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Prevention Sciences Group, UC San Francisco. I was a visiting scholar in Simon Baron-Cohen's lab at the University of Cambridge, then was an assistant professor at the University of Denver, and a tenured senior lecturer (like an American associate professor) at the University of Queensland. I was co-winner of the University of Queensland's Equity Office Diversity Award for my part in organizing, with my Aboriginal colleagues and my psychologist colleagues, a workshop on indigenous mental health. My professional history and my publications can be found on my web site,
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Indigenous issues: One of my primary interests is in building bridges between indigenous knowledge systems and scientific knowledge systems, so that both sides can understand how the other manages knowledge. I am a member of the AAAS Science & Human Rights
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