Professor Tracey Bunda
Professor of Indigenous Education
Affiliate Professor of School of Education
School of Education
Tracey Bunda is a Ngugi/Wakka Wakka woman and grew up on the lands of the Jagera/Jugera/Yuggerapul peoples. Tracey is The University of Queensland Professor of Indigenous Education.
During the course of her extensive 3 decade career she has held senior Indigenous leadership roles in each of the universities in which she worked. Professor Bunda’s research interests are informed by critical theoretical approaches for understanding how race and power ideologically manifest in white institutions; storying as methodology and the agentic role of Aboriginal women in Aboriginal community uplift.
Her most recent co-authored book with Louise Phillips is Storying Social Movement/s.
Publications
Books
Bunda, Tracey, Angus, Lynnell, Wilson, Sybilla, Strasek-Barker, Mia, Griffiths, Kealey, Schober, Lucas, Scanlan, Thomas, Mishiro, Keiko, Eagles, Vanessa and Deane, Laura (2023). Language of Relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples : Introductory Guide. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/0c80049
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth and Bunda, Tracey (2018). Research through, with and as storying. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315109190
Book Chapters
Bunda, Tracey, Barney, Katelyn, Richy, Nisa, Oliver, Lisa, Saunders, R. E. A. Regina and Gilbert, Stephanie (2024). Theoretical foundations for storying a knowledge basket: enhancing student engagement in Indigenous studies in the Australian context. Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education. (pp. 380-396) edited by Cathy Stone and Sarah O'Shea. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781035314294.00037
Gilbert, Stephanie, Bunda, Tracey and Fredericks, Bronwyn (2024). The edge of the tide: exploring the complexities and futures of aboriginality from the critical perspectives of indigenous researchers. The Routledge handbook of Australian Indigenous peoples and futures. (pp. 253-268) edited by Bronwyn Carlson, Madi Day, Sandy O'Sullivan and Tristan Kennedy. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781003271802-20
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Bunda, Tracey and Bradfield, Abraham (2023). Indigenous women in academia: reflections on leadership. Global leadership perspectives on industry, society, and government in an era of uncertainty. (pp. 36-54) edited by Ataus Samad, Ezaz Ahmed and Nitin Arora. Hershey, PA, United States: Business Science Reference. doi: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8257-5.ch003
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Bunda, Tracey, Barney, Katelyn and Bradfield, Abraham (2023). The importance of “seeing oneself” in Australian universities: representations and reflections of Indigeneity in higher education. International encyclopedia of education. (pp. 109-118) edited by Robert J. Tierney, Fazal Rizvi and Kadriye Ercikan. New York, NY, United States: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.06007-3
Bunda, Tracey and Phillips, Louise Gwenneth (2023). Storying: The Vitality of Social Movements. Storying Social Movement/s. (pp. 1-17) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09667-9_1
Bunda, Tracey, Gilbey, Kathryn and Monnapula-Mapesela, 'Mabokang (2021). Black warrior women scholars speak. Reimagining the Academy: ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care. (pp. 19-27) edited by Alison L. Black and Rachael Dwyer. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75859-2_2
Manathunga, Catherine, Qi, Jing, Bunda, Tracey and Singh, Michael (2021). Working towards future epistemic justice: Incorporating transcultural and Indigenous knowledge systems in doctoral education. The Future of Doctoral Research: Challenges and Opportunities. (pp. 65-76) edited by Anne Lee and Rob Bongaardt. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003015383-8
Bunda, Tracey (2020). The sovereign Aboriginal woman. Sovereign subjects: Indigenous sovereignty matters. (pp. 75-85) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003117353-8
Bunda, Tracey, Qi, Jing, Manathunga, Catherine and Singh, Michael J. (2020). Enhancing the Australian doctoral experience: locating culture and identity at the centre. Indigenous Studies: breakthroughs in research and practice. (pp. 158-174) edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Steve Clarke, Murray E. Jennex and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko. Hershey, PA, United States: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0423-9.ch009
Fredericks, Bronwyn, White, Nereda, Phillips, Sandra, Bunda, Tracey, Longbottom, Marlene and Bargallie, Debbie (2019). Being ourselves, naming ourselves, writing ourselves: Indigenous Australian women disrupting what it is to be academic within the academy. Academic Writing and Identity Constructions: Performativity, Space and Territory in Academic Workplaces. (pp. 75-96) edited by Louise M. Thomas and Anne B. Reinertsen. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-01674-6_5
