Ms Gillian Kennedy

MIntl&ComnDev, BEd(Primary)

Translational Research FellowEmail: gillian.kennedy@nd.edu.au

Phone: 9192 0651

  • Biography

    Gillian Kennedy is a Translational Research Fellow with Nulungu Research Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Primary) and a Masters in Community and International Development. She has 20 years’ experience as an educator and facilitator.

    Gillian has lived in the Kimberley region since 2007, firstly working in remote Aboriginal communities as a teacher and then as a project worker with Indigenous Protected Area and Aboriginal ranger programs. In 2011 she moved to Broome and began working as a researcher and lecturer at Nulungu.

    Her research focus is primarily on program and impact evaluation within the justice, education, and Aboriginal Community Controlled sectors. Recently she has been working with the WA Police and the WA Judiciary on designing and evaluating professional development programs that build cultural and historical understandings of First Nations contexts.

  • Research expertise and supervision

    Program evaluation in the justice, education, and Aboriginal Community-Controlled Sector. Experience primarily in qualitative methods of research. Developmental evaluation and impact evaluation.

    Supervision: Masters student - Voicing Aboriginal Experiences of Funerals.

  • Journal articles and proceedings

    • Dwyer, A., Morgan, M. & Kennedy, G. (2020). Mapu Kungulu, Mapu Ngarlu, Mapu Muwarr
    • Wakajku (Open Mind, Good Feeling, Good Talk and Business for All of Us): District and Supreme Court Judges’ Conference, 11-14 September 2019. Nulungu Insights 5. Nulungu Research Institute.
    • Wilks, J., Kennedy, G., Drew, N., & Wilson, K. (2018). Indigenous data sovereignty in higher education: Towards a decolonised data quality framework. Australian Universities Review, 60(2), 4-14.
    • Drew, N., Wilks, J., Wilson, K., & Kennedy, G. (2016). Standing up to be counted: Data quality challenges in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander higher education statistics. Australian Aboriginal Studies Journal,2016:2, 104-120.
    • Clements, J., Kennedy, G., Marshall, M., & Kinnane, S. (2015). A feasibility study for a qualification in Cultural and Natural Resource Management (CNRM) in Northern Australia. Nulungu Research Institute and Regional Development Australia.

  • Professional affiliations

    Member, Australian Evaluation Society

    Associate, Hau Meni & Associates, International Development Consultants

  • Community engagement

    Chairperson, Backroom Press Inc – Independent publishing house, Broome, WA

  • Awards

    • 2020 Australian Awards for University Teaching: Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning – Kujarra Mapu Muwarr Wakajku – Cultural Immersion on Karajarri Country for Aboriginal Studies students
    • 2018 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Initiatives that Enhance Student Learning. In recognition of excellence in Indigenous Education