PhD success – Gabrielle Fletcher (Institute of Koorie Education)

Congratulations to Gabrielle Fletcher for confirmation of her Ph D.

Gabrielle’s thesis A Theatre of Post/Colonial Redaction: Mapping the terrains of an Aboriginal Self, has been awarded with No Change through the University of Newcastle 22^nd of February, 2019.

The study draws from lived experience and interrogates the exterior and interior spaces and terrains of a Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) in New South Wales as a post/colonial theatre. The work is testimony of showing and being in Country through storying, and seeks to engage a restorative process in forging improved relationships from those interiors of experience that have been silenced and hidden.

The examiners comments describe this a brilliant thesis, “par excellence”, demonstrating originality and exhaustive intellectual care and one that” shakes the reader”.

Well done Gabby, we acknowledge the depth and excellence of your work. We look forward to hearing that your Ph D is confirmed and that you are wearing the mantle of “Doctor”!