Simone Ulalka Tur is from the Yankunytjatjara community, north-west South Australia and resides in Adelaide. Simone has undertaken leadership roles within higher education. She was the Director of Yunggorendi First Nations for Higher Education & Research, from 2011–2015 and Associate Dean, Tjilbruke Teaching & Learning within the Office of Indigenous Strategy & Engagement, 2015–2017 at Flinders University. She is now located in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Creative Arts. A particular focus of her leadership role involves integrating Indigenous Australian perspectives within university topics and promoting a greater understanding between Indigenous Australian peoples and the broader Australian community. She currently lectures to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, representing her educational philosophy of privileging Indigenous cultures, languages and ideologies as a deconstruction and decolonising educational process.