ProfessorYin Paradies

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Race Relations

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Race Relations
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 43873 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    His research has generated considerable media attention including TV coverage on ABC When will Australia have a Black Prime Ministers (28/04/2019; 350,000 viewers), ABC the Drum (27/08/19), (Channel 10 News (23/02/11), SBS documentary Is Australia Racist? (26/02/17) as well as on radio: Health report (05/07/07), Australia Talks (27/02/07), Awaye program (21/07/07), ABC Radio AM (07/04/03, 23/02/11), ABC news (07/04/03, 09/10/07, 22/04/08, 23/02/11), ABC World Today (25/03/10), ABC statewide drive Vic (23/02/11), ABC RN drive (02/04/2013, 28/01/14, 05/06/19), ABC Darwin (23/02/11, 09/03/12), ABC Brisbane Drive Radio (10/05/13), ABC Canberra Drive (09/08/2016, 09/11/2017), BBC World Service News and Current Affairs (25/03/10), SBS Radio (09/04/03, 28/09/09), SBS World News (05/06/11, 13/06/13), SBS Living Black (27/07/12, 20/03/14), FM Brisbane (11/07/08), Top FM (09/04/03, 19/06/06), HuffPost (28/10/19), National Indigenous Radio Service (09/04/03, 11/07/08, 26/11/09), National Indigenous TV (20/02/14), Koori Radio (09/02/10) and CAARMA (Central Australian) radio (19/06/06, 18/3/08, 23/02/11), 3CR (26/07/19), 3LO (02/08/09), 3AW (07/10/10, 23/02/11, 28/06/11, 06/04/16), 6PR Perth (28/06/11), Melbourne Talk Radio (28/06/2011), 2GB Sydney (23/02/11), 2SER Sydney (28/10/11, 10/08/16), Triple JJJ (07/10/10, 02/04/13) and 3BA FM Ballarat (24/02/11), Deakin Matters (26/11/12), ABC Goulburn Murray (27/11/12), 3GB (06/02/13), 702 ABC Sydney (30/05/13), Panorama news radio 90.7FM (27/05/13, 26/06/15) and National Indigenous Television (13/06/13), ABC WA Regional Drive Program (23/01/14), ABC Melbourne 774 (29/01/14), Geelong Pulse Drive (03/02/14), Radio Australia (05/02/14), Radio National All in The Mind (03/09/2017), Stop Everything! (01/02/2019), 5QTR FM (26/08/2018).
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    Prof. Paradies research has also been quoted in The New York Times (14/09/2017), The Age (14/03/08, p.3, 19/11/09, p. 11, 23/02/11 p. 9, 14/05/12, 01/06/13, 08/12/14, 27/08/19), The Guardian (14/03/19, 27/08/19), BuzzFeed (14/03/19), The Voice, p. 2,15 (20/11/12), The Australian (01/06/13, 14/06/13), The Canberra Times (26/04/08, p.4, 15/02/17), Herald Sun (12/09/07, 23/02/11 p. 17, 06/04/16) Koori Mail (05/07/06, p. 36), Sydney Morning Herald (06/02/10, 06/04/14), Ballarat Courier (23/02/11, 24/02/11, 25/02/11), Brimbank Weekly (01/03/11), Mx (21/05/13) as well as international media in the U.S., India and China. His four articles in the Conversation have been read over 20,000 times.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2021: Charles Darwin University Indigenous Alumni Award
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2011: Victorian Young Tall Poppy Science award
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    2011: University of Melbourne Early-career Researcher Award for Excellence in
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    Research Achievement
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    2010: VicHealth Annual Award for Advocacy
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    2007: Scholar of the Year at the National NAIDOC Awards
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    2007: Chairman's Special Commendation (Northern Territory Research and
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    Innovation Awards)
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    2003: American-Australian Fulbright Postgraduate Award
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    2002: Australia Day Councils Science and Technology Award and overall Young Achiever of the Year Award in the Northern Territory Young Australian of the Year Awards
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    15. Paradies Y. Reconfiguring Anti-racism. Reconfiguring Anti-racism: Tolerance, Harmony, Inclusion or Justice?, Melbourne, Dec 2013.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    16. Paradies Y. Racism, discrimination and the health of Indigenous peoples: what do we know? Heath Services, Racism and Indigenous Health: Gaining traction for systemic change, Adelaide, Nov 2013.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Invited keynote presentations
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    1. Paradies Y. Decolonising Modernity: Unveiling the veils of racism. Transforming Indigenous Education in practice: On, From, With and In Country, flowing with the TIDE. Brisbane, Austrralia, June 2023.
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    2. Paradies Y. Indigenous perspectives on decolonial societies. The Australian Sociological Association annual conference, Melbourne, Australia, December 2022.
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    3. Paradies Y. Cultural competence and cultural safety in healthcare. Critical Intensive Care Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, June 2021.
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    4. Paradies Y. Cultural competence and cultural safety in healthcare. Royal Australian College of Physicians Congress, Perth, Australia, May 2021.
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    5. Paradies Y. Unconscious bias, decolonisation and Indigenous health. Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress, Melbourne, Australia, May 2021.
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    6. Paradies Y. Aboriginal Australian and Traveller Mental Health - Addressing Racism and Discrimination. Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, Dublin, Ireland, October 2020.
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    7. Elvidge E, Paradies Y. Addressing racism and enhancing cultural safety. Revisiting Aboriginal Wellbeing conference, Centre for Healthcare Knowledge & Innovation, Angourie, NSW, February 2020.
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    8. Paradies Y. Indigenous leadership. WATTLE women in leadership program, Melbourne, December 2019.
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    9,. Paradies Y. Why Indigenous knowledges? Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Indigenous Knowledges event, RMIT, Melbourne, November 2019.
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    10, Paradies Y. The Lucky Country beyond 2020: Pathways for Achieving Equitable and Just Workplaces. Equal Employment Opportunity Network meeting, Melbourne, November 2019.