Dr Doug Morgan

Douglas L Morgan is a Bundjalung man from Southern Queensland. He is Associate Professor: Aboriginal Studies -Portfolio Leader: Research at the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, University of South Australia. He was a former Chair of Neporendi Aboriginal Forum Inc (an Indigenous community organisation servicing southern metropolitian Adelaide and the former Coordinator of Yunggorendi Student Services at Flinders University Adelaide SA.

His primary areas of expertise are transition education - facilitating the acquisition transferable academic skills in higher education and cross-cultural and diversity training. He is a qualified tertiary teacher with eight years experience with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. Doug has completed research on Indigenous education and the factors affecting students decisions to continue or withdraw from tertiary studies at Flinders University, and was Key Adviser to the DEST projects titled 'First Year Experiences of Indigenous Students' and 'Indigenous Leadership Models in Australian Universities'. He was also Key Adviser on the 'Supporting Indigenous Students through School', an evaluation of Koorie education in Victoria.

Doug has authored a number of publications on cross-cultural education including: Inhibiting and Enabling Factor Affecting Indigenous Students Decisions to Continue or Withdraw from Tertiary Studies, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Vol 6 number 3, September 2003., Appropriation Appreciation Accommodation: Indigenous Wisdoms and Knowledges in Higher Education in Bray M (editor) International Review of Education, Kluwer Academic Publishers. (2003), Assessing First Year Students: A Case for Mixed Mode Assessment 7th Pacific Rim Conference Brisbane 9-11 July 2003 (Proceedings), Mixed Mode Assessment: A Preliminary Evaluation (Improving University Teaching and Learning, Vol vi 2000) A Place for Aboriginal Philosophy in Australian higher education in The Role of Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education, in GR Teasdale & Zane Ma Rhea (editors) Pergamon (2000) (with Malcolm D Slade), Indigenous Health: A Special Moral Imperative. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Oct Edition Vol. 22 No. 6, 1998 (with Rodney J Allen), Yunggorendi: Provision of transition services to Indigenous Australians in higher education, Proceedings of The Third Pacific Rim Conference 5-8 July 1998, Auckland NZ, Accommodating philosophical perspectives: An imperative for Indigenous higher education, Proceedings of The Third Pacific Rim Conference 5-8 July 1998, Auckland NZ., and A case for incorporating Aboriginal perspectives in education The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Sept/Oct Edition Vol. 26 No. 2 1998 ( with Malcolm D Slade).

Other interests include strategic praxis (a systems management approach to addressing the ‘wicked’ problems that result from dichotic thinking and its application to social service provision) and governance and management of community organisations.

• Comparative Education
• Indigenous Health
• Indigenous Education
• Cultural training and cross-cultural communication
• Postgraduate academic skills for Indigenous students

Member, Editorial Board, Peer Reviewer Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues

Member, Australian and New Zealand Comparative Education Society

Theme Convenor, Indigenous Learning World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, Sarajevo, 2007

PhD Education (Flinders University SA)

Graduate Certificate Tertiary Education (Flinders University SA)

BA(Hons) Philosophy (Majors in Computing, Psychology and Philosophy)

• Transition education
• Diversity training - implementation of cross-cultural work change projects and cross-cultural communication
• Other interests include strategic praxis (a systems management approach to addressing the ‘wicked’ problems that result from dichotic thinking and its application to social service provision) and governance and management of community organisations

Morgan DL and Kutelieh S 2004 Accommodating difference: A prescriptive response to the academic writing needs of students from non-Western cultures in Western higher education settings, Proceedings EDU – COM 2004 New Challenges for Sustainability & Growth in Higher Education, Khon Kaen, Thailand. Morgan DL 2004 Accommodating different cultural perspectives in higher educational assessment: a case for mixed mode evaluation, Proceedings EDU – COM 2004 New Challenges for Sustainability & Growth in Higher Education, Khon Kaen, Thailand. Morgan DL and Kutelieh S 2004 Academic writing for Indigenous Australian and international students: A contextual approach to assist transition to Australian tertiary institutions, Proceedings 8th Pacific Rim Conference – First Year in Higher Education Melbourne. Morgan DL 2004 A Contextual Approach to Assist the Development of Indigenous Australian Academic Writing in Higher Education, JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS ISSUES, Volume 7, Number 1, March 2004.Kutelieh S, Egege S and Morgan DL 2004 To Stay or Not to Stay: Factors affecting international and Indigenous students decisions to persist with university study and the implications for support services, Proceedings 2003 Biannual Language and Academic Skills in Higher Education Conference – in the future, Adelaide 2003, Vol. 6. Inhibiting and Enabling Factor Affecting Indigenous Students Decisions to Continue or Withdraw from Tertiary Studies, Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Vol 6 number 3, September 2003. Appropriation Appreciation Accommodation: Indigenous Wisdoms and Knowledges in Higher Education in Bray M (editor) International Review of Education, Kluwer Academic Publishers. (2003), Assessing First Year Students: A Case for Mixed Mode Assessment 7th Pacific Rim Conference Brisbane 9-11 July 2003 (Proceedings), Mixed Mode Assessment: A Preliminary Evaluation (Improving University Teaching and Learning, Vol vi 2000) A Place for Aboriginal Philosophy in Australian higher education in The Role of Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education, in GR Teasdale & Zane Ma Rhea (editors) Pergamon (2000) (with Malcolm D Slade), Indigenous Health: A Special Moral Imperative. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Oct Edition Vol. 22 No. 6, 1998 (with Rodney J Allen) Yunggorendi: Provision of transition services to Indigenous Australians in higher education, Proceedings of The Third Pacific Rim Conference 5-8 July 1998, Auckland NZ, Accommodating philosophical perspectives: An imperative for Indigenous higher education, Proceedings of The Third Pacific Rim Conference 5-8 July 1998, Auckland NZ. A case for incorporating Aboriginal perspectives in education The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Sept/Oct Edition Vol. 26 No. 2 1998 ( with Malcolm D Slade).