Opportunities and resilience: Enablers to address barriers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to commence and complete higher degree research programs

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Griffith University
Indigenous Research Unit

The research for this project was undertaken at a large, multi-campus, metropolitan Australian university and involved a qualitative, culturally appropriate research design based on yarning circles and interviews with Indigenous HDR candidates and interviews with HDR supervisors. The research was undertaken by Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers with advice provided by the Indigenous community at the university to ensure cultural safety. Highlighting the central role of supervisors and system-wide university support, the most significant finding of the research is that although additional research and university commitments can be barriers, other research/ work opportunities enable completion. The findings suggest that in addressing under-representation of Indigenous people in HDR and academia in Australia, universities need to provide strategic attention to how they engage, support and recognise achievements of Indigenous people in HDR while also being cognisant of individuals’ competing responsibilities.

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Opportunities and resilience: Enablers to address barriers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to commence and complete higher degree research programs
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Journal article
Authors
Hutchings, Kate Bodle, Kerry Miller, Adrian
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Australian Aboriginal Studies
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© 2018. Research in Higher Education. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.