Leonard Collard

Aboriginal studies including Nyungar language and nomenclature; interpretive history, tourism and youth studies.

• Abumousa, N. (Translated by Collard, L. & Cumming, I.) Leah’s Lesson Perth: Public Transport Authority, 2011 (50% contribution).
• Collard, L., Coyne, T. & Mountford, A. Getting Mallee Hen Eggs with Uncle Jim Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 (33% contribution).
• Collard, L. & Mountford, A. Nyungar-English Dictionary Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 (50% contribution).
• Collard, L. & Mountford, A. Yongkarin Retold by L. Collard & A. Mountford, Illustrated by year 4 Students from St Brigid’s Primary School, Middle Swan. Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 (33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Palmer, D. Bessie Flower and Asharie Bradshaw: Teachers. Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 (33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Palmer, D. Bindjareb Middar Dance Group Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 (33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Palmer, D. Catching Kooyar the Frog Illustrated by year 4 Students from St Brigid’s Primary School, Middle Swan. Perth: Catholic education Office of Western Australia. 2000 (25% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Palmer, D. Nyungar Names for Kings Park Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 (33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A., & Palmer, D. Nyungar Shearers Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 (33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Palmer, D. Nyungar Workers in Communications Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 (33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Palmer, D. Samuel Isaacs: Rescuer Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Palmer, D. Shannara Beresi Junior Equestrian Perth: catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Palmer, D. Tommy Windich: Explorer Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Palmer, D. Trevor Walley: Conservation and Land Management Officer Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A., Palmer, D., Powell, E. & Robison, J. (Writers). Natj Nidja (What is this?). Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 20% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A., Palmer, D. & McGuire, B. (Illustrator). Koortandalup Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 25% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A., Palmer, D., Powell, E. & Robison, J. Nidja Nyungar Boodjar Noonook Nyininy = This is Nyungar Country You Are Sitting In: A Resource Package for Schools Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 20% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Williams, J. Boola Meela (Many Eyes) [A Three-Act Play] Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Mountford, A. & Williams, J. Uncle Jack Williams Tells Us About Karli (Boomerang) Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 33% contribution).
• Collard, L., Palmer, D., Leonard, L. & Revell, G. Nidja Nyungar Bilya Boodjar (This is Nyungar River Country) Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 25% contribution).
• Collard, L., Palmer, D., Leonard, L. & Revell, G. Nyungar Place Meanings. Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia. 2000 Coyne, T., Collard, L. & Mountford, A. Thelma Coyne Tells Us About Childhood Games and Pastimes ‘Old Man with a Bag’. Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000 25% contribution).
• Collard, L. (Writer) & Pickett, S. (Illustrator). The Waakal Story Perth: Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2000.

• Collard, L., Hartley, J., Scott, K., Bracknell, C., Lucy, N. Jennifer Buchanan and Ingrid Cumming., Could a 'Nyungarpedia' form the basis for an emerging form of citizenship in the age of new media? In Anthea Garman and Herman Wasserman (eds) Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2017, (14% contribution).
• Collard, L. Rooney, A. Bracknell, C. Oorl Ngulluck Koorliny. In T.- A. White (Ed.), Perth: A guide for the curious. Perth: University of Western Australia Publishing, 2016 (33% contribution).
• Collard, L., and Palmer, D. Koorlankga wer wiern: Indigenous young people and spirituality in Wyn, J. and Cahill, H. (eds) Handbook on Children and Youth Studies. p. 875-888. Singapore: Springer Science+Business Media, 2015 (50% contribution).
• Bracknell, C., Collard, L., Palmer, D., and Revell, G. ‘Ngatj baranginy ngulluckiny koorliny DERBAL YIRIGAN bilya: Take Me to The Place the Estuary that Place on the River that Rises and Falls.'. In Take Me to The River: The story of Perth’s Foreshore. J. Bolleter (ed.) University of Western Australia Press, 2015 (25% contribution).
• Collard, L. Kura, Yeye, Boorda: From the Past, Today and the Future‘. In Morgan, S., Mia, T. & Kwaymullina, B. (eds.), Heartsick for Country: Stories of Love, Spirit and Creation (pp.60-80). Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Press, 2008.
