Key publications and outcomes
Academics and researchers are active in contributing to a range of publications.
Recent key publications
Led by UQ Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), along with Abraham Bradfield, Sue McAvoy, James Ward, Shea Spierings, Troy Combo and Agnes Toth-Peter, this feature article examines how to counter the impact of conspiracy theories on vaccination rates in Indigenous communities.
Authored by UQ Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and Abraham Bradfield: Everywhere we look there are symbols and images that shape and reflect our understandings and responses to the world. Uniforms are such symbols, portraying messages about a person’s role, status, value, or political leanings. Uniforms have long been used in political activism and social movements/uprisings, quickly communicating that its members are part of a united front. This paper explores the importance of a uniformed response to the Uluru Statement of the Heart campaign. We consider how hearts have been used to unite supporters both physically and on social media. Digital icons, t-shirts, broaches, and jewellery all function as platforms through which to communicate the need for constitutional reform. In this paper, we argue that a constitutionally enshrined First Nations’ Voice to Parliament lies at the heart of the campaign, and discuss how supporters of the Uluru Statement are unform in their call for a referendum..
Led by UQ Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, this research was conducted under the NCSEHE Research Grants Program, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment.
NCSEHE Equity Fellowship Final Report by Dr Katelyn Barney, the University of Queensland.
This Equity Fellowship has focused on outreach programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and examines “what works” and what could be improved in these programs. Most universities are running outreach initiatives for Indigenous high school students. Many of these programs involve week-long, intensive camp experiences that bring school students onto university campuses for information sessions, workshops and events that attempt to demystify university culture and cultivate a sense of belonging to build and sustain student engagement. The theoretical case for these initiatives is strong, as much data exists about the barriers Indigenous students face in entering university. However, before this Fellowship occurred, the research and evidence base for these equity programs remained largely underdeveloped and limited (Bennett et al., 2015; Gore et al., 2017b).
Bunda, Tracey, Angus, Lynnell, Wilson, Sybilla, Strasek-Barker, Mia, Griffiths, Kealey, Schober, Lucas, Scanlan, Thomas, Mishiro, Keiko and Eagles, Vanessa (2022). Introduction to the Language of Relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Guide. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/0c80049
Using Systems Thinking to Better Understand Risks and Protective Factors for Urban Indigenous Peoples during COVID-19
Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Dr Sue McAvoy, Professor James Ward, Troy Combo, Shea Spierings, Agnes Toth-Peter, Dr Abraham Bradfield
About the Project: This innovative, systems thinking study was conducted at the University of Queensland and was funded through the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (NHMRC CRE), the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies (APPRISE, AppID 1116530) through a donation from the Paul Ramsay Foundation.
Qi, Jing, Manathunga, Catherine, Singh, Michael and Bunda, Tracey (2022). ‘Histories of knowledges’ for research education. Higher Education Research and Development, 1-15. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2022.2040445
r e a (2022). The Power, Politics and Poetics of Wiradjuri Artist Karla Dickens. Carriageworks.
Gilbert, Stephanie (2020). The treadmill of identity: treading water, paddling like a duck but still in the same pond. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 45 (2), 249-266. doi: 10.1080/13200968.2020.1805922
Barney, Katelyn and Solomon, Lexine (2022). Sharing languages through contemporary song in the third space: a case study of intercultural collaboration between Indigenous Australian, Polynesian, and Melanesian women. Mixing Pop and Politics. (pp. 25-37) New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429284526-3
Gilbert, Stephanie (2019). Living with the past: the creation of the stolen generation positionality. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 15 (3), 226-233. doi: 10.1177/1177180119869373
Led by UQ Professor of Indigenous Research, Brendan Hokowhitu along with John Oetzel, Anne-Marie Jackson, Mary Simpson, Stacey Ruru, Michael Cameron, Yingsha Zang, Bevan Erueti, Poia Rewi, Sophie Nock and Isaac Warbrick, this article featured in the influential Indigenous Studies journal, Alternative, and employed the concepts of ‘mana motuhake’ (political self-governance) and biopolitics to challenge the current apoliticism of Māori health models.
UQ Professor of Indigenous Research, Brendan Hokowhitu, led the editorship of this handbook working alongside Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson and Professors Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Chris Andersen and Steve Larkin. This groundbreaking handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of critical Indigenous studies scholarship.
Publisher: Magabala Books/ATSISU. Growing up Wiradjuri is a collection of personal stories by Wiradjuri Elders. The writers are Uncles and Aunties who came of age in New South Wales in the 1950s and 1960s.
Publisher: PlayLab. In 2019, La Boite and QPAC began an exciting new project with acclaimed author, Anita Heiss adapting the much loved Tiddas to stage!
Publisher: Magabala Books. An insightful and humorous story of a young girl's determination to be who she wants to be.