Rate My Professor Tracey Bunda

Tracey Bunda is a Ngugi/Wakka Wakka woman who grew up on the lands of the Jagera/Jugera/Yuggerapul peoples. She is Professor of Indigenous Education at the University of Queensland, affiliated with the School of Education and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Over her three-decade career, Bunda has occupied senior Indigenous leadership positions at various universities, including Head of the College for Indigenous Studies, Education and Research at the University of Southern Queensland prior to joining UQ in 2019. Her research employs critical theoretical frameworks to analyze the ideological manifestations of race and power in predominantly white institutions, explores storying as a research methodology, and examines the leadership roles of Aboriginal women in community development.

Bunda's scholarly output is prolific and impactful, with key works including the co-authored book Research through, with and as storying (Phillips and Bunda, 2018), cited over 350 times, and Language of Relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: Introductory Guide (2023). Other notable publications encompass Indigenous higher education: The role of universities in releasing the potential (Andersen, Bunda, and Walter, 2008, 181 citations), Negotiating university equity from Indigenous standpoints: a shaky bridge (Bunda, Zipin, and Brennan, 2012, 141 citations), and chapters such as The sovereign Aboriginal woman (2020) and Indigenous women in academia: reflections on leadership (Fredericks, Bunda, and Bradfield, 2023). Her Google Scholar profile records 1,271 citations. Bunda has significantly influenced Indigenous education through leadership in curriculum indigenisation at UQ, where she chairs the Indigenising Curriculum Working Party, co-edited the handbook Indigenising Curriculum at The University of Queensland: A Handbook (2025), and serves as Academic Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit. She is on the editorial board of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education and was appointed to the Australasian Strategic Advisory Board of Advance HE. In 2024, she received the Australian Awards for University Teaching Career Achievement Award, recognizing her contributions to advancing Indigenous perspectives in higher education. She is also the 2025 STARS Fellow.