Lisanne is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law. Prior to transitioning to full‑time academia, she worked in legal practice at law firms in Amsterdam and Sydney. She has also been affiliated with the University of Sydney, and in 2018 she was appointed Honorary Associate of the School of Psychology to strengthen her collaboration with forensic psychology scholars examining psychological dimensions of criminal procedures.

Lisanne completed her PhD at RMIT in 2023, where she examined the occurrence of, and contributing factors to, involuntary false confessions and wrongful convictions. She has critically analysed the admissibility of confession evidence and the exercise of judicial discretions to exclude involuntary or otherwise unreliable confessions.

Lisanne is also an Australian lawyer admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Dr Saima Ahmad is a Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at RMIT University's School of Management. She holds a PhD in Management from Monash University. Her research focuses on the development of sustainable work environments and the promotion of individual well-being by cultivating positive leadership styles. She is dedicated to advancing knowledge on leadership, organizational behavior and workplace dynamics to create positive impacts within communities. She has published widely in high-ranking journals and actively contributes to academic conferences and industry collaborations. Her dedication to student success and scholarly excellence has earned her recognition through multiple teaching and research awards.

Saima served as the HDR Coordinator for the Graduate School of Business and Law (GSBL) at RMIT University from 2022 to 2024, and adopted a candidate-centered approach to foster a supportive and inclusive research community. Overseeing the PhD (Business), PhD (Law), and Master by Research programs in Business and Law, she ensured smooth program operations while supporting HDR students and their supervisors. She played a key role in managing student recruitment and selection, facilitating professional development initiatives, and coordinating social events and activities to enhance the student experience. Under her leadership, the school surpassed previous records for HDR completions. Her outstanding leadership and commitment to HDR development were recognized with the 2022 RMIT GSBL Dean’s Merit Award for HDR Leadership Excellence. 

In the RMIT MBA program, Saima coordinates and delivers courses such as Leadership Issues in International Management and Leading in the Age of Digital Disruption. She empowers students with valuable insights and equips them with the necessary skills to thrive in the dynamic business landscape. Saima serves on the editorial board of the European Management Journal and PLoS One. She sits on the ABEN Advisory Committee.

Professional interests:
- Member of the Academy of Management

- Member of the European Academy of Management
- Member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management
- Member of the Australasian Business Ethics Network

Lola Akin Ojelabi is Professor and Head of Department (Law) in the School of Law. 

Lola’s research focuses on access to justice and conflict resolution: appropriate dispute resolution (ADR) including in relation to ethics, mediator responsibilities, teaching ADR in the law curriculum, cultural appropriateness, ADR and access to justice and ADR and social justice. Lola is interested in the role of international law in promoting global peace and justice particularly, how finding shared values may assist in the resolution or management of seemingly intractable conflicts.  She is co-author of Ethics and Justice in Mediation (2018), Dispute Resolution in Australia: Cases, Commentary and Materials (2023), Alternative Dispute Resolution (2026).

Carol Bond is a political and social scientist investigating business-related socio-economic and policy topics in the energy and resources sectors.

Industry Experience
Carol works closely with the energy and extractives industries as well as peak bodies. Research partners include: Energy Networks Australia (ENA), Australian Pipelines and Gas Association (APGA), The Australian Hydrogen Council (AHC), Australian Institute of Mining & Metals (AusIMM), Jemena, Origin, and the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG).

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Engagement

Carol is privileged to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland on topics such as entrepreneurship, business management, protecting Indigenous IP, while supporting deep connection to culture and country.

Prue is aLecturer (Management) in the School of Management. Her research interests include improving health and social care service delivery, and understanding how institutional change may be provoked and harnessed for the social good. Prior to working in academia, Prue worked in the NGO and Government sectors as a senior researcher and policy officer on a number of public policy and service delivery issues affecting disadvantaged Australians.

Her PhD dissertation explored how firms support former prisoners to reintegrate into the workforce.

Key activities:

Academic Director, School of Management

Course co-coordinator: BUSM1094 Organisations; BUSM1100 Organisations

Sara Charlesworth is Professor Emerita in the College of Business & Law.

She was previously Professor of Work, Gender & Regulation in the School of Management (2014-2022) and an RMIT Distinguished Professor (2019-2022). Sara is a socio-legal scholar whose research focuses on gender (in)equality in employment at the labour market, industry and organisational levels. She has held two Australian Research Council fellowships, including a Future Fellowship (2013-2018), and held several ARC projects including on sexual harassment, gender equality and decent work, quality part-time work, work/life balance and gender-equitable organisational change in male-dominated organisations.

