Associate Professor Liz Mackinlay
Associate Professor
School of Education
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Researcher biography
Elizabeth Mackinlay is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland where she teaches Arts Education, Indigenous Education, Qualitative Research Methods and Women's Studies. Liz completed her PhD in Ethnomusicology in 1998 and continues her work with Aboriginal women at Burrulula in the Northern Territory of Australia. She also completed a PhD in Education at the University of Queensland in 2003 and has a primary education degree from Charles Darwin University.
Her book, Disturbances and dislocations: Teaching and learning Aboriginal women's music and dance, was published in 2007 by Peter Lang. She has co-edited a number of books with Cambridge Scholars Press, including Aesthetics and experience in music performance (2005), Musical islands (2009) and Applied ethnomusicology: Historical approaches and new perspectives (2011). Liz has published many chapters and articles in the fields of ethnomusicology, Indigenous education, music and arts education, and feminist studies. Liz is currently working on a book titled Teaching and learning like a feminist: Stories of experience in higher education to be published by Sense Publishers in late 2014/early 2015.
Liz is currently involved in a number of different research projects which include drumming circles for primary students, the politics and pedagogies of Indigenous Australian studies in primary and tertiary education contexts, programs for mentoring Indigenous pre-service teachers, music and mothering, and feminism in higher education. Liz is currently the editor of the Music Education Research and Innovation (MERI) and co-editor of the Australian Journal of Indigenous Education (AJIE).
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Research on effective strategies for improving school attendance Queensland Deptartment of Education and Training |
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Publications
Book
Mackinlay, Elizabeth Disturbances and dislocations: understanding teaching and learning experiences in indigenous Australian woman's music and dance. Bern ; New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
Book Chapters
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2016). In danger of relation, in danger of performance, in danger of research. In Pamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay and Kimberly Powell (Ed.), The Routledge international handbook of intercultural arts research (pp. 57-69) Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2016). A diffractive narrative about dancing towards decoloniality in an Indigenous Australian Studies performance classroom. In Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Dawn Bennett, Anne Power and Naomi Sunderland (Ed.), Engaging first peoples in arts-based service learning: towards respectful and mutually beneficial educational practices (pp. 213-226) London, United Kingdom: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22153-3
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2015). Decolonialization and applied ethnomusicology. In Svanibor Pettan and Jeff Todd Titon (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology (pp. 379-397) New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.
Mackinlay, Liz (2015). To be two: critically race-ing and e/racing myself as a non-aboriginal woman and mother to aboriginal children. In Lisa Raith, Jenny Jones and Marie Porter (Ed.), Mothers at the margins: stories of challenge, resistance and love (pp. 21-32) Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2015). Making an appearance on the shelves of the room we call research: autoethnography-as-storyline-as-interpretation in education. In Paul Smeyers, David Bridges, Nicholas C. Burbules and Morwenna Griffiths (Ed.), International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research (pp. 1437-1456) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9282-0_70
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Chalmers, Gordon (2014). Remembrances and relationships: rethinking collaboration in ethnomusicology as ethical and decolonising practice. In Katelyn Barney (Ed.), Collaborative ethnomusicology: new approaches to music research between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians (pp. 63-79) Melbourne, Australia: Lyrebird Press.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2012). The musical worlds of Aboriginal children at Burrulula and Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. In Patricia Shehan Campbell and Trevor Wiggins (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of children's musical cultures (pp. 315-331) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199737635.013.0019
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2012). Speaking autoethnographically and singing maternally. In Peter Whiteman and Chee-Hoo Lum (Ed.), Musical childhoods of Asia and the Pacific (pp. 37-56) Charlotte, NC, United States: Information Age Publishing.
Lingard, Bob, Vass, Greg and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2012). Reimagining lines of flight in schooling for Indigenous students in Australia. In Jennifer Lavia and Sechaba Mahlomaholo (Ed.), Culture, education, and community: expressions of the postcolonial imagination (pp. 125-146) New York, NY, United States: Palgrave Macmillan.