• Collard, L. & Palmer, D. Looking for the Residents of Terra Australis: The Importance of Nyungar in Early European Coastal Exploration. In P. Veth, P. Sutton, and M. Neale (eds), Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal Contacts in Australia (pp. 181-197). Canberra: National Museum of Australia, 2008 (50% contribution).
• Collard, L. Wangkiny Ngulluck Nyungar Nyittiny, Boodjar, Moort and Katitjin: Talking About Creation, Country Family and Knowledge of the Nyungar of South Western Australia. In S. Morgan, T. Mia & B. Kwaymullina (eds), Speaking from the Heart: Stories of Life, Family and Country (pp.262-278). Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Press, 2007.
• Collard, L., Harben, S. & van den Berg, R. Nyungar Tourism in the South West Region of Western Australia: Three Nyungar Case Studies. In J. Buultjens & D. Fuller (eds), Striving for Sustainability: Case Studies in Indigenous Tourism (pp. 403-436). Lismore, New South Wales: Southern Cross University Press, 2007 (33% contribution).
• Collard, L. The Cosmology: The Creator of the Trilogy Waakal or Nyungar Rainbow Serpent. In M. Leybourne & A. Gaynor (eds), Water: Histories, Cultures, Ecologies (pp. 121-130). Crawley, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 2006.
• Collard, L., and G. Revell. In Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry, W.F. Garrett-Petts & N. Duxbury (eds), Routledge. Wedjemup Wangkiny Koora, Yeye and Mila Boorda (Wedjemup  Talking from the Past, Today and the Future). An Ex-Modern Way of Thinking Landscape into Country?’ Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. book
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L. and Palmer, D. (2019) Koorliny birniny, ni, quoppa katatjin:respect and ethics in working with Indigenous Australian communities. , In Ethics, Equity and Community Development. (Eds) Peter Westoby and Sarah Banks. The Policy Press.
• Collard, L., and Palmer, D., 'Nyungar and non-Aboriginal people going along together (Ngulla wangkiny, ni, katitjin Nyungar nyidyung koorliny, kura, yeye, boorda)’, in Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent, and Tiffany Shellam (eds), Indigenous Intermediaries: New Perspectives on Exploration Archives, ANU Press and Aboriginal History Inc, Canberra, 2015, pp. 189-205.
• Collard, L., Palmer, D & Revell, G. (2015) Ngatj baranginy Ngulluckiny koorliny Derbal Yirigan bilya: Take Me to The Place the Estuary that Place on the River that Rises and Falls. Bolleter, J. (Ed) Take Me to The River: The Story of Perth’s Foreshore. p. 253-268. Perth: UWA.
• Collard, L. and Palmer, D. (2015) Ngulla wangkiny, ni, katatjin Noongar nyidyung koorliny, kura, yeye, boorda: A dialogue about Noongar and non-Aboriginal people going along together. In Konishi, S., Nugent, M. and Shellam, T. (Eds) Indigenous Intermediaries: New Perspectives on Exploration Archives. p. 189-205. Canberra: ANU. http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p325531/pdf/ch103.pdf
• Collard, L & Palmer, D. (2015) Koorlankga wer wiern: Indigenous young people and spirituality. In Wyn, J. and Cahill, H. (Eds)Handbook on Children and Youth Studies. p. 875-888. Singapore: Springer Science+Business Media.
• Palmer, D. and Collard, L. (2012) Aboriginal young people and youth subcultures. In White, R. (Ed). Youth Sub Cultures: Theory, History and the Australian Experience. p. 53-66. Hobart: National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies..
• Collard, L. and Palmer, D. (2010) ‘Kura, yeye, boorda, Nyungar wangkiny gnulla koorlangka’: A conversation about working with Indigenous young people in the past, present and future. In White, R. (Ed) Youth Work and Social Diversity. p. 71-86. Hobart: National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies.
