Research

How do people understand themselves living on Indigenous Country?


The School of Indigenous Australian Studies uses an interdisciplinary definition of Indigenous education and research to deliver internationally recognised and high-quality research that addresses how people come to know themselves living on Indigenous lands.

Our staff serve on many professional associations both internally and externally, including:

They have research partnerships with the Australian Research Council, Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owner Corporation and Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority.

Research supervision

Our staff have a diverse research range of expertise and interests and can supervise Higher Degree Research students in the following areas:

AreaSupervisor
Indigenous and Indigenist research methodologies Sue Green
Jay Phillips 
Nick Ruddell 
Racial stereotyping and news media Holly Randall-Moon
Online pedagogies Jay Phillips
Social memories and oral histories Peta Jeffries
Western and Indigenous knowledge systems in Science education Nick Ruddell
Reviving Indigenous Cultures and Knowledges Sue Green
Peta Jeffries 
Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledges Peta Jeffries
Co-construction of social and ecological knowledges Peta Jeffries
Barriers to self-determination for Aboriginal business owners and operators Peta Jeffries

Green, S. (2019) Indigenising Social Work in Bennett, B., Green, S., & Bessarab, D. (eds) Our Voices. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Work.  Palgrave Macmillian, Vic. 2nd edition

Green, S. (2019) Cultural Support in Bennett, B., Green, S., Gilbert, D. Bessarab, D. (eds) Our Voices. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Work.  Palgrave Macmillian, Vic. 2nd edition

Green, S. (2019) Aboriginal Welfarisation in Bennett, B., Green, S., Gilbert, D. Bessarab, D. (eds) Our Voices.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Work.  Palgrave Macmillian, Vic. 2nd edition

Green, S. Russ-Smith, J., & Tynan, L. (2018). Claiming the space, creating the future. Australian Journal of Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004944118802594

Phillips, J., & Luke, A. (2017). Two worlds apart: Indigenous community perspectives and non-Indigenous teacher perspectives on Australian schools. In W. T. Pink & G. W. Noblit (Eds.), Second international handbook of urban education (pp. 959-996). Springer.

Randell-Moon, H. (2019). Stereotype threat. In R. Hobbs & P. Mihailidis (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy Education. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.

Randell-Moon, H. (Ed.) (2017). Incarceration, migration and Indigenous sovereignty: Thoughts on existence and resistance in racist times. Dunedin: Space, Race, Bodies. https://www.spaceracebodies3.com/Incarceration,%20Migration%20and%20Indigenous%20Sovereignty.pdf

Randell-Moon, H. (2017). Thieves like us: The British monarchy, celebrity and settler colonialism. Celebrity Studies, 8(3), 393-408.

Ruddell, N. Beyond the middle school science classroom: Using social media to connect the indigenous sky stories community [online]. Teaching Science, Vol. 65, No. 2, Jun 2019: 38-47.

Ruddell, N., Danaia, L., & McKinnon, D. H. (2016). Indigenous sky stories: Reframing how we introduce primary school students to astronomy — a type II case study of implementation. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 45(2), 170-180. doi: 10.1017/jie.2016.21

Doing Indigenous Urban Research

Our seminar series centers Indigenous expertise and history to contemporary urban problems in Australia and demonstrates the relevance of Indigenist research approaches to international urban studies.

Indigenous Research Summit

The summits provide an interactive forum to discuss how Charles Sturt University can usefully respond to the needs of our local communities and agencies through research partnerships.

Critical Transdisciplinary Indigenous Studies Research Group

Our group promotes First Nations ownership and authorship of knowledge and data sovereignty.

Find out about our research group and our next seminar series.