Queensland COVID-19 research

This page of Queensland’s research related to the COVID-19 pandemic is compiled from information provided by Queensland universities and research institutes.

1. SearchSearch by title, organisation, research details
2. Parent organisation (any) Australian Centre For Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) CQUniversity Griffith University James Cook University Mater Research Queensland Health Queensland University of Technology The University of Queensland University of Southern Queensland University of Sunshine Coast University of the Sunshine Coast Wesley Medical Research
3. Sector or topic (any) Advance Manufacturing Bioeconomy Business and economics Clinical Trials Data Science Diagnostics Emergency management Epidemiology Hazard management Infection management Mental health and wellbeing Modelling Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) Social sciences Treatment Urban design and town planning Vaccine Zoonotics
4. • Reset

• COVID-19 - Reset and re-imagine your business July 2020

  This research project by USQ will evaluate the impact on women and their enterprises from their particition in the WiRE Reset and re-imagine your business COVID-19 economic recovery program. The WiRE (Women in Rural, Regional and Remote Enterprise) project enables project participants to re-design their business journey while starting and growing their business/venture. Funded by the Queensland Government, the program supports women business owners to take steps towards their business goals - reviewing, re-imagining, re-planning or rebuilding their business as a result of the current COVID-19 crisis. This program is an evidence-based program that enables rural, regional and remote women to achieve and lead in their chosen business ventures.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  Institute for Resilient Regions
  University of Southern Queensland

  Contact details

  Professor Retha Wiesner
  Retha.Wiesner@usq.edu.au
  +61 7 3470 4519

  Collaborations

  Funding: Queensland Government, Advancing Women in Business, Department of Employment, Small Business and Training.

• Covid-19 influences on tourists perceptions of health risks and travel destination choices July 2020

  This USQ research study aims to rigorously test a comprehensive model to assess health risk-related behaviours and travel destination choices of tourists during and following COVID-19. The study is based on a modified and expanded version of the Health Belief Model (HBM). It is hoped the modified model will be applicable to tourism and hospitality research in other health-related crises. The project involves an online questionnaire distributed to an international sample of potential tourists that will examine the relationship between psycho-social and psychometric constructs with an emphasis on their influence on consumer behavior and destination attractiveness - all critical to destination management during the recovery phases of health crises.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  Institute for Resilient Regions
  University of Southern Queensland

  Contact details

  Associate Professor Lynda Crowley-Cyr
  Associate Professor, School of Law and Justice
  Lynda.Crowley-Cyr@usq.edu.au
  +61 7 4687 5647

  Collaborations

  • Dr. Villy Abraham (Department of Technological Marketing, Sapir Academic College, Israel)
  • Mercedes Carreño (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and CENP Tourism School, Spain)
  • Dr. Kerstin Bremser (Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
  • Cote Moreno Martin (PhD student, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Escuela Universitaria Felipe Moreno, Spain)

• Creating out loud: Developing sustainable peer-mentoring to rebuild the arts post COVID-19. August 2020

  Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Queensland’s arts sector employed 80,000+ people, around 75% of whom have lost employment due to restrictions on public gatherings. By developing and embedding a sustainable peer-mentoring program that fosters capacity, collaboration, resilience, and well-being, this Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship project led by Dr. Kate Power from UQ School of Business will help rebuild artistic and business practices, thus protecting Queensland’s significant cultural assets and enriching the lives of Queenslanders.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  Business School
  The University of Queensland

  Contact details

  Doctor Kate Power
  Lecturer in Management
  k.power@business.uq.edu.au
  +61 7 334 69989

  Collaborations

  • Queensland Ballet
  • La Boite Theatre Inc
  • Arts Nexus

• Development and evaluation of crisis management toolkits for Queensland industry. August 2020

  COVID-19 creates unprecedented challenges for workers, whether they remain at the frontline, or working from home. This Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship project led by Dr. Tristan Casey from Griffith Univertity's School of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Languages will investigate emerging safety risks and proactive safety strategies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Three crisis-management toolkits will be developed and evaluated for the hospitality, transportation, and manufacturing industries, which can be used now and into the future with other crises.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  School of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Languages
  Griffith University

  Contact details

  Doctor Tristan Casey
  Lecturer
  tristan.casey@griffith.edu.au
  +617 3735 5147

  Collaborations

  • Queensland University of Technology
  • Cater Care
  • Aurizon
  • Cavalier Bremworth

• Economic impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism, hospitality, leisure and events industries. July 2020

  Dr. Shahab Pourfakhimi at USC is extending his research on the tourism, hospitality, leisure and events industries to examine economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in these industries. He is particularly interested in investigating the effectiveness of post-crisis tourism recovery strategies, specifically from a regional tourism operators’ perspective. Shahab’s research interests generally involve studying consumer behaviour in tourism, hospitality and events, particularly the socio-psychological dimensions of tourists’ perceptions, choices and experiences.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  USC Business School
  University of Sunshine Coast

  Contact details

  Doctor Shahab Pourfakhimi
  Lecturer, Tourism, Leisure and Event Management
  spourfak@usc.edu.au
  +61 7 5456 5690

