Associate Professor Kathleen Butler

Head of Institute, Wollotuka Institute

Indigenous Education and Research (Sociology and Anthropology)

Email:kathleen.butler@newcastle.edu.au
Phone:(02) 49 217 747

Career Summary

Biography

I am an Aboriginal woman, belonging to the Bundjalung and Worimi peoples of coastal New South Wales. I have been an active member of Aboriginal organisations, holding executive positions on the Regional Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG), Local Aboriginal Land Council and Aboriginal Corporation. I am the past President of Itji Maru AECG and delegate to the Hunter Regional AECG.

I was the first Australian and first woman to be awarded a Toihuarewa Visiting International Fellowship from the University of Victoria, New Zealand.

I have received three awards for my community engagement:

• National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) NSW Aboriginal Youth of the Year.

• NSW Department of School Education, Metropolitan North Region. Award of Excellence for Outstanding Achievement- Aboriginal Community.

• 2015 Hunter Diversity Champion, Hunter Diversity Awards.

I have a particular focus on Indigenisation in Teaching and Learning:

• National Teaching and Learning Fellow 2015-16, Office of Learning and Teaching $90,000

• I received a UoN Teaching and Learning Fellowship in 2009 and a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence-Indigenous Education in 2008.

• Team member & Indigenous Cultural Competency Co-ordinator 2010, Indigenous Cultural Competency Model Project, Universities Australia grant, $90,000

•Team Leader, Teaching and Learning Strategic Project Grant 2010, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Priorities for Indigenised Curricula at the University of Newcastle, $4700

• Team Member, Teaching and Learning Strategic Project Grant, Beginning the conversation: cultural competence, $20,000

• Team Leader, Wollotuka- Faculty Strategic Development Grant 2010, FEDUA Indigenisation train-the trainer program $10,000

• Team Member, Teaching and Learning Project Grant 2011, Establishing effective strategies and resources to facilitate teaching in the tertiary sector about minorities, $10,000

• Team Member, Teaching and Learning Project Grant 2011, Wiki Ways: Online Cultural Competency, $10,000

• Team Leader, Teaching and Learning Project Grant, 2012, Peer review of Teaching in Indigenisation of Curriculum, $10,000

• Team member, Teaching and Learning Project Grant, 2012, Teaching Diversity, $10,00

Research Expertise
- Sociology

Collaborations
During my career I have participated in and managed numerous grants in Teaching and Learning and Research with a total budget in excess of $350,000. In all of these grants, project management, consultation and the ability to meet tight frames have been issues, which I have successfully negotiated. Within these areas I have managed research assistants and other team members involvement as well as budget allocations and acquittals. All of these grants have had a consultative aspect.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Social Science, University of Newcastle
Master of Social Science, University of Newcastle

Keywords

Aboriginal Studies
Anthropology
Sociology

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
450213	Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges, histories, culture, country, perspectives and ethics in education	100

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title	Organisation / Department
Deputy Head of Institute	University of Newcastle Indigenous Education and Research Australia

Academic appointment

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
1/1/2012 -	Associate Professor, Teaching Quality and Coordination	University of Newcastle The Wollotuka Institute Australia
1/2/2010 - 1/12/2011	Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Curriculum Design and Development	University of Newcastle Centre for Teaching and Learning Australia
1/1/2007 - 1/12/2007	Lecturer	University of Newcastle The Wollotuka Institute Australia
1/8/1997 - 1/12/2006	Associate Lecturer	University of Newcastle School of Education and Arts Australia

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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2013	Hansen C, Butler K, Exploring Urban Identities and Histories, AIATSIS Research Publications, Canberra, 185 (2013) [A3]

Chapter (2 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2013	Butler K, Hansen C, 'Introduction', Exploring Urban Identities and Histories, AIATSIS Research Publications, Canberra 1-8 (2013) [B2]
2011	Butler K, 'Rabbit Proof Fence', Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand, I. B. Tauris, London 22-25 (2011) [B2]

Journal article (4 outputs)

Year

Citation

Altmetrics

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2013

Walter M, Butler K, 'Teaching race to teach Indigeneity', JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 49 397-410 (2013) [C1]

DOI	10.1177/1440783313504051
Citations	Scopus - 20Web of Science - 16

2006

Butler K, '(Re)presenting indigeneity: The possibilities of Australian sociology', Journal of Sociology, 42 369-381 (2006) [C1]