Over recent years of Sara’s research has focused mainly on low-paid work in feminised industries and on paid care work. Her last major ARC-funded research was the Discovery project ‘Decent Work & Good Care: International Approaches to Aged Care’. She is currently a chief investigator on a Canadian SHHRC partnership grant ‘Imagining Age–Friendly “Communities” within Communities: International Promising Practices’, for which she is hosted the Melbourne case study in April 2024. 

Sara has published and presented widely in a wide range of academic, policy and community fora and has been involved in a number of key gender equality policy reviews and debates. She continues to publish as highlighted below under publications. In 2024 Sara completed work for Public Services International producing a report on Decent Work and Quality Long-term Care with Profs Ian Cunningham (Strathclyde) and Tamara Daly (York) and a Literature Review on Work and Care with Prof Meg Smith (Western Sydney) for the Fair Work Commission’s Modern Awards Review 2023-2024.

Sara is deeply committed to collaborative practice and knowledge exchange. Sara was invited to the 2022 Jobs and Skills Summit and presented on collective bargaining for low paid workers and on policy levers to progress gender equality. She has been an advisor to the Australian Human Rights Commission on their 2012, 2018 and 2022 National Sexual Harassment Prevalence Surveys. Sara was a member of the Victoria Police VEOHRC Review Academic Governance Board (2017-2020), following VEOHRC’s Review of Sexual Harassment and Predatory Behaviour at Victoria Police. In 2018 Sara was invited to be expert advisor to the Australian Workers’ Delegation on the Standard- Setting Committee on Violence & Harassment in the World of Work, 107th Session of the International Labour Conference.

Sara has been invited to present expert evidence to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality & Safety and to various state and federal Parliamentary committees, most recently to the Select Senate Committees on Job Security and on Work & Care. She has also presented expert evidence to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in the Aged Care Work Value Case and the just completed FWC gender-based undervaluation prioity awards review. 

Sara is a Thinker in Residence for HumanAbility, the Jobs and Skills Council for human services and other industries. She is on the Victorian government Equal Workplaces Advisory Council, co-convenor of the Work+Family Policy Roundtable, a network of Australian gender, work and care scholars and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Relations.

Field of media:
- Gender equality in employment
- Job quality & decent work
- Social care workforce
- Industrial and anti-discrimination law & practice
- Intersection of work & care

Dr Darshan Datar holds a PhD in Law from the University of Melbourne. He also holds degrees from the European University Institute, the Central European University, and O.P Jindal Global University. Dr Datar has also spent time as a World Comparative Law Visiting Scholar at Humboldt University and as a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. His research focuses on comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, secularism, and human rights. Dr Datar’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the Australian Journal of Law and Religion, and World Comparative Law. Dr Datar’s current research projects are centred around freedom of thought, and the protection of cognitive liberty. Specifically, this project aims to determine how thought ought to be constitutionally protected in light of the proliferation of neurotech in therapeutic and criminal justice contexts. Dr Datar is a committed lecturer and primarily teaches in the field of administrative law, constitutional law, statutory interpretation and legal theory.

My research uses an economic geography lens to provide unique and valuable insights into the political economy of regional and urban development, housing and climate change adaptation. A focus of my research is the factors influencing the spatial redistribution of different forms of work, and the influence of social, material and environmental changes. My research has included qualitative and quantitative analysis, and multi-disciplinary collaborations.

I have conducted and contributed to projects on regional development and continue to publish on these issues, including the Australian Government's National Climate Risk Assessment, Evaluation of the National Urban Policy Programme of UN-Habitat, The Business Case for Social Housing as Infrastructure, Climate Resilience and Australian Festivals, and a range of projects regional population and economic dynamics.

Phoebe is a Lecturer at RMIT Law School. Her research and teaching interests are in media law, comparative and public law, and the regulation of the right to freedom of expression in the digital age. She has published her work in the Cambridge Law Journal, the Melbourne Journal of International Law, and the Media and Arts Law Review. Her forthcoming monograph with Hart Publishing focuses on the regulation of social media communication causing democratic harm from a comparative perspective.

Phoebe completed her LL.M and PhD at the Melbourne Law School. She has previously held positions as a Lecturer at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Law School, where she was Co-Convenor of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law (WA Chapter), and as an Assistant Editor of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) Blog.

