Dr. Sadie Heckenberg is the Academic Director (Indigenous Research) and an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Senior Research Fellow within the Moondani Toombadool Centre at Swinburne University of Technology. Sadie is the Chair of the Swinburne Indigenous Research Committee, the President-Elect at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC) and sits on the Australian Research Council's College of Experts.
A Wiradjuri scholar, Sadie was awarded her PhD in 2018, entitled Nothing About Us Without Us: Protecting Indigenous knowledges through oral histories and culturally safe research practices. Her research focuses on Indigenous methodologies, Cultural Safety, protecting Indigenous spoken knowledge and ethical research frameworks. Sadie was a Fulbright Scholar based in the Kamakakūokalani Centre for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa, has been a Columbia University Oral History Institute Summer Fellow, a National Library of Australia Norman McCann Summer Scholar, has held a Confucius China Studies Program Young Leaders Fellowship and as well as Columbia University's International Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Policy.
Sadie is passionate about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education and has worked at Monash University, Federation University, University of South Australia and, most recently, as Coordinator of the Indigenous Higher Education Pathways Program at the University of Southern Queensland. Sadie held a ministerial appointment on the Higher Education Standards Panel (2018-2021), was an inaugural member of TEQSA's Student Expert Advisory Group (2018) and was the 2016-2018 President of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Postgraduate Association.
Experience
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2021–presentAcademic Director (Indigenous Research), Swinburne University of Technology
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2022–presentAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Senior Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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2019–2022Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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2016–2019Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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2013–2014Academic Associate, Federation University
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2010–2013Academic Associate, Monash University
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2008–2012Research Assistant , Monash University
Education
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2018Swinburne University of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy
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2010Monash University, Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Arts (First Class)
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2009Monash University, Bachelor of Arts
Publications
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2009The government Owes a lot of Money To Our People: A History of Indigenous Stolen Wages in Victoria, Australian Scholarly Publishing
Grants and Contracts
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2021Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Girls, Changing Communities
- Role:
- Lead Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
Research Areas
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Information And Knowledge Systems (080601)
- Studies Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Society (169902)
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies (200201)
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Literature (200501)
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History (210301)
- Professional Ethics (Incl. Police And Research Ethics) (220107)
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