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Professor McConaghy's professional history includes: Dean of the Faculty of Education and member of the Vice Chancellor's Senior Management group at the University of Canberra; Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Reserach on Education, Poverty and Social Inclusion (CREPSI); Chair of the Board of Studies in Education at the University of New England ); UNE Ombudsman and Senior Ombudsman as Head of Education at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education; Regional Manager of the Northern Territory Open College of TAFE in Central Australia; and Adult Educator at Galiwin'ku and Yirrkala, Arnhem Land Indigenous communities.

Professional Associations and positions held

• Member, National Board of the Australian Council of Deans of Education
• Member, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY)
• Member, Australian Association for Research in Education
• Member, British Educational Research Association
• Member, Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Grants

• Category 2. DEEWR Strategic Collaboration and Partnerships Fund- Asian Languages Initiative. 2009-2011. A hub-and-spokes model for increasing teacher supply -  a new strategic partnership approach to Asian Language Teacher Education. ANU, UC and UniSA. $194,700. Prof Kent Anderson (ANU), Prof Cathryn McConaghy (UC).

• Category 2. Reconciliation Australia and BHP. Review of Indigenous Governance. 2009. $52,000. Assoc Prof Katja Mikhailovich and Prof Cathryn McConaghy.

• Category 2. HREOC/AIATSIS. Indigenous Spirituality: A Human Rights Framework. 2008 $25,000. Assoc Prof Katja Mikhailovich, Prof Cathryn McConaghy.

• Category 1. ARC Linkage: Productive Partnerships for Quality Teaching. 2002-2005 (ARC $535,000 + NSW Department of Education $180,000 plus in-kind) Charles Sturt University, University of New England and NSW DET. CI's Prof Bill Green, Dr. Norm McCulla, Dr. Colin Boylan, Prof Cathryn McConaghy, Assoc Prof Tom Maxwell, Prof Bob Meyenn, Dr. Andrew Wallace, Dr. Will Letts, Dr. Paul Brock.

• Category 1. ARC Discovery: Indigenous Teachers Career Paths and Challenges. 2004-2007. ($192,000). Dr. Ninetta Santoro, Assoc Prof Jo-Anne Reid and Prof Cathryn McConaghy.

• Category 2. North Sydney Health, 2004-2005. Affirming Sexuality and Gender Diversity ($30,000). Dr. Randolph Bowers, Assoc Prof David Plummer, Dr. Lyn Irwin (School of Health) and Prof Cathryn McConaghy (School of Education).

• NSW Department of Education and Training (2003-4) Quality Teaching Project: Pedagogy and Programming. Qurindi High School. $5,000. Prof Cathryn McConaghy

• NSW Department of Education and Training (2003) $10,000. Evaluation of the Quality Teaching Project for Scaffolding Literacy in Remote Indigenous Schools. Prof Cathryn McConaghy.

Awards

• 2010 Australia Research Council International Reader for the National Competitive Grants Scheme
• Who's Who of Australian Women 2010
• Fellow of the Australian College of Educators 2009 (in recognition of 'outstanding contributions to Australian education')
• Awarded, The University of Queensland, Dean's Award for 'Outstanding PhD theses 1998'.

Books

• Roberston, J. and McConaghy, C. eds. 2006. Provocations. Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education. Vol 13. Complicated Conversation Series. Ed. William Pinar. Peter Lang, New York. ISBN 0-8204-7877-6. (209 pages including refs)

• Battiste, M. and McConaghy, C. eds. 2005. Thinking Place: Indigenous Humanities and Education, University of Queensland, Brisbane. ISBN 1864998431. (151 pages)

• McConaghy, C. 2000. Rethinking Indigenous Education, Culturalism, Colonialism and the Politics of Knowing, Post Pressed, Brisbane. ISBN 1 876682 02 7 (270 pages plus references). 3000+ copies sold. 5 International reviews.

Monographs and Technical Reports

• Mikhailovich, K. and Henley, S. with Fitzgerald, R, and McConaghy, C. 2010. Indigenous Governance Project Evaluation Report. Prepared for Reconciliation Australia and BHP by the Centre for Research on Education, Poverty and Social Inclusion, University of Canberra. (pp43)

• Mikhailovich, K. and McConaghy, C. 2010. Indigenous Spirituality and Human Rights. Prepared for HREOC and AIATSIS by the Centre for Research on Education, Poverty and Social Inclusion, University of Canberra.

