Dr. Youqing Fan is an Associate Professor and a Chief Investigator of an ARC Linkage Project on how volunteering can be better managed to become more accessible to CaLD elderly in Australia ($331,000) and a School funded PRI project ($75,000).

He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Business Research (ABDC A), Australian Journal of Management (ABDC A), and Employee Relations (ABDC B). He is the AOM HR Division Ambassador for Australia and the Board Member for East Asian Social Policy Network. He is the recipient of the 2023 School Citation for Research Award. 

His research and teaching focuses on the interaction of organizational management and sustainability, with a specific interest in understanding how managers incorporate the environmental, social, and economic aspects of sustainability goals into their organizational management practices at the workplace and along the supply chain. 

Dr Fan has contributed significantly to the fields of sustainability and business management. He has published 40 papers in ABDC A* or A or Scopus Q1 journals, including papers published in major business journals such as the Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Business Research, Personnel Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Management Decision, International Review of Finance and Economics and Journal of Accounting Literature etc.; and in high-impact sustainability journals such as Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Corporate Social Responsibility & Environmental Management, Land Use Policy and Habitat International etc. He has published an edited book on addressing employee mental health issues, along with several The Conversation articles.

He is also a regular reviewer for Journal of Management, International Journal of Business Studies, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Academy of Management Annual Conference, International Journal of Production Research, Information and Management etc.

Dr Fan's research findings have generated social impacts beyond academia. His viewpoints appear in independent academic media such as TheConversation.com and The Fifth Estate, and mainstream media outlets such as ABC News, Sydney Morning Herald etc.

Dr Fan has successfully led a School funded Priority Research Initiative Project to completion. The project examines urban employment and housing segregation. Dr Fan has also been involved in international collaborative projects investigating the poverty reduction and migrant health inequalities in the global south. 

Dr Fan has successfully supervised 4 PhD students to completion. As of Oct 2025, He has published 5 journal papers with PhD students. He warmly welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students who work on below topics:

• Responsible Leadership 
• Sustainable HRM
• Accountability within organization
• Stress and work-life interface
• ESG capabilties and corporate sustainability along the supply chain
• Employee green behaviors