Keynote Address

Elizabeth Mackinlay (BMus Hons, PhD Music Adelaide, PhD Education Queensland) is a Senior Lecturer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland where she teaches Indigenous Studies, Women's Studies and Ethnomusicology. Liz completed her PhD in Ethnomusicology in 1998 and continues her work with Aboriginal women at Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia. She also completed a PhD in Education at the University of Queensland in 2003. Her book, Disturbances and dislocations: Teaching and learning Aboriginal women's music and dance, was published in 2007 by Peter Lang and she has edited a number of books with Cambridge Scholars Press, including Aesthetics and experience in music performance (2005), Musical islands (2009, in press) and Applied ethnomusicology: Historical approaches and new perspectives (forthcoming). Liz is involved in a number of different teaching and learning contexts through the arts which include drumming circles for primary students, gifted children and music education, music education in early primary classrooms, Indigenous Australian studies and music education, and music education for mothering. Liz is currently the editor of the Music Education Research and Innovation (MERI) and co-editor of the Australian Journal of Indigenous Education (AJIE).