Indigenous Australian researchers
Associate Professor Deb Duthie
Deb Duthie is a Wakka Wakka Warumungu woman with family ties to Cherbourg, Queensland and Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. She is the director of Indigenous Health and an associate professor in the QUT School of Public Health and Social Work.
Katrina Wruck
Dr Katrina Wruck is a research fellow in industrial chemistry and lecturer at the School of Chemistry and Physics in the Faculty of Science. Her work focuses on developing new materials to address contaminants in water, with an emphasis on sustainable, green solutions.
Professor Grace Sarra
Grace Sarra has extensive experience working with schools in Indigenous and low socioeconomic communities to improve educational outcomes. She is of Aboriginal heritage from Bindal and Birri clan groups of the Birrigubba nation and Torres Strait Islander heritage of Mauar, Stephen and Murray Islands. Grace is based in the QUT School of Early Childhood.
Professor Chelsea Watego
Professor Chelsea Watego is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander scholar with more than 25 years’ experience in Indigenous public health. Her research examines how race shapes health inequalities, advances Indigenist Health Humanities and Indigenous critical race theory, and challenges structural racism in health systems and global health.
Dr Raylene Nixon
Raylene is a proud Gunggari scholar and Senior Lecturer whose research focuses on Indigenous deaths in custody, especially families’ experiences seeking justice through coronial inquests. Her DECRA project, Interrogating Institutional Responses to Black Deaths in Custody in Queensland, explores state responses, structural barriers for grieving families, accountability, justice and systemic reform.
Dr Amy McQuire
Dr Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander researcher, award-winning journalist, and Senior Lecturer at QUT’s Carumba Institute. Her research examines race, representation, structural violence and justice system impacts, including disappeared Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls. She leads the DECRA project Building Black Justice Journalism.
