Russell Manfield

I have an engineering background, earning my mechanical engineering degree from UQ and beginning my career in the mining and telecommunication sectors, before starting new ventures in technology, agri-tech & workplace training domains. I leverage this background in my teaching for courses covering entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy. I have built online courses covering corporate innovation, service innovation culture, innovation strategy for quantum technology and navigating the demands of 21st century workskills: some purposed towards scale (attracting large learner enrolments) and others towards geographic dispersion (gaining access to learners who I would never come into contact with). I have a particular interest in the impact strategies for new ventures & new technologies to craft sustainable value frameworks, so welcome entrepreneurial research opportunities that target emerging economies, fast-evolving technology domains and design thinking pedagogy for new generations of innovators. I am an Associate Investigator for EQUS (Engineered Quantum Systems), an ARC Centre of Excellence anchored at UQ with 5 research nodes (UQ, ANU, USyd, Macquarie, UWA). I also serve as a co-investogator with the UQ Critical Thinking Project and incorporate those analytical paradigms into my teaching & research projects. I am appointed as the academic-in-residence at UQ Ventures where I engage with their array of entrepreneurial programs to measure & strengthen new venture impact across UQ and into industry. I am a member of the UQ Business School's Digial Finance Research Hub pursuing my particular interest in quantum finance. Innovation strategy: how strategies emerge from innovative approaches to addressing outlier conditions | as an Associate Investigator for EQUS (Engineered Quantum Systems) I have a particular interest in emerging quantum & quantum-adjacent technologies Entrepreneurial opportunities: the forming or discovery of opportunities and how these lead to capable new ventures | especially as these impact historically overlooked social sectors, developing economies or emerging technologies & capabilities Design thinking pedagogy: learning to embrace irreducible uncertainty in creating novel & sustainable solutions for persistent problems as these draw on innovations in leadership & resource allocations

[2025] Book Chapter: Bicycles for the mind: how GenAI was used to enhance critical thinking in the classroom. Manfield, Russell, Hawkesby, Alice and Nucifora, Nicholas (2025). Bicycles for the mind: how GenAI was used to enhance critical thinking in the classroom. Inquiry in action: using AI to reimagine learning and teaching: case studies from the frontline of higher education practice. (pp. *-*) edited by Rachel Fitzgerald. St Lucia, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/d4aaaf6 [2024] Conference Publication: A space of one's own: crafting entrepreneurial opportunities for Omani Women. Al Rahbi, Hanan and Manfield, Russell (2024). A space of one's own: crafting entrepreneurial opportunities for Omani Women. 40th EGOS Colloquium: The experience of space and place in e