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Northern Institute is pleased to announce that three Tiwi researchers – Charlotte Portaminni, Theresa ‘Amy’ Munkara and Virgil Kerinaiua – have completed all the requirements for their Indigenous Community-Based Researcher Credentials!!! 🙌 These researchers were funded as the first members of the CDU-CSIRO community-based researcher program. Each researcher pursued their own projects, working from the ground up with other Tiwi community members and focusing on bush medicines🌿, recording ceremonies 🎥 and the Tiwi story of the Mapularri Prawn Farm development 🦐. On this journey, the researchers have been supported by senior Tiwi authority Ron Poantimilui, Fiona Smallwood-Power and Terry Sparrow from CSIRO and Michaela Spencer from Northern Institute . 📸 Back row L>R: Virgil Keriniaua, Ron Poantimilui, Terry Sparrow 📸 Front row L>R: Michaela Spencer, Amy Munkara, Fiona Smallwood-Power and Charlotte Portaminni To learn more about the Indigenous Research Credentials we offer visit> https://lnkd.in/g-y5YX2e #CDUResearch #tiwiresearch #indigenousresearch #groundupresearch #CollaborativeResearch Charles Darwin University Steve Rogers Professor Scott Bowman AO Fiona Coulson Professor Reuben Bolt Steven Greenland Adelle Sefton-Rowston Fiona Steele Bree Willsmore Melanie Mayo Ruth Wallace Gaylene Evans Cathy Robinson Centre for Indigenous Policy Research Environment Centre NT Kirsty Howey Tiwi Islands Regional Council Tiwi Land Council Tiwi College Tiwi College

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 13-19 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳. 𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 and 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴. 🗓️ Wednesday, 13 November 2024 📍 In-person in Northern Institute's Savanna Room Building Yellow 1, Level 2, Room 48 Seminar | 10.00 - 11.00am Morning Tea | 11:00 - 11.30 am 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 Trans Awareness Week is a mix of celebrations. education and commemoration concerning the lives of trans, gender diverse and non-binary people and has become an important part of the LGBTQI+ calendar. While perhaps relatively politically moderate in intent, the week-long emphasis on building social awareness of trans serves as a counterpoint to the waves of misinformation, vilification and sometimes violence that have accompanied a public awakening to our presence. In this talk, I follow a path through the personal and the political – as trans lives always do – from points of moral panic to points of trans joy and gender euphoria. Along the way, I comment on trans as a push-button ‘issue’ and on contrasting anti-trans agendas in Australia and the UK. More importantly, I address how trans represents enlivened ways of theorising sex and gender and how it offers us all – trans and non-trans alike – pathways beyond debilitating binaries. 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 Professor Kim Humphery is Director of the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University and incoming President of the The Australian Sociological Association. She is an interdisciplinary academic working across fields in the social sciences. Internationally, Kim is best known for her work on the socio-cultural and political dimensions of consumption and material life. She has also worked extensively on social and cultural aspects of Indigenous health (in the NT and Victoria) and cross-cultural research ethics. Kim's current research focuses on ethical/sustainable consumption and enterprise and trans studies, especially transfeminism. 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 https://bit.ly/ni_taw2024 #TransAwarenessWeek #TAW24 #TransRightsareHumanRights #BeyondInclusion Australian Human Rights Commission NT Anti-Discrimination Commission Top End Pride headspace

Racism is a community safety issue. Every government, business and organisation must recognise it and treat it as a community safety issue. Racism is harmful. It can reveal itself in disrespectful and offensive behaviour or unfair treatment that deeply affects the emotional wellbeing of the person affected by it. It is an ‘invisible’ harm, but harm all the same that can have deep traumatic impacts. Psychological safety is at risk. The recent experience by Aboriginal politician Mr Yingiya Guyula cannot go unnoticed for the harm it caused to him and the way it made him feel - "unwanted". If you are in the Northern Territory, you can contact the NT Anti-Discrimination Commission or make an anonymous report online https://lnkd.in/gqYhdGip. This is a call-to-action for positive duty laws in the NT to be implemented by all businesses and organisations. Positive duty in the NT applies to a range of discriminatory protected attributes, including the elimination and prevention of race discrimination. #keeptheTerritorysafe #racism #communitysafety #positiveduty #beproactive #callitout https://lnkd.in/gWchYwMp Samantha Dick

