Lisa is the Chair of the APS Indigenous SES Network and has worked for the Australian Government for the past 18 years in a variety of roles, including service delivery, social work, community engagement, fraud prevention, human resource policy and social and public policy development. She is currently the Assistant Secretary of the First Nations Employment Policy and Programs Branch at the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. Lisa has been recognised for her work helping Services Australia better communicate with First Nations service users and by the APS more broadly for her research and development of the Indigenous Cultural Responsiveness training for social workers. Lisa’s PhD research focused on looking for opportunities to uplift the cultural capability of the APS to improve policy effectiveness and make it more culturally safe and responsive for First Nations peoples. She has been awarded two research prizes for this research.
Dr. Lisa Conway
