Ms Madison Shakespeare

Madison Shakespeare is a multi-disciplinary lawyer and filmmaker who has developed extensive academic and pedagogical experience writing and coordinating all units of the Indigenous Major at Western Sydney University over the past six years. Identifying proudly as a First Nation Australian, a salt water woman born on Gadigal Country of Kin from Nations across New South Wales, Madison is humbled to be entrusted with facilitating ways through which to engage all students in culturally-specific learning journeys.

With valuable cultural interface research experience as a member of the Indigenous research team at Flinders’ University Southgate Institute of Social Determinants, Madison has extensive experience in stakeholder engagement in culturally-led research projects focused on addressing social determinants of Indigenous health and holistic wellbeing.  

As the SA Project Office of the national Ironbark Project and with ongoing research work in an NHMRC grant "Decolonising practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care", she has been formative in contributions leading to the development of specific program logic models necessary to decolonise public health and research and in transdisciplinary forums 

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