Higher Degree by Research

Chapter 1: Academic practices: current strategies to attract and retain Indigenous HDR students in Australia.- Chapter 2: Capacity-building support for Indigenous HDR students via the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network.- Chapter 3: The role of agency in higher education: acquiring academic capital.- Chapter 4: Indigenous HDR students' needs and experiences.- Chapter 5: Supervisors of Indigenous HDR students' needs and experiences.- Chapter 6: Undoing commonly held beliefs about Indigenous HDR candidates.- Chapter 7: What we need: recommendations for success.

Professor Peter J. Anderson is from the Walpiri and Murinpatha First Nations in the Northern Territory of Australia. His research theorises the understandings of the organisational value of academic freedom in Australian universities and also more broadly in the polar south. Professor Anderson's research areas include organisational leadership, Indigenous peoples' education, and teacher and academic professional development. His research has been funded through Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) grants. One grant investigated the improvement of initial teacher education providers' capacity to prepare preservice teachers to be confident, competent and culturally responsive to work in remote locations with high Indigenous populations. The second grant examined how to best engage and partner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and community to improve student outcomes. Professor Anderson is also the lead Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Special Research Initiative (SRI) titled 'National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network' (NIRAKN). He has recently completed a research project that explored the needs and experiences of Indigenous higher degree by research (HDR) students and supervisors.
Dr Levon Blue (Nimki Nibi Kwe) is an Anishinaabe kwe (woman) who is a member of the Beausoleil First Nations (G'Chimnissing) who is originally from Canada and lives on Turrbal and Yugara country in Queensland, Australia. She is a senior lecturer and National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN) coordinator at the Carumba Institute at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Levon also holds an adjunct research professor position at Western University (Canada). Dr Blue works with Indigenous peoples in both Australia and Canada on Community-driven research projects, including the financial literacy needs related to First Nations' trust accounts, small business owners, and the needs and experiences