About this episode
Dr Lauren Tynan discusses her research on Indigenous studies and cultural burning practices.
A Pairrebenne Trawlwoolway woman from Tebrakunna Country in northeast Trouwerner (Tasmania), Dr Lauren Tynan’s research areas encompass human geography and Indigenous studies, developing original methodological approaches, and contending with ethics, climate change and land management issues. In 2025 her PhD was awarded without correction. It is entitled Kin and Country: Relational Research, Cultural Fire and Indigenous Futurities. With an interest in Indigenous and decolonising methodologies, Lauren’s research focuses on relationality with Country, largely through Aboriginal cultural burning practices and fire. Relevant links/articles: Tynan, Lauren. (2020). Thesis as kin: living relationality with research. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. 16. 117718012094827. 10.1177/1177180120948270. The book Amy refers to is by bell hooks ‘All About Love: New Visions’ (1999).
People in this episode
Guest: Dr Lauren Tynan
Topics covered
- human geography
- Indigenous studies
- cultural burning practices
- decolonising methodologies
- climate change
- land management
Keywords
- relationality
- Country
- Indigenous Futurities
- methodological approaches
Mentioned in this episode
Products: All About Love: New Visions
Books & works: PhD, Kin and Country: Relational Research, Cultural Fire and Indigenous Futurities, All About Love: New Visions’
Places: Tebrakunna Country, Trouwerner, Tasmania, Country
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