Shengrui Peng is a PhD candidate in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. Shengrui’s research explores how gender inequality influences how people make sense of the social world, the importance of gender to people’s identity, and the impact of inequality on gender expression and non-verbal behaviours. Shengrui holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Melbourne and is broadly interested in gender inequality, gender identity, gender expression, non-verbal behaviors, and the ways disadvantaged groups respond to systemic inequality.
Aisham Ali is a Social Psychology PhD at student at The University of Melbourne, whose research centres on perceptions of naturalness and their role in judgment and decision-making. His work examines how beliefs about whether something is perceived as “natural” intersect with risk aversion, responses to new technologies, consumer behaviour in domains such as food and medicine, and environmental psychology, including conservation. Broadly, he studies how perceptions of naturalness shape tangible behaviours related to technology adoption, consumption choices, and health- and environment-related decision-making.
Layla Howe is a PhD Candidate at the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland. Layla’s research project explores how principles of High Reliability Organisations (HROs) could be applied to improve the reliability in delivery of the environmental outcomes mining organisations have committed to. This project aims to develop a process that can be used to identify the kinds of organisational approaches needed to enhance environmental reliability. Exploring the applications of HRO principles to the environmental function in mining intends to strengthen existing industry’s organisational capabilities, support companies to maintain their licence to operate and achieve better long‑term environmental outcomes.
Christoph Klebl 