The new ANZ research classification system is out

The new model replaces the 2008 version. The biggest change is the creation of a new division, Indigenous Studies, (CMM December 3 2019), established after long consultations.

There are 20 fields of research groups––six each for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Māori and Pacific Peoples, broader Indigenous data, methodologies and global studies, and an “other.”

“The intent of the division is to make visible in research the knowledges and methodologies unique to Indigenous peoples and capture research activity that is significantly about or involves them.”

There are extensive changes to other FoR divisions with one from 2008, Technology abolished.