Culture, Diversity and Health in Australia

Tinashe Dune is a multi-award-winning Senior Lecturer in the areas of health sociology and public health and is also a clinical psychology registrar. At Western Sydney University Dr Dune teaches in the Interprofessional Health Science program. Her research and teaching focuses on marginalised populations. This includes the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse people, those living with disability, ageing populations, LGBTIQ-identifying people and Indigenous populations. Dr Dune utilises mixed-methods approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives, which support multidimensional understandings of the lived experience, health outcomes and empowered ways to improve wellbeing.

Kim McLeod is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Kim is known for her expertise in philosophically informed and arts-based health research. Much of Kim's work explores the social change that contributes to health equity and population-level wellbeing. Kim's approach to understanding health as ongoing processes of change is presented in her single authored book, Wellbeing Machine: How Health Emerges from the Assemblages of Everyday Life. Kim brings a multidisciplinary approach to her research practice. She commonly collaborates with researchers from the Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences on health-related research projects. Kim's teaching expertise is introducing health profession students to cultural safety and the social context of health. She leads collaborative research projects to explore best teaching practice in this area.

Robyn Williams has nursing and education qualifications and has over 37 years of experience of working with Indigenous peoples, primarily in the Northern Territory but also all over Australia. Her fields of expertise include cultural safety, effective communication, curriculum development and program implementation, evaluation of community-based programs, and qualitative research in Indigenous and rural and remote health issues and culturally safe practitioners.