Ms Nanyi (Nicole) Yu is a PhD student at UQ Business School Tourism Cluster at the University of Queensland. She graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor degree in Accounting Management, and graduated in 2015 with a Tourism, Hospitality and Events Management (Advanced) Master degree from UQ and graduated in 2017 with a Graduate Diploma in Business Research from UQ with a research focus on community events and social sustainability. Her current PhD research focuses on the subjective well-being in the context of events and festivals. Her research interests include social sustainable, quality of life, social capital, positive psychology and events & festival management. She aims to build her research career in event and festival management field and further develop her research skills and contributions through collaboration across disciplines.