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.
Dr Ali Drummond
Advocating for better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is the aim of Dr Ali Drummond, a Meriam and Wuthathi man who is a trained nurse, a former QUT senior lecturer, researcher and the current CEO of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM).
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.
Gina Masterton
Gina Masterton is a proud Gubbi Gubbi/Wakka Wakka woman and an Indigenous Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the QUT Centre for Justice, the Carumba Institute and CARRS-Q, who is taking a lead role in implementing QUT’s cross Faculty Indigenous Research Capability Building strategy.
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.
