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Biography

Research Fellow  |  PhD Candidate  | Senior Research Officer  |  Casual Academic

B.Psych(Hons)  |  BA Crim & IA  |  G.Cert Research Management

Department of Psychology, College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook University
Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University

Current Work Roles:

  1. Research Fellow (SCU) iSISTAQUIT, Birthing on Country (SISTABIRTH), SISTASCREEN
  2. Senior Research Officer (JCU) on the evaluation of the MyndKind Stepped Care System for the Northern Queensland Primary Health Network
  3. Senior Research Officer (JCU) on a new measure of maternal-foetal bonding in culturally and linguistically diverse populations
Research Interests (Indigenous Health):

  1. Perinatal period - culture, attachment, bonding, kinship systems
  2. Supporting healthy kinship systems - strengths-based approaches
  3. Health inequalities
  4. Healthcare, wellbeing, connection, spirituality, and country
  5. Trauma informed frameworks
  6. Transmission of intergenerational trauma
  7. Family, domestic violence, and coercive control
  8. Criminogenic factors, racism, oppression and over representations
  9. Understanding criminogenic factors, trauma, and justice reinvestment