

Abby-Rose Cox is a member of the Nimunburr community with connections to Kija in the East Kimberley. Her experiences of teaching, primarily with Aboriginal youth, has been a driving force in pursuing a career in research. She recently completed her PhD looking at culturally strong social and emotional wellbeing programs to support Aboriginal young people in schools and joined UWA as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to this, Abby worked as the Evaluation and Research Manager at the Kimberley Aboriginal Health Research Alliance in Broome. Abby is passionate about transforming research to ensure First Nations people are involved in every stage of the research journey. Currently, Abby is working as a Research Fellow at the Indigenous Futures Centre, looking at experiences of racism, with a vision to develop resources to support others to demonstrate warriorship in the face of racism.


The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures is supported by its partners and funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council.
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures acknowledges and honours the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our Centre operates. We acknowledge Elders past, present, and emerging and recognise this was always a place of learning, teaching, and research, and that Sovereignty was never ceded.
Email: indigenousfutures@uq.edu.au
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