Rate My Professor Marnee Shay

Professor Shay has received major awards, including the UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award (2021), UQ Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Leadership (2024), National ACEL Leadership Award (2020), and a national award at the Education Publishing Awards Australia (2021) for her co-edited book Indigenous Education in Australia: Learning and Teaching for Deadly Futures (Routledge, 2021). She co-edited Strengths-based approaches in Indigenous education: research and practice (Routledge, 2025), contributing key chapters on theoretical lenses, introduction to strengths-based approaches, and codesign. With over 100 publications, notable works include 'Extending the yarning yarn: Collaborative Yarning Methodology for ethical Indigenist education research' (2021), 'Aboriginal identity in education settings: Privileging our stories...' (2017), and 'Alternative education engaging Indigenous young people: Flexi schooling in Queensland' (2015). She designed the School of Education's DEADLY Community program for mentoring early career researchers and supervises Indigenous higher degree research students, centring Indigenous strengths, knowledges, and aspirations to promote educational equity.