Elizabeth McKinley

Elizabeth McKinley ONZM
McKinley in 2015
Alma mater	University of Waikato
Scientific career
Fields	Educational research
Institutions	University of Auckland University of Melbourne
Thesis	Brown bodies, white coats: postcolonialism, Māori women and science  (2003)

Elizabeth Ann McKinley ONZM is a New Zealand academic, is Māori of Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa and Ngāi Tahu descent, 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 Queen's Birthday Honours, McKinley was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and Māori.

Selected works

• McKinley, Elizabeth. "Locating the global: Culture, language and science education for indigenous students." International journal of science Education 27, no. 2 (2005): 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." (2005).
• McKinley, Elizabeth, Pauline McPherson Waiti, and Beverley Bell. "Language, culture and science education." International Journal of Science Education 14, no. 5 (1992): 579–595.
• McKinley, Elizabeth. "Brown bodies, white coats: Postcolonialism, Maori women and science." Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education 26, no. 4 (2005): 481–496.

External links

• Elizabeth McKinley on Twitter
• Publications by Elizabeth McKinley at ResearchGate