Born and raised in the farming community of Greenough just south of Geraldton, Paul has over 20 years’ experience in the community services sector holding a number of grass roots, senior management and voluntary positions in social, community and strategic planning, programme development and community service delivery. After an extensive work history in the WA local government sector, Paul relocated to Northern Australia to teach community services and youth work at Charles Darwin University. More recently, Paul has undertaken considerable work with survivors and perpetrators of family and domestic violence in the East Kimberley before working in partnership with corporate Australia to coordinate short and long term projects in regional and remote Indigenous communities across the Kimberley. After some 25 years’ away, Paul has returned to Geraldton to take up the position of Research Assistant Professor with the WA Centre for Rural Health. Paul has a Bachelor of Social Science (Youth Work) from Edith Cowan University, a Masters in International and Community Development from Deakin University and a PhD from Charles Darwin University.