DrCas Sedran

Projects & Grants 

Current 

2026 to present Chief Investigator: Strengthening International Indigenous-to-Indigenous Connections for Clean Air and Climate Adaptation (DFAT - 70K)

2026 to present Chief Investigator: Developing an On-Country Seed Bank at Namabunda Farm (Australian Academy of Science - 20K) 

2026 to 2028 Chief Investigator: Indigenous Data Foundations - A Learning Partnership with the National Earth and Environmental Sciences          Facilities, (ARDC - 600K)

2025 to 2026 Chief Investigator: Stolen Generation-led Pathways to Climate-Resilient Health. (Bright Ideas, USyd - 20K)

2025 to 2026 Co-Investigator: Preliminary exploration of an Indigenous Health in All Policies Model / Approach (HEAL Network - 47K)

2025 to present Chief Investigator: Stronger Together As Unified Nations for Community-led Health (STAUNCH), (Synergy Grant - $ 5 M)

2024 to present Co-Investigator: The CARE Data Maturity Model

2024 to present Associate Investigator: Counting what counts: using a national cohort study to develop, validate and apply an Indigenous Quality of Wellbeing Utility Index and quantifying key determinants of health (Clinical Trials Cohort Studies Grant - $1.7M)
2023 to present Chief Investigator: ‘Baseline study of Indigenous Collections practices in Australia’
2023 to present Indigenous Data Advisor: ‘Collaborative First Nations histories of the Great Artesian Basin’

Past 

2022 to 2025 Associate Investigator: ‘What matters to Kids’ project led by University Queensland (NHMRC Grant - $1.6 M)
2021 to 2025 Indigenous Data Advisor: ‘Muruwari Ngulli Yaandibu (Muruwari we speak)’
2021 to 2024 Co-lead: ‘Indigenous data governance within the Djandak Dja Kunditja (Country Healing its Home) project’.

Supervision

Project Title: Synergistic Indigenous Knowledges approaches to Responsible and Inclusive Innovation in crop science research (PhD Candidate - Adelaide University) - Co-supervisor Rachel A. Ankeny