Elizabeth McKinley


Elizabeth Ann McKinley is a New Zealand academic and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Melbourne.

Academic career

After a 2003 PhD titled Brown Bodies, White Coats: Postcolonialism, Māori Women and Science at the University of Waikato, McKinley moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor and moving to the University of Melbourne.
In the 2015 [Birthday Honours |2015 Queen's Birthday Honours], McKinley was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and Māori.
Notable doctoral students include Melinda Webber and Georgina Stewart.

Selected works

  • McKinley, Elizabeth. "Locating the global: Culture, language and science education for indigenous students." International journal of science Education 27, no. 2 : 227–241.
  • Mckinley, Elizabeth. "Postcolonialism, indigenous students, and science education." In Handbook of research on science education, pp. 213–240. Routledge, 2013.
  • Carr, Malcolm, Clive McGee, Alister Jones, Elizabeth McKinley, Beverley Bell, Hugh Barr, and Tina Simpson. "The effects of curricula and assessment on pedagogical approaches and on educational outcomes.".
  • McKinley, Elizabeth, Pauline McPherson Waiti, and Beverley Bell. "Language, culture and science education." International Journal of Science Education 14, no. 5 : 579–595.
  • McKinley, Elizabeth. "Brown bodies, white coats: Postcolonialism, Maori women and science." Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education 26, no. 4 : 481–496.

    Personal life

McKinley is Māori of Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa and Ngāi Tahu descent.