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Dr Maria Cotter

Lecturer in Contextual Studies - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education

Phone: +61 02 6773 5035

Biography

Maria is a member of the Department of Globalisation, Leadership and Policy in the School of Education. Prior to this current role Maria worked in the Oorala Aboriginal Centre at UNE as part of a Team focused on supporting Indigenous students achieve at University. Previously Maria has worked as an Aboriginal cultural heritage management specialist with her most recent work of this type being situated in the coal mining area of the Hunter Valley where she worked with Native Title claimants to record their cultural landscape values in land subject to development.

Qualifications

BA (UNE), PhD (SCU)

Teaching Areas

Education for Sustainability, Indigenous Education, Social contexts of Education, Learning in Social Movements

Research Interests

Environmental Humanities; Transdisciplinary Education and Scholarship, Indigenous Higher Education, Equity in Higher Education.

Memberships

Institute of Australian Geographers; Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia - New Zealand

External Profiles

ORCid Profile

The University of New England respects and acknowledges that its people, courses and facilities are built on land, and surrounded by a sense of belonging, both ancient and contemporary, of the world's oldest living culture. In doing so, UNE values and respects Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of the knowledge capital of Australia. We recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Aboriginal community and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.