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Examples of new Discovery Indigenous Projects in 2012
Discovery Indigenous Projects totalling $3 850 751 covering 10 projects
The University of Western Australia
Promoting positive perinatal mental health, parenting, cultural and spiritual wellbeing, and resilience in Aboriginal parents in Western Australia (IN120100026)
Summary: With community engagement, this three year study will use existing and new data to investigate the relationships between selected indicators of perinatal mental health and positive parenting. It will promote positive perinatal mental health, parenting, cultural and spiritual wellbeing, and resilience in young Aboriginal parents in two sites in Western Australia.
Chief Investigator: Professor Rhonda P Marriott
ARC funding: $735 000
University of South Australia
Still in my mind: Gurindji experience, location and visuality (IN120100048)
Summary: This project will develop an innovative historical account of the effects of pictorial representation of Aboriginal identity, using visual, ethnographic and archival sources. It will investigate and critique the impact of ethno-centric codification through which Aboriginal peoples have been framed and refracted throughout the 19th century and into the 21st century, from a specific Gurindji standpoint.
Chief Investigator: Ms Brenda L Croft
ARC funding: $666 000
University of Technology Sydney
Indigenous women and entrepreneurship in NSW (IN120100053)
Summary: This research will provide an understanding of the experiences of Aboriginal women in Indigenous enterprises (private and social) in urban, regional and rural New South Wales and investigate the economic and social contributions that they and their enterprises make to Aboriginal communities and Australian society.
Chief Investigator: Ms Sonya J Pearce
ARC funding: $104 000
The University of Western Australia
Cultural continuity and change: Indigenous solutions to mental health issues (IN120100056)
Summary: This project will investigate the Aboriginal understandings of mental health in Aboriginal populations in Perth and in Broome. Concepts of cultural continuity and social and emotional well-being will be examined, and the outcomes of this will inform services and policy to better meet the mental health needs of Indigenous people.
Chief Investigator: Dr Pat Dudgeon
ARC funding: $609 224
The Australian National University
Early collections of Warlpiri cultural heritage and resulting community access needs in remote desert Australia(IN120100008)
Summary: Led by Warlpiri elder, Steven Wanta Patrick, this project will assess collections of Warlpiri cultural heritage. It will address the enormous Warlpiri interest in gaining access to their cultural heritage, and use these for local initiatives that improve youth engagement with tradition, dialogues across generations and cultures, and community well-being.
Chief Investigator: Mr Steven W Patrick
ARC funding: $530 000
The University of New South Wales
Indigenous persistence in formal learning (IN120100021)
Summary: This project will improve knowledge of the learning experiences of Indigenous students transiting from TAFE to university studies. The results will have significant implications for the ways Indigenous students can be supported in their studies in order to achieve better quality learning experiences and learning outcomes.
Chief Investigator: Professor Nicholas M Nakata
ARC funding: $693 000
The University of Sydney
More than family history: race, gender and the Aboriginal family in Australian history (IN120100065)
Summary: This project will explore Aboriginal family histories. Historical processes and complex interplays of race and gender within the colonial period across space and over time make for complex layering in diverse Aboriginal families. Research into Aboriginal family formation reveals a strong basis for identity and wellbeing through telling foundational stories within the narrative of the nation.
Chief Investigator: Dr Victoria L Grieves
ARC funding: $240 000
Macquarie University
Enhancing the quality of academic supervision provided to Indigenous Australian doctoral students (IN120100006)
Summary: This project will undertake a detailed investigation into the supervision provided to Indigenous Australians who now hold a doctoral qualification in order to identify successful supervision strategies. A best-practice model for the supervision of Indigenous doctoral students will be constructed as a resource for all academics.
Chief Investigator: Dr Michelle Trudgett
ARC funding: $109 527
The University of New South Wales
Reading the Nation: A critical study of Aboriginal/settler representations in the contemporary Australian literary landscape (IN120100009)
Summary: This project will map literary representations of Aboriginal Australians by non-Aboriginal authors in the post-Mabo period, and the reciprocal representations by Aboriginal Australians. This is a study of the politics of representation that play out between Aboriginal and white Australians in the contemporary literary landscape.
Chief Investigator: Dr Jeanine A Leane
ARC funding: $41 000
The University of Western Australia
Developing narratives from language and stories indigenous to the south coast of Western Australia. (IN120100052)
Summary: Over time linguists have collected Indigenous language narratives. This research project involves returning these narratives to the descendants of the people who first created human society in their part of the world. It will investigate the extent to which an Indigenous language and its stories can inform contemporary writing in English about Australian identity.
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Kim J Scott
ARC funding: $123 000