O'Brien, Mia and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2011). Start with the arts: A teaching and learning melody for pre-service primary teachers. In Christopher Klooper and Susanne Garvis (Ed.), Tapping into classroom practice of the arts: From inside out (pp. 57-79) Mt Gravatt, QLD, Australia: Post Pressed.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2011). Teaching and learning for social justice: An approach to transformative education in Indigenous Australian studies. In Greg Williams (Ed.), Talking back, talking forward: Journeys in transforming Indigenous educational practice (pp. 117-128) Darwin, NT, Australia: Charles Darwin University Press.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2010). Big women from Burrulula: An approach to advocacy and applied ethnomusicology with the Yanyuwa Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, Australia. In Klisala Harrison, Elizabeth Mackinlay and Svanibor Pettan (Ed.), Applied ethnomusicology: Historical approaches and new perspectives (pp. 96-115) Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2010). Music and mothering. In Andrea O'Reilly (Ed.), Encyclopedia of motherhood (pp. 1-5) Thousand Oaks, CA, United States: Sage.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2010). A mermaid’s tale of two pearls: Stringing together doctoral journeys in ethnomusicology and education. In David Forrest (Ed.), Journeying: Reflections on Doctoral Studies by Australian Music Educators (pp. 110-127) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh and Barney, Katelyn (2009). Beginning the musical voyage: An introduction. In Musical islands: Exploring connections between music, place and research (pp. xix-xxv) Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2009). Singing maternity: Making visible the musical worlds of mothers and their children. In Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Barleet, Brydie-Leigh and Barney, Katelyn (Ed.), Musical islands: Exploring connections between music, place and research (pp. 242-262) Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2009). In memory of music research: An autoethnographic, ethnomusicological and emotional response to grief, death and loss in the Aboriginal community at Borroloola, Northern Territory. In Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Carolyn Ellis (Ed.), Musical autoethnographies: Making autoethnography sing/making music personal (pp. 225-244) Bowen Hills, Qld: Australian Academic Press.
Bradley, John and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2007). Singing the land, singing the family: Song, place and spirituality amongst the Yanyuwa. In F. Richards (Ed.), The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, place and spirituality (pp. 75-92) Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
Mackinlay, E. (2006). Embodied pedagogy: Reading and performing race in an Indigenous Australian women's music and dance classroom. In V. Rogers and D. Symonds (Ed.), The legacy of John Blacking: Essays on music, culture and society (pp. 180-181) Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Press.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2005). Making the journey in: Opening up spaces for performing, teaching and learning Aboriginal performance traditions. In F. Magowan and K. Neuenfeldt (Ed.), Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land (pp. 119-142) Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Mackinlay, E. (2005). The personal is political is musical: Reflections on women's music making in the Yanyuwa Aboriginal community at Borroloola, Northern Territory. In Mackinlay, E., D. Collins and S. Owens (Ed.), Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance (pp. 221-233) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2005). The interface between music education and musicology: An ethnomusicological perspective. In E. Mackinlay, D. Collins and S. Owens (Ed.), Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance (pp. 311-316) Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Mackinlay, E. (2004). The pedagogical as performative: Opening up spaces for teaching and learning Indigenous women's music and dance. In M. Ewans, R. Halton and J. A. Phillips (Ed.), Music research: New directions for a new century (pp. 166-176) Cambridge Scholars Press: London, United Kingdom.
Journal Articles
Bright, David and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2017) The wilful character of Indigenous educational research. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, . doi:10.1017/jie.2017.9
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2016) Jardiwanpa Yawulya: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 48 234-235.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2014) PEARLs, problems and politics: exploring findings from two teaching and learning projects in indigenous Australian studies at the university of Queensland. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 43 Special Issue 1: 31-41. doi:10.1017/jie.2014.5
MacKinlay, Elizabeth (2014) An ABC of drumming: children's narratives about beat, rhythm and groove in a primary classroom. British Journal of Music Education, 31 2: 209-230. doi:10.1017/S0265051714000114
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2014) Unknown and unknowing possiblities: transformative learning, social justice and decolonising pedagogy in Indigenous Australian Studies. Journal of Transformative Education, 12 1: 54-73. doi:10.1177/1541344614541170
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2013) “We’re Not Afraid of the ‘F Word”: Storying Our Voices and Experiences of Women and Gender Studies in Australian Universities. Feminist Teacher, 23 2: 126-141.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2012) PEARL: a reflective story about decolonising pedagogy in Indigenous Australian studies. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 41 1: 67-74. doi:10.1017/jie.2012.10
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2012) Decolonising Australian ethnomusicology through autoethnography. Creative Approaches to Research, 5 1: 3-14.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2012) Introduction. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 41 1: 1-9. doi:10.1017/jie.2012.2
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2012) Pearls not problems: exploring transformative education in indigenous Australian studies. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 41 1: 10-17. doi:10.1017/jie.2012.3
Mackinlay, Liz (2011) To be two: racing and e/racing myself as a non-Aboriginal woman and mother to Aboriginal children. Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, 25 .
