Katie Maher

Dr Katie Maher

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Katie Maher is a Lecturer in HaSS Education with UniSA Education Futures. She co-chairs the Pedagogies for Justice research group and is currently engaged in research and writing on becoming culturally responsive, educating for social justice and First Nations education justice. She is passionate about creative arts based approaches to teaching and research and is committed to learning in relation with culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Her research and teaching background spans Australian and Asian cultural studies, Aboriginal Studies, literary and creative arts, critical geography and history.  Katie has a background in education and community development work in China and South East Asia.

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2025 Soong, H., McDonald, S., Vieira, M., French, M., Maher, K., & Stephenson, H. (2025). Reasserting care in higher education: perspectives from female early and mid-career researchers. Discourse, 46(4), 566-581.
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2025 Maher, K. (2025). They put me on a train: assimilation and the Australian railways. Geographical Research, 63(2), 249-259.
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2024 Kenway, J., & Maher, K. (2024). Encampment pedagogies: lessons learned from students for Palestine. Curriculum Perspectives, 44(3), 389-393.
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2024 Maher, K., Rigney, L. I., King, M., Garrett, R., Windle, J., Memon, N., . . . Hattam, R. (2024). Curriculum, democracy and pedagogies for justice: a collective futures dialogue. Curriculum Perspectives, 44(2), 105-119.
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2022 Maher, K. (2022). The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures cross curriculum priority: pedagogical questions of Country, colonialism and whose knowledge counts. The Social Educator, 40(2), 3-17.
2020 Maher, K. (2020). Traveling with Trained Man: decolonizing directions in railway mobilities. Transfers, 10(2-3), 83-102.
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2023 Gribble, A., Miltenoff, J., Hattam, R., & Maher, K. (2023). An arts-led recovery in 'disadvantaged' schools!. In J. Carter, D. Price, & B. MacGill (Eds.), Source details - Title: Arts-based Practices with Young People at the Edge (pp. 165-191). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2023 Maher, K. (2023). Culturally responsive movements for climate justice: learning from and with student activism. In L. -I. Rigney (Ed.), Source details - Title: Global Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Super-diversity and Teaching Practice (pp. 131-148). UK: Routledge.
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2019 Rigney, D., Hemming, S., Bignall, S., & Maher, K. (2019). Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi: educating for transformation and Indigenous Nation (re)building. In E. A. McKinley, & L. T. Smith (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Indigenous Education (pp. 1187-1212). Singapore: Springer.
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2017 Maher, K. (2017). The other side of mobilities: Aboriginal containment in Australia from rail to jail, past and present. In J. Turner, & K. Peters (Eds.), Source details - Title: Carceral mobilities: Interrogating movement in incarceration (pp. 162-177). UK: Routledge.
2014 Maher, K. (2014). Recognition of the skills and knowledge of indigenous employees. In R. Harris, & T. Short (Eds.), Source details - Title: Workforce Development Perspectives and Issues (pp. 93-111). Singapore: Springer.
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2014 Maher, K. (2014). Workplace equity and diversity: towards recognising a plurality of knowledge and skills. In T. Short, & R. Harris (Eds.), Source details - Title: Workforce development: strategies and practices (pp. 75-93). Singapore: Springer.
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Courses I teach

  • EDUC 2096 Asia Literacy and the Asian Century (2024)
  • EDUC 4223 HaSS Pedagogy Specialisation (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 Co-Supervisor - - Master Full Time Ms Rebecca Sykes
2023 Co-Supervisor - - Master Full Time Kimberley Helen Marden
2022 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Mikayla King

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