Marlene Longbottom

Dr Marlene Longbottom is a Yuin woman, from Roseby Park mission (Jerrinja) and an Associate Professor with the Ngarruwan Ngadju First Peoples Health & Wellbeing Research Centre, at the School of Medicine, Indigenous Allied Health at the University of Wollongong. Her research spans over a decade where she has collaboratively designed, implemented community-based research and evaluation projects that is of benefit and priority driven by the community. Dr Longbottom has extensive working experience in the health and human services sector with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in urban, regional and remote communities in New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory. Dr Longbottom’s approach to research is emancipative, it unapologetically centers First Nations communities through a social justice lens.Dr Longbottom’s focus is to ensure those often considered to be on the margins are centered, their stories and voices told and heard through the research she conducts. Dr Longbottom's work has been recognised nationally and internationally, with her forthcoming book on violence in Indigenous communities coming to a completion at the end of 2022.