Zane Diamond

Originally trained as a social worker in the 1970s, I worked in Australia, UK and Spain, returning to Australia in the late 1980s. I began my academic career in the 1990s, first undertaking a Diploma of Education specialising in Indigenous Education and went on to Honours in Sociology and Education. Achieving a University Medal, in 1993 I won an Australian government Research in Asia award to undertake my PhD studies in Thailand. In 1997-1998, I was the Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.

My teaching, supervision, and research spans organisational development, leadership development, professional skills development in mainstream service provision to Indigenous peoples, and theorising knowledge exchanges within complex, postcolonial democratic states. I have worked with schools across Australia and internationally, with clients such as Telstra, DIMIA, Visy, ADFA, and Victoria Police in organisational development programs, and have led collaborative research partnerships with universities and communities in Australia, Sweden, Slovak Republic, Canada, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.

In 2000, I co-edited and contributed to Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education laying the foundation for my theoretical work on the transfer of knowledge across a diversity of cultures under globalisation. The outcomes of my recent ARC Discovery Grant have been a national conference and a co-edited special edition of The Artefact journal honouring the work of Beth Gott. In 2012-2013, I co-led two research projects, the outcomes of which have informed government policy and produced publications on teacher standards in Indigenous Education.

My most recent publication is Leading and Managing Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World (Routledge 2014). I am also Editor of the ANZCIES flagship journal International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives.