Tess Lea

Tess Lea is an anthropologist who studies bureaucracies and other organizational settings who otherwise worries about making social policy more effective. Her work spans human-other relations, settler colonialism, organisational ethnography, policy imaginaries, and the social worlds of regional and remote Australia. In addition to helping the Karrabing Indigenous Collective with their neo-realist fictional film making, she also leads the Housing for Health Research Incubator in partnership with the NGO Healthabitat, on a program of applied research aimed at improving public housing and health for Indigenous and other structurally disadvantaged groups.