• Collard, L and Palmer, D. (2008) Looking for the residents of Terra Australis: the importance of Nyungar in early European coastal exploration. In Veth, P. Sutton, P. and Neale, M. (Eds)Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal Contacts in Australia. p. 181-197. Canberra: National Museum of Australia.

• Prehn, J., Guerzoni, M.A., Peacock, H., Adams, M., Williamson, B., Collard, L. et al. (2023) Supports desired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in fatherhood: Focussing on the social and cultural determinates of health and well-being. Australian Journal of Social Issues, https://doi. org/10.1002/ajs4.313
• Wooltorton, S., Guenther, J. Poelina, A., Blaise, M. Collard, L., & White, P. 2022 Learning regenerative cultures: Indigenous nations in higher education renewal in Australia. Asia Pacific Education Review. https://link.springer.com/article/10.10.022-09789-y#citeas
• Wooltorton, S., Poelina, A., Collard, L. 2022 River Relationships: For the Love of River. River Resaerch and Applications. 38/3. Special Issue: Voicing Rivers. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3854
• Poelina, A., Wooltorton, S., Harben, S., Collard, L., Horwitz, P., Palmer, D. 2021. Sentire e ascoltare il territorio. In Lato Selvetico (59 – Equionozio D’Autunno). Translated into Italian from the 2020 publication “Feeling and Hearing Country” in PAN.
• Wooltorton, S., Poelina, A., Guenther, J., Blaise, M., Collard, L. White, P. (In Press). Learning for Regenerative Cultures: First Nations in Higher Education Renewal in Australia. Asia-Pacific Education Review. SI.
• Poelina, A., Wooltorton, S. Harben, S., Collard, L. Horwitz, P., Palmer, D. 2020 Feeling and hearing Country. In PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature (15) 6-15.
• Wooltorton, S., Poelina, A., Collard, L., Horwitz, P., Harden, S., Palmer, D. 2020 Becoming family with place. Resurgence & Ecologist. 322 Sept/Oct. ISSN: 0034-5970. https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/becoming-family-with-place.html
• Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., Horwitz, P., Poelina, A., & Palmer, D. 2020 Sharing Place-Based Indigenous Methodology and Learnings Environmental Education Research https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2020
• Wooltorton, S., Palmer, M., White, P., & Collard, L. 2020 Learning Cycles: Enriching Ways of Knowing Place. Australian journal of environmental education, 1-28 FirstView. ISSN: 0814-0626 (Print), 2049-775X (Online).
• Wooltorton, S., Poelina, A., Collard, L., Horwitz, P., Harben, S., Palmer, D., Palmer, M. 2019 Living into Indigenous landscapes: learning for regenerative futures. In OzEE News December
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L. and Palmer, D. 2019 Koorliny birniny, ni, quoppa katatjin:respect and ethics in working with Indigenous Australian communities. , In Ethics, Equity and Community Development. (Eds) Peter Westoby and Sarah Banks. The Policy Press.
• Wardell-Johnson, G., Wardell-Johnson, A., Schultz, B., Dortch, J., Robinson, T., Collard, L. & Calver, M., 2019 The contest for the tall forests of South-Western Australia and the discourses of advocates, In : Pacific Conservation Biology. 25, 1, p. 50-71.
• Wooltorton, S. Collard, L., & Horwitz, P. 2019 Groundwater interdependence, wetlands and Noongar Boodjar: living water relationships of the Gnangara groundwater system. In PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature(14). 5-23. http://panjournal.net/issues/14
• Wooltorton, S., Collard, L. & Horwitz, P., 2019 Layers of Meanings in Our Landscapes: Hiding in Full View Critical Global Semiotics: Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship. Ellis, M. (ed.). 1 ed. UK: Routledge, p. 96-108.
• Collard, L. & Martin, L., 2019 Nyungar Placenames: Looking out from Kaart Geenunginyup Bo (Accepted/In press) In : Westerly.
• Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., & Horwitz, P. 2018 The Land Still Speaks. Ni, Katitj!. PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature. No. 13.
