Senior researchers

Professor Sandra Wooltorton
Kimberley Transitions Research leader

Professor Sandy Toussaint
Anthropologist

Professor Stephen Muecke
Cultural Theorist

Professor Anne Poelina
Yimardoowarra Marnin (Woman who belongs to the river)

Professor Celia Deane-Drummond
Ecotheologian

Professor Kevin Kenneally
Botanist

Dr Willi Lempert

Professor Pierre Horwitz
Environmental Scientist

Professor Len Collard
Literature and Communications

Dr David Palmer
Senior Lecturer in Community Development

Ms Catrina Aniere
Teacher/Researcher

Professor Mindy Blaise
Feminist anticolonial researcher

Dr Virginia Westwood
Research Fellow

Dr Anne Jennings
Research Fellow


Acknowledgement of Country

The Nulungu Research Institute is located on Yawuru land, encompassing the coastal town of Broome. Aboriginal saltwater, river and desert language groups across the Kimberley sustain intergenerational cultural, intellectual and social affiliations over time. Kimberley Transitions researchers and associates pay respect to the Yawuru and other Kimberley cultural custodians - to past, present and future generations. Knowledge and expertise, evident throughout the Kimberley – the place Aboriginal women, men, children and others call home – is vital to the sustainability of all people and places. That Kimberley Transitions can be part of this ongoing process underpins the Project's aims and ethos.