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Mrs Renae Isaacs-Guthridge

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6697
Email: r.isaacsguthridge@ecu.edu.au
Campus: South West  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8397-6695

Background

Renae Isaacs-Guthridge is a proud Noongar and Yamatji woman with matriarchal connections across each Nation. An experienced educator for over 25 years, Renae has worked in a variety of roles from primary to higher education contexts. Renae is employed as a lecturer at Kurongkurl Katitjin, Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research, teaching Aboriginal Contexts in Education to undergraduate and postgraduate pre-service teachers. She is passionate about Aboriginal education and questions the adequacy and cultural responsiveness of Australia’s colonial education system, forming the basis of her work towards a PhD titled Aboriginal student transition to university – a strengths-based approach.

Qualifications

  • Master of Business Administration, University of Southern Queensland, 2015.
  • Graduate Diploma in Management, University of Southern Queensland, 2006.
  • Bachelor of Education, Curtin University of Technology, 1998.
  • Bachelor of Arts, Curtin University of Technology, 1996.

Research Outputs

Book Chapters

  • Uink, B., Isaacs-Guthridge, R., Bennett, R. (2024). Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other under-served university students through Indigenous relationality. Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education (72-86). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035314294.00016.

Journal Articles

  • Somerville, W., McKenzie, V., Fuller, L., Godden, N., Harrison, A., Isaacs-Guthridge, R., Turner, B. (2023). “Kind regards”: negotiating connection to Country and place through collective storying. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 39(3), 336-348. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.24.

Reports

  • Council, KA., Poelina, V., Godden, N., Jackson-Barrett, L., Isaacs-Guthridge, R. (2022). Empowering Aboriginal Women: Gender, Justice and Equality The story of the formation of the Kimberley Aboriginal Women’s Council. Bunbury. Edith Cowan University.
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