Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers
91色情片 is home to many leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars, researchers and lecturers. In the domains of law, medicine, education, mathematics and many more, our Indigenous researchers are making an impact for communities in Australia and the around the globe.
Nura Gili
Janine Gertz
Lecturer听
Janine Gertz's cultural heritage is drawn from her connections to both the Gugu Badhun in the Upper Burdekin region & the Ngadjonji on the Atherton Tablelands. Janine is a lecturer at Nura Gili with research interests grounded in her work with the Gugu Badhun Nation.
Her doctoral听project is titled听Gugu Badhun Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Nationhood.听
Arts, Design & Architecture
Scholars from the Schools of Art & Design, Built Environment, Social Sciences, Arts & Media, Humanities and Languages, and Education.听
Associate Professor Fabri Blacklock听
A/Prof Fabri Blacklock is听a Nucoorilma/Ngarabal/Biripi woman, who also has English and Scottish ancestry. A/Prof Blacklock is an academic, artist, historian and curator who is passionate about improving educational equity for Aboriginal people. I am a Scientia Fellow in the Art and Design School at 91色情片.
Dr Kevin Lowe听
Dr听Kevin Lowe is a Gubbi Gubbi man from southeast Queensland. He is a Scientia Indigenous Fellow at 91色情片, working on a community and school focused research project on developing a model of sustainable improvement in Aboriginal education. Kevin has had experience in education as a teacher, administrator and lecturer.
Dr BJ Newton听
Dr BJ Newton is听a proud Aboriginal Australian living in Sydney, and her family comes from Erambie Aboriginal Reserve at West Cowra on Wiradjuri Country in NSW.听
Dr Newton is a Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre within the 91色情片 Sydney, specialising in qualitative inquiry, Indigenous research methods and child protection research and policy.听
Dr Liza-Mare Syron听
Dr Liza-Mare Syron鈥檚 family clan is Biripi from the Mid North Coast of NSW.
Liza-Mare Syron is an Indigenous听Scientia Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the School of Arts and Media.听Her broad area of research interest is indigenous performing arts, and her current research focuses on Indigenous language revival in play texts
Science
Professor Jason Sharples (91色情片 Canberra)听
Dr Jason Sharples is a Professor at the Faculty of Science at 91色情片 Canberra. He is a mathematical scientist with research interests in mathematical modelling of environmental and industrial processes. These include things like combustion reactions, extreme and dynamic bushfire behaviour and fire weather processes.
Dr Shane Ingrey听
Shane is a Dunghutti (Bellbrook, Northern NSW) and Dharawal (Coastal Sydney) descendant and has a background in microbiology and molecular biology of bacteria and fungi that live within medicinal plants of Botany Bay.
Shane is a post-doctoral researcher in Science Communication with the Education and Engagement team (CABAH).
Dr Laura Parker听
Dr Laura Parker is an Indigenous Scientia Fellow and ARC DAATSIA Fellow in the Faculty of Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Laura is interested in understanding and overcoming the impacts of climate change and environmental stress on marine organisms.听
Law
Professor Megan Davis
Pro Vice-Chancellor Society
Professor Megan Davis is Cobble Cobble woman from Barrungam Nation, Pro Vice-Chancellor Society and Professor of Law at 91色情片.
She is Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court and was recently appointed the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law. Prof Davis is also a current member of the听United Nations Human Rights Council鈥檚 Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous peoples.
Medicine & Health
Dr Kalinda Griffiths听
Dr Kalinda Griffiths is an early career Scientia Lecturer at the Centre for Big Data Research at 91色情片 and holds honorary positions at Menzies School of Health Research and the University of Sydney.听Kalinda is a Yawuru woman, and an epidemiologist who has worked in the research sector in a number of roles for over 20 years. Her interest is in empirically addressing complex health disparities in populations through existing data and Indigenous data governance.听
Dr Adrienne Withall听
Dr Withall is a Kurial-Yuin woman,听holding听a combined research and teaching role in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, where she leads the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Theme.听She听is an expert on ageing and mental health and her research focuses on promoting wellbeing, care and cognitive health for at-risk populations. She leads听a sub-stream on Ageing at the Margins in the recently funded 91色情片 Ageing Futures Institute
Telphia-Leanne Joseph听
Ms Telphia Joseph is a Wajarri Yamatji woman from Western Australia. Community Development was her first passion which led to her interest in environmental health and otitis media. Telphia has a qualitative research base and in a previous life acted in a liaison position between the National Immunisation Committee and service providers offering immunisation programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.听
Adam Howie听
Adam Howie is a Bardi man from the Kimberly鈥檚 in Western Australia. He spent the first part of his working life in the Navy on surface ships and then submarines. Upon leaving the Navy Adam stated on his journey within health. He has extensive experience working within Emergency Services in Western Australia and New South Wales as a Paramedic and Intensive Care Paramedic. He has performed this role in remote, rural and metropolitan locations.听
Dr Brett Biles听
Dr Brett Biles is a Murrawarri man from Brewarrina. He has been living on Wiradjuri country for the last 16 years. He holds a Bachelor of Physiotherapy, a Masters in Indigenous Health and a PhD. He is currently the Director of Indigenous Health Education in the Office of Medical Education, 91色情片 Medicine.听
Dr Lauren Kelada听
Dr Lauren Kelada is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Behavioural Sciences Unit (BSU), School of Women鈥檚 and Children鈥檚 Health at 91色情片 Sydney and the Sydney Children鈥檚 Hospital. Dr Kelada is the Team Leader of the Family Systems and Relationships team of the BSU and leads a busy team of eight (a research fellow, three research officers and four students).
Ebony Lewis听
Ebony Lewis has come from a background of Emergency nursing with a passion for improving the end-of-life experience for older people with advanced chronic illness. She has extensive experience in geriatrics assessment and gerontology research.听