Editorial

Bronwyn  Fredericks; Martin Nakata; Katelyn  Barney

doi:10.55146/ajie.v53i2.1924

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.v53i2.1924

Abstract

We are pleased to bring you Volume 53 Issue 2 of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. This volume is a special issue of AJIE edited by four Indigenous women scholars; Marnee Shay, Maria Raciti, Bronwyn Fredericks, and Tracey Bunda. The volume brings together articles by a number of emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational researchers and focuses on the concept of Indigenous futurity through understanding the role of Indigenous education scholars in (re)conceptualising the field of Indigenous education.

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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

Katelyn Barney is an Associate Professor in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit and affiliated with the School of Music at The University of Queensland. She is also the Managing Editor of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. Her research focuses on improving pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into and through higher education and advancing understanding about the role of collaborative research and music making between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people. She has published across these areas and her latest edited book is titled Musical Collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous People in Australia: Exchanges in the Third Space published by Routledge.