Researcher

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curriculum and pedagogy, Indigenous methodologies

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Biography

I’m a Gamilaroi woman, grown up on Dharawal Country in South-West Sydney. Currently, I am a Scientia Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education. I am a former primary school teacher and am motivated to ensure education brings joy, connection and balance to human and more-than-human kin.

My teaching and research advocates for emancipatory change in schooling for Indigenous students which includes a focus on teacher...view more

I’m a Gamilaroi woman, grown up on Dharawal Country in South-West Sydney. Currently, I am a Scientia Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education. I am a former primary school teacher and am motivated to ensure education brings joy, connection and balance to human and more-than-human kin.

My teaching and research advocates for emancipatory change in schooling for Indigenous students which includes a focus on teacher education and teacher ontology, school-community relationships, inclusion of Indigenous perspectives, and Indigenous research methodologies.

My current research focuses on navigating colonial systems and structures to envision and enact Indigenous education sovereignty, or in other words, education on our own terms. I’m interested in Indigenous theories and approaches to education as they have been practised here in so-called Australia forever. I enjoy utilising Country-centred Indigenous research methodologies as innovative and rigorous processes to disrupt and transform dominant research conventions.

I completed my doctoral studies at Macquarie University – thesis entitled ‘Envisioning Indigenous Education Sovereignty’ – which was awarded without corrections and received the Vice Chancellor’s Commendation for Research Excellence.


My Grants

2024 MQ Faculty of Arts L&T Development Scheme

2024 MQ Faculty of Arts Consilient Partnership Seed Funding

2022 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant


My Qualifications

BA, MTeach (Primary), MEd (Ed Psych), PhD


My Awards

2024 Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Education, Early Career Award Winner

2023 Macquarie University Excellence in Higher Degree Research Award Winner

2021 Shortlisted for the Australian Educational Researcher/Springer Best Paper Award

2020 Winner of Australian Journal of Human Rights Andrea Durbach Prize

2019 Winner of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Postgraduate Student Paper Prize at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) National Conference

2018 Winner Best Student Paper Prize at the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) International Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2017 Recipient of Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Indigenous scholarship to attend AARE conference, Canberra

2017 UNSW High Achiever Indigenous Postgraduate Award


My Teaching

2025:

Coordinating EDST1108: Indigenous Perspectives in Education

Coordinating/convening EDST5115: Indigenous Contexts of Education

Coordinating/convening EDST5141: Critically Engaging with Indigenous Education 

 

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