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MsKim Kinnear

Associate Director, Research

Faculty of Arts and Education/NIKERI Institute

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  • Associate Director, Research
    Faculty of Arts and Education/NIKERI Institute
  • +61 3 522 73166 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

I am a descendent of Adnyamathanha and Nukunu communities in South Australia. In Victoria, I have ties to Wemba Wemba, Wotjobaluk and Dja Dja Wurrung communities. My research involves studying my own lived understandings of working as an early childhood teacher and the ways in which (adult) dis/ability is experienced in the early childhood educational workplace. This autoethnographic study moves and intersects between early childhood education, Indigenous perspectives and cultural strengths, and critical dis/ability approaches.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Associate Director, Research
    Deakin University, National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Director for Research - NIKERI Institute
    Deakin University, NIKERI Institute, Waurn Ponds, Australia1 Feb 2025 - present

DEGREES

  • Bachelor of Early Childhood Studies
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia1993 - 1995
  • Postgraduate Certificate of Education (Inclusion)
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia2011 - 2011
  • Master of Education - Research
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia2017
  • PhD
    Deakin University, Geelong, Australia19 Jul 2019 - 17 Jun 2025

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Early childhood education
  • People with disability
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • NIKERI Institute