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Indigenous knowledge, challenges and opportunities
Our research prioritises Indigenous ways of knowing, doing and being, drawing on non-Western epistemologies and ontologies.
Our research supports the political empowerment, cultural strengths and overall wellbeing of Indigenous peoples, both in Australia and globally.
Areas of specialisation
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges and management
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Indigenous data, methodologies and global Indigenous studies
- Gender studies
- Māori culture, language and history
- Pacific peoples, culture, language and history.
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Research highlights
The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures is committed to collaborative public works and ensuring our research is accessible to Indigenous peoples and communities. By ‘public works’ we mean scholarly and other outputs as a result of our research and collaborations.
Our researchers have broad industry, government agency, community and digital media partnerships including:
- ANROWS
- Black Rainbow
- Media Diversity Australia – with support from the ABC, Google, Twitter, Meta Alanna and Madeline Foundation
- Meta
- Office of e-Safety Commissioner
- Optus
- The Commission for Gender Equity in the Public Sector
- Translationz.
Research news
Read more about the breakthroughs happening in the areas of research relating to Indigenous studies.