MARNEE SHAY

Associate Professor Marnee Shay is an Aboriginal researcher whose maternal family is from Wagiman Country (Daly River Region in the Northern Territory). Marnee was born in Brisbane and has strong connections to Indigenous communities in Southeast Queensland. Marnee is currently a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. She has an extensive externally funded research program and has many publications across the fields of Indigenous education, Indigenous education policy and flexi schooling. She is a Chief Investigator on the first Indigenous-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for ‘Indigenous Futures’ (2023-2029). Marnee advocates for strengths approaches in Indigenous education and Indigenous-based evidence to inform policy futures.

Indigenous education in Australia Learning and Teaching for Deadly Futures

Prof Shay is the lead co-editor of a critical text in teacher education, ‘Indigenous education in Australia Learning and Teaching for Deadly Futures’. The text is informed by research, Indigenous knowledges and evidence developed over many years to support educators and leaders in doing Indigenous education successfully in their everyday practices. Underpinned by a strengths-based approach, the book provides educators with practical and research-informed strategies that span the past, present and future of Indigenous education in this country. She will share some of the key ideas in the book in reflecting on what deadly futures mean in the context of Indigenous education.