Staff Profile

Kathleen Butler is an Indigenous early career researcher, whose research interests centre on the inclusion of Indigenous knowledges in the academy, with an intertwined focus on Indigenising curriculum and Indigenous RHD participation. Mentored by Prof. Allyson Holbrook in 2009-10, Butler received grants totaling $80,000, including a mentorship grant, two ECR grants, a Teaching and Learning Fellowship and Faculty funding as part of Holbrooks project Adaptive Knowledge Production. These grants, in particular Australian Universities as a site of Aboriginal Identity Construction and Innovative or Orthodox: Research Methodologies in Indigenous Doctoral Theses at the University of Newcastle 2000-2009 have enabled Butler to have a solid foundation to pursue her future research. In 2009 Butler also extended the practical application of her research as the Team Leader of the University Indigenisation of Curriculum Working Party, presenting a refereed conference paper the Australian Universities Quality Forum on the University future directions. She is currently implementing these plans, while on secondment as a Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Curriculum Design and Development. She reviewed an article for the forthcoming journal Equity and Excellence in Education and is currently editing the Identity strand of the 2009 AIATSIS conference papers.