Indigenous

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) welcomes the Federal Government’s response to Building Australia’s Research Capacity, the final report from the House of Representatives Inquiry into Research Training and Research Workforce Issues in Australian Universities.

•Continuing, Full time (2 x positions)
•HEW General Level 6 - $66,618 – 72,129 (Incl. Super.)
•Albury-Wodonga or Bathurst or Dubbo or Orange or Wagga Wagga

The School of English, Media Studies and Art History (EMSAH) is a vibrant interdisciplinary academic community and offers considerable scope to cultivate approaches to research, teaching and learning informed by the emerging discipline of Indigenous Knowledge. We have recently commenced a pilot project to embed Indigenous Knowledge across the School’s research and teaching activities ahead of a major outreach project to Indigenous stakeholders.

The Centre for Design (CfD), RMIT University is offering three PhD students to undertake a research project "More than a roof overhead: Meeting the Need for a Sustainable Housing System in Remote Indigenous Communities". The research takes a broad, whole-of-system and interdisciplinary approach in research on the delivery and management of remote Indigenous housing, where the key challenge is to design, build and manage housing as an integrated and sustainable system.

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The Ngarara Willim Indigenous Centre is a specialist centre at RMIT University, which through case management approaches provides assistance and support to Indigenous students to enhance achievement of their academic goals and success in their courses/programs.

* CBD location
* Salary between $55,403-$59,972 per annum + super (pro-rata)
* Fixed term opportunity

A young indigenous student has been officially presented with a $30,000 scholarship provided by the NSW Government to help create exciting education and career opportunities in the sport and recreation industry.

Sport and Recreation minister Kevin Greene met with scholarship winner Todd Mackay at the Campbelltown campus of the University of Western Sydney late last week to congratulate him.

“Todd Mackay, a first year undergraduate studying a Bachelor of Health Science here at UWS, will receive $10,000 a year for up to three years of study,” Mr Greene said.

CHARLES Darwin University is setting a new standard for Australian universities with its latest appointment.

Darwin-born Steven Larkin will be the highest-ranking indigenous person in an Australian university when he takes up the position of pro vice-chancellor of indigenous leadership in January next year.

"I'm still somewhat overwhelmed," he said.

"This appointment is history-making."

The position, which is intended to make the university's indigenous studies the best in the nation, is the first of its kind in Australia.

KOORIE Footprints to Higher Education program took out the University Pathways Award at the Wurreker Awards, recently held at the Aboriginal Advancement League in Melbourne.

From small beginnings the program has been growing in momentum and interest within the Koorie community of Gippsland, according to a spokesperson.

The program is run through Federal Government funding acquired by the Gippsland Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University, Churchill.

The Australian National University is re-establishing their Diversity Unit, and is hiring for an Indigenous Employment Adviser and a Senior Consultant Diversity and Inclusion.

The House of Representatives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee will return to Canberra to hold its next public hearing for its inquiry into Indigenous enterprise development.

In this first public hearing of the spring parliamentary sittings, the Committee will draw on the advice of the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations Anthony Bevan.