A/ProfNina Burridge

Dr Nina Burridge is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney.
She has been involved in tertiary education since 1991 in Education faculties at Macquarie University and the University of Sydney. She joined UTS as a full time academic in 2005. She was the founding director of the Institute of Aboriginal Studies and Research at Macquarie University from 1997 - 1999. She was the Co-Director of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre at UTS from 2008 to 2015. Prior to her involvement in higher education she was a high school teacher in History and the Social Sciences in schools in Perth, West Australia and Sydney, NSW.
Her main research interests and publications centre on Education for social justice and human rights within Australia and in international contexts. She has completed projects on Indigenous Education, Multiculturalism, human rights education and democratic citizenship and women’s empowerment in Afghanistan.

She sees herself as an academic whose involvement in community organisations and social action groups informs her professional work in Education. Nina has held a number of community based positions including chairperson of the Don Chipp Foundation, board member of the Burdekin Association - a non-profit organisation working with homeless youth and she is involved with a number of local community organisations.

In 2012 and 2016 she was recognised with high commendations in the University of Technology’s human rights awards for her work in promoting education for women locally and internationally. In 2007 she received the Edmund Rice Centre Human Rights Award for outstanding service in campaigning for human rights for 'Indigenous, Refugees and Asylum Seekers.