Liz Mackinlay

Liz Mackinlay is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University, specializing in interdisciplinary research addressing gender, decoloniality, and education. She holds dual PhDs: a 1998 Ethnomusicology PhD from the University of Adelaide and a 2003 Education PhD from The University of Queensland.

Her research focuses on feminism in higher education, consent education in university residential colleges, and decolonizing academic practices. Teaching areas include arts education, Indigenous Studies, and qualitative research methods. She actively writes about feminist academic activism through blogs like In-sister and contributes to projects like Departing Radically in Academic Writing (DRAW).

Liz’s work critiques neoliberal university structures while advocating for ethical, decolonial pedagogies. Her writing style integrates autoethnography and feminist literary theory, emphasizing embodied knowledge and interdisciplinary dialogue. She collaborates internationally, particularly on Southern-South dialogues in education and ethnomusicology.