Editorial

Bronwyn Fredericks; Martin Nakata; Katelyn Barney

doi:10.55146/ajie.v55i1.2132

Authors

Bronwyn Fredericks The University of Queensland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8120-6470
Martin Nakata James Cook University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0979-8253
Katelyn Barney The University of Queensland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9306-6225

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55146/ajie.v55i1.2132

Abstract

We are pleased to bring you Volume 55 Issue 1 of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. This volume brings together research that explores Indigenous education across higher education, professional curriculum, community–school relationships and international contexts. The authors foreground the importance of Indigenous authority, culturally safe institutional practices, sustained relational accountability and structural change.

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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 School of Social Science 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 edited book titled Musical Collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous People in Australia: Exchanges in the Third Space (Routledge) received the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize.