR Unit provides seamless administrative support to candidates so they are well prepared and supported throughout their candidature. The HDR Unit comprises Professor Michael Weir (Chair of Graduate Research), Ms Vinese Berkett (Manager, HDR Unit), and Ms Minori Watanabe (HDR Support Officer).

2019 HIGHER DEGREE BY RESEARCH GRADUATES

Bond Business SchoolDoctor of Philosophy graduates

• Khaled Halteh• Lee Lee Ong• Asif Saeed• Ahmad Nabeel Siddiquei• Manuel Siegrist• Rui Xue

Faculty of Health Sciences & MedicineDoctor of Philosophy graduates

• Loai Albarqouni• Mina Abdou Thabet Bakhit• Josephine Grigg• Mariia Kozlovskaia• Kate Morgan• Vinicius Perez Simas• Katrina Smith

Master of Science (by Research) graduate

• Pasan Waidyasekara

Faculty of LawDoctor of Philosophy graduates

• Leyla-Denisa Obreja• Louise Parsons

Faculty of Society & DesignDoctor of Philosophy graduates

• Mundhir Mahmood Abdullah Al Hasani• Scott Blakemore• Tuong-Minh Ly-Le• Matthew Moorhead• Alan Patching• Danielle Perks

Professor Michael Weir (Head of Graduate Studies) and 3MT winner Ms Amanda Tauber

3 MINUTE THESIS (3MT)

In August, eleven Higher Degree by Research students participated in the 3MT competition. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, developed by the University of Queensland, required PhD students to present their 80,000 word thesis in only three minutes, something that would normally take hours. Bond University PhD candidate Amanda Tauber won the $2,000 Grand Prize for her work in slowing down the growth of adaptable diseases. Her work is focused on helping doctors detect cancer at an earlier stage, giving more them more of an opportunity to treat the disease.

Runner-up, PhD student Serena Davidson, explored the links between serial and non-serial rapists.

The People’s Choice Award was given to PhD student Katarina Needham for her research into anxiety, stress, and working memory on executive function - awarding her a grant of $500.

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In 2019 the following researchers were awarded a place in the program:

Throughout 2019 Bond University hosted several visiting fellows.

Associate Professor Daniel O’Brien, whose area of research is sports management, travelled to meet with the founders and senior executives of the WaveGarden company in San Sebastian, Spain, to discuss the commercialisation of artifical wave generation technology in the form of surf parks. He then travelled to the UK to meet with senior management of four surf parks that are using WaveGarden technology. His research revolves around community development and capacity building outcomes to be derived from this rapidly expanding sector. In addition to this, Dr O’Brien published one A- and two A*-level journal articles, a book chapter, and a book.

Associate Professor Francina Cantatore, whose speciality is in law, visited University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa to undertake research into law schools that conduct pro bono clinics, and the impact that has on the graduate’s employability skills. Dr Cantatore subsequently published two articles relating to the effects of pro bono initiatives in law schools and the use of technology in clinical legal education (CLE), as well as public submissions on fractionalised land interests and intellectual property (IP) rights in artificial intelligence (AI). She also presented her CLE research at a research conference in Havana, Cuba and completed two further articles on AI and IP rights in digital authorship and patentable inventions and fractionalised land interests.

Assistant Professor Nikki Milne, whose expertise is in paediatrics physiotherapy, submitted eight papers to journals and progressed seven journal papers. Dr Milne also completed two Queensland Health studies and hosted a visit with collaborator Dr Margarita Tsiros (University of South Australia). In May 2019, Dr Milne presented two research abstracts at the World Congress for Physical Therapy in Geneva, Switzerland.

2019 ACADEMIC EXTENDED RESEARCH LEAVE PROGRAM

2019 VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWS SCHEME

The AERLP is intended to allow staff to enhance their momentum on specific research projects and focus on research outcomes. Extended Research Leave is one additional non-teaching semester where an academic is released from teaching and administrative duties to focus on research and scholarly activities.

The objective of the Visiting Research Fellows Scheme was to enhance research collaboration through supporting visits by collaborating research exemplars to help build Bond’s research capacity, productivity and external research partnerships.

Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine

• Professor Vera Mazurak, University of Alberta (Canada)

• Dr Sue Phillips, Therapeutic Guidelines Limited (Australia)

Bond Business School

• Dr Kerstin Sailer, University College London (UK)

Faculty of Society & Design

• Dr Alexander Fischer, Philosophy Department, University of Basel (Switzerland)

• Professor Kevin Kip, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Florida (USA)

• Professor Andrew Wilson, United States Naval War College (USA)

Dr Alexander Fischer, University of Basel (Switzerland) Professor Kevin Kip, University of South Florida and Associate Professor Peta Stapleton

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RESEARCH WEEK 2019Engage. Influence. Impact.

The theme for the eighth annual Research Week at Bond University was Engage. Influence. Impact. Research Week is an opportunity for attendees to learn more about research at Bond University. The week-long event, held in October, represented a collaborative, community outreach effort for the University. In 2019, there were 16 events across the week, attended by over 1,300 people.

Key events held during the week include:

• The Faculty of Law hosted an afternoon event highlighting Legal Research at the Frontiers.

• The Clem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine presented an evening public lecture on retinal diseases.

• Associate Professor Rob Orr and the Tactical Research Unit showcased their work in a rapid-fire mini symposium.

• The Bond Business School explored the Science of Business and, the Ethics of Consumption, during evening seminars.

• The Centre for Comparative Construction Research hosted an industry focused event that consisted of a panel discussion regarding construction productivity challenges.

• Professor Peter Reaburn, Associate Professor Justin Keogh and the Sport and Exercise Science Group presented conclusive evidence that exercise IS medicine.

• The Health Sciences and Medicine Post-Graduate research conference, a whole day event, was attended by over 500 medical students, HDR students, academics, local clinicians and the Bond University community.

• The Bond University Women’s Network breakfast, attended by 150 people, showcased Dr Libby Sander, Dr Donna Henson, and Professor Janie Smith, who shared their research journeys.

• The annual Research Week Gala Dinner keynote speaker was Dr Glenn Gardener. The dinner was attended by 180 people. The Vice Chancellor’s Research Awards were announced.

Professor Justin Craig from the Bond Business School Associate Professor Rob Orr from the Tactical Research Unit

Professor Alan Patching (centre) at the Centre for Comparative Construction Research event

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Assistant Professor Louise Parsons at the Faculty of Law event

Professor Peter Reaburn at the Exercise and Sports Science event

Ms Amanda Tauber, Dr Damon Arezzolo, and Ms Kirsty Mitchell at the Health Sciences and Medicine Post-Graduate Research Conference

Associate Professor Nigel Barnett at the Clem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine public lecture

RESEARCH WEEK 2019

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