Dr Harati is a Lecturer in the School of Management at RMIT University. His research explores how individuals and communities overcome adversity, turning limitations into strengths. In other words, he investigates the “silver lining” of adversity: how constraints, rather than simply hindering success, can motivate people to grow, adapt, and excel. Specifically, he examines how challenges such as limited resources, social, economic, and ecological barriers, often seen as obstacles, can become catalysts for resilience, innovation, and even competitive advantage. His work seeks to understand how we can support marginalised individuals, groups, and societies to thrive amid difficult conditions.

Dr Harati adopts a multi-level and multi-method approach to explore change across individuals, organisations, and broader societies. Notably, one of his studies demonstrates how people living with limited water availability develop adaptive behaviours rooted in long-term orientation and self-restraint. This research has implications for addressing global sustainability challenges, including Climate Change, and has been recognised in the media for its contribution.

Dr Harati's research has been published in academic outlets, including Psychological Science. Dr Harati's contributions to Sustainability research were recognised with the 2024 Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award, further solidifying his influence in the field. He also presented at conferences, including the Academy of Management, Association for Psychological Science, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, British Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, and the AU and NZ Academy of Management. Before joining RMIT University, Dr Harati worked for six years as an academic at the University of Queensland, where he received the Excellence Award in Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a Senior Management Consultant, gaining practical experience across various aspects of business and organisational dynamics.

Dr Harati's research has garnered a wider audience through various media outlets such as ChicagoBooth Review, Association for Psychological Science, its podcast, MedicalXpress, Inside Water, Mirage News, YouTube, LinkedIn and went viral on X-Twitter with over 150k views. Additionally, he has expanded his influence through podcast appearances on Under the Cortex and journalism with articles published in the Observer (affiliated with the Association for Psychological Science) and Scientific American (affiliated with Nature).

He earned his PhD at the University of Queensland Business School (Australia) and won its Best PhD Thesis Pitch Award.

Dr Mohammad Alamgir Hossain has received his PhD in Information Systems from Curtin University, Australia, with the Chancellor's commendation. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor (Full Professor in the North American System) in Information Systems (IS) at the School of Accounting, Information Systems, and Supply Chain (SAISSC), RMIT University. Previously, he was a Vice Chancellor Postdoc Research Fellow at RMIT University. He is the seminar coordinator for the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics (DISBA) as well as leading the Digital Technologies theme of Business & Human Rights (BHRIGHT) Centre, RMIT University. Dr Hossain is also a Visiting Fellow, University of Wollongong.

Mohammad conducts research and publishes regularly in top-ranked journals. So far, he published more than 60 scholarly articles, including three A* and 25 A ranked journal articles (ABDC ranking). His overall research interest is the social, organisational, and individual acceptance and use of digital technologies. As a supervisor, he has four PhD completions. He received research grant of more $100K.

Recognition
• Dean’s Research Excellence Award for highest performing research, SAISSC, RMIT University (2020)
• Learning and Teaching Award for the Best Teaching Team, School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University (2018)
• RMIT College of Business (CoBL) nomination (2023) for Learning and Teaching (L&T) Impact Award
• RMIT College of Business (CoBL) nomination (2023) for Collaborations in L&T Award
• RMIT College of Business (CoBL) nomination (2023) for Research Excellence – Journal Publication by an Academic
• Best paper award in 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2016, Swansea, UK.
• Best paper award in IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2013, Bangalore, India.

Dr Shahriar Kaisar is an accomplished researcher in data analytics, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. His research expertise includes developing advanced cyberthreat detection and mitigation strategies, utilizing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence tools to tackle complex business and health informatics challenges, and devising innovative solutions to facilitate seamless content sharing using advanced networking capabilities. To drive the adoption of artificial intelligence, his most recent study focused on generative and explainable AI in business decision making. Dr Kaisar is vastly experienced in human-centric data collection research involving large groups of people. His excellent work has featured in various prestigious international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Dr. Kaisar earned his PhD from Monash University, Australia, and a research-based master's degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has held various academic positions in Australia, Canada, and Bangladesh.

Associate Professor, RMIT Graduate School of Business & Law | Energy & Environmental Law Expert | Advancing Regulatory Pathways for Renewable Energy & Climate Resilience

Joona Keränen is a Professor (Marketing) in the School of Economics, Finance, and Marketing at RMIT University.

Joona is an internationally recognized expert on value-based selling and business-to-business (B2B) marketing, and he has received several national and international awards for research excellence. His research is focused on examining how organizations can understand, quantify, and communicate the value that they (co-)create with various societal stakeholders across diverse contexts, ranging from industrial buyer-seller relationships to circular economy, cleantech, social procurement, and healthcare.

