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Dr Anni Hine Moana is a Lecturer in Addiction Studies at the Eastern Health Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University at Turning Point. In January 2022, she commenced this role, engaging in the development, coordination, and delivery of units such as ASC5005 Addiction Treatment and ASC5002 Sociocultural perspectives of addiction in the Masters of Addictive Behaviours. Her academic qualifications include a PhD in Psychology and Public Health from La Trobe University (2019), titled “Looking at Our Own History Book: Exploring through the Stories of Australian Aboriginal Women the Relationship Between Shame and Problems with Alcohol”; a Master of Counselling from Victoria University (2012), titled “Telling another story: Looking for ways of working in partnership with Indigenous Australian people seeking help for alcohol and other drug problems in mainstream services”; a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Melbourne (1985); and a Bachelor of Arts in Writing, Sociology, Psychology from Deakin University (1983). Previously, she served as Research Fellow in the Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future project—an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led participatory action research project—at the University of Melbourne’s Indigenous Health Equity Unit (2021). She taught part-time in the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University from 2015 while undertaking her PhD through The Bouverie Centre, delivered invited Master Classes on qualitative research methods (participatory action, narrative, and ethnographic research) to PhD candidates at Victoria University (2019-2020), and held part-time senior positions at Uniting ReGen Alcohol and Other Drugs services, including counselling supervision, professional development for AOD clinicians, policy writing, and development of an AOD program for people in prison in Victoria.

Dr Hine Moana has worked concurrently in community health, mental health, alcohol and other drugs, and education sectors as a psychotherapist, counsellor, counselling supervisor, and educator for many years, commencing tertiary teaching in 2011. She trained in the provision of clinical supervision for counsellors and psychotherapists with The Bouverie Centre. Her research interests include addiction, narrative inquiry, participatory action research, social determinants of health and wellbeing, addiction narratives, and trauma. Key publications include “Community perspectives on delivering trauma-aware and culturally safe perinatal care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents” (2023, Women and Birth), “The Ethnographer Unbared: Looking at My Own History Book” (2022, Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung), and “On the relationship between shame and problems with alcohol through the narratives of Aboriginal women” (2019, Australian Journal of Community Work). A founding member of The Melbourne Ethnographers Collective with Professors Ron Adams and Hariz Halilovich, she has been an invited speaker at the Secretariat for National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Conference (2021), Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association Conference (2019), VSURF Talk (2019), and The Bouverie Centre Re-Launch (2019), and serves as peer reviewer for Australian Journal of Community Work (from 2020).