  Collaborations

  • Co-researchers:
  • Professor Noel Scott (USC Sustainability Research Centre)
  • Dr. Lenny Vance (USC Business School)
  • Dr. Lisa Daniel (USC Business School)

• Identification of impacts of disruption (including COVID 19) and recommendations for future actions May 2020

  A USQ project is identifying the capability of small/regional law firms to meet disruption (including COVID 19) and recommendations for future actions by Queensland Law Society and law firms, to better meet disruption.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  School of Law and Justice
  University of Southern Queensland

  Contact details

  Associate Professor Caroline Hart
  Associate Head
  Caroline.Hart@usq.edu.au
  +61 7 4631 1437

  Collaborations

  • Co-researcher: Dr. Aaron Timoshanko
  • Collaborators:
  • Associate Professoressor Francesca Bartlett - UQ School of Law
  • Andrea Perry-Petersen
  • Angus Murray - The Legal Forecast

• Queensland Tourism Workforce Strategy V2: A crisis resilience and recovery plan. August 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified workforce vulnerabilities in Tourism. This Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship project led by A/Prof. Richard Robinson from UQ School of Business will seek to find strategies for recovery and resilience through extensive consultation with industry stakeholders: employees, businesses and government and peak body associations. Project outcomes will include employee and business targeted toolkits to manage crisis’ impacts, and delivery of a Queensland Tourism Workforce Crisis Resilience and Recovery Plan.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  Business School
  The University of Queensland

  Contact details

  A/Prof Richard Robinson
  richard.robinson@business.uq.edu.au
  +61 7 334 67091

  Collaborations

  Queensland Tourism Industry Council

• Survival of the smallest? Retail’s post COVID-19 future June 2020

  Retailers are facing a COVID-19 customer base that is more frugal, cautious and cocooning with a greater propensity to shop online, says QUT Business School consumer behaviour expert Prof. Gary Mortimer. “Australians are now spending almost 10 cents in every shopping dollar online. Once shoppers have set up accounts, logins, credit card details and have gained trust, online shopping will become a habitual activity. It is estimated 80 per cent of us will be shopping online by next year and with ecommerce jumping by 21.8 per cent compared to the same time last year as COVID-19 restrictions took.” Prof. Mortimer said the shift to online presented large retailers and shopping centres with several challenges such as an inability to respond quickly to consumer shifts toward digital channels. In contrast, small and micro retailers are most likely to survive and thrive during and after the COVID-19 shutdowns because many are able to pivot and adapt their business operations more rapidly than larger competitors. Shoppers maybe more inclined to patronise smaller, independent retailers, in order to avoid busy centres and crowds.” With small retail businesses estimated to contribute $21.9bn to local economies, Prof. Mortimer is now researching how small retail businesses located in regional and rural areas of Queensland are adapting and responding to COVID-19. Small retail businesses are critical to the survival of regional Queensland communities. “There is an urgent need to understand how regional small businesses are responding to these emergent challenges and put in place interventions that can guide such businesses in their response to external disruptive forces, such as COVID-19” said Prof. Mortimer.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  QUT Business School
  Queensland University of Technology

  Contact details

  Professor Gary Mortimer
  Professor QUT Business School
  gary.mortimer@qut.edu.au
  +61 7 3138 5084

• The impact of COVID-19 on cultural tourism: art, culture and communication in four regional sites of Queensland, Australia August 2020

  The arts, cultural and creative industries are among the most adversely affected sectors of the economy in the wake of COVID-19 social distancing measures, travel restrictions and prohibition of large gatherings of people. Focusing on Cairns, the Gold Coast, Central West and the Sunshine Coast – four regional areas of Queensland, Australia – this article by Prof. Terry Flew and research Katherine Kirkwood from the QUT Digital Media Research Centre provides an overview of impacts on cultural tourism and considers the prospects for regional cultural tourism as part of a ‘creative economy’ revival.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  Digital Media Research Centre
  Queensland University of Technology

  Contact details

  Professor Terry Flew
  Professor of Communication and Creative Industries
  t.flew@qut.edu.au
  +61 7 3138 8188

  Collaborations

  • Co-researchers:
  •  Katherine Kirkwood

• The psychological impact of COVID-19 travel restriction on public sense of wellbeing August 2020

  This project led by Dr. Shahab Pourfakhimi at USC aims to investigate the impact (including psychological impacts) of COVID-19 travel restrictions on public sense of wellbeing and quality of life.

  #Business and economics

  Centre

  USC Business School
  University of Sunshine Coast

  Contact details

  Doctor Shahab Pourfakhimi
  Lecturer, Tourism, Leisure and Event Management
  spourfak@usc.edu.au
  +61 7 5456 5690

  Collaborations

  • Co-researchers:
  • Professor Girish Prayag (Canterbury University, New Zealand)
  • Dr. Rory Mulcahy (USC Business School)
  • Professor Noel Scott (USC Sustainability Research Centre)
  • Ellie Falatoonitoosi (USC Business School)