Dr Dawn Darlaston-Jones PhD FAPS, FCCOMP
BA(Psych)Hons, Grad Cert Ed (Tertiary)., MPsych(Community)/ PhD, Registered Psychologist
Dawn is Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle campus, and the former course coordinator. Her research interests lie in the areas of critical psychology with particular emphasis on resistance and emancipation, decolonisation, and education. The focus of her current work is Indigenous education and the importance of embedding Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous psychologies into the curriculum. This approach challenges hegemonic constructions of knowledge and contributes to a decolonisation approach to psychology education. She was a chief investigator on the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project (AIPEP) led by Professor Pat Dudgeon. Dawn is also the principle archetect on the Bachelor of behavioural Science at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, which employs a decolonised curriculum.

I am a community and counselling psychologist with more than thirty years’ experience in community health and higher education, as well as a decade within the APS National Office as Manager of Public Interest. I am currently an Honorary Fellow and sessional lecturer at Victoria University. The focus of my work over that time has been on maximising psychology's contributions to community wellbeing and social justice. I have a keen interest in supporting a new generation of feminist and community psychologists.