About

After a long career in project administration and controls, I made the decision in 2014 to go to university where I started a Bachelor of Town Planning.  However, after completing two elective Indigenous Studies subjects, I found I was deeply troubled by both the historical and contemporary social injustices faced by Indigenous Australian people, so I transferred to a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Indigenous Studies.

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I followed this with an Honours Degree in Anthropology / Indigenous Studies investigating the potential of an Indigenous Australian development model to address the imbalance in social, political, and economic power in discrete Indigenous Australian communities.

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I completed a Doctorate of Philosophy in criminology, sociology and Indigenous Australian Studies.  My thesis uses a necropolitical lens to investigate the extent to which unequal relations of power contribute to forms of violence experienced by Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system.