James Oliver (Seumas Olaghair) is a transdisciplinary academic, educator, and writer, with over 20yrs of experience across a range of creative and cultural disciplines and sectors. James’ research training began in the social sciences, with a focus on lived experiences of cultural situations and practices. His wider creative practice research interests now also focus on decolonial practices, public pedagogies, and the possibilities afforded through creative and cultural ways of knowing (traditional and emerging), consistent with his native cultural position and practices of knowing. James is also a Hebridean Gàidheal. His Dùthchas, or embodied connectedness and relationality with place and land has informed a life-long, and evolving enquiry of practice-as-research and ways of knowing. Initially, this was at the nexus of his native culture, language, place-based belonging, and configurations of identities; increasingly, this is becoming less about identities, more about ontologies and practices of emplacement, and ethical relations and collaborations with place — and learning with land. This has nurtured a ‘practice-as-research’ career beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, particularly at the intersections of cultural relations, Creative Practice Research and Indigenous Practice Research. In relation to practice as research he published the book, Associations: creative practice and research (MUP, 2018); and details of his broader research practice and writing are available at academia.edu. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research lab (MADA/Monash).