Rate My Professor Cassandra Sedran-Price

Dr Cassandra Sedran-Price is a proud Muruwari woman of the Gangugari clan and the first person in her family to attend university. She completed her PhD in Marine Science at the University of Tasmania. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the University Centre for Rural Health and a researcher in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney, within the Faculty of Medicine and Health. Her research explores the intersections between Country, culture and health, with a focus on operationalising Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Data Governance within organisations and environmental research.

Dr Sedran-Price works with communities such as the Bundjalung Tribal Society at Namabunda Farm in New South Wales to develop community-led, on-Country seed banks that safeguard biodiversity, support bush foods, education and environmental healing, and strengthen climate resilience. In 2026 she received the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Award from the Australian Academy of Science in recognition of this high-impact work. She holds leadership roles across committees, networks and taskforces that embed Indigenous perspectives in science, data policy and research governance. She is also an executive member of the Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collective and has served as an adjunct senior researcher at the University of Tasmania.