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Researchers
UWA prides itself on the work done in Indigenous research and is committed to empowering it's Indigenous researchers for the greater good.
Indigenous Australian Researchers
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Erica Spry
Western Australian First Nations/Aboriginal Bardi Jawi Traditional Owner. Over 30 years in community development, small business, legal, land management, climate change and health.
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Patricia Dudgeon
Patricia Dudgeon is a Bardi woman from the Kimberley and Professor of Indigenous Health and Well-Being. Her research focuses on suicide prevention and uses community engagement, consultation and respo ...
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Darlene Oxenham
Professor Darlene Oxenham has worked in Higher Education for over twenty years and is Deputy Dean at the School of Indigenous Studies at UWA.
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Jessica Buck
Dr Buck is a postdoctoral researcher and a 2020 Forrest Fellow in the Brain Tumour Research Program, at the Telethon Kids Institute and the University of Western Australia. Her research includes medul ...
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Jill Milroy
Jill is the Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous Education at the University of Western Australia and is the Director of UWA's Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. She has more than 30 years experience in In ...
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Helen Milroy
Winthrop Professor Helen Milroy is currently the Perth Children's Hospital Foundation Professor of Child and Adolescent psychiatry; a Commissioner with the National Mental Health Commission; Co-chair ...
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Ambelin Kwaymullin
Dr Ambelin Kwaymullina is a law academic who teaches across a number of areas including Administrative Law and Indigenous Peoples in the Law. She researches in the areas of public law, Indigenous rese ...
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Clint Bracknell
Clint Bracknell is a Noongar song-maker, composer, and Professor of Music at the University of Western Australia. He investigates connections between song, language, and landscapes, often working on p ...
Researchers
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Gretchen Stolte
Dr Stolte’s research areas focus on the relationship between cultural objects and identity and has published extensively about practice-based research, cultural protocols and the responsibility of wes ...
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Joakim Goldhahn
Professor Goldhahn's main research interests includes rock art as a meaning-creating phenomenon, explored both through formal and informed methodologies.
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Matt Payne
Matt is a molecular microbiologist whose research is focused on how microbes can influence pregnancy outcomes and early life health.
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Emma Carlin
Research Fellow Emma Carlin is leading a partnership with the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services, Broome Regional Aboriginal Medical Service and the Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbe ...
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Martin Porr
Martin Porr is Associate Professor of Archaeology and a member of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He has published widely on Palaeolithic ar ...
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Joe Dortch
Dr Dortch is an archaeologist with wide experience in academic research and heritage management. He completed his PhD at UWA on Aboriginal responses to environmental changes in south-western Australia ...
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Helen Fordham
Associate Professor Fordham's research interests include the history of intellectual thought; public service and investigative journalism; 20th century press criticism; Indigenous memoir; and social a ...
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Leon Flicker
Professor Leon Flicker’s research focuses on the major health issues of older people, exploring dementia, falls, depression and cognitive impairment as well as healthy ageing. He has conducted numerou ...
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Maïa Ponsonnet
Dr Ponsonnet's research concerns expressivity and emotions in language. Specifically, how languages in Australia and around the world differ or converge in this respect, how this ties with cultural di ...
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Celeste Rodriguez Louro
Dr Rodriguez Louro is a variationist sociolinguist interested in the social and linguistic factors constraining variation in synchrony and diachrony. Her research also examines variation and change in ...
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David Gilchrist
Professor Gilchrist has published widely as an academic and journalist, and is a principal author of a number of key national reports including the seminal report 'Australian Charities 2013' for the C ...
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Harry Blagg
Professor Harry Blagg has been involved in research, consultancy and policy development around community justice, night patrols, men and women?s safe places, youth justice and family violence. His com ...
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Jennifer Stone
Associate Professor Stone is an epidemiologist and internationally recognised breast density research expert. Her research aims to support accumulating evidence for the clinical use of measures of bre ...
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Victoria Winton
Vicky specialises in hunter-gatherer archaeology and the analysis and interpretation of stone artefact assemblages. Most recently Vicky has developed particular research interests alongside Aboriginal ...
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Peter Marius Veth
Pete is an ARC Laureate Fellow 2023-2027, previous Director of the Oceans Institute, Kimberley Foundation Ian Potter Chair in Rock Art and ARC Discovery Outstanding Research Fellow. He has carried out ...
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Francis Mitrou
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Karen Martin
Dr Martin's research aim is to improve the mental and physical health of vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. In particular, promoting trauma-informed and restorative practices to assist with pos ...
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Carrington Shepherd
Carrington has a passionate interest in bridging the knowledge gap on social inequalities in Aboriginal health in Australia and his research explores how social determinants and pathways can lead to e ...
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Sven Ouzman
Sven is an archaeologist who specialises in rock art, graffiti, heritage politics, Indigenous knowledge, intellectual property issues, landscape, creolisation & cross-cultural contact, monuments, orig ...
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Julia Marley
Julia undertakes collaborative research into improving Aboriginal health and build research capacity. By embedding research into primary health services and including Aboriginal people, health service ...
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Deb Schoen
Dr Schoen has worked in rural podiatry care in the Wheatbelt for 20 years, in High Risk Foot at Royal Perth Hospital and in private practice.
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Kate Smith
Dr Kate Smith's research expertise includes dementia prevention and management, Aboriginal health, quality of life and ageing well among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Previously, ...
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John Woods
John is a health researcher who began his career as a medical practitioner, gaining experience predominantly in acute hospital care and later in clinical trials. His research has focussed on the quali ...
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Nahal Mavaddat
Associate Professor Mavaddat is a clinical academic. Her research interests include neuropsychology, wellbeing, chronic pain and mental health in primary care.
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Benjamin Smith
Professor Smith's research interests include theory and method in rock art studies, rock art dating, digital archiving in archaeology, rock art and identity, contextual approaches to the interpretatio ...
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Mel Thomas
Melville Thomas coordinates and teaches in the Indigenous Knowledge, History and Heritage Major at UWA.
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Emilie Dotte
Emilie's work focuses on the relationships between people and forests in Australia and the Pacific.
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Ingrid Ward
Ingrid Ward is a well-recognised geoarchaeologist on both terrestrial and marine archaeological landscapes, authoring a number of concept papers arguing for a multidisciplinary, geoarchaeological appr ...
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Brad Farrant
Dr Farrant's research focuses on the importance of early childhood development, with particular interests in how to connect this to strengths of Aboriginal people and culture.
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Jo McDonald
Jo McDonald is an archaeologist and Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at the University of Western Australia. McDonald is primarily known for her influence in the field of rock ...
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Shannen Vallesi
Miss Vallesi's research is underpinned by a passion for reducing health inequalities through 'real world' relevant research, specifically around addressing disparities for some of the most disadvantag ...
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Susanne Stanley
Dr Stanley is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow for the UWA Medical School / Psychiatry. Her areas of research interest are the physical health of people with mental health disorders, the impact of Co ...
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Carol Orr
Dr Carol Orr is a Research Fellow at the School of Population and Global Health. She utilises linked administrative data to investigate the health and social outcomes of children exposed to family and ...
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Daniel Schepis
Senior Lecturer Daniel Schepis specialises in business-to-business marketing, with research focusing on innovation networks and corporate social responsibility.
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Darren Jorgensen
Dr Jorgensen teaches and writes on Australian art and contemporary art history.