Tess Lea

Tess Lea is an anthropologist who studies bureaucracies and cultures of policy making, asking why the path to implementing anything evidenced is so very hard -- an issue she tackles in her most recent book 'Wild Policy' (2020, Stanford). Her work spans human-other relations, settler colonialism, everyday militarism and the social worlds of regional and remote Australia. She leads the Housing for Health Research Incubator in partnership with the NGO Healthabitat, on a program of applied research aimed at improving public housing, water security and health for Indigenous and other structurally disadvantaged groups.