Ben is a Research Fellow working at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Ben’s background is in biostatistics and while health data is their speciality, they have worked on a whole range of data from different contexts. Ben’s PhD uses data linkage to understand trends in child protective services data for Aboriginal children born in Western Australia, the health needs of these children generally and whether the health needs for those children who are placed in out-of-home care are different from Aboriginal children more broadly.

As a settler person, Ben is passionate about Indigenous Data Sovereignty and ensuring their analyses are strength-based and serve the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community(ies). Their expertise ranges from the analysis of large, linked datasets, survey design and data collection, quantitative experimental design, longitudinal and clustered data analysis, survival analysis, and data visualisation.