Industry experience:
Dr. Keränen has extensive experience in collaborating with industry partners and leading several large-scale, international, and industry-engaged research projects. He serves as a senior advisor to selected B2B firms and is a frequent keynote speaker at corporate and industry events.

Awards:

2024 Award for Excellence in Research Supervision, College of Business & Law, RMIT University

2022 Award for Research Excellence (high-impact publication), College of Business & Law, RMIT University

2021 Best paper award in the Digital Transformation track in the R&D Management (RADMA) conference
2020 Research Excellence Award, College of Business & Law, RMIT University
2020 Research Excellence Award, Graduate School of Business & Law, RMIT University
2018 Best paper award in the business-to-business marketing track in the Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC)
2014 Teemu Aho Award for a high-quality dissertation from the Society for Viipuri, School of Economics, Finland

Dr Khan has been in academia for over 24 years. Dr Khan has extensive teaching experience, at undergraduate and post graduate levels. She has designed and co-ordinated multiple courses, relating to sustainability accounting and accountability. Her research experience is extensive. She has published in renowned internationally recogonised multidisciplinary journals. She engages with industry regularly around sustainabiity technologies including AI and data management. She has supervised multiple HDR projects to completion.

Dr Jonathan Kolieb is Director of RMIT's Business and Human Rights Centre, and Associate Professor in Law at the School of Law, RMIT University.

Jonathan’s research and teaching interests focus on global governance issues, including current projects on international conflict resolution, business and human rights, and the accountability of transnational corporations under international humanitarian law. His PhD dissertation was entitled: “Corporate Peacebuilding and the Law: Regulating the Private Sector for Conflict Transformation.”

His written work includes academic articles in leading Australian and international journals, UN peacekeeping training documents, and pieces in the mainstream press such as Newsweek, The Washington Post and The Australian newspapers. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the George Washington University Law School, and a Graduate Visitor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jonathan has held positions with the Government of Australia, various think-tanks and non-governmental organisations, focusing on human rights and international affairs. These roles include serving as Congressional Liaison Officer at the Embassy of Australia in Washington DC, and as Legal Consultant for the United Nation’s Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.

Jonathan holds a PhD (Law) from University of Melbourne, an LL.M. (International Law) and an M.A. (International&Area Studies) from University of California, Berkeley and undergraduate Law and Politics degrees from the University of Melbourne and Monash University.

Jonathan has received several awards and grants in recognition of, and to advance, his scholarship. These include a RMIT College of Business Research Excellence Awards (2016 and 18), the A.O. Capell Prestigious PhD Scholarship from the University of Melbourne (2011-2015); a Rotary World Peace Fellowship (2004-06); a Human Rights Fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley (2007); and the Rufus Davis Memorial Prize for Politics from Monash University (2001).

For a full list of Jonathan's publications visit Google Scholar or Academia.edu.

Dr Jayanthi Kumarasiri is a Lecturer at the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain. She specialises in teaching financial accounting and management accounting at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her PhD is in the area of corporate carbon emissions management and strategies. Dr. Kumarasiri has published in several prestigious academic journals, including the British Accounting Review, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, and Meditari Accountancy Research, in addition to contributing media commentary for platforms such as The Conversation.

Shelley Marshall is a Professor of Law, and Deputy Dean (Research and Innovation) of the School of Law at RMIT University. From 2020-2023 she was an Australian Research Council DECRA research fellow. Prior to that she was a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University. She is a graduate in Arts and Law from the University of Melbourne, in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy at the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University.

Shelley's work spans Business and Human Rights and Labour Law, employing the analytical tools availed by degrees in three disciplines. She has two primary research interests in the field of labour law: (a) the regulation of informal work, (b) labour law in poor and middle income country contexts. She has conducted major research projects in each of these areas. Her multi-country project with the ILO and Professor Simon Deakin of Cambridge University examined labour law in developing countries, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. She has undertaken empirical research into informal work in Bulgaria, India, Australia and Cambodia exploring ways that labour law can respond to different political economic conditions and ‘regulatory problems’. Shelley has repeatedly advised the International Labour Organisation, with her work cited at the highest governing body, influencing international labour market regulation.

Her books include 'Living Wage', 'Homeworking Women: A Gender Justice Perspective' and 'Varieties of Capitalism and Law, Corporate Governance and the Management of Labour: A Study of Australian Regulatory Style and Business Practice'. Shelley also co-edited: 'Corporate Governance and Employees', 'Fair Trade and Corporate Accountability: Experiments in Globalising Social Justice'.