Jillian is a Tracey Banivanua Mar Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University. She has a specific focus on fauna, having successfully combined her background in science (vertebrate palaeontology) and archaeology to focus on the role of animals in Australian archaeology. This unique combination of skills and expertise has allowed Jillian to use an interdisciplinary approach in her research. She is a highly skilled zooarchaeologist with expertise in the identification and analysis of vertebrate and invertebrate (shellfish) fauna, as well as an expert on the economic and nutritional role of native animals in the past diets of Australia’s First Nations people, and how this can inform on the modern contemporary Australian diet. Much of her current research focuses on combining Indigenous knowledges and western archaeology to help decolonise Australian Aboriginal archaeology.