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Below is a recent article by one of the Indigenous Scholars at Western Sydney University. It shares critical reflections about some of the assumptions underpinning the research process, ethical engagement with Indigenous communities, and research participants and to outline researcher responsibilities.
Disciplining the Savages Savaging the Disciplines by Call Number: 306.072 13ISBN: 9780855755485Publication Date: 2007-03-01This book, provides an alternative reading for those struggling at the contradictory and, ambiguous intersections of academia and Indigenous experience.
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia by ISBN: 9781743820421Publication Date: 2018-04-16Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages.
Culture is inclusion : a narrative of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability by ISBN: 9780646990927Publication Date: 2018‘Culture is Inclusion’ is a remarkable and compelling story of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability presented in a unique way that combines traditional research methods and the concept of ‘yarning’.
Politics of Identity by ISBN: 9781922059963Publication Date: 2016-04-01This award-winning work explores the complexities surrounding contemporary Aboriginal identity. Drawing on a range of historical and research literature, interviews and surveys, The Politics of Identity explores Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal understandings of Aboriginality and the way these concepts are produced and reproduced across a range of sites and contexts.
White Possessive by ISBN: 9781452944586Publication Date: 2015-05-15The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration.
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture, New Edition. by ISBN: 9781925768954Publication Date: 2018ark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required.
Tracker : stories of Tracker Tilmouth by ISBN: 9781925336337Publication Date: 2017A collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth, who died in Darwin in 2015 at the age of 62. Taken from his family as a child and brought up in a mission on Croker Island, Tracker Tilmouth worked tirelessly for Aboriginal self-determination, creating opportunities for land use and economic development in his many roles, including Director of the Central Land Council of the Northern Territory.
Finding Eliza: power and colonial storytelling by Call Number: 305.89915 943ISBN: 9780702253904Publication Date: 2016-02-01A vital Indigenous perspective on colonial storytelling. Indigenous lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a starting point to interrogate how Aboriginal people - and indigenous people of other countries - have been portrayed in their colonisers' stories.
- Scott Avery - Scholarly Works
Scott's research in the area of Indigenous disability is of significance to Indigenous communities. Scott is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Community Development and Social Work and Community Welfare in the School of Social Sciences. - Stacey Kim Coates - Scholarly Work
Stacey is Education researcher who is currently undertaking a PhD in the synergies between the governance structures within Australian universities and outcomes in relation to Indigenous Leadership in Higher Education. - Renae Coleman - Scholarly Work
Renae is a descendent of the Boorooberongal people of the Darug Nation and a mother to three boys. She is a registered midwife, graduating from Western Sydney University’s Bachelor of Midwifery program. Renae has experience working across the full spectrum of midwifery and is a keen midwifery activist. Renae is an Associate Lecturer at Western Sydney University and the First Nations student support Liaison. - Professor Aunty Kerrie Doyle - Scholarly Work
Aunty Kerrie works in the School of Medicine as Professor of Indigenous Health. She researches issues around health and wellbeing. - Shirley Gilbert - Scholarly Work
Shirley is the Director of Academic Programs for the Indigenous Education within the School of Education. Shirley investigates Aboriginal education pedagogy. - Chantelle Khamchuang - Scholarly Work
Chantelle is an Aboriginal woman from the Dharug community in Sydney. Chantelle has a background as an Aboriginal Support Worker with the NSW Department of Education. Chantelle completed Honours in Psychology in 2020 at Western Sydney University. - Dr Michelle Lea Locke - Scholarly Work
Michelle is a Researcher at Western Sydney University. Michelle investigates early childhood education. - Tarren Leon - Scholarly Work
Tarren is a PhD Student and Research Assistant at Western Sydney University. - Dr Karen Menzies - Scholarly Work
Karen is Vice President of Winangay Resources, a small not-for-profit Aboriginal controlled non-government organisation which develops resources pro bono for Aboriginal practitioners working with Aboriginal families in the welfare sector. Karen’s expertise is sought across campus and beyond, and is a member of the UON Psychological Health Working Group, and the Children and Families Expert Panel based at the UON Family Action Centre. - Dr Dean Norris - Scholarly Work
Dean works in the School of Health Sciences as a Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Science at Western Sydney University. Dean is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sport and Exercise Health. - Professor Susan Page - Scholarly Work
Susan is the Director of Indigenous Learning and Teaching at Western Sydney University. Susan is an Aboriginal scholar, originally from Queensland, with over 25 years’ experience in the higher education sector. Her academic work and research focuses on Indigenous peoples' experience of learning and academic work in tertiary education, and student learning in Indigenous Studies. - Kayla Sale - Scholarly Work
Kayla currently works at the Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University. Kayla does research in Indigenous health and wellbeing. - Paul Saunders - Scholarly Work
Paul was recently been appointed to Western Sydney University as an Indigenous Research Fellow within both the School of Medicine and the Translational Health Research Institute. - Associate Professor Corrinne Sullivan - Scholarly Work
Corrinne is a Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University. Corrinne investigates issues around identity. - Professor Michelle Trudgett - Scholarly work
In her current role as Pro Vice-Chancellor, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education, Strategy and Consultation at Western Sydney University, Michelle is deeply passionate about ensuring that all students and staff at the University have the opportunity to meaningfully engage with Indigenous Knowledges.
- Professor Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews
Professor Bodkin-Andrews is from the D’harawal nation and grew up in Western Sydney. His research focuses on encapsulating and promoting Indigenous standpoints and perspectives across a range of disciplines, most notably education and psychology.
Too Dark To See
Too Dark To See is the latest instalment in the Generations of Knowledge project, led by Principal Researcher Melissa Williams, Director of the Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment and Engagement at Western Sydney University.
Generations of Knowledge
Generations of Knowledge : Commemorating the Lives and Contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander elders, leaders and pathmakers at the University of Western Sydney.
