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(Current as of July 2022)
I hold an Adjunct Senior Academic position at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney. Apart from being an experienced public health teaching academic, my areas of expertise include teaching and research around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and education with a specific focus on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people who live in remote regions of Australia.
The title of my PhD study is ‘The Big Slap: Mature-age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university graduates and the myth of meritocracy’. The study investigated the presence and effects of structural racism and workplace organisational behaviour, and produced three publications:
Plater S., Mooney-Somers J. & Lander J. (2015). The fallacy of the bolted horse: Changing our thinking about mature-Age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 44(1), 59-69. doi:10.1017/jie.2015.6
Plater S., Mooney-Somers J., Lander J. & Barclay L. (2017). Bulldust, flat tyres and roadkill: A disorderly decolonising fieldwork journey through remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies (2), 70-83.
Plater S., Mooney-Somers J., Barclay L. & Boulton J. (2019). Hitting the white ceiling: Structural racism and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university graduates. Journal of Sociology, 56(3), 487-504.
The success of the racist No campaign in defeating the Voice referendum has, for me, demonstrated that the many covert and overt variants of racism that prevail in Australia must be exposed and denied the safe havens provided by denialism, excuse-making and prevarication.
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Interesting and unsurprising (and something I may also be guilty of): https://lnkd.in/gYsK34n9
Interesting and unsurprising (and something I may also be guilty of): https://lnkd.in/gYsK34n9
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When people say that they operate with cultural authority and authenticity, their actions and statements need to be measured against this. People…
When people say that they operate with cultural authority and authenticity, their actions and statements need to be measured against this. People…
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Evidence shows that community-based programs that proactively engage with youth reduce the risk of children becoming involved with the criminal…
Evidence shows that community-based programs that proactively engage with youth reduce the risk of children becoming involved with the criminal…
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I researched the enablers of and barriers to completion of a graduate diploma by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, many of who had not completed Year 12 or attended a tertiary institution before. The results were used to improve course recruitment, retention and completion rates. Seems to be working well so far...
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