The Network of Associate and Deputy Deans hosts professional development and networking webinars year-round. Convenors of each of the Special Interest Groups host relevant panel discussions and key speakers to help members grow their experience and exposure to new ideas and people. All members are welcome to attend any of the webinars and they are all free. Find out more about the Network and DASSH here.

Drawing on leading scholarship in Critical Indigenous Studies (Phillips, J., 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2012; Hokowhitu, Moreton-Robinson et al, 2021; and others), and practice examples, Special Interest Group Leader Indigenous Associate Professor Sandra Phillips will present for 15 minutes then lead an online activity designed to lead participants through interrogation of their self-identified current dilemma and/or success in Indigenising Curriculum. A pre-workshop process will support participants willing to bring forward their practice examples for the facilitated online activity.

Associate Professor Sandra Phillips teaches Indigenous Australian Studies and Publishing Studies in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. Sandra is also Associate Dean (Indigenous Education) in her School. Entering full-time academia after a career in editing and publishing with Magabala Books, UQP, and Aboriginal Studies Press, Sandra investigated the authoring, editing, and reading of Indigenous literature for her PhD. Sandra is Chief Investigator on Community Publishing in Regional Australia and on Reading climate: Indigenous literatures, school English, and Sustainability, both research projects are co-funded by the ARC Linkage Program.

Sandra has held leadership roles across arts and culture including deputy chair of the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, past member of the Library Board of Queensland, past twice-elected chairperson of the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN), and past trustee of the Queensland Performing Arts Trust. Sandra is Wakka Wakka and Gooreng Gooreng and has three adult sons and two granddaughters.