DOI	10.1177/1440783306069994
Citations	Scopus - 8Web of Science - 7

2004

Butler K, Butler J, 'Aboriginal Grandmothers and the Living Memorial of Oral History', Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 9 174 (2004) [C1]

2000

Butler K, 'Overcoming terra nullius: Aboriginal perspectives in schools as a site of philosophical struggle', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 32 93-101 (2000)

DOI	10.1111/j.1469-5812.2000.tb00436.x
Citations	Scopus - 10

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Conference (4 outputs)

Year

Citation

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2011

Young TN, Pearse A, Butler K, 'Indigenising Curricula: Lessons from Tourism Studies', CAUTHE 2011 National Conference Program and Proceedings. Tourism: Creating a Brilliant Blend, Adelaide, SA (2011) [E1]

Co-authors	Tamara Young

2010

Holbrook AP, Chen S, Bourke SF, Holmes KA, Butler K, ''I can tell that English is not your first language'. Examiner comments and recommendations on the theses of students with ESL', 9th Quality in Postgraduate Research : Educating Researchers for the 21st Century, Proceedings of the 2010 Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference, Adelaide (2010) [E3]

Co-authors	Shen Chen, Allyson Holbrook

2010

Butler K, 'The doctoral journey as a means of (re)claiming Indigenous identity', AARE International Education Research Conference - 2010, Melbourne, Vic (2010) [E3]

2009

Butler K, Young AF, 'Indigenisation of curricula: Intent, initiatives and implementation', Proceedings of AUQF2009: Internal & External Quality Assurance: Tensions & Synergies, Alice Springs, NT (2009) [E1]

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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants	4
Total funding	$337,319

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20152 grants / $180,000

Sociology teaching and Indigenous issues$90,000

Funding body: Office for Learning and Teaching

Funding body	Office for Learning and Teaching
Project Team	Associate Professor Kathleen Butler
Scheme	National Teaching Fellowship
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2015
Funding Finish	2016
GNo	G1500933
Type Of Funding	C1500 - Aust Competitive - Commonwealth Other
Category	1500
UON	Y

Sociology teaching and Indigenous issues$90,000

Funding body: Office for Learning and Teaching

Funding body	Office for Learning and Teaching
Project Team	Associate Professor Kathleen Butler
Scheme	National Teaching Fellowship
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2015
Funding Finish	2016
GNo	G1500933
Type Of Funding	C1500 - Aust Competitive - Commonwealth Other
Category	1500
UON	Y

20111 grants / $150,309

Indigenous Research Higher Degree candidature in Australian universities: Exploring identity at the cultural interface$150,309

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body	ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team	Associate Professor Kathleen Butler, Professor John Maynard
Scheme	Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development Scheme
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2011
Funding Finish	2013
GNo	G1000579
Type Of Funding	Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category	1CS
UON	Y

20091 grants / $7,010

Indigenisation of Curriculum in Sociology$7,010

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body	University of Newcastle
Project Team	Associate Professor Kathleen Butler
Scheme	Indigenous Research Fellowship
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2009
Funding Finish	2009
GNo	G0189723
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	Y

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Research Supervision

Number of supervisions

Completed3

Current5

Current Supervision

Commenced	Level of Study	Research Title	Program	Supervisor Type
2021	PhD	What are Key Determinants of Continued Study for Students in the Wollotuka Men’s Group?	PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle	Principal Supervisor
2020	PhD	Bunya Tukka Tracks: Let the Trails Speak through the Movement of the Bunya	PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Principal Supervisor
2020	PhD	How do Systemic Criminalisation Processes Employed by Settler-Colonial States Impact on the Socio-Political Marginalisation of First Nations Peoples?	PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle	Principal Supervisor
2019	PhD	Investigating the Socio-Cultural Influences on Governance in Aboriginal Cooperative Enterprises	PhD (Politics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor
2014	PhD	Persuing the Dream: Graduating More ATSI Doctors	PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor

Past Supervision

Year	Level of Study	Research Title	Program	Supervisor Type
2020	PhD	White Noise	PhD (Comm & Media Arts), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor
2019	PhD	A Theatre of Post/Colonial Redaction: Mapping the Terrains of an Aboriginal Self	PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor
2016	PhD	A Theology of the Land Terra Australis from Christian - Aboriginal Perspectives	PhD (Theology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle	Co-Supervisor

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