Indigenous Australian Researchers

At UWA we are proud of our Indigenous researchers and their commitment to creating new knowledge.

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          • Clint Bracknell

            Conservatorium of Music
            School of Indigenous Studies

            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 projects to improve Indigenous community access to intangible cultural heritage. His research intersects with applied linguistics, ethnomusicology, ecomusicology, popular music studies, Australian studies, and Indigenous studies.

            Shakespeare on the Noongar Stage: Language Revival and Hecate
            Impacted by colonialism and suppressed until the 1970s, the Noongar language of the southwest of Western Australia is endangered, yet it thrives here in this work, adapted by Kylie Bracknell, performed by a full Noongar cast, and presented at Perth Festival, 2020.
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            Making social cohesion ecocentric through Indigenous language and song
            This project develops Indigenous language and song in ways that reframe and Indigenise social cohesion, expanding it from a human-centric policy goal to include connections with everything in Country.
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            Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages
            This project aims to build Nyingarn, an online platform of digital text versions of early Australian Indigenous language manuscripts with images of the original documents. There are over a thousand such documents that are foundational to understanding Australia's languages, and Nyingarn makes textual versions, accessions, and navigates such documents, with a means for adding more in future. Expected outcomes of this project are accessible sources useful for educational materials, and for understanding the local language, its history, and its relationship to other languages. Nyingarn will provide cutting-edge methods for ingesting, analysing, and presenting these historical materials, both for research and for the general public.
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            Recirculating Indigenous traveling songs
            This project aims to develop new understandings of how unrestricted Indigenous traveling songs have spread across vast geographic and linguistic boundaries in Australia, investigating ways these songs can contribute to greater social connectedness today. It intends to energise collaborative networks across Indigenous communities, language centres, and holding institutions around the world.
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          • Jessica Buck

            Telethon Kids Institute
            UWA Medical School

            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 medulloblastoma biology, drug discovery, radiotherapy and MR imaging.

          • Patricia Dudgeon

            Psychology
            School of Indigenous Studies

            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 responsiveness, and draws upon multi-disciplinary approaches. Her large, national integrated projects map social phenomena and seek to implement transformative methods and practices.

            Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing
            Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing (TIMHWB) is a ground-breaking research program transforming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health care through Aboriginal leadership and authentic partnerships with Aboriginal organisations.
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          • Ambelin Kwaymullin

            UWA Law School

            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 research methodologies, Indigenous knowledges and creative expressions, and Indigenous legal systems. She is also an award winning creative writer and illustrator and a commentator on diversity in Australian children's literature.

          • Helen Milroy

            Psychiatry
            UWA Medical School

            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 of the Million Minds Medical Research Advisory Group and Honorary Research Fellow with the Telethon Kids Institute.

          • Jill Milroy

            School of Indigenous Studies

            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 Indigenous higher education, developing programs and support services for Indigenous students as well as a range of Indigenous curriculum and research initiatives.

          • Darlene Oxenham

            School of Indigenous Studies

            Professor Darlene Oxenham has worked in Higher Education for over twenty years and is Deputy Dean at the School of Indigenous Studies at UWA.

          • Erica Spry

            Health and Medical Sciences
            The Rural Clinical School of WA (RCSWA)
            UWA Medical School

            Western Australian First Nations/Aboriginal Bardi Jawi Traditional Owner. Over 30 years in community development, small business, legal, land management, climate change and health.