Qualifications
PhD Candidate (Political Science). University of Melbourne. Community-engaged participatory action research. Project: The Politics of Australian Political Comedy Production and the Implications for Freedom of Expression. This PhD research extends the breadth and depth of my work into the politics of artistic representation and cultural democracy.
Doctoral Academy for Community Engaged Research, Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne, 2023.
Double Major in Anthropology (Honours). University of Queensland, 2005. Thesis title: Remembering, Renaming and Reclaiming; Memory as an alternative, hybrid and more ethical conceptualisation for the anthropological representation of oral Indigenous knowledge. First class result.
Conflict Management and Facilitation Units. School of Law, James Cook University, 2014.
Love Bites Healthy Relationships Facilitator, NAPCAN, 2018.
ASIST, Applied Suicide Intervention Training, 2008, Lifeline Alice Springs.
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (Adult Vocational Education), Eagle Training, Alice Springs, 2009.
Certificate IV in Language, Literacy and Numeracy Practitioner (Assessment), South Australian Institute of Technical and Further Education.
Community Justice Commission Mediation Training – Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority 2007.
University of Queensland Winner of the AIATSIS Native Title Award for paper “Native Title but no Treaty” presented at National Native Title Conference in Geraldton, 2002.
Publications
Brady, J. (2024). “Hunchifactuality”: Identifying and Alleviating Bias with Pragmatic Action Research. Action Learning and Action Research Journal, 30(2), 83–113. Retrieved from https://alarj.alarassociation.org/index.php/alarj/article/view/447
Brady, J., Herbert, W., & Purkiss, Y. (2024). Chapter 11. In D. Mellifont & J. Smith-Merry (Eds.): In Our Words, Stories from the Intersection of LGBTQIA+ Identity and Disability. University reader series, https://livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/9781915734556. Lived Places Publishing.
Dawson, A. & Brady, J. (2021, July 28). The policing of Australian satire: why defamation is still no joke, despite recent law changes. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-policing-of-australian-satire-why-defamation-is-still-no-joke-despite-recent-law-changes-164076
Brady, J., Bishop, P. (May 8, 2012). Media, Arts, Music and Technology for Youth Final Report May 2012. Central Desert Shire, Alice Springs. Copy can be provided on request – commercial in confidence.
Hall, G., Brady, J., Jackson, S. (2008). Strategic Directions for Indigenous Employment and Training, Construction Division (Internal Report). Northern Territory Government, Indigenous Employment and Training Unit. Resulted in changes to the Procurement Act to change definitions to ensure local Indigenous labour was prioritised. Copy can be provided on request – commercial in confidence.
(2005). 31 x Cultural Heritage Ethnographic Fieldwork Reports (titles protected under Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act). Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority. Evidence letter can be provided upon request.
Career History
Specializing in project-specific community development governance and regulation, policy, procedure and community arts based program or project support.
2020 – current
Consultant Anthropologist.
PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne, School of Political and Social Science.
Part-time sessional teacher
POLS30015 – International Gender Politics (International Relations, Peace and Conflict Perspectives).
MULT30017- Australian Indigenous Public Policy (3rd year undergraduate level).
POLS40013 - Social Science Research Seminar (research methodology based, post-grad level).
Oct 2019 – Jan 2020
Operations Manager, Private in-home aged care provider. Staff management – 6 FTE, 1000 casuals. COVID interrupted.
Sep 2018 – Oct 2019
Senior Advisor Engagement, Violence prevention peak body. Strategic Engagement Project.
Sep 2017 – Aug 2018
Operations Manager, Youth Centre. Late night drop in and outside school hours care program (including arts and music programs) – assisted renew government contracts and restructure programs. Staff management - Direct HR management for staff of 4 FTE and 30 casual and part-time staff over including rewriting of performance management and professional development policies.
Mar 2017 – Sep 2017
Senior Project Manager, Women’s Shelter. Assisted gaining tenure for site during shelter renovations, established volunteer program and supported staff training police. Staff management – 2 FTE and 10 - 20 volunteers.
Jun 2016 – Mar 2017
Central Australian Manager, NT Shelter. Election campaigns, Homelessness assessment tools, accommodation action group facilitation.
August 2015 – Jun 2016
Education and Indigenous Liaison Manager, Northern Territory Consumer Affairs. Community arts based campaigning for tenants and consumer rights.
January – July 2015
English Teacher – Ashton English School, Guiyang, China.
June 2014 – December 2014
Part time positions while completing historical fiction book.
Part-time Student – James Cook University, Conflict Resolution and Management, Facilitation Units.
Part time Trainer and Assessor – Dreamtime Training.
Feb 2013 – Jun 2014
Senior Anthropology Lecturer and Research Project Manager – James Cook University.
AN2013/3013 – Nature, Culture and the Environment.
Tertiary Access Course; BR1111 Introduction to Academic Skills and BR1224 Critical Literacy: Text Analysis.
These were effectively a ten-week program to help students gain critical learning skills for university with a focus on the humanities and social sciences.
Aug 2010 – Dec 2012
Director of Research – Community Development Consultancy.
Research Consultant and Project Management. Community fire preparation project, Youth arts, technology and media project.
Staff management – 18 FTE consultants (direct reports) who supported multiple casual external teams in 16 remote communities.
Apr 2010 – Sep 2010
Employment Workforce Development (EWD) Manager, Strategic Indigenous Housing, and Infrastructure Project (SIHIP). Project Management and Staff development – management of 15 FTE remote construction trainees. Management of 1 FTE construction manager overseeing 12 FTE remote construction trainees. Policy and program development.
Aug 2007 – Apr 2010
Indigenous Employment and Training Officer – Construction Division (CD), Northern Territory Government.
Feb 2007 – Aug 2007
Men and Family Relationships Manager, Centacare NT.
Jun 2005 – Feb 2007
Anthropologist – Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Sacred Site Research Anthropologist. Field and office-based anthropological and ethnographic research. Field-based applied research - Production of 36 detailed ethnographic research reports that included visual anthropology representations, map design and oral history research. This fieldwork-based research was conducted over an area of 583 000 square kilometres and with 14 Indigenous language groups.