Rate My Professor Amber Hughes

Amber Hughes has built extensive research experience since 2016 through various roles at the University of Newcastle, including Research Assistant positions in the School of Education, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education, and Faculty of Science; Conference Manager for the 45th annual MERGA conference and Project Manager for the 44th; Research and Practice Officer in evaluation; and her current Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Her key publications include the 2025 journal article 'Equitable outcomes and indigenous learners of mathematics: deconstructing Australian education policy' in the International Journal of Inclusive Education; the 2020 article 'Positioning Indigenous knowledge systems within the Australian mathematics curriculum: investigating transformative paradigms with Foucault' in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; and the 2018 article 'The contribution of Aboriginal epistemologies to mathematics education in Australia: Exploring the silences' in Educational Philosophy and Theory. She co-authored a book chapter in Decolonizing Western-Indigenous Dialogues and contributed to a special edition of Education Sciences. Awards include the College Best Publication Prize in 2023 and College HDR Publication Prize in 2021 from the College of Human and Social Futures, and selection as a University finalist twice in the Three Minute Thesis competition. She is an ongoing member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance, has led evaluative research projects, and presented at ATSIMA conferences including 'Disconnection to Connection: My story of coming to know with and through Indigenous ways of knowing' in 2023, webinars, and the Math Bundle project in Canada.