5th September 2023 at 2.30pm (AEST)
Postgraduate lounge, Level 14, Building 2, UTS
The UTS Law HDR Seminar series with the UNESCO Chair in International Law and Cultural Heritage is hosting a seminar on research methodologies which are challenging long-accepted modes of ‘doing’ research concerning Indigenous peoples and local communities, with particularly reference to sustainability and climate.
We are pleased to host a leading national and international scholar in the field of Indigenous research methodologies Professor Jason de Santolo. He is the editor of Decolonizing Research: Indigenous storywork as methodologies (Zed Books, 2019) with Jo-Ann Archibald and Jenny Lee-Morgan. This important book with contributions by leading scholars from Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa has rightly been described as:
‘[A] landmark international text focused on the transformative power and beauty of Indigenous story and storytelling’.
Professor de Santolo was instrumental in the drafting and adoption of the UTS Business School Commitment on Climate Action. He is currently Associate Dean (Indigenous Research) in the Office of the PVC Indigenous’ and Professor, First Nations Land Justice, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, UTS.
Ms Erika Juliana Hernandez Valencia who is visiting scholar at UTS Law working on a project entitled ‘Does community building contribute to environmental sustainability?’. This research forms part of her Master in Sustainable Development with the UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development and UNITWIN Network El Foro Latinoamericano de Ciencias Ambientales (FLACAM) a network of civil society organisations and universities in throughout South America. Ms Hernandez will introduce how FLACAM’s education and training programmes, and research projects are engaging transdisciplinary methodology and the participation and involvement of civil society, in pursuit of their empowerment with a view to achieving endogenous and genuine development at local and regional level.
The seminar will be chair by Professor Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, UNESCO Chair in International Law and Cultural Heritage, at UTS.
