Amy Thomson

Amy Thomson is a Mandandanji woman and Doctorate of Philosophy student enrolled in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. Amy works as a Senior Research assistant and previously worked as secondary English and Music teacher. Amy was Chief Investigator in the Australian Government’s Diversity in STEM review: “Big mob STEM it up!” project and is an Associate Investigator in UQ’s ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures. Amy’s PhD research is about how the principles of self-determination and co-design can influence the way English educators embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and perspectives in urban private schools. Amy was awarded the the Australian Association for Research in Education’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Post Graduate Student Researcher Award in 2022 and received both first prize and the people’s choice award for UQ’s inaugural Indigenous three minute thesis competition. Amy’s research interests are codesign, Indigenous education, English, and literature.