• Green, B., McConaghy, C., McCulla, N., Boylan, C., Maxwell, T. W., Letts, W., Novak, M., Wallace, A. 2006. Spaces and Places. The NSW Rural Teacher Education Project. Report of the ARC Linkage Project. Charles Sturt University, University of New England, NSW Department of Education, Bathurst. (Restricted Circulation)

• Bowers R., Plummer D., McCann P., McConaghy C., Irwin L., 2006. How we manage sexual and gender diversity in the public health system: A Research Report, School of Health, University of New England and Northern Sydney Central Coast Health. (198 pages) ISBN 0734739028

• McConaghy, C. 2003. Evaluation Report, Commonwealth Quality Teaching Project: Teaching Literacy to Indigenous Students. (QEN.151. 02). NSW DET/ UNE. (51 pages plus references)

• McConaghy, C. 2002. Situated Pedagogies. Researching Quality Teaching and Learning for Rural NSW Schools. Occasional Paper, UNE and NSW Department of Education and Training, Armidale, ISBN 1 86389 827 1 (27 pages plus references).

• McConaghy, C. 1999. Community-based Indigenous Teacher Education. National Innovative Approaches to Site-based Teacher Education, DETYA, AGPS, (54 pages plus appendices)

Book chapters

• McConaghy, C. 2008. Spatialised Disadvantage: A Sociological Profile of Schooling in Rural NSW. In Green, B., ed. Spaces and Places. The NSW Rural Teacher Education Project.
  
  Centre for Information Studies. Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. 121-182.

• McConaghy, C. Maxwell, T.W. and Foskey, R. 2008. Place, Poverty and Student Outcomes: Identifying the New Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Schooling Disadvantage in NSW. In Green, B., ed. Spaces and Places. The NSW Rural Teacher Education Project. Centre for Information Studies. Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga 183-222.

• McConaghy, C. Maxwell, T.W. and Foskey, R. 2008. Place, Gender and Student Outcomes: Implications for Pedagogy Reforms. In Green, B., ed. Spaces and Places. The NSW Rural Teacher Education Project. Centre for Information Studies. Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga 223-262.

• McConaghy, C. 2008. Situating Pedagogies. Rural Teaching as Social Action. In Green, B., ed. Spaces and Places. The NSW Rural Teacher Education Project
  
  Centre for Information Studies. Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga 223-262.

• McConaghy. C. and Robertson, J. 2006. Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Reading Provocatively From Subject to Theory. In J. Robertson and C. McConaghy eds. Provocations. On Sylvia-Ashton Warner and Excitability in Education. Peter Lang, NY. 1-14.

• McConaghy, C. 2006. Teaching's Intimacies. In J. Robertson and C. McConaghy eds. Provocations. On Sylvia-Ashton Warner and Excitability in Education. Peter Lang. NY. 63-94.

• Bloomfield, D. and McConaghy, C. 2006. Internationalising Teacher Subjectivities: English Language Teachers, Postcolonial Contexts and Global Educational Markets. In N. Pang ed. Globalization: Educational Research, Change and Reform. Hong Kong Educational Research Association and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. pp. 213-248.

• Minichiello, V. Sommerville, M. McConaghy, C. McParlane, J. Scott, A. 2005. The Challenges of Ageism. In V. Minichiello  and I Coulson eds. Contemporary Issues in Gerontology. Promoting Positive Ageing. Routledge, London and New York. 1-33.

• McConaghy, C. 2000. Constructing Aboriginality/ Determining Significant Difference. In T. Maxwell and P. Ninnes eds. The Contexts of Teaching. Kardoorair Press. 137-158.

• McConaghy, C. and Snyder, I. 2000. Working the Web in Postcolonial Australia. In G. Hawlisher and C. Selfe (eds.) Global Literacies and the Web, Routledge, New York and London, 74-92.

• McConaghy, C. 1998. Positioned Leadership. Education and the Politics of Location in Rural and Remote Postcolonial Australia. In L. Ehrich and J. Knight (eds.). Leadership in Crisis? Essays on Contemporary Educational Leadership, Post Pressed, Brisbane, 121-130.

• McConaghy, C. 1998. Colonial Desires and the Contradictions of Australian Liberalism. In I. Soliman (ed.). Does the Body Count? University of New England Womens' and Gender Studies, Armidale, 58-68.

