Marlene Longbottom Dr

Dr Marlene Longbottom is a Yuin woman, from Roseby Park mission (Jerrinja) and is the current Aboriginal Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Ngarruwan Ngadju First Peoples Health and Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Wollongong.

Her research spans over a decade where she has co-designed, implemented community-based research and evaluation projects. 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 addition to conducting research that is of benefit and priority driven by the community. Dr Longbottom’s approach to research is emancipative, it unapologetically centers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities through a social justice lens, that is informed by critical Indigenous Feminism, Indigenist Research Methodologies, critical theory, Critical Race Theory, Black Feminism and Intersectionality. 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 PhD investigated Aboriginal women’s experiences of violence and the support services South Eastern New South Wales. Her current work as the first Aboriginal Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the University of Wollongong, is an international comparative between Australia and United States, that is seeking to understand the service system responses to violence and trauma experienced by Aboriginal Australians in NSW and Kanaka Maoli in Hawai’i, United States.

For an early career researcher Dr Longbottom’s track record includes publishing in international and national journals and books. Her work is recognised both nationally and internationally having been invited to attend to present her work at conferences, including invitations from universities in the United States as a visiting scholar. Dr Longbottom has also been part of multiple Australian nationally competitive grants totalling over $5 million in Indigenous research capacity building; an NHMRC Building Indigenous Research Capacity Building lead , and an ARC grant; National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN).

Marlene continues to lead her own research, and works as part of interdisciplinary collaborative teams and is a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council titled: A Place Based Model for Aboriginal Community-led Solutions.