Professor Kelly Menzel

Kelly is a proud Ngadjuri woman from mid north South Australia with ancestral connections to Bundjalung Nation. She is a nurse by trade and has worked in higher education and research for 20 years. Her research area of expertise is radically challenging race-based violence in institutions, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Indigenous Pedagogy and methodology, Aboriginal women in leadership and seeking socially just, transformational change.

• 1994: BN, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
• 2000: MA (women’s studies), Deakin University, Australia
• 2021: PhD, Deakin University, Australia

• 2024: Director, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Initiative, Burnet Institute, Australia
• 2022-2024: Associate Professor, Associate Dean Education, Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University, Australia
• 2021-2022: Assistant Professor, First Nations Health, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
• 2017-2021: Bachelor of Nursing Coordinator, Senior Lecturer, National Indigenous Knowledge, Education, Research and Innovation Institute (NIKERII), Deakin University, Australia
• 2012-2017: Head of Discipline for Nursing and Primary Health Care, Aboriginal Health College, Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council, Australia

View Professor Kelly Menzel's publications on her Google Scholar profile.