Coordinator and Regional Agents
The Coordinator of the network is Mark Linkson, a non-Indigenous classroom teacher with many years of experience successfully working as an educator across cultures. He has lived and taught in many remote Aboriginal communities and Torres Strait Islander communities of Australia including Wadeye, Galiwinku, Thursday Island, Warraber and Poruma. He also wrote science curriculum support materials for Aboriginal schools in the Northern Territory for four years in Darwin and was then a Science Curriculum Advisor for Torres Strait Island schools, before moving to Cairns with sixteen years of Indigenous teacher education (RATEP) with TAFE Queensland and James Cook University. Taking leave from TAFE for two years, he lived in Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates and worked as an English teacher and school administrator. He now works as a Principal Project Officer with the Queensland Education Department supporting the promotion and teaching of First Nations languages in all Queensland schools.
Regional Agents
To assist the Coordinator in the gathering and collation of locally relevant stories, and to ensure more items of First Nations science from across the globe, the network has appointed the following members to act as Regional Agents:
PASIFIKA
Ron VAVE, Coastal Studies Institute, East Carolina University, USA (from Suva, FIJI)
AFRICA
Keith LANGERHOVEN, University of the Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICA
Sina Joshua FAKOYEDE, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, NIGERIA
ASIA
Prem PHYAK, Chinese University of Hong Kong, CHINA
Indra Mani RAI, Tribhuvan University, NEPAL
Shalini DHYANI, The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, INDIA
AMERICAS
Coimbra SIRICA, Burness Global, USA
EUROPE
Michael Reiss, UCL Institute of Education, London UK