• Wooltorton, S., Collard, L. & Horwitz, P 2018 Living water: Groundwater and wetlands in Gnangara, Noongar boodjar., In : PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature. 14, p. 5-23.
• Collard, L. M., 2018 Katitjin Ngulluckiny Boodjera: Kura, Yeye Mila Boorda (Understanding our country: Past, today, and into the present) In : Westerly. 63, 1, p. 70-82.
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L. and Palmer, D. 2018 Ngapartji ngapartji ninti and koorliny karnya quoppa katitjin: respectful and ethical research in Central Australia and the South West. Special edition of Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts. No 23. p. 32-50.
• Wooltorton, Sandra; Collard, Len and Horwitz, Pierre. 2017 The land still speaks: Ni, Katitj!: An introduction [online]. PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, No. 13, Dec 2017: 57-67.
• Fredericks, B., Daniels, C., Bainbridge, R., Longbottom, M., Clapham, M., Adams, M., Andersen, C., Ball, R., Bessarab, D., Collard, L., Martin, K., Harald, P. and Crook, L. 2017 Research Collaborative Scholarly Creative Writing: Two Poems about Quantitative Research and Two about Qualitative Research. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues 20 (4): 2-11.
• Collard, L., Bracknell, C., Palmer, D., Nyungar of Southwestern Australia and Flinders: A Dialogue on Using Nyungar Intelligence to Better Understand Coastal Exploration, ab-original, 1, 1, 2017, pages 1 - 16.
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2017. Chapter 9: Noongapedia karnany balang – responses to challenges. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.158–175. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.97
• Collard, L., Bracknell, C. and Palmer, D. 2017. Nyungar of Southwestern Australia and Flinders: A Dialogue on Using Nyungar Intelligence to Better Understand Coastal Exploration. In ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First People’s Cultures. Vol 1, No 1. p. 1-16. http://www.nirakn.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ab-Original_1.1_final.pdf
• Bainbridge, R., Fredericks, B., Clapham, Andersen, C., Ball, R., Longbottom, M., Bessarab, D., Collard, L.M., Adams, M., Roe, Y., Wilkinson, N., Daniels, C. 2016 'Collaborating for community-engaged scholarship in health and wellbeing: a co- auto ethnographic study of Indigenous self-determined researcher development. IJCIS Vol 2, No 2.
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2016. Chapter 1: Kura koorliny – Introduction: What is the project?. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.1–21. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.89
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2016. Chapter 2: Dumbart jen jen: first steps. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.22–36. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.90
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2016. Chapter 3: Noongar boordier gnulla katitjin – The influence of Noongar knowledge. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.37–53. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.91
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2016. Chapter 4: Djinanginy may may – Other work. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.54–69. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.92
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2016. Chapter 3: Noongar boordier gnulla katitjin – The influence of Noongar knowledge. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.37–53. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.91
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2016. Chapter 5: Katitjin kulungka mia – Work with schools. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.70–98. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.93
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2016. Chapter 6: Gnullak koorliny University katitjin – Work with tertiary students. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.99–115. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2016. Chapter 7: Gnulla Koorliny – Working with other groups. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.116–139. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.95
• Buchanan, J., Collard, L., Cumming, I., Palmer, D., Scott, K. and Hartley, J., 2016. Chapter 8: Bulla djandanginy – Challenges and tensions. Cultural Science Journal, 9(1), pp.140–157. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.96
• Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., & Horwitz, P. 2015 Stories want to be told: Elaap Karlaboodjar. PAN: Philosophy, activism, nature, 11, 3-18.
• Collard, L and Palmer, D. 2016 Ngulla wangkiny, ni, kaitijin, gnulla koorliny, kura, yeye, boorda, warniny koorlangka kwopa koorbal: a ‘yarn’ about going along together to look after young people’s health. New Community, Vol 13, No 3. p. 62-68.
• Fredericks, B., Clapham, K., Bessarab, D., Dudgeon, P., Bainbridge, R., Ball, R., Thompson (Longbottom), M., Andersen, C., Adams, M., Collard, L., Duthie, D. and Daniels, C. 2015 Developing Pictorial Conceptual Metaphors as a means of understanding and changing the Australian Health System for Indigenous People. ALARj 21(1): 77-107.
