QUT Real Health Panel Series – Building Brain Capital: Designing Universities for Learning, Capability and a Changing World
QUT’s Real Health Panel Series unpacks the latest issues affecting the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Brain capital is an economic and societal asset that integrates brain health and brain skills – the cognitive, emotional, and social capabilities people need to learn, adapt and thrive. In a world increasingly shaped by AI, uncertainty, and changing professional identities, these capabilities are under pressure – with growing impacts on attention, confidence, connection, and how people learn and work. This QUT Real Health Series panel will explore what it means for universities to respond intentionally: how brain capital can be built through curriculum and student experience, and how universities can design learning environments that strengthen the capabilities needed to learn, work, and thrive in complex and rapidly changing contexts.
Panellists:
- Professor Debbie Long
Professor of Nursing (Paediatrics), QUT
Centre for Healthcare Transformation, QUT - Professor Selena Bartlett
Professor of Neuroscience, School of Clinical Sciences, QUT, Translational Research Institute,
Honorary Professor, UQ - Mr Michael Hogan
Executive Convenor, Queensland Kids Partnership, ARACY - Mr David Norris
Clinical Director / Founder, Occupational Therapy Brisbane, CareLoom and The Brain Health Clinic
Moderated by Professor Danielle Gallegos, Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, QUT and Director Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research, QUT
Free registration and breakfast provided. Parking is available on QUT Campus in the blocks marked F and J (found on map).
For more information, please visit our website: QUT – Real Health Panel Series
