I identify as an inland (Badigar/Nataimattagal – Bitter/Sweet waters) D’harawal scholar who currently works within the Division of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership at Western Sydney University (WSU). My career has primarily focused on Indigenous Research Methodologies, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and Indigenous Storywork. Through my research I have engaged with a wide diversity of methods (e.g., Indigenous Yarning, Critical Indigenous Quantitative Methods, D'harawal Storytelling, Circle Yarning), and I have constantly sought to privilege Indigenous and First Nations standpoints across a diversity of research areas, including racism, identity, mental health, higher-education, mentoring, bullying, and environmental justice. I have won over $3,000,000 in research grants and tenders (e.g., ARC Discovery Indigenous/Linkage, NHMRC, AIATSIS. Cumberland Plains Research Grant), I have over 60 refereed publications (including two edited books), and I have supervised to completion eight PhD students (five Aboriginal Australian). I also serve/d as an Indigenous representative on numerous committees within WSU (e.g., Research Studies Committee, Human Research Ethics Committee, Academic Senate), and I’m on numerous external Indigenous committees including as Deputy Chair for the Indigenous Steering Committee for the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, the Aurora Education Foundation’s Indigenous Data Governance Committee, and the Aboriginal Housing Office’s Aboriginal Research and Knowledge Advisory Group. I am a member and primary point of contact for the D’harawal Traditional Descendants and Knowledge Holder Circle (primarily relating to local community activities), and I’m a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, and the Australian Association for Research in Education, and I was a founding member of Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collective.