Mr Jesse Hodgetts

My research focuses on First Nations Cultural revitalisation and the continuation of our Knowledge Systems and ways of being in today's world, particularly through the practice of Songlines, Language, and Kinship. I have recently completed my PhD titled “Guthi Girrmara (Old Songs Waking Up): Reawakening Archived Wangaaypuwan and Wiradjuri songs to inform our Culture, Language and Identity”. I am a singer of Ngiyampaa and Wiradjuri Songs, have been taught by my Elders, my Kin, my Country and learned through the voices of our old people archived in song recordings that were not passed on. 

I am also a singer and guitarist, performing and composing contemporary songs in professional settings as well as singing traditional cultural songs for Country and Community.  

As a trained secondary teacher, I have taught for a number of years in Secondary and Juvenile Justice schools as well as teaching in Aboriginal communities, running song, language and cultural camps, sharing the songs and dances passed onto me to the next generation of our youth.  

As an experienced educator, singer, musician, and cultural practitioner, I carry these skills and experiences into academia to share our Cultural ways of being with non-Indigenous scholars and teachers, as well as repatriate Indigenous Knowledges to our Communities to support Cultural revitalisation and continuation today.