Editorial Team

Editors in Chief

Professor Ella Henry

Iwi Affiliation: Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa, Ngāti Kuri, Te Rārawa

Ella has a background across multiple disciplines including sociology, business and Māori Indigenous development. She has been actively involved in research, teaching and advocacy for Māori media for over twenty years. Ella was a Treaty Negotiator for her Iwi, Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa, and has been involved with the Post-Settlement Governance Entity, as Trustee and Chair, until her appointment as Director of Māori Advancement for the Business School.

Associate Professor Sharlene Leroy-Dyer

Sharlene is a Saltwater woman, from the Garigal, Awabakal, Darug and Wiradyuri nations. She is a fulltime academic in at the UQ Business School where she is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Indigenous Business Hub. Sharlene was the first Aboriginal person to be awarded a PHD in Business from the University of Newcastle. Sharlene has extensive experience as an equity practitioner, having worked for over 40 years in industry and academia. Sharlene has been on several ministerial advisory boards and her work has been cited in Ministerial papers and in Bills introduced into Parliament.

Sharlene’s positionality as an Aboriginal scholar informs her research work in academia. Her current research areas include: Closing the Gap on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage in Education and Employment, Labour Market disadvantage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment strategies, Managing Diversity in Organisations, Employment Relations and the importance of unions.

Gaala Watson

Gaala is a Gangalu and Birri-Gubba (Wirri) woman, born and raised in southeast Queensland. A graduate of the Murri School, she holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Australian History from Deakin University, a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from Griffith University and a Professional Certificate in Indigenous Research form The University of Melbourne. Gaala’s current role is in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship discipline at the UQ Business school as an associate lecturer and PhD candidate, where her research focuses on Aboriginal Governance theory and praxis. Gaala has worked in the Queensland Social Enterprise sector since 2018 and was appointed a Griffth University Yunus Centre Fellow in 2019, former chair of the Food Connect Foundation board and co-chair of the Queensland Social Enterprise Council.

 

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