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Associate Professor Tracey Bunda Director Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for Higher
Education and Research
Tel: + (607)08 8201 3033
Fax: + (607)08 8201 3935
Bio Sketch Tracey Bunda is a Ngugi/Wakka Wakka woman - a Goori woman from Queensland. Her career in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education began in 1986 at the then Koori Program at the Gippsland Institute in Victoria. Since that time she has worked as the Convenor of the Weemala Centre-Australian Catholic University, the Director of the Wollotuka Centre at Newcastle University, the Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education, located at the Ngunnawal Centre, University of Canberra. Currently Tracey is the Director of the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for Higher Education and Research at Flinders University. As a Goori woman educator, Tracey theoretically considers how Aboriginal people's cultural identification, needs and desires can be maintained in sites which are white, dominant and resistant to Aboriginal peoples. Tracey's research profile is commencing though her objective is to develop knowledge that centres the Aboriginal voice to provide counter constructions of white institutions, predominately educational, for transformation of those institutions and for Aboriginal liberation. Area(s) of Expertise
Indigenous Education
Indigenous Studies
Postcolonialism
Current Research Activities
Carrick Institute Project Leader -Indigenous Women and Educational Leadership
Lief Project Chief Investigator – Austlit Database – Blackwords
Doctoral Studies - Aboriginal Critical Readings of the Univesity
Two Key Publications (pick two only)
Bunda, T. (2006) Self-determination: Actualising the Space in Sharing Space: Indigenous and non-Indigenous Response, Story Country and Rights. Australian Studies Press. Bunda, T. (2007) Sovereignty in Literature in Sovereign Subjects, Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Ed.) Allen and Unwin. Sydney.