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth and Bunda, Tracey (2018). Storying ways. Research Through, With and As Storying. (pp. 73-90) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315109190-4
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth and Bunda, Tracey (2018). Sharing through storying. Research Through, With and As Storying. (pp. 91-104) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315109190-5
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth and Bunda, Tracey (2018). Locating self in place and ancestral storying. Research Through, With and As Storying. (pp. 17-42) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315109190-2
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth and Bunda, Tracey (2018). Beginning stories and storying. Research Through, With and As Storying. (pp. 1-16) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315109190-1
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth and Bunda, Tracey (2018). Ongoing advocacy for storying. Research Through, With and As Storying. (pp. 105-115) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315109190-6
Phillips, Louise Gwenneth and Bunda, Tracey (2018). Principles of storying. Research Through, With and As Storying. (pp. 43-72) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315109190-3
Gilbey, Kathryn and Bunda, Tracey (2017). The pleasure and pain of Aboriginal being in the university. Producing pleasure in the contemporary university. (pp. 185-199) edited by Stewart Riddle, Marcus K. Harmes and Patrick Alan Danaher. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. doi: 10.1007/978-94-6351-179-7_14
Bunda, Tracey, Qi, Jing, Manathunga, Catherine and Singh, Michael J. (2017). Enhancing the Australian doctoral experience: locating culture and identity at the centre. Student Culture and Identity in Higher Education. (pp. 143-159) edited by Ambreen Shahriar and Ghazal Kazim Syed. Hershey, PA United States: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2551-6.ch009
Bunda, Tracey (2008). Indigenous Australians and the legacy of European conquest: The ten years since 1997. Indigenous Australians and the Law: Second Edition. (pp. 1-8) Routledge-Cavendish Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203927960
Journal Articles
Best, Odette and Bunda, Tracey (2025). Aboriginal Women's Nursing Labor History in Queensland Australia, 1890-1950: Self-Determining A Different Attitude. Nursing History Review, 33, 1-19. doi: 10.5325/nursinghistory.33.0001
Shay, Marnee, Raciti, Maria, Fredericks, Bronwyn and Bunda, Tracey (2024). Introduction: Indigenous futurities in education. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 53 (2) 1096, 1-7. doi: 10.55146/ajie.v53i2.1096
Barney, Katelyn and Bunda, Tracey (2024). Using Podcasts in Higher Education: Examples of Strategies to Indigenise Higher Education Curricula and to Promote Indigenous Student Success. Student Success, 16 (1), 1-8. doi: 10.5204/ssj.3381
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Barney, Katelyn, Bunda, Tracey, Hausia, Kirsten, Martin, Anne, Elston, Jacinta and Bernardino, Brenna (2023). The importance of Indigenous centres/units for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students: ensuring connection and belonging to support university completion. Higher Education Research and Development, 43 (4), 859-872. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2023.2258825
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Barney, Katelyn, Bunda, Tracey, Hausia, Kirsten, Martin, Anne, Elston, Jacinta and Bernardino, Brenna (2023). Calling out racism in university classrooms: the ongoing need for Indigenisation of the curriculum to support Indigenous student completion rates. Student Success, 14 (2), 19-29. doi: 10.5204/ssj.2874
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Martin, Kathryn, Warner, Brian, Perkins, Ren, Combo, Troy, McConochie, Emily, Stajic, Janet, Thomson, Amy, Holland, Lorelle, Olssen, Emma, Thompson, Kate, Broderick, Trudi, Gilbert, Stephanie, Murphy, Lyndon, Lee, Natasha, Beetson, Susan, Fraser, Jed, Allan, Hannah and Bunda, Tracey (2022). Ready to Write. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 25 (3-4), 1-10.
Qi, Jing, Manathunga, Catherine, Singh, Michael and Bunda, Tracey (2022). ‘Histories of knowledges’ for research education. Higher Education Research and Development, 42 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2022.2040445
Manathunga, Catherine, Singh, Michael, Qi, Jing and Bunda, Tracey (2021). Using Chinese and First Nations philosophies about time and history to reimagine transcultural doctoral education. Discourse, 44 (1), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2021.1972531
Qi, Jing, Manathunga, Catherine, Singh, Michael and Bunda, Tracey (2021). Transcultural and First Nations doctoral education and epistemological border-crossing: histories and epistemic justice. Teaching in Higher Education, 26 (3), 340-353. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2021.1892623
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Bunda, Tracey, Gilbert, Stephanie and Saunders, r e a (2021). Teaching and researching before and during #COVID19: The Indigenous Engagement Division Mob. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 5 (1), 1-13.
