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26 October 2009
$1.8 M for talented Indigenous Australian researchers
The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, today announced funding of $1.8 million for nine Indigenous Australian researchers under the Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development scheme.
“Through this scheme, the Rudd Government is supporting our most talented Indigenous researchers to use their unique experiences, skills and knowledge to strengthen and diversify Australia's research capacity and capabilities,” Senator Carr said.
“Of the nine projects announced, six will be led by female Indigenous researchers and three by male Indigenous researchers.
“The $1.8 million investment will see these talented Australians and their teams conduct research that will:
- close the educational gap for Aboriginal primary students in low density schools;
- gain Indigenous perspectives on museums, cultural representation and the equivocal digital remnant; and
- assess foreign observations of Aboriginal people and British colonisation.
“This funding round is the first to include the prestigious Australian Research Fellowship – Indigenous, a senior addition to the current Indigenous Researcher Fellowships.
“As part of these funding outcomes, two outstanding senior Indigenous researchers will receive these new fellowships.
“The Australian Research Council’s Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development scheme is a further example of the Australian Government’s commitment to providing opportunities for Indigenous academics and supporting fundamental research and research training by Indigenous Australians.”
A summary of the Discovery Indigenous Researchers scheme funding outcomes is attached.
More information about the scheme and funding outcomes is available at www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/dird/dird_outcomes.htm.| Media contacts: | ||
Catriona Jackson |
Senator Carr’s office |
0417 142 238 |
Summary of Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development 2010 funding
- The Australian National University will investigate and enhance the historical understanding of British colonialism of Aboriginal people and their experience in the first half of the nineteenth-century.
- The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education aims to provide a comprehensive review in best practice for exhibition of Indigenous culture in major mainstream museums both nationally and internationally.
- The Flinders University of South Australia will further enhance archaeological knowledge of Aboriginal daily life after contact with European settlers in fringe campsites in the urban hinterland around Darwin.
- James Cook University will develop predictive tools for use in assessing the potential impacts such as climate change, commercial and traditional fishing, and coastal development, on the marine ecosystem of the Torres Strait.
- The University of Sydney will make use of digital reproduction technologies to enable broader access to Yolngu materials held in museums worldwide for Indigenous communities.
- University of Technology, Sydney, will study the political history of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act (1983) including how land rights have developed for Aboriginal people.
- University of Western Sydney will investigate acidification and temperature changes and how this may affect the ecologically and economically important Australian oyster industry. They will also look at culturally inclusive teaching methods with an aim to reduce the gap in the education of Aboriginal students. In addition, Indigenous youth and racism will be investigated with aims to develop interventions, policies and practices in secondary schools.
