Azra Coombe

Azra Coombe is a Ngarrindjeri, Narungga, and Kaurna woman with extensive experience in Indigenous education and community engagement. She worked for seven years as an Aboriginal Secondary Education Transitions Officer with the Department for Education and has been a secondary school teacher for six years. Azra holds a Bachelor of Education (Honours), focusing on Ngarrindjeri ways of being, doing, and knowing, particularly in the classroom context through relationality. Currently, she serves as a Lecturer and Topic Coordinator in Critical Indigenous Studies at Flinders University, where she mentors Indigenous students within the College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, as well as the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Azra is also one of our leaders in the First Nation Researcher's Collective. In the final year of her PhD candidacy where she is undertaking research of Indigenous ways of being, doing , and knowing as a means to challenge settler-colonial educational systems. Her research and outreach efforts extend to Aboriginal-controlled services and organisations, and education services and organisation, with a strong passion for building capacity and sustainability of Indigenous peoples in educational settings.

• Critical Indigenous pedagogies
• Education
• Indigenous research methodologies 

Azra is the recipient of the 2023 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Early Career Mentoring Program. She was also a recipient of the Professor Lowitja O’Donoghue Indigenous Student Postgraduate Research Scholarship at Flinders University.