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2011) Social justice and music education: engaging our thinking hearts. Bulletin of the International Kodaly Society, 36 2: 8-15.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2010) A pedagogy of heart which beats to the rhythm of relationships: thinking about ourselves as music educators in relation to Indigenous Australia. Australian Kodaly Journal, 1 17-23.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2010) Transformative learning in first year Indigenous Australian Studies: Posing problems, asking questions and achieving change. A practice report. International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, 1 1: 91-99.
Barney, Katelyn and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2010) Creating rainbows from words and transforming understandings: enhancing student learning through reflective writing in an Aboriginal music course. Teaching In Higher Education, 15 2: 161-173. doi:10.1080/13562511003619995
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Williams, Michael (2010) Editorial. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 39 Supplementary: iii-iii.
Barney, Katelyn and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2010) "Singing trauma trails": Songs of the Stolen Generations in Indigenous Australia. Music and Politics, 4 2: e1-e25. doi:10.3998/mp.9460447.0004.202
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2009) Singing maternity through autoethnography: Making visible the musical world of myself as a mother. Early Child Development and Care, 179 6: 717-731. doi:10.1080/03004430902944320
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2009) Songs she sang to me: The centrality of music to the lives of mothers and their children. Australian Kodaly Journal, 2009 31-39.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2008) Crossing and negotiating borders of identity, knowledge and tradition: Coming to an understanding of Aboriginal women's performance in educational locales as a white woman. Journal of Australian Studies, 32 2: 179-196. doi:10.1080/14443050802056714
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2008) "Move over and make room for Meeka": The representation of race, otherness and indigeneity on the Australian children's television programme Play School. Discourse, 29 2: 273-288. doi:10.1080/01596300801967011
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh (2008) Reflections on teaching and learning feminism in musicological classrooms: an autoethnographic conversation. Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, 18 .
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Baker, Felicity A. (2008) Methodological challenges amidst musical food for the soul: Reflections on singing lullabies as a mother. Hecate: An interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 34 1: 24-44.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2008) Where did her song go? Reflections on the role of music educators in re-teaching mothers how to sing. Australian Kadaly Bulletin, 2008 19-25.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2008) Making space as white music educators for Indigenous Australian holders of song, dance and performance knowledge: The centrality of relationship as pedagogy. Australian Journal of Music Education, 1: 2-6.
Mackinlay, E. and Huggins, J. G. (2007) Editorial. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 36 ii-ii.
Baker, Felicity and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2006) Sing, soothe, sleep: A lullaby education program for first time mothers.. British Journal of Music Education, 23 2: 147-160. doi:10.1017/S0265051706006899
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2006) 'Memories in the Landscape': The Role of Performance in Naming, Knowing, and Claiming Yanyuwa Country. Journal of Australian Studies, 86 83-90.
Mackinlay, E. and Huggins, J. G. (2006) Editorial. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 35 ii-ii.
Mackinlay, E. and Huggins, J. G. (2005) Editorial. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 34 ii-ii.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2005) Moving and dancing towards decolonisation in education: An example from an Indigenous Australian performance classroom. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 34 113-122.
Baker, F. A. and Mackinlay, E. (2005) Faciltating the transition into motherhood through lullaby singing: A pilot study. The New Zealand Journal of Music Therapy, 2005 3: 7-35.
Mackinlay, E. (2005) 'For our mother's song we sing': Yanyuwa Aboriginal women's narratives of experience, memory and emotion. Altitude: an e-journal of emerging humanities work, 6 1-12.
Mackinlay, E. and Baker, F. A. (2005) Nurturing herself, nurturing her baby: Creating positive experiences for first-time mothers through lullaby singing. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, 9 69-89.
Mackinlay, E. and Baker, F. A. (2005) Singing to know baby, singing to know self: Lullaby singing as a pedagogical tool in the everyday life of first-time mothers. Perfect Beat, 7 3: 3-18.
Mackinlay, E. and Huggins, J. G. (2004) Editorial. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 33 ii-ii.
Mackinlay, E., Thatcher, K. and Seldon, C. (2004) Understanding social and legal justice issues for Aboriginal women within the context of an Indigenous Australian studies classroom: A problem-based learning approach. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 33 23-30.
Mackinlay, E. (2004) Teaching and learning race and gender in an Indigenous Australian performance studies classroom: An embodied approach to pedagogy. Australian Journal of Music Education, 1 32-46.
