Overview
- Explores commonly held beliefs and assumptions about Indigenous higher degree research students
- Presents qualitative studies conducted with Indigenous students from different academic contexts
- Identifies enabling factors for successful Indigenous completions of higher degree research
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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Keywords
- Open Access
- Supervisors of Indigenous HDR students
- Supervision of Indigenous HDR students
- Needs of Indigenous HDR students
- Indigenous students' participation in higher education
- Indigenous students' retention in higher eudcation
- Indigenous students' completion in higher education
- issues faced by Indigenous HDR students
- Support mechanisms for Indigenous HDR students
- Disparity in Indigenous higher education outcomes
- Indigenous and non-Indigenous higher education outcomes
- Academic supervisor and Indigenous students
- Guidance for supervisors of Indigenous HDR students
- Positive relationships and student success
- Challenges for Indigenous postgraduate research students
- Expectations of supervisors of Indigenous HDR students
- Quality supervision for Indigenous HDR students
- Good practices in supervision in HDR
- Concerns in supervising HDR students
- Training for supervisors of Indigenous HDR students
Table of contents (8 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr Levon Blue (Nimki Nibi Kwe) is an Anishinaabe kwe (woman) who is a member of the Beausoleil First Nations (G’Chimnissing) who is originally from Canada and lives on Turrbal and Yugara country in Queensland, Australia. She is a senior lecturer and National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN) coordinator at the Carumba Institute at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Levon also holds an adjunct research professor position at Western University (Canada). Dr Blue works with Indigenous peoples in both Australia and Canada on Community-driven research projects, including the financial literacy needs related to First Nations’ trust accounts, small business owners, and the needs and experiences of Indigenous higher degree by research (HDR) students. She is a Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council funded grants: Special Research Initiative – National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN) and Discovery Indigenous – Empowering Indigenous Businesses Through Improved Financial and Commercial Literacy. Dr Blue is currently working on three other research projects regarding the role of education and technology in First Nation Trust Settlements; how young adults interact with digital financial tools; and developing financially capable citizens in an era of finance apps and cryptocurrencies.
Dr Thu Pham currently works as a Research Project Officer at the Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. She completed her doctoral degree in Education at QUT, Australia in 2016. Dr Pham’s doctoral research study focused on leadership to support quality improvement in Vietnamese higher education. Her research interests are leadership in higher education and higher education reforms in Asia-Pacific countries. Recently, Dr Pham has worked on Indigenous education and support for Indigenous higher degree by research (HDR) students’ projects.
Melanie Saward is a proud descendant of the Wakka Wakka and Bigambul peoples. She is an associate lecturer of creative writing in the School of Creative Practice at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, and a PhD student.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Degree by Research
Book Subtitle: Factors for Indigenous Student Success
Authors: Peter Anderson, Levon Blue, Thu Pham, Melanie Saward
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5178-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5177-0Published: 31 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5178-7Published: 30 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 112
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general, Sociology of Education