Bhiamie Williamson
Bhiamie Williamson is a Euahlayi man from north-west NSW. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the Australian National University, Master's in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and Graduate Certificates from the University of Arizona (Indigenous Governance) and the University of Wollongong (Trauma and Recovery Practice).
Bhiamie is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University investigating Indigenous men and masculinities. Bhaimie is a Research Fellow at Monash University where he leads the National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Project.
Bobby Maher
PhD Candidate, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
Bobby is an Aboriginal woman (Yamatji), her ancestral links are to the Kimberley, Pilbara and Noongar Nations.
Bobby is a PhD candidate and National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, Australian National University; her research has a focus on collective capability in Indigenist evaluation practice in Australia.
Bobby has completed a MPhil in Applied Epidemiology and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Indigenous Australian Research) (Honours), Curtin University. She has experience in quantitative, qualitative and community-based participatory research, including evaluation. Bobby is a member of the Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collective and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA).
Bobby is contributing to IDSov work through: the implementation of IDGov in the ACT Health Directorate, membership and work associated with GIDA, and is a member of the Working Group for the Global IDSov Conference.
Karen Martin
Dr Karen Martin is a Noonuccal, Quandamoopah and Bidjara woman. She has taught in all sectors of education and her foci are early childhood education, Aboriginal education, and Aboriginal research. Her career also includes Ministerial appointments (Australian Government) providing expert advice on Aboriginal affairs, education (systems, professions), Aboriginal research and research ethics.
Karen’s scholarship is internationally known, particularly work on decolonising western research paradigms, methodologies and ethics. She continues to apply this scholarship to roles her roles as Executive Committee member (Maiam nayri Wingara) and Acting Chair: Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (Australian Government Department of Social Services – now spanning 20 years).
Additionally, this expertise was recognised when she was the only Aboriginal education researcher invited to the series of Closing the Gap Data Refresh Roundtables (Australian Government, 2018). As an Executive member of the Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collective Karen contributes this experience to activities of knowledge generation and translation towards achieving data sovereignty for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Makayla-May Brinckley
Makayla-May Brinckley is a Wiradjuri woman from Cootamundra. Makayla is a PhD student and research assistant in the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, at the Australian National University.
Most of Makayla’s work is based within Mayi Kuwayu: the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing.
Makayla’s PhD focuses on developing a knowledge translation method for use in the Mayi Kuwayu Study. She is passionate about holistic health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Sam Provost
Sam Provost is a PhD candidate in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University. Sam is Yuin scholar with Irish and Scottish settler heritage. He has an academic background in Environmental Science, GIS and cartography. Sam is interested in the ways that spatial technologies can improve the management of the landscapes we belong to by holding Indigenous and settler understandings of space and place in conversation with one another.