Bep Uink (Master of Applied Psychology (Clinical), PhD) is a Noongar woman from Perth, WA. Her research focuses on understanding how socially determined disadvantage impacts the social emotional wellbeing of young people, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and how social systems such as higher education can support young peoples’ wellbeing.

Her work spans investigations into adolescent emotion dynamics, the barriers and enablers of Indigenous student success in higher education, gendered barriers to higher education, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ youth mental health. She uses various research methods including experience sampling methodology, surveys, and yarning circles. She is an investigator on the Walkern Katatdjin-Rainbow Knowledge project which explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ young peoples’ social emotional wellbeing and mental health.

Dr Rebecca Bennett (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre and the Academic Lead (Equity and Inclusion) at Murdoch University in Western Australia. As part of her role, Bennett co-leads a multidisciplinary research lab focused on Aboriginal Culture Education and Equity (ACEE Lab, Kulbardi). Her research interests include social justice and higher education; racism and allyship; Indigenous higher education; LGBTIQA+ inclusion; popular and digital culture, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She is currently working on an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous project examining a tripartite model for understanding racial microaggressions experienced by Aboriginal youth.

Gregory is currently the Associate Dean Teaching and Learning (Acting) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Until recently, he was the Course Director for the Master of Education (Learning and Leadership) in the School of International Studies and Education. Between 2015 and 2019, Gregory held a faculty-level role as Director, Teaching Technologies and Innovation Support Unit. Gregory undertook postgraduate studies in the United States at Kent State University (Curriculum & Instruction) and the University of California, Los Angeles (Division of Urban Schooling). Prior to this, he completed a Graduate Diploma in Education (Adult and Tertiary) at Murdoch University and worked in both community and labour market programs in Western Australia. In 2004 Gregory began his first academic appointment at Griffith University, Gold Coast.

In 2008, he came to UTS where he has been involved in the adult and teacher education programs as well as other areas of the university including Jumbunna. His interdisciplinary research interests include, but are not limited to the following areas, learning across diverse contexts, curriculum and pedagogy, policy and participatory methodologies. 

Professor Ashleigh Lin completed Master of Clinical Neuropsychology and PhD degrees at The University of Melbourne. Ashleigh held postdoctoral research positions at Orygen, The National Centre for Youth Mental Health and The University of Birmingham before taking up her current role at the Telethon Kids Institute in 2014. She has been a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellow, Career Development Research Fellow and is currently a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow. Ashleigh is the Program Head of Mental Health and Youth at the Telethon Kids Institute and Co-Director of Embrace @ Telethon Kids.

Ashleigh's research is focused on early detection and intervention for mental health concerns in adolescents and young adults. She is particularly interested the mental health of marginalised groups.

Jenna is a Noongar woman with family ties throughout the South West of Western Australia.
Jenna holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Community Development and Political Science, and Masters in Aboriginal Policy Studies. She is currently undertaking PhD research.
Jenna has taught in the Indigenous Studies and Community Development programs at Murdoch University for the past seven years. Her research focus is Aboriginal women, children and youth interests.

​ Professor Yin Paradies is a Wakaya man and Chair in Race Relations at Deakin University. He conducts research on the health, social and economic effects of racism as well as anti-racism theory, policy and practice. He also teaches and undertakes research in Indigenous knowledges and decolonisation. Yin is an radica anarchist scholar and ecological activist committed to interrupting the devastating impacts of modern societies. He seeks meaningful mutuality of becoming and embodied kinship with life through transformed ways of knowing, being and doing grounded in wisdom, humility, respect, generosity, down-shifted collective sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, frugality, direct participation and radical localisation.