Rebecca Hird 

About Rebecca Hird 

Rebecca Hird is a Garigal/Walkaloa woman through her matrilineal line. She is a Vice Chancellor Indigenous Doctoral Research Fellow at RMIT.  Her research focuses on understanding the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of First Nations children and young people who experience detention in Southern Queensland, centering their voices using Indigenous Research Methods and Methodology. Her previous research includes roles with the University of Sydney and University of Queensland. Rebecca engages most weeks to create art together with the young people at the Brisbane youth detention centres and Yiliyapinya, an Indigenous Organisation supporting justice involved youth in Inala.

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