Glenn Auld

The ongoing legacies of Australia's invasion, including horrific acts of genocide, underpin my privileged life. My research is a journey of becoming a bad invader to support the healing of Country and uphold the sovereign rights of First Nations Peoples. My academic career troubles literacy learning in schools and higher education at a time when voice, treaty and truth are unfinished business in Australia. Drawing on over 30 years of teaching and researching, I publish on strength-based approaches to literacy learning in contexts where discourses of resilience are yet to be nationally recognised.

My research is informed by 15 years of classroom experience, spanning secondary, primary and early childhood education contexts in schools and centres with high numbers of Aboriginal Student enrolments. To foreground systemic change in education, I have sustained research partnerships in First Nations led literacy projects. My research program infuses true histories of Australia and contemporary narratives of First Nations peoples’ resistance to reimagine literacy pedagogy in post-treaty Australia.

Although my research trajectory is often beset by my raced and gendered symbolic violence, it is based on a vision where Indigenous Knowledges will, once again, lay the foundation for all education in Australia. I have contributed to over 100 publications including digital texts in threatened First Nations languages, edited books, book chapters, refereed journal articles, reports, media stories and other publications in a range of high standing international and national peer review publications and conference proceedings.

The $2M in funding I have won includes many reviews of national and state educational programs in literacy and technology that I have either led or collaborated on. I collegially supervised five higher degree by research (HDR) students to completion in 2021. My service contribution has included course directing, HDR co-ordinating and initiating professional experience opportunities for pre-service teachers. Currently, I am a Research Integrity Advisor, a member of the Deakin University Teaching and Learning Committee, and I co-lead the Educating for Sustainable and Just Digital Societies Research Program. I review for a diverse range of national and international journals reporting on invader and First Nations relations in education.

My academic impact, however, is all messed up because there will never be justice on stolen land.