• McConaghy, C. 1998. Constructing Aboriginality/Determining Significant Difference. In T. Maxwell (ed). The Context of Teaching, Kardooriar Press, 120-132.

• McConaghy, C. 1997. The Flexible Delivery of Critical Adult Literacies in Postcolonial Times. In M. Garbutcheon Singh, B. Harreveld and N. Hunt (eds). Virtual Flexibility: Adult Literacy and New Technologies in Remote Communities. Central Queensland University Press, 29-41.

• McConaghy 1997. Containing Diversity: The National Indigenous Education Policy. In B. Lingard and P. Porter (eds.) A National System of Schooling in Australia? Australian College of Education, Canberra, 122-139.

• McConaghy, C. 1996. Indigenous Social Policy and Higher Education. In M. Warry, P.O'Brien, and J. Knight (eds.). Navigating the Sea of Change. Working Papers of the Higher Education Policy Project, Graduate School of Education, The University of Queensland, 27-37.

• McConaghy, C. 1993. Access Higher Education: A Case Study of Indigenous Education Policy.  In M. Bella, J. Knight and J. McCollow (eds.). Higher Education in Transition. Graduate School of Education, The University of Queensland, 51-65.

Refereed Journal Articles

• McConaghy, C. 2006. Schooling Out of Place. In R. Lingard and F. Rizvi eds. Edward Said and the Cultural Politics of Education. Special edition of Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 27, 3. 325-340.

• McConaghy, C. 2006. Schooling the Dust Belt. Education in Rural Australia.16, 1, 39-45.

• The Bush Tracks Research Collective, (McConaghy, C. Graham, L. Bloomfield, D. Paterson, D. Miller, J. Hardy, J. Lloyd, L. Jenkins, K.), 2006. Bush Tracks: Exploring Rural Teaching Transitions, Education in Rural Australia.16, 2. 3-12.

• McConaghy, C. Lloyd, L. Hardy, J. and Jenkins, K. 2006. Bush Tracks: Journeys in the Development of Rural Pedagogies, Education in Rural Australia.16, 2.13-30.

• McConaghy, C. 2006. Transience and Teaching: Place and the New Psychoanalytic Sociologies of Teaching, Education in Rural Australia.16, 2.47-60.

• McConaghy, C. 2005. Bringing Truth to Knowledge. The Joke and Australian (In)Humanities. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. 34.

• Battiste, M. and McConaghy, C. 2005. Thinking Places: Indigenous Humanities and Education. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. 34.

• McConaghy, C. 2004. Linda C. and the Terrors of the Rabbit Proof Fence. English Studies in Canada, 30, 2, 13-20.
• McConaghy, C and Bloomfield, D. 2004. Beyond the Line, Beyond the Self. Flirting with Rural Teaching. Journal of Curriculum Theorising, Fall 2004. 93-112.
• McConaghy, C. 2004. On Cartographies of Anti-homophobia in Teacher Education and the Crisis of Witnessing Rural Student Teacher Refusals. Teaching Education, Spring,15, 1, 63-79.
• Maxwell,T. McConaghy, C. and Ninnes, P. 2004. Offering a Doctoral Program Internationally: Tensions and Congruities. Journal of Research in International Education. 3,1, 71-86.
• McConaghy, C. 2003. On Pedagogy, Trauma and Difficult Memory: Remembering Namatjira, Our Beloved. Australian Journal of Indigenous Studies, Vol. 32, 11-20.
• McConaghy, C. 2000. The Web and Today's Colonialism. Australian Aboriginal Studies, No/s 1&2, 48-55.

• McConaghy, C. 1998. Disrupting Reproductive and Erasive Pedagogies. Educational Policy Processes in Postcolonial Australia, Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 19, 3, 341-354.
• Crowley, V. and McConaghy, C. 1998. Postcolonialism, Feminism and Pedagogies, Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 19, 3, 269-274.
• McConaghy, C. 1995. Fashion and Prescription in Representations of Indigenous Adult Education. Essay Review of Marcia Langton's "Well...I heard it on the radio", Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 15, 2, 81-84

Non-refereed Journal Articles

• McConaghy, C. and Burnett, G. 2004. Education in the Country: What's the Difference? Prime Focus. The Professional Journal for Australian Primary School Leaders. January, 28-29.
• McConaghy, C. 2003: Rural education: Place matters. Directions in Education
  
