Key publications and outcomes
Academics and researchers are active in contributing to a range of publications.
Recent key publications
This book chapter by UQ Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and Dr Abraham Bradfield notes broad community debate over whether Australia’s colonial past and present should be celebrated through public monuments, statues, place names, and re-enactments. The UQ authors consider how colonial monuments in Cairns and Cooktown maintain white hegemonic discourses of colonisation, where coloniality is envisioned as ‘progress’ and ‘modernity’. They also discuss how monuments, statues and re-enactments function as sites of colonial resistance. .
Gilbert, Stephanie, Irvine, Rachel, D'or, Melissa, Adam, Marc T. P., Collins, Clare E., Marriott, Rhonda, Rollo, Megan E., Walker, Roz and Rae, Kym M. (2023). Indigenous women and their nutrition during pregnancy: Study Protocol for co-designed m-health resource for the ‘Mums and Bubs Deadly Diets’ project (Preprint). JMIR Research Protocols, 12, e45983. doi: 10.2196/45983 .
Gilbert S, Irvine R, D'or M, Adam M, Collins C, Marriott R, Rollo M, Walker R, Rae K Indigenous Women and Their Nutrition During Pregnancy (the Mums and Bubs Deadly Diets Project): Protocol for a Co-designed mHealth Resource Development Study JMIR Res Protoc 2023;12:e45983 DOI: 10.2196/45983 .
Led by UQ Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Deputy 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, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and Dr 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
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.