Rate My Professor Bindi Macgill

Dr Bindi MacGill is a Senior Lecturer in Arts Education in the College of Education at Adelaide University and a contemporary artist. Her research interests draw upon contemporary art, Indigenous education, postcolonial theory, visual methodologies, arts pedagogy, and critical race theory, with a focus on decolonisation through arts-based practices and creative methodologies. Recent projects explore virtual reality, aesthetics, and learning design theory. She is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students and currently serves as principal supervisor or co-supervisor for several doctoral candidates at Adelaide University, including projects on racial literacy in teaching, art therapy in natural disaster communities, transformative learning through arts initiatives for entrepreneurs, artistic co-creation, and pre-service teachers' training in multimodality and multiliteracies.

MacGill earned her PhD in Education from Flinders University (2008), Master's in Visual Arts from the University of South Australia (1998), Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Adelaide (1997), and BA (Hons) in Humanities from Flinders University (1995). She was awarded the Australian Postgraduate Award with Stipend (2000), Chancellors Award List and Deans Merit Award List (UniSA, 1998). Her career includes roles at Flinders University and University of South Australia, and a Research Fellow position at King's College London School of Global Affairs (2019), contributing to teaching and public engagement on visual arts and decolonisation. Awards include Academic Excellence Award (UniSA, 2020), Distinguished Research Fellowship (King's College London, 2019), Student’s Choice Excellent Teacher Award (UniSA, 2014), Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (national, 2012), College of Distinguished Educators (Flinders, 2012), and Excellence in Teaching Award (Flinders, 2011). Key publications are Carmody et al. (2026), Enhancing Undergraduate Pre-Service Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Arts Education, Australian Journal of Education; MacGill et al. (2024), Ethics of care: pedagogical encounters from Oceania, Qualitative Research Journal; MacGill (2023), Decolonising art and design education through standpoint theory, embodied learning and deep listening, The International Journal of Art and Design Education; MacGill, Whitehead & Rigney (2022), Culture and education with Alice Rigney (1942-2017), Australia's first Aboriginal woman school principal, History of Education Review; MacGill (2019), Craft, relational aesthetics and ethics of care, Art/research international. She is a board member of Developing Effective Arts Learners at Carclew and the Songroom, and has delivered keynotes such as Decolonising research: Standpoint theory, intersectionality and deep listening at King's College London.