Leilani Darwin is the CEO and Founder of First Nations Co, she is a Quandamooka woman who lives in Brisbane. She is well known within the mental health sector for her work and leadership in Suicide Prevention and Mental Health; this has been built from her own personal lived experience of losing many loved ones to suicide and her own mental ill-health. In this video Leilani discusses her work in the area of suicide prevention, what she hopes for young First Nations people in relation to social and emotional wellbeing, and her lived experiences of suicidality and suicide. Please note the content of this video may be distressing for some viewers.
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Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University
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Carolina Alonso Berajano
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Chapter discussed in the interview: Giannacopoulos M, 2022, ‘Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law’, in Performance, Resistance and Refugees, Taylor & Francis, pp. 155 – 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142782…
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Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University
2025 |
Migration studies have increasingly embraced a diverse array of innovative and critical qualitative methods to gain deeper, more nuanced insights into the lived experiences of migrants and refugees. Researchers are moving beyond traditional approaches to explore the complex social, spatial, and temporal dynamics of migration, as well as how…
Carolina Alonso Berajano
2024 |
This lecture on decolonizing ethnography methods is part of the NSF-funded International Cultural Anthropology Methods (CAMP) Program, a free-to-all public anthropology methods curriculum (https://methods4all.org/camp-international/). See this link for a complete list of the curriculum and suggested readings to accompany each lecture.
Maria Giannacopoulos, Border Criminologies
2024 | Australia
Chapter discussed in the interview: Giannacopoulos M, 2022, ‘Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law’, in Performance, Resistance and Refugees, Taylor & Francis, pp. 155 – 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142782…
Deondre Smiles, Max Liboiron
2021 | Canada
Drs. Deondre & Max’s book club on Indigenous methodologies We’ve been engaging in a reading experiment called #Collabrary (Collaborative Library) where we aim to read research texts with generosity, humility, and accountability. Mostly we’ve been posting our reading on Twitter, but now we’ll be talking to one another…
