Alex Gyles is a Research Fellow working in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) at the Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University. He works closely with Marlkirdi Rose Napaljarri on the YWPP project and finds fieldwork with the YWPP team an exciting learning experience in locally-led and two-way MEL. He has over ten years of experience supporting processes of social change particularly in community development, governance, and MEL with Aboriginal land councils in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. He has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Anthropology and Politics, and a Master of Public Policy and Management.