Last week, Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation representatives joined celebrations at Wurrumiyanga to recognise the incredible milestone of the Tiwi Islands Fire and Carbon Project successfully transitioning into a fully independent, Indigenous-owned carbon enterprise! I used a 3D Tiwi model, projection augmented with fire history animations I created for their Rangers program, to explain the fire work to INPEX Corporation folks and others. It has been a good way to explain the scale and complexity of the work. Tiwi rangers usually run the model but this day they were busy celebrating. Northern Institute Charles Darwin University

Join us with returning academic Dr David Karacsonyi to discuss his recent travels to China through the Loess Plateau region. He will draw parallels with northern Australia and showcase how targeted developmental policies can alleviate rural poverty and overcome environmental challenges. 🗓️ Tuesday, 5 November 2024 🕙 10:30 –11:30 am Darwin (ACST) 📍 In-person & online via Zoom (all sessions recorded) Registration and more 👉 http://bit.ly/loess24 Charles Darwin University Andrew Taylor Sigurd Dyrting TAS-HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION Institute of Australian Geographers Fenner School of Environment and Society Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Centre for Policy Development Climate Change Authority Australian Centre on China in the World

We are excited to listen to these Northern Institute-connected presentations for the Menzies School of Health Research & the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association event: 'Pausing to share communication practice and research in the Northern Territory'. 👏 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧: 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 with Ian Mongunu Gumbula, Steven Bird & team 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢: 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩, 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙮, 𝙗𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. with Jennifer Deger from the CDU Centre for Creative Futures and/or Lisa Stefanoff 𝙂𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙙𝙟𝙖𝙧𝙧 𝙜𝙖 ŋ𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙖 ḻ𝙞𝙮𝙖-𝙢𝙪𝙠’𝙩𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙧𝙧: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 with Emily Armstrong and Brenda Muthamulawuy

The Conversation Australia + NZ article: https://lnkd.in/g8gvjFnR #CDUResearch #Urbanmining #recycling #ewasterecycling #landfill #WasteManagement #wastepolicy #urbanwaste #urbanwastemanagement

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“There were doors that suddenly opened that I didn’t know that were closed.” Professor Lynette Riley AO, Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi woman, Academic and Education Trailblazer discusses the importance of a PhD for her career and her family. Are you considering studying a PhD in 2025? STUDY WITH US! Learn more > https://bit.ly/phdmaster 📹 NITV Facebook & Instagram 🙏 https://lnkd.in/gf2tkcn6 #CDUresearch Charles Darwin University Ruth Wallace Linda Ford Dr Tracy Woodroffe Kim Robertson Cat Kutay Jodi Cowdery Larissa Pickalla Steve Rogers Steven Greenland Adelle Sefton-Rowston Fiona Steele Karen Cavanagh Professor Reuben Bolt Professor Scott Bowman AO Fiona Coulson Michaela Spencer Sharna Motlap Anne Lowell

🔺NEW RESEARCH🔻 Diversity and Cultural Pedagogical Games and Play: Through an Aboriginal Lens 🟧 Assoc Professor Linda Ford 🟨 Dr Adriana Ticoalu 💻 https://bit.ly/lfatpub ABSTRACT Linda Payi Ford is a Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu, an Indigenous woman from Kurrindju, Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia. Ford applies her Mirrwana and Wurrkama Methodology to her Indigenous research practice and theory across multi-disciplinary fields including education, health, culture, and gender policy. As a qualified teacher, academician, and researcher, she draws from her professional experience spanning four decades. This chapter presents Ford’s lived experiences as she considers games and play through an Indigenous lens and to integrate the associated concepts across cultures. She has been able to do this form of practice from infancy and early childhood developmental milestones through adulthood, and she continues to apply these skills in the workforce and Indigenous community development. These forms of games and play have their own associated genres and practices that offer her challenges, but she considers them to be exciting and fun and describes them from her standpoint from both ways of cultural lens and femininity. 📔Ludic inquiries into power and pedagogy in higher education: How games play us. Walker, A., Grimmett, H. & Black, A. L. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge, p. 21-32 12 p. Taylor & Francis Group #CDUResearch #IndigenousResearch #pedagogy Charles Darwin University Ruth Wallace Professor Reuben Bolt Dr Tracy Woodroffe Larissa Pickalla Kim Robertson Cat Kutay Catholic Education NT Department of Education and Training Steve Rogers Steven Greenland Adelle Sefton-Rowston Michael Christie Michaela Spencer Anne Lowell Steven Bird