Professor Naomi Sunderland

Naomi is a proud descendant of the First Nations People of Australia alongside her family’s diverse European heritage. Naomi works at the interface of arts and health disciplines to develop internationally recognised theories, models and approaches for trauma-informed and arts-based research, teaching and practice. She is an Australian Research Council Fellow investigating First Nations music as a cultural determinant of health.

Naomi’s Fulbright Scholarship at the University of New Mexico aims to examine the potential of collective community music activities in responding to mass experiences of collective trauma in First Nations and other communities.