• Fredericks, B, Clapham, K, Bainbridge, R, Collard, L.M., Adams, M, Bessarab, D.C., Andersen, C, Duthie, D., Ball, R., Thompson, M., Daniels, C. 2014 '‘Ngulluck Katitj Wah Koorl Koorliny/ Us mob going along learning to research together’: Drawing on Action Research to develop a literature review on Indigenous gendered health and wellbeing', Action Learning and Action Research Journal, 20, 2, pp. 89-113.
• Collard, L. & Bracknell, C. Beeliar Boodjar: an introduction to Aboriginal History in the City of Cockburn, WA. (2012) Australian Aboriginal Studies, 186-91.
• Collard, L. & Harben. S. Nartj Katitj Bidi Ngulluckiny Koorl? (Which Knowledge Path Will We Travel?). Ethics and the Practice of History: (2010) Studies in Western Australian History, 26, 75-95.
• Collard, L. Djidi Djidi, Wardong, Kulbardi, Walitj and Weitj: Nyungar Dream Time Messengers (2009) Westerly, 54: 2, 7-26.
• Collard, L. Kura, Yeye, Boorda Walwalinyup: From the Past, Today and the Future Fremantle, Fremantle Studies: (2007) Journal of the Fremantle History Society, 5, 9-21.
• Collard, L. Nyittiny: Cosmology of the Nyungar of South-Western Australia. (2007) Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 11:1, 3-11.
• Collard, L. & Palmer, D. Kura, Yeye, Nyungar Wangkiny Gnulla Koorlangka: A Conversation about Working with Indigenous Young People in the Past, Present and Future. (2006) Youth Studies Australia, 25: 4, 25-32.
• Palmer, D. & Collard, L. We Cleared and Built All That Run: Nyungars, Work and Cultural Incorporation. In J. Bessant & S. Cook (eds), Against the Odds: Young People and Work (1998) (pp. 19-29). Hobart: National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies.
• Collard, L. & Palmer, D. Ethical Youth Work With Nyungar Families. Youth Issues Forum, (1994) Winter, 12-19.
• Palmer, D. & Collard, L. Aboriginal Young People and Youth Subcultures. (1994) Australian Institute of Family Studies, 38, 26-31.
• Palmer, D. & Collard, L. Aboriginalism in Youth Studies. Just Policy (1994).
• Collard, L. & Palmer, D. Aboriginal Young People in the Southwest of Western Australia: Implications for Youth Policy. Journal of Australian Studies, (1991) 15: 31, 78-93.

• 2019 Combined Universities: Seminar Nov 11: "Tackling Climate Change in Western Australia: Ideas for a State Climate Policy"
• 2019 State NRM and Coastal Conference held at Edith Cowan University in Joondalup from 1 - 4 October. Living water: groundwater and wetlands in Gnangara, Noongar boodjar
• Professor Len Collard, Professor Pierre Horwitz
• 2019 Indigenous Mapping Workshop in Australia Google Group Perth. Indigenous Member Working Party (IMW) Australia Committee.
• 2019 Reimagining Public Administration: First Peoples, governance and new paradigms at Melbourne’s Federation Square on 20-21 February 2019. Keynote Speaker: Year of Indigenous Languages. Key theme was how Indigenous languages and knowledges have shaped the nation, influencing place-names, the positions of highways and the locations of cities, in something he calls the “counter-colonial process”.
• 2018 Pulima Conference. Townsville. Kaya Wandjoo Ngala Noongarpedia: Knowledge and language regeneration through the use of online pedias. Presented by Professor Leonard Collard and Jennie Buchanan from the University of Western Australia
• 2018 Pulima Conference. Townsville. Wangkiny Noongar Kwoppa Maaman: Using language in work on healthy Noongar Fathering. Presented by Len Collard and Dave Palmer from Murdoch University
• 2018 National Men’s Health Gathering, which was held from Monday, 12th November to Wednesday, 14thNovember, 2018 at the Novotel Parramatta.
