I have an ongoing research interest in the theft and scientific uses of the bodily remains of Indigenous peoples in contexts of settler colonial colonialism. My 2017-18 book, Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature and origins of human diversity from the early years of colonisation in the late eighteenth century to Australia achieving nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century.