New guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research education will be released today. Sue Berners-Price from the Australian Council for Graduate Research says they “recognise the crucial contribution that Indigenous graduate research candidates make to Australia’s research agenda and the importance of encouraging and supporting Indigenous people to undertake higher degrees by research.

“These guidelines will provide credible, constructive and practical advice for all stakeholders in this important process.”

The guidelines’ key principle is; “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers play a crucial role in advancing an

innovative Australian research agenda. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers bring unique knowledges, experiences, identities, strengths that contribute to research that has widespread benefit nationally and internationally.