Academy welcomes UQ trio

Three University of Queensland Business School academics have been elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Professor Andrew Burton-Jones, Professor Nicole Gillespie and Emeritus Professor Robert Faff have been recognised by their peers for their distinguished contribution to social science research and practice.

Professor Burton-Jones’s research focuses on how organisations use information technology and he recently partnered with Queensland Health and the Digital Health CRC to help the state’s health sector use their digital platforms to transform care and empower staff.

As part of the project, Professor Burton-Jones and his colleagues have developed a framework for transformation leadership and project assurance, allowing governments and financers of healthcare systems to achieve maximum return from their investment and improve patient care.

Professor Nicole Gillespie is KPMG’s Chair in Organisational Trust a Professor of Management and International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation at Oxford University.

In her world-first research project investigating people’s trust in artificial intelligence (AI), Professor Gillespie discovered 72 per cent of people don’t trust the technology.

Professor Gillespie is now developing tools and maturity indexes to help organisations identify their strengths and areas of development in building and sustaining trust.

Emeritus Professor Robert Faff has an international reputation in empirical finance research and a passion for nurturing and developing the career trajectories of early career researchers.

His research interests include asset pricing, risk modelling, managed fund performance, behavioural finance, corporate governance and market efficiency. 

Professor Burton-Jones, Professor Gillespie and Emeritus Professor Faff were among 37 new Academy Fellows announced for 2021.

The organisation comprises the nation’s leading political scientists, economists, historians, educationists, philosophers, and psychologists.

Find out more about UQ’s ASSA Fellows.