Dr Trevor Jewell
Senior Consultant, Corruption Prevention, Education and Research Directorate, Corruption and Crime Commission

Dr Jewell has recently joined the Corruption and Crime Commission as a Senior Consultant for the Corruption Prevention, Education and Research Directorate. He has returned to the workforce after completing a PhD which examined the implications of Martu child rearing for the child welfare system. The Martu are the traditional owners of the western desert lands, some fifteen hundred kilometres north east of Perth.

He brings a passion for rural and remote area and Indigenous issues to his work with the Commission. He has a special interest in the impact of public sector misconduct and corruption on Indigenous Western Australians especially those who live out of sight of the cities and sees a critical role for Integrity Agencies to ‘close the gap’ through enforcing accountability processes on those agencies who serve Indigenous people.

Prior to the PhD, he managed a remote area Indigenous health service at Balgo in the north east Kimberley. He has also worked in a range of public sector and not for profit agencies both in Perth and in remote areas of Western Australia in the areas of Indigenous Affairs, police, justice, health and welfare. The highlights of his career were contributing to the work of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the development of initiatives with Indigenous people, such as the Aboriginal Visitor Scheme, Aboriginal Homelands and Indigenous Health Services.