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Read what other Indigenous researchers have to say...
“I have often had to do things on the run, or at a pace determined by the political expediencies, or funding deadlines, or in reaction to crises. Learning things in an institution that allows the time and space to integrate this learning is such a blessing, especially to be funded to do so!”
Kerry Arabena, Torres Strait Islander AIATSIS Visiting Research Fellow
Donna Oxenham, former Indigenous Visiting Research Scholar at AIATSIS
“The research environment at AIATSIS is much more relaxed and friendly compared with my experiences at University. As AIATSIS is a much smaller institution, dealing with less students it was able to provide greater support; a work space (and place) to further research, writing and thinking; and the Visiting Research Fellows were always available to provide valuable advice when needed.”
Valerie Cooms, Murri researcher and PhD student at Queensland University of Technology
“If you want serious Indigenous research, you have to pay for it. It’s good that AIATSIS has realised this through the Indigenous Researchers’ Fund. I had to wait until my kids had grown up before I could afford to do the research and study I am doing now. Everything I do is from an Indigenous perspective. In my current research, I have a 37 page bibliography and out of that probably only two are Indigenous authors. Unless there are more Indigenous people writing and publishing, there’s not a lot for other scholars to hang their theory on. You’ve got to get more Indigenous people doing post-graduate studies.”