Rate My Professor Bernardo Dewey

Dr Bernardo Dewey is a Research Fellow in the Indigenous Health Research Program within Curtin Medical School at Curtin University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Sociology and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Western Australia. As a sociologist with over 15 years of experience in project management and research spanning Argentina, Mexico, and Australia, Dr Dewey excels in mixed-methods approaches. His academic interests centre on sociology, culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) communities, and Indigenous health, with a focus on enhancing health outcomes for women, mothers, newborns, and Aboriginal families. He currently contributes to key initiatives such as the Jinda Maawit project, which seeks to understand and improve Aboriginal fathers' involvement in antenatal care to prevent stillbirths, and the Moorditj Moort project aimed at strengthening Aboriginal men's engagement in antenatal care for better parental and newborn health.

Dr Dewey's career includes roles at the University of Western Australia in Management and Organizations, and he serves as Unit Coordinator for ANTH3005 at Curtin University. He is an Associated Editor for the Journal of the Australian Indigenous Health and a committee member for the Curtin Early to Mid-Career Research Symposium 2024. His scholarly contributions include significant publications such as 'Atrapados / trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia' (2023, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies), 'Managing the permanent temporariness of prolonged migration: The role of local and transnational care circulation among Argentine temporary migrants in Australia' (2024, Global Networks), and 'Migration Flows, Communities, Cultural Practices and Gender: A Literature Review of Latin American Migration to Australia' (2022, Journal of Australian Latin American Relations). His PhD thesis earned the AILASA Honourable Mention Award in 2024. Recent accolades include the 2025 Churchill Fellowship and the inaugural Future Health Research WA Fellowship. Dr Dewey actively delivers workshops on Indigenous health equity and medical education.