Notice Board - Talking Together - CDU Yolngu Studies

Research

Charles Darwin University is collaborating with Yolngu researchers on a number of projects which involve Yolngu and Western academic knowledge traditions

Gapu Milngurr

Gapu Milngurr

by Raymattja Marika

Sharing the True Stories:

		to do with communication breakdown in health www.sharingtruestories.com

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/176_10_200502/cas10830_fm.html http://www.abc.net.au/speakingout/stories/s1513950.htm

Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia:

		working with Yolngu and other Aboriginal groups developing ways of using digital technologies for traditional knowledge management. http://www.cdu.edu.au/centres/ik/

see particularly http://www.cdu.edu.au/centres/ik/db_mangay.html http://www.cdu.edu.au/centres/ik/db_ftc.html http://www.cdu.edu.au/centres/ik/db_ramingining.html

Internetworking communities: ICT and Community Capacity Building:

exploring ways in which computer technology can improve the sustainability of remote Aboriginal communities.
http://www.cdu.edu.au/inc/

This includes:


		working with a small remote Yolngu community to use their website as a way of promoting a cultural tourism enterprise under community control. http://www.arnhemweavers.com.au/


		A Yolngu research collective at Galiwin’ku. See http://yalu.cdu.edu.au/

Four examples of research work from the Yalu Centre:

A research report into the lives of Yolngu ‘Long-grassers’ on Larrakia land
http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/yolngustudies/docs/
Longgrass_report.pdf

A research report into Yolngu identity.
http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/yolngustudies/docs/
garnggulkpuy.pdf

Indigenous First Language Research and Consultation
Model
http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/yolngustudies/docs/
Longrass_Report_2_Dunbar_2007.pdf

Methodology for Yongu research
http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/yolngustudies/docs/
Garnggulk_methodology_for_Yolngu_research.pdf