Samantha Disbray

I am Senior Lecturer in Endangered Languages, and convenor of the Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Language Revitalisation. I am also an active researcher, with several projects on Indigenous language revitalisation and maintenance in Central Australia and in Queensland. My approach to both teaching and research is collaborative, community-guided and applied. This informed by my on-going self-reflexivity as a non-Indigenous woman and my experience living and working on unceded Kaurna, Arrernte, Warumungu, Warlpiri, Pintupi-Luritja country and, since moving to the University of Queensland in 2019, Jagera and Turrbal country. I have supervisory expertise in Indigenous language revitalisation and the sociology of language, including languages in education, language policy and planning and language in the arts. The research I am commited to generates both academic publications and high impact non-traditional research outputs. I have published 15 articles, 11 book chapters, 4 books, including a Warumungu learner's dictionary and a co-edited volume. I have co-developed and co-curated two exhibitions, created curriculum and learning materials, compiled a language teacher resource books and image bank for language, teaching, and co-authored commissioned reports and reviews in languages education and languages policy. Languages education, Bilingual education, Indigenous languages reclamation, revitalisation and maintenance, Discourse studies

[2025] Book Chapter: Disrupting, decentring and diversifying languages and cultures in Australian higher education [2025] Book Chapter: Teaching First Nations languages in Queensland schools [2025] Other Outputs: Wangka Walytja: the life and times of the Papunya Literature Production Centre [2024] Book Chapter: Pathways to teaching global languages: challenges, opportunities, and implications for Asian language teachers in Australian schools [2023] Book Chapter: University-school partnerships [2023] Book Chapter: Indigenous children’s language practices in Australia