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 Professor
Lester-Irabinna Rigney is Director
of the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for Higher Education
and Research, Flinders University. He is Professor of education
and one of the most influential Indigenous educationalists in
Australia today. His leadership in education is evident through
his election by his academic peers since 2002 to the Australian
Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Research Advisory Committee. His professional standing in education
saw him inducted into the Australian College of Educators (ACE)
in 1998. He is recognised as a national and international authority
in the area of Indigenist research methodologies. Interest in
his work by national and international universities has resulted
in several prestigious Visiting Research Fellowships including
Cambridge University (UK), Fort Hare University (South Africa)
and University of British Columbia (Canada).
Rigney is in constant demand
as a commentator on national and international Indigenous matters
and has published widely on education, languages and knowledge
transmission. His recent 2006 co-edited book titled Sharing
Spaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country
and Rights, is the most up to date Australian text on Indigenous
and non-Indigenous race relations and how this converges in
the vulnerable, vital and contested space called education.
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