Informed and reflective research is crucial to ensuring equitable outcomes for researchers and participants.
These resources are aimed at researchers, academic supervisors, and graduate students who are researching in Indigenous spaces, topics, or communities. They will assist in exploring the issues, challenges, and adaptations needed to make research practice ethical.
Thanks to all the researchers for sharing their lived research experiences for this resources page.
For information pertaining to research projects at CDU, the Northern Institute is the main hub for research expertise with researchers being recognised nationally and internationally as leaders in their fields.
Research at the Northern Institute
is undertaken in a positive view of living in remote and regional contexts
recognises the leadership that people in the region diverse lives and knowledge systems
appreciates the value of understanding diversity is a strength.
Indigenous people are a significant portion of the population in Northern Australia, who manage a large proportion of the region's land and sea country and reflect a high social and economic investment of high priority.
Professor Steve Larkin - PHD journey
Professor Steven Larkin, Former Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership, CDU - Current CEO Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
The use of innovative Projection Augmented Physical Landscape technology is bringing science and local Indigenous knowledge together in a way that facilitates two-way learning about environmental history and science in the very diverse, cross-cultural, cross-linguistic space of northern Australia.
Dr Woodroffe’s research explores the importance of pre-service Indigenous cultural teacher education in the urban context by talking to both new and more experienced teachers.
Dr Sarah Ireland discusses her work in the remote region of Arnhem Land
Dr Ireland's research project, 'Caring for Mum on Country', looks at how Indigenous knowledge can be used to empower women to become "Doula", Indigenous childbirth companions.