2026 Black Knowing Seminar: Showcasing Indigenous Scholarship in Research Ethics & Indigenous Knowledge Production
Description
Showcasing Indigenous Scholarship: Black Knowing Seminar Series: Research Ethics & Indigenous Knowledge Production
Who benefits from research? This seminar explores the ethical foundations of Indigenous knowledge production, highlighting the importance of working alongside communities, respecting cultural protocols, and ensuring research creates positive outcomes for Indigenous peoples.
About the series
Following on from the success of the inaugural seminar series, the Carumba Institute is proud to host the 2026 Showcasing Indigenous Seminar series. This series, highlight Carumba's 'Black Knowing' agenda through a focus on Indigenous research and knowledge production. The series showcase the impactful work of QUT’s Indigenous Australian HDR alumni, HDR students, and academics, while also extending the platform to external Indigenous Australian Professionals who are committed to community-based research.
About Carumba Institute
Carumba Institute delivers a leading Indigenous research and education environment that advances 'Black Knowing' and centres Indigenous sovereignty and humanity. It leads distinctive teaching that embeds Indigenous perspectives across QUT, drives impactful Indigenous-led research, and supports Higher Degree Research (HDR) students to strengthen Indigenous research capability and leadership. Carumba also fosters strong partnerships with Indigenous communities through collaborative research, events, and knowledge sharing.
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Presenters
Associate Professor Deb Duthie
Associate Professor Deb is a proud Wakka Wakka Warumungu woman with family connections to Cherbourg (QLD) and Tennant Creek (NT). She is Director of Indigenous Health (Faculty of Health) at QUT and an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Work. She also serves as Associate Director, Curriculum Lead at the Carumba Institute, where she leads the teaching and learning team. Deb has extensive experience in teaching, curriculum development, and community-engaged research, including co-developing QUT’s Indigenous Knowledges minor and leading the Cherbourg-QUT Project. Her work focuses on embedding Indigenous knowledges in higher education and advancing culturally safe practice. With a background in social work, Deb brings more than a decade of frontline experience in the domestic and family violence and homelessness sectors. She is a multi-award-winning educator recognised nationally for excellence in teaching, community engagement, and innovation. Research interests: cultural safety, Indigenous knowledges in curriculum, food sovereignty, and social issues impacting Aboriginal self-determination.
QUT Office of Research Ethics and Integrity
The Office of Research Ethics and Integrity is offering training on the AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research. During this seminar, Director of the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity (OREI) Ms. Anne Walsh will be presenting the online research training and how this module explores the principles and practices of conducting ethical responsibilities’ researchers that involves, affects or is significant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities, cultures and knowledge. OREI supports researchers in obtaining ethical approval and ensuring appropriate governance of human, animal, and biological research. Grounded in the AIATSIS Code of Ethics, the training will provide participants with an understanding of the ethical responsibilities' researchers hold when engaging with Indigenous peoples and communities, and how ethical research can support respectful, reciprocal, and culturally responsive research practice.
Mr Thom Blake
Thom Blake is a Brisbane-based professional historian and heritage consultant and member of the Professional Historians Association. He has researched and written about a wide range of topics relating to Queensland history and has researched the history of numerous heritage places throughout the state. His publication, A Dumping Ground: a history of the Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement won the NSW Premiers History Award in 2002. He recently co-authored the publication Yalanya: the life and story of Pastor Don Kawanji Brady. Don Brady was a Methodist pastor who worked in Brisbane in the late 1960s and 1970s and was prominent in the struggle for Aboriginal rights and justice.
RSVP
For catering purposes, please register your attendance by Monday, 26th October 2026.
Zoom Link
Please advise the online zoom link will to be circulated to registered attendees on the day of the event via email.
Agenda
- 12:00 pm
Guests arrive, lunch on arrival
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Presentations
- 1:00 pm
Networking
- 1:30 pm
Event concludes
FAQs
- Getting there
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