• 2018 Sydney. Indigenous Mapping Workshop in Australia Google Group Indigenous Keynote Speaker Nyoongar Placenames
• 2018 National Men’s Health Gathering, which was held from Monday, 12th November to Wednesday, 14thNovember, 2018 at the Novotel Parramatta.
• 2018 2nd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference and 2nd World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference held in Perth, Western Australia in November 2018.
• 2017 National Male Suicide Prevention, Conference, 10 November 2017, Parramatta, NSW
• 2017 Puliima National Indigenous Language Forum 18th and 19th October 2017. Pullman International Hotel Cairns, Queensland. Keynote Speaker - Nyoongar-pedia
• 2017 Puliima National Indigenous Language Forum 18th and 19th October 2017. Pullman International Hotel Cairns, Queensland. Keynote Speaker – Quop Maaman Fathering Project
• 2016 Collard, L. (2016) ‘Building Resilience: Identity, intellect and the role of languages’. Western and Northern Aboriginal Languages Alliance, Kalgoorlie, June 16-18.
• 2015 Cumming, I. , Buchanan, J., and Collard, L. (2015) Noongarpedia.’ Puliima National Indigenous Language & Technology Forum, William Angliss Institute Conference Centre, Melbourne, October 14-15.
• 2014 NIRAKN. Surfers Paradise from 14-18 July. The national workshop sessions were attended by a group of approximately 75 network participants and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander postgraduates, and involved nine workshops facilitated by NIRAKN members: Presentation - Research and Engagement in Communities – Associate Professor Jakelin Troy & Professor Len Collard
• 2014 Collard, L., Bracknell, C. and Palmer, D. (2014) Mapping boodjar and wardan in and around King Georges Sound: A dialogue on using Nyungar intelligence to better understand coastal exploration. The 1814 Flinders Map Bicentenary, Australian National Library, Canberra, February 2014.
• 2013 Collard, L and Palmer, D, (2013) Ngulla Wangkiny, Ni, katatjin Nyungar Nyidyung koorliny, kura, yeye, boorda: A dialogue about Nyungar and non-Aboriginal people going along together. Local Intermediaries in International Exploration Conference, Wednesday 17th July-Thursday 18th July 2013 ANU Commons, Canberra.
• 2011 Collard, L., Goodchild, B., & Marinova, D. Understanding Place Names in Southwest Australia: Katitjin Ngulluckiny Boodera, State of Australian Cities Conference, Melbourne August 2011.

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• Research Board, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, (AIATSIS) 2013 – 2016
• Board of Management, National Indigenous Research and Knowledge Network (NIRAKN) (2016 – 2017)
• Research Node, NIRAKN Committee for Health (2013 – 2017)
• Research Node, NIRAKN Committee for History (2013 – 2017)
• Foundation Member, ab-Original; Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples’ Cultures (2015 – present)
• Editorial Board, ab-Original; Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples’ Cultures (2016 – present)

• Foundation Member and Executive Board, South Metropolitan Youth Link (SMYL) Community Services (2009 – current)
• Foundation Member and Executive Board, South Metropolitan Youth Link (SMYL) Community School (current)
• Director, Moodjar – (2006 to present)
• Member, South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, (2014 to 2019)
• Member, Western Australian Historical Society, (2012 – present)
• Aboriginal Consultative Committee, Cockburn City Council, (2015 – present)
• Cultural Consultant, Fremantle City Council, (2014 – present)
• Cultural Consultant, Catholic Education Office WA, (1998 – 2000)
• Cultural Consultant, Education Department WA, 2017
• Cultural Consultant, Perth City Council, (2015 – 2019 – present)

• Director of Moodjar
• Providing Smoking ceremonies, Welcome to Country ceremonies, Cultural Awareness Training (CAT), Renaming/dual naming of places and country, Cultural Heritage Assessments, Research, Nyungar culture, Interpretive works, On-country tours and guidance.