Pip Henderson

I am a non-Indigenous PhD Candidate exploring the whiteness of education and culturally responsive education. Recently, I commenced a role working as a Research Officer in the College of Medicine and Public Health on the SMART-PH project. Prior to this I was working with Associate Professor Courtney Ryder and Dr Sadia Hossain on the development of a framework guiding academics towards meeting the university’s Reconciliation Action Plan commitments of integrating Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in their teaching. This framework was shared at the 2023 LIME Conference on Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country and is currently being prepared for further distribution. Development of this framework involved critically reviewing previously published recommendations and approaches, identifying aspects relevant and appropriate (or not) to our specific CMPH context, and building our own framework based on our combined understandings of ‘what works’.

I am also currently working with colleagues from the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work on projects for Tennis Australia and Volleyball Australia. Recently, we completed a large project (also for Tennis Australia) that involved evaluating programs and initiatives developed by Tennis Australia as part of their Women and Girls Strategy. Prior to this, I was working as both Project Manager and Research Assistant in the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) arm within a project funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), known as Hook in4 Health (Hi4H). Hi4H is a collaborative sport for development project, under the auspice of Oceania Hockey Federation, that utilised hockey as a vehicle to engage community members and deliver health promotion messages Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Vanuatu.