Editorial

Bronwyn Fredericks; Martin Nakata; Katelyn Barney

doi:10.55146/ajie.v52i2.1028

Authors

Bronwyn Fredericks The University of Queensland
Martin Nakata James Cook University
Katelyn Barney The University of Queensland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55146/ajie.v52i2.1028

Abstract

We are pleased to bring you Volume 52 Issue 2 of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. The journal celebrated its 50^th anniversary this year and we held a special event with Elders, community members, editorial board members, staff and students from a number of universities. We also welcomed a new editorial board to AJIE this year and we thank them for their service to the journal.

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Author Biographies

Bronwyn Fredericks, The University of Queensland

Professor Bronwyn Fredericks is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) at The University of Queensland, home of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. She has over 30 years of experience working in and with the tertiary sector, State and Federal Governments, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-based organisations.

Bronwyn is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Research Advisory Committee, the Beyond Blue National Research Advisory Committee, a NATSIHEC representative for Universities Australia, a judge for Queensland’s Australian of the Year Award, and on numerous other Queensland and national annual awards committees, as well as being a member of the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) College of Experts.

Martin Nakata, James Cook University

Professor Martin Nakata is Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Education & Strategy at James Cook University. He is a leading Indigenous academic in Australia, and the first Torres Strait Islander to graduate with a PhD. Professor Nakata has been the co-editor of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education for over ten years, and continues to serve on editorial boards of academic journals in several countries as well as in Australia.

Katelyn Barney, The University of Queensland

Dr Katelyn Barney is a Senior Lecturer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at The University of Queensland. She has been the Managing Editor of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education for the last 12 years. Katelyn recently completed a National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education Equity Fellowship focusing on strengthening the evidence and research base about the effectiveness of outreach strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. She has also co-edited a number of books and special issues of journals as well as her recent edited book Musical Collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous People in Australia: Exchanges in the Third Space published by Routledge.