As a colonial settler to Australia with Irish and English heritage, my own design education and industry experience has been largely absent of non-European histories, knowledges, and perspectives. This has informed my teaching and research practice to create spaces, projects, and participatory interactions to increase diverse knowledges, representation, and histories within design. My research is largely collaborative and community based; partnering with First Nations creatives, community schools, and design organisations in participatory research projects to foster social wellbeing, student belonging, knowledge transfer, intercultural collaboration, and design entrepreneurship. I have received funding from the Australian Council for the Arts and Creative Victoria and received accolades from the Good Design Awards, the Victorian Premiers’ Design Award, ACUADS, as well as receiving the prestigious RMIT Vice Chancellor’s award for research impact in 2022.