Media Release
September 25 2006
UniSA puts the spotlight on Indigenous research
The University of South Australia will host the 8th National
Indigenous Researchers Forum next week from Monday September 25 to
Tuesday September 27 at City West campus with almost 70 delegates
attending and 30 presentations representing the wide range of modern
Indigenous research in Australia today.
From health and sociology, to literature, education, children’s
development, performance art and sustainable tourism, the Forum will
bring together an eclectic mix of topics that reflect Indigenous
perspectives and excellence in Indigenous research.
Launching the exciting program Dean and Head of School at UniSA’s David
Unaipon Indigenous College of Education and Research,
Peter Buckskin, said the national forum was a showcase for the
innovative research being undertaken in universities, health and
research organisations and importantly in the communities around the
country.
Buckskin says the forum will focus on Indigenous methodologies,
Indigenous voices in research, and the implications for future research.
“It is the scholars who gather for this forum that are instigating and
cultivating a vital revival of the Indigenous capacity to problem solve
and tap into intellectual reasoning, thought and scholarship.” Prof
Buckskin said.
“The Forum is an important opportunity for Indigenous researchers to
share Indigenous thought and scholarship and promote their credentials
in the research arena.”
Buckskin says there is a burgeoning Indigenous research community in
Australia helping to build the capacity to respond to community needs,
problems and issues from a foundation of evidence-based research which
has an Indigenous sensibility and perception.
“This two-day event is an important way of sharpening our own notion of
what it is to be engaged in Indigenous research, how we can move forward
in our scholarship and how we ensure academic and cultural credibility.
I hope it will also give others a sense of the strength and depth of the
research being undertaken by a new generation of brilliant Indigenous
scholars.”
Details about the forum including abstracts of the research
presentations are
available
online.
Media contact
- Michèle Nardelli office (08) 8302 0966 mobile 0418 823 673 email michele,nardelli@unisa.edu.au
More information
- Peter Buckskin office (08) 8302 9148 email peter.buckskin@unisa.edu.au