Diversity Week
Indigenous Australia and the Future Lecture/Workshop
Wednesday 5th August
1.30pm-3.30pm
Library-Molly Thompson Room
s s for students and staff
Register with Naomi Gray (naomi.gray@mq.edu.au)
Presented by Prof Irabinna Rigney
1.30pm-2.30pm Pt I
Integrating Indigenous peoples and knowledges in Australian Universities
Australian Universities in general pride themselves on being 'people places', while valuing 'engagement' between various communities they serve. Most seek to improve the human condition by advancing knowledge, fostering innovation while valuing excellence in research and scholarship [learning], education and diversity. The external environment for Indigenous engagement within which universities operate provides both challenges and opportunities. Indigenous participation in higher education remains significantly less than their peers. The 2009 Bradley Review identified Indigenous students and other lower SES students under-represented in higher education and set targets to increase to 20% proportion of disadvantaged students participating in university by 2020. Professor Rigney will outline an explicit university wide strategy to increase Indigenous participation and engage with Indigenous communities to meet 21st century challenges.
2.30pm Afternoon Tea
2.45pm-3.30pm Pt II
Indigenous Research Ethics and Methodologies
Professor Rigney is recognised as a national and international authority in the area of Indigenist Research Methodologies. The paper will explore the practical issues of Institutional ethics in Indigenous research and the methodologies of choice by Indigenous researchers themselves.