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Dean : David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research

Peter BuckskinProfessor Peter Buckskin

Professor Buckskin is Dean of the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research (DUCIER) located in the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia.

Professor Buckskin's passion for the pursuit of educational excellence for Aboriginal students has led to his appointment to many positions, both state wide and nationally over his thirty year career. Positions have included: classroom teacher in Western Australia and South Australia; Chair of the South Australian Aboriginal Education Consultative Committee; appointment as Ministerial Adviser; Superintendent of Schools; and a Senior Executive at both State and Federal level.

For over a decade he has worked as an officer in the Commonwealth's Senior Executive Service, where he occupied a number of strategic positions in the portfolios of Aboriginal Affairs, Employment, Education and Training.

He has also served one term as a Commissioner of the Australian Commission to UNESCO.

In recognition of his contribution to Aboriginal Education he has received numerous awards and honours. These include:

Earlier this year, Professor Buckskin was appointed to the Board of the National Congress for Australia's First peoples.

 Head of School and Portfolio Leader: Research and Research Education

Professor Alan Mayne

Professor Mayne is the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research Head of School. He holds a Research SA Chair and is a Professor of Social History and Public Policy in the Hawke Research Institute, a cross-disciplinary humanities and social sciences research institute at the University of South Australia. The institute is named in honour of former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke.

In addition to Head of School and Research duties, Professor Mayne is Program Director for Unaipon School post graduate programs by coursework, the Unaipon Honours program and double degrees with education. His research focuses on social life and social policy in Australia, Britain, North America, and South Asia. Research interests and publications range across Australian immigration and settlement policy, cultural heritage interpretation and cultural tourism, historical archaeology, slums and urban renewal in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, the United States and Australia, urban social policy in contemporary India, and community formation and resilience in regional Australia.

Portfolio Leaders
 

Tangi SteenDr Tangi Steen

Portfolio Leader - Teaching & Learning/Senior Lect

Dr Steen is the Portfolio Leader: Teaching and Learning and Senior Lecturer at the David Unaipon College of Education and Research (DUCIER); in addition to course co-ordinating a number of courses at DUCIER within the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences at City West Campus.

Dr Steen is a Polynesian woman from the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific and a community radio broadcaster with the Tongan Community Radio of SA Inc in the ethnic radio station 5EBI 103.1FM.

Her academic interest lies in Information Technology (IT) education and its uses in learning and research.
 

Ms Jillian Miller

Coordinator: Indigenous Student Services
Ms Miller is a Miming woman with family ties to the West Coast of South Australia. In 2006, she accepted a position at the University of South Australia as Coordinator Indigenous Student Services after 37 years employment with DECS. She was invited to be the Indigenous member of the University Council in 2002 and remained a member of Council until her employment within the University in 2006. She also chaired the University Indigenous Education Advisory Committee.

In her previous role as Superintendent Aboriginal Education Ms Miller had state wide responsibility for Aboriginal Education in South Australia from 2000-2005. In that role she chaired DECS committees and was a member of the National MCEETYA Task Force on Indigenous Education and the inaugural chairperson of the Senior Officers Nation Network Indigenous Education.

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