Darren Garvey has ancestral ties to the Torres Strait Islands and has lectured for the Aboriginal Health Unit at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University of Technology.
Garvey holds a degree in Psychology from James Cook University, postgraduate qualifications in Health Promotion from Curtin Universityand also has a Graduate Certificate in Education with a focus on instructional design and curriculum development. He is the author of Indigenous Identity in Contemporary Psychology - Dilemmas, Developments, Directions (2007).