We would like to invite you to the next Investigators webinar on the HEAL National Research Network’s new Cultural Governance Framework and Indigenous research priorities, online via Zoom, Wednesday 15th October 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00pm AEDT.

This webinar will explore how Indigenous communities are among the first to feel the impact of climate change, exacerbating current inequities that have their roots in dispossession and disempowerment. To address these injustices, Indigenous communities need to be at the centre of climate change research. Their valuable knowledges from their intergenerational relationship to Country should be protected and embraced for the benefit of all.

In this interactive webinar, the co-chairs of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Steering Committee (Associate Professor Veronica Matthews and Dr. Cas Sedan-Price), will share the HEAL Cultural Governance Framework and showcase how to apply it to ensure researchers in the HEAL Network foster a respectful, inclusive and culturally sensitive research environment that honours the rights and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. They will also share the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Steering Committee’s shared challenges, research priorities and focus areas.

Hosted by the Indigenous Knowledge Systems theme of the HEAL National Research Network, which aims to embed systematic engagement of Indigenous people and organisations in environmental change preparedness, planning and co-design of mitigation and adaptation solutions.

Below is the schedule for the webinar, it will be chaired by Ms Caroline Deen:

Acknowledgement of Country and Introduction	*Caroline Deen*	Research Fellow HEAL Network – The University of Sydney
HEAL Cultural Governance Framework	*Dr Cas Sedran-Price*	University Centre for Rural Health, The University of Sydney
Indigenous research priorities for the HEAL Network	*Associate Professor Veronica Matthews*	University Centre for Rural Health, The University of Sydney
Q&A	*Caroline Deen*

The Zoom link/ details will be provided closer to event.

If you need any further information, please contact heal@canberra.edu.au

We look forward to seeing you.