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Jacinta Walsh is a woman of Jaru / Yawuru and Irish heritage and a proud mother to three young men. Jacinta is a PhD Candidate and a Research Officer with the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University. Jacinta was adopted and raised in a loving and adventurous non-Indigenous, multicultural family in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. In 1998, Jacinta approached Link-Up and began a lifetime journey of reconnection with her birth mother who is of Irish descent, and her birth father, an Aboriginal man, from Jaru Country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Jacinta’s research interests lie in culturally informed, careful and compassionate research practices, Aboriginal family life writing, twentieth century Western Australian Aboriginal policy's, narrative and identity formation and reformation and stories of intergenerational family knowledge repatriation and reconnection.

Jacinta is a member of the Victorian Stolen Generations Reparations Package Steering Committee

Jac's Publications

Research Profile @ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2774-1373

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Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull, Emily Armstrong, Indigenous Care Leavers in Australia: A National Scoping Study, August 2020, Department of Social Work, Monash University,

Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University SNAICC, Melbourne.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Jacinta Walsh, Songlines in action: Tracing five generations, Book Review of "Reaching Through Time: Finding my family’s stories" by Shauna Bostock, October 2023, Australian Book Review. no. 458

Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull, Phillip Mendes & Rachel Standfield. First Nations care leavers: Supporting better transitions (Practice Guide). Melbourne: Child Family Community Australia, Australian Institute of Family Studies. September 2023, Australian Institute of Family Studies.

Jacinta Walsh and Lynette Russell. Yarning with the Archives. In The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures, edited by Bronwyn Carlson, Madi Day, Sandy O’Sullivan, and Tristan Kennedy, 226–39. 1. Routledge, 2023.

DOI: 10.4324/9781003271802-18.

Jacinta Walsh, Married to a 'British Subject', February 2023, In The Australian Journal of Politics and History. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12853

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh and Lena Turnbull, Indigenous youth transitioning from out-of-home care in Australia: a study of key challenges and effective practice responses, August 2021, Journal of Children's Services, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 16-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-08-2021-0034

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh and Lena Turnbull, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) young people leaving out-of-home care in Australia: A national scoping study, February 2021, In Children and Youth Services Review 121.

Media Publications

Jacinta Walsh, In one family’s story, a case for the Voice to Parliament, 7th September 2023, In The Lens, Monash University, Melbourne

Philip Mendes, Jacinta Walsh and Lena Turnbull, Casualties of a system in crisis: Young, Indigenous and forgotten

after leaving out-of-home care, 12th October 2020, In The Lens, Monash University, Melbourne

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull, Emily Armstrong, Indigenous children are leaving out-of-home care to uncertain futures. This is the support they need, September 2020, In The

Conversation, Melbourne.

Media - Expert Comment

Olivia Jenkins, Indigenous History Push, 6th February 2022, In Herald Sun, Melbourne.

Olivia Jenkins, Stars back more Indigenous language and history in schools,

15th February 2022, 6:30pm, Kidsnews.com.au

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