Yuggera Ugarapul man · Meanjin / Brisbane
Aboriginal health researcher and systems leader working at the intersection of youth wellbeing, outcome measurement and Indigenous data sovereignty — building evidence that community owns and can act on.
What I work on
My work joins frontline practice with data architecture and governance — so that the wellbeing, cultural connection and strengths of Aboriginal young people are recorded, respected and acted on.
Culturally grounded, strengths-based models for young people (10–17) in, or at risk of entering, the youth justice system.
Data dictionaries, assessment and quality-assurance design for a community-led randomised controlled trial — mixed-methods and co-designed.
RCT data architecture, ethics and data quality built around community ownership of data and decision-making.
Current focus
I design and maintain the data and systems behind an Aboriginal-led brain-health and healing model for young people (10–17) in, or at risk of entering, the youth justice system.
This includes the data-governance and measurement framework for a community-led randomised controlled trial with the Paul Ramsay Foundation — data dictionaries, wellbeing measurement, quality assurance, systems architecture and ethical oversight, all grounded in Indigenous data sovereignty.
A PhD (in development at UQ Poche) on how community-controlled data systems record the wellbeing, cultural connection and strengths of Aboriginal young people that mainstream systems miss — keeping young people connected to identity and community before justice-system involvement.
Selected recognition
Awards are held lightly — what matters is the trust of community and young people.