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Dr Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews
Dr Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, of the D’hawaral nation, was awarded his PhD in 2008, with the main focus of the research being on the causal impact of multiple dimensions of self-concept, motivation and perceptions of racial discrimination over varying schooling outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian secondary students. From this he has developed a keen interest in Structural Equation Modelling techniques applied to the disciplines of cross-cultural, social and educational psychology. He is currently heading an Australian Research Council (ARC) Indigenous Researchers Development Grant seeking to quantitatively and qualitatively examine the relations between positive psychology constructs, racial discrimination, and academic engagement and achievement patterns for Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth. He is also a CI on another ARC project, and a PI/mentor on another two ARC post-doctorate grants. Due to his experience across a diversity of research projects, he has strong experience in developing robust research designs, piloting and developing psychometrically sound instrumentation, administering surveys, conducting interviews across a wide range of age-groups, and undertaking advanced quantitative and qualitative data analysis. His research has also attracted a number of national and international awards, and he currently has seven journal publications and 19 peer reviewed conference publications.
Qualifications
BA (UWS), BA Hons (UWS), PhD (UWS)
Grants and Current Projects
Wingara Mangami (To Follow the Dream of Understanding): Seeding Innovative Intervention Success to Challenge and Prevent Racism for Indigenous Youth (ARC Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development Project)
Seeding Success and Research-Based Intervention for Aboriginal Students (ARC Linkage)
Selected Publications
Craven, R.G., & Bodkin-Andrews, G.H. (2011) What research tells us. In R. G. Craven (Ed), Teaching Aboriginal studies. Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
Bodkin-Andrews, G.H., O’Rourke, V., Grant, R., Denson, N. & Craven, R.G. (2011) Validating Racism and Cultural Respect: Understanding the Educational Impact of Perceived Discrimination and Multiculturation for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Students. Educational Research and Evaluation, 16(6), 471-493.
Bodkin-Andrews, G., Dillon, A. & Craven, R. (2010) Bangawarra'gumada - Strengthening the Spirit: Causal modelling of academic self-concept and patterns of disengagement for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australian students. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 39, 24-39.
Bodkin-Andrews, G.H., Seaton, M., Nelson, G. F. Craven, R.G. & Yeung, A.S. (2010) Questioning the General Self-Esteem Vaccine: General Self-Esteem, Racial Discrimination, and Standardised Achievement across Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Students. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 20(1), 1-21.
Bodkin-Andrews, G. H., O, Rourke, V. & Craven, R. G. (2010) The utility of General self-esteem and domain specific self-concepts: Their influence on Indigenous and non-Indigenous students’ educational outcomes. Australian Journal of Education, 54(3), 277-306.
Bodkin-Andrews, G.H., Ha, M.T., Craven, R.G. & Yeung, A.S. (2010) Construct Validation and Latent Mean Differences for the Self-Concepts of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Students. International Journal of Testing, 10(1), 47-79.
Bodkin-Andrews, G., Ha, M.T., Craven, R.G. & Yeung, A.S. (2010) Factorial invariance testing and latent mean differences for the Self-Description Questionnaire II (Short Version) with Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian secondary school students. International Journal of Testing, 10, 47-79.
Bodkin, F., Bodkin-Andrews, G. & Robertson, L. (2008) Wiritjiribin: The first Lyrebird. Wildlife Australia Magazine, 45(4), 35-37.
Bodkin-Andrews, G.H., & Craven, R.G. (2007) Smothering or smouldering: The dark side of motivation in Indigenous Australian students. In N. Parbury & R. G. Craven (Eds), Aboriginal studies: Making the connections (Collected papers of the 12th National Aboriginal Studies Association Conference, November, 2-3, 2006, 146-165). Sydney, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Association.
Craven, R.G., & Bodkin-Andrews, G. (2006) New Solutions for Addressing Indigenous Mental Health: A Call to Counsellors to Introduce the New Positive Psychology of Success. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 16(1), 41-54.
