Co-designer. Scientific mystic. Cultivator.#
Associate Professor Maia Gould contributes to teaching, research, and the development of new approaches to navigating complexity. Her work explores collaborations with academia, government, community organisations and private industry.
At the School of Cybernetics, she has played a key role in shaping and delivering work in Complexity Leadership—supporting partners and organisations to make sense of, and act within, uncertain and rapidly changing environments. Her approach brings together practical experience and critical inquiry, with a focus on how people make decisions, collaborate, and lead in complex systems.
Maia loves working at the intersection between disciplines. After studying arts and science at university 20 years ago, she trained and worked as a science writer and has since held a variety of strategy, research, communications and business development roles.
Through a keen interest in emerging technology, she completed a Masters of Bioethics focusing on the communication issues involved in democratic decision-making on complex scientific issues (e.g. stem cell research).
She has worked with some of Australia’s premier non-profit organisations and managed large-scale social research on issues such as mental health and corporate social responsibility.
Maia is passionate about helping ideas and people find their place in a noisy, complex world, and is enjoying bringing this to the School of Cybernetics. Outside the university, Maia is also connected to small-scale food and regenerative farming and agriculture, including a hands-on interest in sourdough baking.