Yin Paradies, the Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Race Relations at Deakin University,
Melbourne, VIC, Australia started his academic life studying applied mathematics and
computing. His first job, at the Indigenous Health Statistics Unit of the Australian
Bureau of Statistics, took him towards his work in heath inequalities, on racism as
a determinant of Indigenous health in Australia, and his current focus on decolonisation
and Indigenous knowledges and perspectives. Paradies, who is a Wakaya man, and “the
first person”, he says, “in any part of my family to get a PhD”, has since published
widely on experiences of racism, and the impacts of racism on social and emotional
wellbeing of Indigenous Australians, as well as on anti-racism theory, policy, and
practice.