Helen has had a varied career in the academy, teaching and researching—seven universities, four continents. Before taking up her professorship at Charles Darwin University, Helen spent twenty-five years teaching and researching in History and Philosophy of Science, at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
During that time she worked closely with Yolngu Aboriginal knowledge authorities and scientists as they tried to work together in respectful ways. She published many papers on this work. In the 1980s Helen worked in Nigeria for eight years, learning a lot from the Yoruba teachers she workerd with.
Nowadays her research is concerned with governance, policy and politics in the areas of environmentalism and Indigeneity in Australia. She travels to Europe each year to work in Germany and Denmark.
