Distinguished Professor Bronwyn Carlson is the Head of the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies. She has been awarded three consecutive Australian Research Council (ARC) grants focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander engagements with digital technologies including social media. She is considered the preeminent researcher in the field of Indigenous digital life. Bronwyn has an impressive track record and comprehensive list of scholarly publications including as the author of the first scholarly journal article that focuses on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and digital technologies (Lumby, 2010) and the co-author of the only scholarly book that focuses exclusively on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s digital lives (Carlson & Frazer, 2021). She has co-edited and contributed to two special issues on the topic; the Australasian Journal of Information Systems (2017) on “Indigenous Activism on Social Media’ and Media International Australia (2018) on “Indigenous Innovation on Social Media” and an edited volume with Rutgers University Press (Carlson & Berglund, 2021) "Indigenous People Rise Up: The Global Ascendancy of Social Media Activism". She is also the founding and managing editor of the Journal of Global Indigeneity and the Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures. In 2020 she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities for her research on Indigenous peoples and digital technologies. 

Her research interests include Indigenous engagements on digital platforms; Indigenous identities and Indigenous Futurisms.