Neil Harrison has worked in Indigenous education since 1978 as a primary, secondary and tertiary teacher. He has over 30 years of teaching and research experience in Aboriginal education, with his book Teaching and Learning in Aboriginal Education (
...MoreNeil Harrison has worked in Indigenous education since 1978 as a primary, secondary and tertiary teacher. He has over 30 years of teaching and research experience in Aboriginal education, with his book Teaching and Learning in Aboriginal Education (Oxford) being used widely in teacher education programs across Australia. His recent research centres upon developing Aboriginal community - university partnerships. He has an ARC Discovery Indigenous grant (2012-2013) with Dr Michelle Trudgett and A/Prof Susan Page (Indigenous Studies), which aims to enhance the quality of academic supervision provided to Indigenous Australian doctoral students.
Methodological expertise focuses on ethnography, interviewing techniques and the development of generative research methods. In 2011 he received the Dean's Service Award at Macquarie University for his significant contributions to the students, staff and connected community for Education. In 2003 he received the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Early Career Researcher Award.
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