Helen Verran
Professorial Research Fellow
Helen Verran shares her extensive knowledge with Higher Degree by Research students through the Espresso Yourself! Sessions. She is an ethnographer with a varied academic career, teaching and researching in seven universities over four continents. Before taking up her professorship at Charles Darwin University, Professor Verran spent twenty-five years teaching and researching in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne in Australia. During that time, she worked closely with Yolngu Aboriginal knowledge authorities and scientists as they tried to work together respectfully. She published many papers on this work.
In the 1980s, Helen worked in Nigeria for eight years, learning a lot from the Yoruba teachers she worked with. Her book Science and an African Logic (Univ of Chicago Press, 2001) won several prestigious international prizes.
+61 8 8946 4907
Melbourne, VIC & Darwin, NT
Research Interests:
- Ground Up methods in devising research approaches that enhance Indigenous sovereignties.
- Studies in method: narrative and ethnography as data in social science research.
- Practices in knowledge and culture work in institutions—museums as exemplars.
Teaching units:
- Ethnography and Policy (MPP 505)
- Indigenous Representation and Ethical Practice (IAS 524)