Marlene Longbottom

Dr Marlene Longbottom, a Yuin woman from the Roseby Park mission (Jerrinja) in NSW, is an Associate Professor at the Indigenous Education & Research Centre at James Cook University. With nearly three decades of experience across human services and academia in New South Wales, the Torres Strait, and Far North Queensland, she leads community‑driven research grounded in the lived realities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, particularly in the areas of trauma, violence, and systemic injustice. Over the past 15 years, Dr Longbottom has published widely and contributed to nationally significant research, securing more than $7 million in competitive funding—including as Chief Investigator on a $1.287 million ARC Indigenous Discovery project. She is a co‑author of the NSW Ombudsman–commissioned review of 43 Aboriginal suicide cases, Holding Hope: A Human Rights Framework to Bring Our Loved Ones Home. Her forthcoming book, Defiant Resistance: Shattering the Silence on Violence Against Indigenous Women (May 2026), draws on deeply personal narratives from Indigenous women and families to shatter the silence around violence, centre their agency, and illuminate community‑led pathways toward justice, healing, and self‑determination and agency. She regularly shares her insights through platforms such as The Conversation, IndigenousX, NITV, and SBS’s Insight.