AsPr Elfie Shiosaki

Dr Elfie Shiosaki is a Noongar and Yawuru academic from the southwest region of Australia leading community education about human rights through her award-winning Indigenous storytelling practices. She is the Director of the Centre for Indigenous Policy Research.

Since completing a PhD in nation-building in 2015, she has consolidated her research into three key areas: histories of advocacy by Indigenous people for rights and self-determination; Indigenous understandings of rights; and the significance of Indigenous storytelling for rights discourses. Engaging with critical Indigenous research methodologies, her contributions to the field have generated new knowledge and decolonial theories about the agencies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to transform Australia's human rights culture. Her research has social impact for First Nations people by revitalising Indigenous storytelling practices and supporting health and wellbeing through cultural resilience.

Dr Shiosaki held a position as a Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Rights, Policy and Governance at the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia from 2018 to 2022, and she completed an Indigenous Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University from 2015 to 2018. She served as the inaugural Editor of First Nations Writing at Westerly from 2017 to 2021.

PhD, UWA