Manathunga, Catherine, Davidow, Shelley, Williams, Paul, Gilbey, Kathryn, Bunda, Tracey, Raciti, Maria and Stanton, Sue (2020). Decolonisation through poetry: Building first nations’ voice and promoting truth-telling. Education as Change, 24 7765, 1-24. doi: 10.25159/1947-9417/7765
Best, Odette and Bunda, Tracey (2020). Disrupting dominant discourse: Indigenous women as trained nurses and midwives 1900s–1950s. Collegian, 27 (6), 620-625. doi: 10.1016/j.colegn.2020.08.005
Qi, Jing, Manathunga, Catherine, Singh, Michael and Bunda, Tracey (2019). Micro histories of intercultural knowledge exchange: Tao Xingzhi’s educational poetry. History of Education Review, 48 (1), 2-14. doi: 10.1108/HER-05-2017-0010
Manathunga, Catherine, Qi, Jing, Bunda, Tracey and Singh, Michael (2019). Time mapping: charting transcultural and First Nations histories and geographies in doctoral education. Discourse, 42 (2), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2019.1603140
Bunda, Tracey, Heckenberg, Robyn, Snepvangers, Kim, Phillips, Louise Gwenneth, Lasczik, Alexandra and Black, Alison L. (2019). Storymaking belonging. Art/Research International, 4 (1), 153-179. doi: 10.18432/ari29429
Hogarth, Melitta and Bunda, Tracey (2018). Editorial. Australian Journal of Education, 62 (3), 239-242. doi: 10.1177/0004944118810953
Williams, Lewis, Bunda, Tracey, Claxton, Nick and Mackinnon, Iain (2018). A global De-colonial praxis of sustainability - undoing epistemic violences between Indigenous peoples and those no longer Indigenous to place. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 47 (1), 41-53. doi: 10.1017/jie.2017.25
Bunda, Tracey (2017). Special issue: Indigenous educational research. Australian Educational Researcher, 44 (SI1), 1-4. doi: 10.1007/s13384-017-0227-x
Singh, Michael, Manathunga, Catherine, Bunda, Tracey and Jing, Qi (2016). Mobilising indigenous and Non-Western theoretic-linguistic knowledge in doctoral education. Knowledge Cultures, 4 (1), 56-70.
Bunda, Tracey, Zipin, Lew and Brennan, Marie (2012). Negotiating university equity from Indigenous standpoints: a shaky bridge. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 16 (9), 941-957. doi: 10.1080/13603116.2010.523907
Fredericks, B., White, N., Bunda, T. and Baker, J. (2011). Demonstrating Indigenous women’s educational leadership: Tiddas Showin’ Up, Talkin’ Up and Puttin’ Up!. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 14, 3-8.
Andersen, Clair, Bunda, Tracey and Walter, Maggie (2008). Indigenous higher education: the role of universities in releasing the potential. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 37 (1), 1-8. doi: 10.1017/S1326011100016033
Conference Papers
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Barney, Katelyn, Bunda, Tracey, Moor, Ashley, Parlett, Scott, Hausia, Kirsten, Richy, Nisa and Taylor-Griffiths, Daniel (2024). Building the evidence about correlations between pathway programs and Indigenous student university completion. Australian Association for Research in Education, Sydney, NSW Australia, 1-5 December 2024.
Bunda, Tracey, Barney, Katelyn, Saunders, r e a (Regina), Gilbert, Stephanie, Richy, Nisa and Oliver, Lisa (2024). Enhancing student engagement in tertiary Indigenous Studies through a storying. STARS Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 30 June - 2 July 2024.
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Barney, Katelyn and Bunda, Tracey (2023). Calling out Racism in University Classrooms: The Ongoing Need for Indigenisation of the Curriculum to Support Indigenous Student Completion Rates. STARS (Students, Transitions, Achievement, Retention, Success), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 3-5 July 2023.
Bunda, Tracey, Willox, Dino, Harpur, Paul and Vasquez Fernandez, Claudia (2023). Inclusive Engagement Panel. The University of Queensland Community Engagement Community of Practice, Brisbane, Australia, 21 June.
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Barney, Katelyn and Bunda, Tracey (2023). Strengthening completion rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tertiary students. HERDSA, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4-7 July 2023.
Harpur, Paul, Pachana, Nancy, Fitzsimmons, Terrance, French, Flic, Bunda, Tracey and Mitter, Neena (2022). Celebrating International Women's Day at UQ. International Women's Day 2022, University of Queensland, March 8.
Willox, Dino, Langton, Marcia, Kavanagh, Lydia, Bunda, Tracey, Harpur, Paul, Dianati, Seb and Blanch, Elias (2021). Inclusion panel discussion: inclusive teaching and learning practices, and the impact of intersectionality. Teaching and Learning Week, University of Queensland, November 1-5.
Seminar Paper
Barney, Katelyn, Bunda, Tracey and Williams, Hayley (2021). Connections, culture and collaboration: exploring success factors of outreach program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Widening Tertiary Participation Practitioner Seminar.
Creative Work
Barney, Katelyn and Bunda, Tracey (2021). Indigenous success: doing it, thinking it, being it. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, Listen Notes.
Research Reports
Ning Xiang, Melissa Johnstone, Wojtek Tomaszewski, Katelyn Barney, Tracey Bunda and Sandra Phillips (2022). School-climate factors and long-term outcomes of Indigenous students, students from low socio-economic backgrounds, and students from regional areas: Novel evidence from three Australian cohort studies. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Barney, Katelyn, Bunda, Tracey, Hausia, Kirsten, Martin, Anne, Elston, Jacinta, Bernardino, Brenna and Griffiths, Daniel (2022). Building the evidence to improve completion rates for Indigenous students. Bentley, WA, Australia: Curtin University.
Video Documents
Bunda, Tracey, Dianati, Seb and Phillips, Sandra (2021). What is Racism?.