ProfessorCatherine Burgess

Project Opportunities

Title: Indigenous Issues

Summary of opportunity:

Supervision

Doctor of Philosophy

1. What is the impact of using Aboriginal pedagogies on a learning community of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal teachers and students?

2. Indigenous Scholarship holder. What Imagination Pedagogy Practices (IPP) are used in Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) and how do these function in the AIME education settings?

3. Researching place based partnerships and collaborations between Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, schools and universities: how can successful projects become more sustainable?

Research interests

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External competitive research grants

2022-25 ARC Linkages Grant: Sparking Imagination Education: Transforming inequality in schools. Chief Investigator $472 593

2021-24 Aboriginal-led teacher professional learning to develop culturally nourishing schooling practices. NSW Department of Education Strategic Research Grant ($584,527)

2020-21 The role of The Smith Family's Learning for Life educational scholarship program in supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Year 12 completions. (The Smith Family) Chief Investigator $77,207. Invited to conduct this research due to successful 2019 project.

2019 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students' early exit from The Smith Family's Learning for Life educational scholarship program. (The Smith Family) Chief Investigator $70,000 with Dr Katrina Thorpe

2016-2018 Aboriginal Voices: Insights and transformations (with Dr Kevin Lowe, UNSW) Lead investigator, $50,000

2014 Connected Communities Narrative Research Project (NSW Department of Education and Communities, NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group, Aboriginal Studies Association) Chief Investigator, $100, 000.

2011-2012 Connecting to Country Research Project(NSW Department of Education and Communities, NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group, Aboriginal Studies Association) Chief Investigator, $100, 000.

2009 Aboriginal people's perceptions and beliefs about quality teaching. (NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group) Chief Investigator$20,000

Internal competitive research grants

2025 Learning From Country Living Toolkit for Transforming Education Project Lead One Sydney Many People Indigenous Strategy & Services. $60,701.80 Cathie Burgess, Reakeeta Smallwood, Valerie Harwood, Claire Golledge

2025 Ngarangun: DVC(R) Indigenous Research Grant Researching SLIC: Service Learning in Indigenous Communities Program Impacts $20,000 Suzanne Kenney, Valerie Harwood, Cathie Burgess

2025 Seminar Series. Counter Narratives for Reparative Education Futures. $5000

2024 Transforming professional practice through Learning from Country (LFC). Project Lead. SSSHARC Research Impact Accelerator. $28,860 Cathie Burgess, Reakeeta Smallwood, Valerie Harwood, Claire Golledge

2021 Embedding ‘Learning from Country’ as foundational learning in the Education Studies Major Chief investigator $22,958.80

2020 Thomson Fellowship Equity Grant $60, 000

2019-20 Bridging the ‘Knowing-Doing’ Gap. Impact of Learning from Country in the ‘real-word’ of teaching. Chief investigator. $5000

2018-19 Community-led research: Living in the margins. Team member $79,462, ‘Huddle’ – Engaging the local Redfern Aboriginal community Lead researcher $4,500.

2018-19 Learning from Country in the City. Chief investigator, $21,370

2018 Embedding Indigenous Knowledges through Learning from Country. Chief investigator; $10,000

2014-15 Developing Teachers’ Pedagogical Cultural Identity through Cultural Immersion: the key to engaging Indigenous Australian students and their families in education Chief Investigator, $21000

2011-13 Pedagogical Approaches in a Mandatory Indigenous Education Subject Chief Investigator $5000