Dr Chris Birdsall-Jones

Research Fellow

John Curtin Institute of Public Policy
Curtin University of Technology

Level 2 Building 100
Bentley Campus
GPO Box U1987
Perth WA 6845 Australia

Telephone: +61 8 9266 3356
Fax: +61 8 9266 3658
Email: c.birdsall-jones@curtin.edu.au

Chris Birdsall-Jones’ doctorate was an ethnography of Aboriginal women in the towns and cities of Western Australia. On completion of the doctorate in 1990, Chris took up lecturing positions at Curtin University of Technology, initially in the School of Social Sciences and then in the School of Nursing. From 1997 to 2000 she was Senior Anthropologist at the Noongar Land Council in Perth. Following that she worked as a consultant on native title claims in Western Australia and Victoria.

In 2006 she was awarded a grant from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute to conduct major research into housing pathways among Aboriginal people in the towns and cities of Western Australia. This year, she has won another AHURI grant to conduct research into Indigenous homelessness. This project will be a comparison of the situations of Indigenous homeless people in the towns and cities of Western Australia and in Sydney, NSW. Chris has published in the fields of anthropology, native title and Indigenous tourism.

For further details, please download Chris' cv.