One of NCIS's Operational Objectives is:
To establish a focal point for the co-ordination of Indigenous education and research across the ANU academic community and the development of collaborative initiatives that bring together the resources of the ANU
To meet this objective, NCIS collaborates with ANU Colleges to invite leading Indigenous Academics to visit ANU for a month to teach, exchange information and to present seminars.
The first visitor (November 2005) was Dr Dennis Foley from the University of Sydney. Dr Foley's field is Indigenous Australian entrepreneurship. His research interests include Indigenous small business, Indigenous micro-economic reform and Indigenous self-determination that is connected to financial independence. His work on Indigenous entrepreneurship has been described by Professor of Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University, Kevin Hindle as ‘seminal’. Whilst in Canberra Dr Foley looked at potential research opportunities for NCIS and the University with the ACT Government, ACT Business and other interested parties.
In 2006 NCIS plans to have visitors from English Literature, Education and Medicine, among other fields.
Guidelines for applications
If you are interested in the Visiting Fellows Program at NCIS please contact Cressida Fforde: FfordeC@law.anu.edu.au
Current visiting scholars
Currently there are no visiting fellows at NCIS.
Past visiting scholars
11 August 2008 - 11 September 2008
Megan Davis
 Megan Davis is Director, Indigenous Law Centre and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law at the University of NSW. Megan's scholarship involves critical analysis of Indigenous public law issues in particular constitutional reform and democratic theory and governance. Her research also includes Indigenous peoples rights in international law, in particular UN treaty body jurisprudence and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She is also an Australian member of the International Law Association's Indigenous Rights Committee. Megan's previous positions include Director (Bill of Rights project) G&T Centre of Public Law; Senior Research Fellow (Jumbunna, UTS) and Legal Counsel (Administrative, Legislation and Corporate Law Section, Legal Branch) ATSIC. She held a UN Indigenous Fellowship, UNOHCHR, Geneva and participated for a decade in UN expert seminars and working groups. Megan is an admitted Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of the A.C.T. completing her PhD at the Regulatory Institutions Network (ANU) examining Aboriginal women and democracy.
October/December 2007 and March/June 2008
Professor Paul Chartrand
 Professor Chartrand, IPC, of the Indigenous Bar Association of Canada, is Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan in Canada and a graduate of Manitoba Teachers ’ College, the University of Winnipeg, Queensland University of Technology law school and the University of Saskatchewan College of Law. His main research and teaching activities, as well as numerous publications, are in the fields of law and policy pertaining to indigenous peoples. He has held teaching or other academic appointments at universities in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the United States. He has served on a number of high-profile public bodies in Canada, including the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Professor Chartrand will return to NCIS in March 2008 as a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Travel Grant Award.
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May 2007
Ms Jeannie Egan Nungarrayi and Mr Thomas Rice Jangala
Thomas Jangala and Jeannie Nungarrayi with Georgia Curran, PhD student in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, visiting a site near Yuendumu, NT. |
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In May 2007 NCIS supported the visit to the School of Anthropology and Archaeology of Ms Jeannie Egan Nungarrayi and Mr Thomas Rice Jangala from Yuendumu to work with staff and postgraduate students to help translate Warlpiri Song Cycles.
The project combines anthropologists, linguists, musicologists, Indigenous knowledge holders and Indigenous bicultural linguists to record, transcribe and translate song cycles, some of which are no longer frequently performed, and, therefore, not being passed on to the younger generations. Warlpiri songs link ancestral power with the landscape, emotions and aesthetics, and are central to Warlpiri religious life. The project is creating a cultural archive at Yuendumu informed by indigenous exegesis that is also integrating appropriate aspects into the world of scholarship and eventually providing materials for Warlpiri school curricula. |
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September/October 2006
Dr Anita Heiss
 Anita is a writer, poet, activist, social commentator and academic. She is a regular guest at writers’ festivals and travels internationally performing her work and lecturing on Indigenous Studies. Anita used her time at the ANU to finish her novel Not Meeting Mr Right (Random House) for which she received the 2007 Deadly Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Literature.
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June/July 2006
Dr Kaye Price - University of Canberra
Kaye has worked extensively in the area of education and curriculum development. She has worked on the What Works: Explorations in improving outcomes for Indigenous students report and in 2007 Kaye is working with a team of Aboriginal educators taking What Works to the Higher Education sector.
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November 2005
Dr Dennis Foley - The University of Sydney
Dr Foley's field is Indigenous Australian entrepreneurship. His research interests include Indigenous small business, Indigenous micro-economic reform and Indigenous self-determination that is connected to financial independence. His work on Indigenous entrepreneurship has been described by Professor of Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University, Kevin Hindle as ‘seminal’. Whilst in Canberra Dr Foley looked at potential research opportunities for NCIS and the University with the ACT Government, ACT Business and other interested parties.
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