  
• Australian Council for Educational Leaders. Vol.12 (5), 28 March 2003, p.2.
• McConaghy, C. and Burnett, G. 2003: Teacher retention and significance of 'place' in quality rural schooling. Principal Matters. The Official Journal of the Secondary Principals Associations of Australia.
• McConaghy, C. 2002: Situated Pedagogies: Researching Quality Teaching and Learning for Rural New South Wales Schools. Discussion paper prepared for the ARC Rural (Teacher) Education Project. University of New England, Armidale.
• McConaghy, C and Burnett, G. 2002: "Place Matters" - Productive Partnerships for Quality Teaching. Article published in The NSW Education Magazine. Term 4, West Australian Publishers, Perth, WA.
• McConaghy 1996. Cultural Stereotyping and Indigenous Education, Education Views, Queensland Department of Education, January.

• McConaghy, C. 1991. The Writings of Aboriginal Adult Educators, Kurlalaga Journal of Aboriginal Adult Education, 2,1.

• McConaghy, C. 1991. History and Education: Aboriginal Perspectives and Reconciliation, Kurlalaga, Journal of Aboriginal Adult Education, 2, 2.

Refereed Conference Papers (Published in Proceedings)

• Santoro, N. Reid, J-A. McConaghy, C. Simpson,L. 2004. Exploring the Career Experiences of Indigenous Teachers: Beyond Policy and Resource Initiatives. AARE, Melbourne. December.
• Maxwell,T. Burnett, G. Novak,M. and McConaghy,C. 2003. Disaggregating Rural Education Making Public Data Public Knowledge. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the AARE and NZERA, Auckland, December.
• Maxwell, T.W., McConaghy, C. & Ninnes 2002. "Offering a doctoral program internationally, or, internationalising a Doctoral program?", In Ninnes, P. & Tamatea, L. (eds) Internationalising Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Critical Reflections - Critical Times, proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and international Education Society, Armidale, NSW, 6-8 December, pp. 388-399.
• McConaghy, C. 1992. Increasing Aboriginal Participation in Higher Education: Implications for the Teaching of Archaeology . Proceedings of the "Archaeology  in the early 1990's" International Research Conference, August 1992.

Conference Papers (abstracts refereed, papers not published)

• McConaghy, C. Graham, L. Bloomfield, D. Paterson, D. Miller, J. Hardy, J. Lloyd, L. Jenkins, K. 2005. Bush Tracks. Exploring Rural Teaching Transitions. Paper
  presented as part of the Bush Tracks Symposium, AARE, UWS, Sydney. November.
• McConaghy, C. Lloyd, L. Hardy, J. and Jenkins, K. 2005. Bush Tracks: Journeys in the Development of Rural Pedagogies. Paper presented as part of the Bush Tracks Symposium, AARE, UWS, Sydney. November.
• McConaghy, C. 2005. Transience and Teaching. Paper presented as part of the Bush Tracks Symposium, AARE, UWS, Sydney. November.
• McConaghy, C. Maxwell, T. W. and Foskey, R. 2005. Gender, Place and Student Outcomes: Implications for Pedagogy Reforms. Paper presented as part of the R[T]EP Symposium, AARE, UWS, Sydney. November.

• McConaghy, C. Maxwell, T. W. and Foskey, R. 2005. Place and Student Outcomes Data: Identifying the New Socio-patial Dynamics of Schooling Inequities. Paper presented as part of the R[T]EP Symposium, AARE, UWS, Sydney. November.

• McConaghy, C. 2005. The Logics of Spatialised Practice. Paper presented as part of the R[T]EP Symposium, AARE, UWS, Sydney. November.
• McConaghy, C. 2004. Teacher Professional Learning and Rural Literacies: Quality Teaching Revisited for New Rural Contexts. Paper presented at the Multiliteracies Conference, UNE.
• McConaghy, C. 2003. Teaching's Intimacies. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Australian Educational Research Association, Auckland, December.
• McConaghy, C. and Letts, W. 2003. Reconceptualising Research in Rural Education. Paper presented at the annual conference of the AARE.
• McConaghy, C. 2003. Curriculum in an Age of Trauma. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25.
• Maxwell, T.W., Ninnes, P. & McConaghy, C. 2002 "Globalisation and International Education: Tensions at the doctoral level" Paper presented at Interpreting International Education Conference Geneva, Switzerland, 11-13 September 2002, 12p.
• McConaghy, C and Bloomfield, D. 2002. Transnational Teacher Education: Australian Teachers in Hong Kong Schools. Paper presented at the ANZCIES Conference, UNE, December.

