UNEBS Seminar A/Prof Levon Blue (UQ)

Seminar Title: “Cryptocurrencies and Superannuation: Exploring Risks and Realities”

The UNEBS R&RT Committee cordially invites you to the Seminar of Associate Professor Levon Blue (UQ). The session will be held on Wednesday 22nd October at 11:00 AM in W40 LT2 and through Zoom. Light food will be offered.

Abstract:

Associate Professor Levon Blue will deliver two presentations in this seminar. The first will focus on cryptocurrencies based on her co-authored paper titled Cryptocurrencies: Who is vulnerable and what are the vulnerabilities? published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues (Blue, Pham & Xing, 2024). This presentation will provide an overview of the research with 745 Australian cryptocurrency owners to share insight about vulnerabilities, where participants learned about crypto, how they store crypto and why they were drawn to cryptocurrencies.

The second presentation focuses on another co-authored paper titled Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus (Blue, Anderson & Brimble, 2025). In this presentation, Levon will provide a brief overview of the retirement income systems in Australia and highlight the reported way the system isn’t working for Indigenous Australians. She will then propose ways to transform the retirement income system including adding a fourth pillar to the current three pillar retirement income system.

Associate Professor Levon Blue (l.blue@uq.edu.au) is a member of Beausoleil First Nation in Canada and lives in Queensland, Australia. She is the Higher Degree Research (HDR) Coordinator at The University of Queensland (UQ) in the Office of the Deputy-Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Engagement and coordinates courses within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Major. Levon was awarded a PhD in 2016 that focused on financial literacy education practices in a First Nation community in Canada. Her research area includes financial literacy education practices, cryptocurrencies, superannuation and higher education pathways to success with Indigenous peoples. She holds affiliation in UQ’s Business School and School of Education.

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