Mackinlay, E. (2004) Editorial. Queensland Journal of Music Education, 11 1: 3-4.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Bradley, John (2003) Many songs, many voices, and many dialogues: A conversation about Yanyuwa performance practice in a remote Aboriginal community. Rural Society, 13 3: 228-243. doi:10.5172/rsj.13.3.228
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Bradley, John (2003) Of mermaids and spirit men. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthroplogy, 4 1-2: 2-24. doi:10.1080/14442210310001706357
Mackinlay, E. (2003) The interface between music education and musicology: An ethnomusicological perspective. Queensland Journal of Music Education, 10 1: 23-28.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Huggins, Jackie (2003) Editorial. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 31 ii-ii.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Huggins, Jackie (2003) Editorial: Celebrating 30 years - 1973-2003. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 32 iii-iv.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Dunbar-Hall, Peter (2003) Historical and dialectical perspectives on the teaching of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musics in the Australian education system. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 32 29-40.
Mackinlay, E., Thatcher, K. and Seldon, C. (2003) Lawyers talk in big words: Understanding legal justice within the context of an Indigenous Australian women's studies classroom. Pandora's Box, 2003 67-74.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2003) Editorial. Queensland Journal of Music Education, 10 1: 4-5.
Mackinlay, E. (2003) Performing bodies: Negotiating race and gender in an Indigenous Australian performance studies classroom. Gender, Education, Music, and Society, 3 1-18.
Mackinlay, E. (2003) Yanyuwa women play too: Didjeridu performance at Borroloola, N.T.. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, 7 1-11.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2003) Performing race, culture, and gender in an Indigenous Australian women's music and dance classroom. Communication Education, 52 3-4: 258-272. doi:10.1080/0363452032000156235
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2002) Engaging with theories of dialogue and voice: Using Bakhtin as a framework to understand teaching and learning Indigenous Australian women's performance. Research Studies in Music Education, 19 1: 32-45. doi:10.1177/1321103X020190010501
Mackinlay, E. (2002) Editorial. Queensland Journal of Music Education, 9 1: 3-4.
Conference Papers
Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Barney, Katelyn and Creagh, Susan (2014). Becoming, belonging and being in the profession: evaluating a mentoring program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander initial teacher educators. In: Australian Teacher Education Association Annual Conference 2014: Refereed Papers Collection. ATEA 2014: Australian Teacher Education Association Conference 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (186-199). 6-9 July, 2014.
McCluskey, Kerryn, Dole, Shelley, O'Brien, Mia, Mackinlay, Liz and Montes, Catherine (2012). The emerging racial identities of secondary preservice teachers working with Indigenous students: will it help in teaching in a multicultural classroom?. In: 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE), Eskisehir, Turkey, (). 25-29 August 2012.
Dole, Shelley, McCluskey, Kerryn, Mackinlay, Liz, O'Brien, Mia and Montes, Cate (2012). Towards closing the gap in Indigenous learning outcomes through targeted preservice teacher preparation. In: Jan Wright, AARE 2012 Conference Proceedings and Program. AARE-APERA 2012: The Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association, Sydney, Australia, (). 2-6 December 2012.
O'Brien, Mia, McCluskey, Kerryn, Dole, Shelley, Mackinlay, Liz and Montes, Catherine (2012). Preservice teachers' experiences of tutoring Indigenous students: A study of emerging teaching identities. In: The Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) 2012 Conference: Conference Handbook & Abstracts. Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) Conference 2012, Adelaide, Australia, (56-56). 1-4 July 2012.
Mackinlay, Liz (2005). Young, white and female : Understanding the identities and agendas of students in the context of teaching and learning Indigenous Australian women’s music and dance. In: David Forrest, A celebration of voices : XV national conference proceedings. 15th Australian Society for Music Education National Conference, Melbourne, Vic., Australia, (169-174). 2005.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2005). Young, white and female : understanding the identities and agendas of students in the context of teaching and learning Indigenous Australian women's music and dance. In: A celebration of voices: ASME XV national conference Proceedings: Australian Journal of Music Education. Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) National Conference, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, (32-46). 3-7 July 2005.
Research Report
Pascoe, Robin, Leong, Sam, MacCallum, Judith, Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Marsh, Kathryn, Smith, Bob, Church, Terry and Winterton, Anne (2005) National Review of School Music Education: Augmenting the Diminished : Department of Education, Science and Training
Thesis
Mackinlay, Elizabeth Narelle. (2003). Disturbance and dislocations : understanding teaching and learning experiences in indigenous Australian women's music and dance PhD Thesis, School of Education, The University of Queensland.