• Bloomfield D. and McConaghy, C. 2002. Internationalising Teacher Education. Paper presented at the Hong Kong Educational Research Association Conference, Hong Kong, December.
• McConaghy C. 2002. Schooling and Trauma. A Research Framework. Paper presented at the Challenging Futures Conference. UNE.
• Green, B. and McConaghy, C. 2002. Productive Partnerships? Paper presented at the Challenging Futures Conference. UNE.
• McConaghy, C. 2001.Remembering Namatjira: Our Beloved. Paper presented at the ACSA Conference, Canberra.
• McConaghy, C. and Bloomfield, D. 2001.Beyond the Line: Beyond the Self. Paper presented at the Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA) Conference, Canberra.

• McConaghy, C. & Green, B. 2001.Research as Situated Practice. Paper presented at the Queensland Productive Pedagogies Conference, Surfers Paradise.
• McConaghy, C. 1999. Unruly Subjects: Irish Women and Australian Colonial Ambivalence. Paper delivered at the Defining Colonies Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, June 17-21, 1999.
• McConaghy, C. 1999. Awkward Memories. The National Monument to the Great Irish Famine, Paper presented to the Memory as Heritage Conference, UNE October.
• McConaghy C. 1998. Towards a Cultural Politics of the Web. Paper presented at the AARE Conference, University of Adelaide, December.
• McConaghy, C. 1998. Indigenous Teacher Education and Postcoloniality. Paper presented at the AARE Conference, University of Adelaide, December.
• McConaghy, C. 1998. Legitimating Knowledges in Indigenous Education. Paper presented at the AARE Conference, University of Adelaide, December

• McConaghy, C. 1998. Constructing Race in Postcolonial Australia: Culturalism and the Production of Disciplinary Knowledges in Indigenous Education. Paper presented at the Making History: Constructing Race Conference, University of Victoria, Canada. October.

• McConaghy, C. 1997. National Policy Processes in Neocolonial Australia: The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy. Paper presented to the European Society for Australian Studies Conference, Klagenfurt, Austria, 24-28 September.

Non-refereed Conference/Seminar Presentations

• McConaghy, C. 2008. Difficult Woman. Keynote paper, Sylvia Ashton Warner Centenary Conference, University of Auckland.
• McConaghy, C. 2008. Situating Research. Keynote address to the UNE Faculty of the Professions Research Conference, UNE, Armidale.
• McConaghy, C. 2007. Locational Disadvantage. Invited presentation, What Counts Forum convened by Assoc Prof Deb Hayes, University of Sydney.
• McConaghy, C. 2007.Teacher Revisited. Sylvia-Ashton-Warner's Pedagogy. UNE, School of Education.
• McConaghy, C. 2006. Understanding the Unsayables: Critical Discourse Analysis and the Negative Gesture. Australia Literacy Educators Association, Multiliteracies Conferences. UNE.
• McConaghy, C. 2005. Schooling in the New England Region: Interventions in Socio-spatial Disadvantage. UNE School of Education.
• McConaghy, C. 2005. Logics of Spatialised Pedagogies, UTS Challenging Pedagogies Seminar. UTS, Sydney.
• McConaghy, C. 2000. Postcolonial Studies in Australian Education. University of Ottawa. Faculty of Education/ Institute of Canadian Studies Joint Seminar.

• McConaghy, C. 1998. Contemporary Australian Colonialism: A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective. Paper given at the University of Northern British Colombia, Graduate Program in Native Studies, October.
• McConaghy, C. 1998. Australian Assimilationism: Past and Present. Paper given at the University of Northern British Colombia, Graduate Program in Native Studies, October.
• McConaghy, C. 1998. CITEP: Community-based Indigenous Teacher Education Program. Paper presented at the University of Northern British Colombia, Faculty of Education, October.

Electronic Media

• McConaghy, C. 1999. Indigenous Learning On-Line: Is it Empowering? Keynote address to the James Cook University Learning On-Line Conference. Published on-line