What shapes a doctor’s sense of responsibility?
Looking at professional identity formation and the place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health within it.
Research
Research and
contributions.
Selected research, talks and other contributions in Aboriginal health and medical education.
Doctoral proposal / In development
Learning medicine.
Becoming a doctor.
Proposal stage, not an enrolled candidatureI am developing a PhD proposal at UQ about medical education, relational teaching practices and professional identity formation.
I am interested in how future doctors learn cultural safety through relationships, story and accountability, as well as through formal curriculum content.
Having completed the Pathways to a PhD (Doing Research for Mob) program in 2026, I am continuing to develop the proposal with a prospective principal advisor. The questions below describe the direction, not completed findings.
The developing questions
Three connected lines of inquiry.
What changes when learning is relational?
Considering how relationships, dialogue and story influence what students understand and how they practise.
How would communities recognise the difference?
Asking what meaningful accountability and evidence of culturally safe care could look like, without treating community perspectives as an afterthought.
Alongside the developing proposal
First Nations
health research.
Research support within UQ’s First Nations Cancer and Wellbeing Research Program.
My work includes CanCo, a prospective First Nations cancer cohort. It sits within a wider research team and program, rather than being an individually led project or grant.
Read about CanCo at UQMy research record
Works on my ORCID.
ORCID iD0009-0002-6900-3958
Four public works, checked . These entries were supplied to ORCID by The University of Queensland. This is a checked snapshot, not an automatically updating feed.
Yili Program Social Return on Investment Evaluation 2026
Kyle Ryan; Becks Goodhue; Siddhartha Gautam; Bhagyashree Maskare.
A co-authored evaluation report published by Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation.
Public record available. The report’s full text is not publicly accessible.
Weaving presence: embodied truth-telling and relational accountability in education and wellbeing
Heena Akbar; Kyle Ryan (Yuggera Ugarapul); Tahi Gray-Tuapawa; Jaelyn Biumaiwai.
A shared keynote contribution to the Indigenous Wellbeing Conference 2025.
Conference contribution. UQ lists an open-access manuscript.
Kyle Ryan: First Nations Advocate and Medical Student, overcoming hardship
Kyle Ryan. Publisher: Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority.
A QCAA alumni interview recorded during an earlier stage of my medical-study pathway.
Historical film, not a description of my current enrolment or professional registration.
LIME Connection X Student Panel
Nicole Mercer (Chair); Kyle Ryan; Yarlalu Thomas; Zoe Cotter; Tess Shepherd; Thomas Harrington.
A shared student panel contribution at LIME Connection X.
UQ lists the recording, a transcript and a supporting research statement.
For the latest additions and full record, visit my ORCID profile. Reports, talks and media are labelled by their format, not presented as peer-reviewed journal articles.
Selected public contributions
Writing, representation
and shared work.
These are policy, student and advocacy contributions. They are not presented as peer-reviewed research publications.
Student Director’s report
A contribution to AIDA’s 2023 annual report on student representation, committee work and the East Arnhem Land immersion. This is my account within an organisational report, not an independent evaluation.
AIDA annual report (PDF, printed p. 10)The Very Handy Guide to First Year Medicine
A credited contribution as UQMS Indigenous Chair to a guide produced by the University of Queensland Medical Society.
Read the UQMS guide (PDF)Placement equity for medical students
Quoted as AIDA Student Director in the association’s call for placement support for medical students. The statement records advocacy, not a claim that this advocacy secured a policy change.
Read AIDA’s statementResearch is a conversation