Yin Paradies

{{Short description|Australian public health researcher}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| birth_name = Yin Carl Paradies

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| fields = Public health

| workplaces = Deakin University

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| education = {{hlist|Northern Territory University|University of Newcastle|University of California, Berkeley|University of Melbourne}}

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| thesis_title = Race, racism, stress and Indigenous health

| thesis_url = https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/39147

| thesis_year = 2006

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| awards = NAIDOC Scholar of the Year Award (2007)

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Yin C. Paradies {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA|FASSA}} is Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Race Relations at Deakin University. He is a Wakaya (Aboriginal) man known for his research on the health and societal effects of racism, as well as his work on applying anti-racism principles in a wide variety of settings.{{Cite news |title=Yin Paradies |url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/yin-paradies |access-date=2020-12-24 |website=The Wheeler Centre |language=en |archive-date=2021-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120070240/https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/yin-paradies |url-status=live }} He also teaches{{Cite web |title=Indigenous perspectives on decolonial futures |url=https://events.humanitix.com/indigenous-perspectives-on-decolonial-futures-8uub16jj?fbclid=IwAR2GOySjAJ5s6J5SYYn4GuLy677TK94MzIJxYS37FbkagVIm4kSL04fT2Yk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912081302/https://events.humanitix.com/indigenous-perspectives-on-decolonial-futures-p4v43ayt |archive-date=2021-09-12 |access-date=2021-02-12 |language=en-AU}} and undertakes research{{Cite journal|last=Paradies|first=Yin|date=2020-10-01|title=Unsettling truths: modernity, (de-)coloniality and Indigenous futures|journal=Postcolonial Studies|volume=23|issue=4|pages=438–456|doi=10.1080/13688790.2020.1809069|issn=1368-8790|doi-access=|s2cid=225274673 }} in Indigenous knowledges and decolonisation. In 2007, he received the NAIDOC Scholar of the Year Award.{{Cite web |date=2007-07-17 |title=Dr Yin Paradies |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/dr-yin-paradies/3669408 |access-date=2020-12-24 |website=ABC Radio National |language=en-AU |archive-date=2021-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109230953/https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/dr-yin-paradies/3669408 |url-status=live }} Paradies was named one of 40 lifetime superstars of Australian research in 2021, the leading Australian researcher in the field of ethnic and cultural studies in 2023 and one of the top 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander STEM leaders in 2024. Paradies was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in November 2021{{Cite web|date=2021-11-08|title=37 Leading Social Scientists elected as Academy Fellows|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/news/2021fellows/|access-date=2021-11-09|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-AU|archive-date=2021-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108132136/https://socialsciences.org.au/news/2021fellows/|url-status=live}} and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2024.{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Yin Paradies |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=1269 |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}