KKB193 Indigenous Knowledge: Research Ethics and Protocols
To view more information for this unit, select Unit Outline from the list below. Please note the teaching period for which the Unit Outline is relevant.
| Unit code: | KKB193 |
|---|---|
| Equivalent(s): | OUB130, EDB040 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
|
| CSP student contribution | $2,124 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $996 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,204 |
| International unit fee | $4,140 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KKB193 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | OUB130, EDB040 |
| Coordinators: | Angela Baeza | angela.baeza@qut.edu.au Helena Kajlich | helena.kajlich@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit critiques research on Indigenous Australian issues and articulates culturally safe research practice that reflects decolonising methodologies as an underpinning framework. The need for culturally safe research is supported by colonially constructed knowledge and the obvious gaps in understanding of the ongoing life-differentials and social determinants that impact on Indigenous Australians. Interrogation of Western research and Indigenous scholarship and international contexts will challenge you to critically analyse received perceptions of research conduct. Indigenous knowledges and pedagogies will facilitate a transformative learning journey in a process where students critique Western research frameworks that continue to represent Indigenous peoples as the 'other'. The unit will engage your learning through Indigenous knowledge frameworks that facilitate the development of a decolonising research proposal which adheres to Indigenous research ethics and protocols.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critique the diversity and complexity of Indigenous research knowledges.
- Critically reflect and articulate the multiplicities of Indigenous knowledge research frameworks.
- Articulate and translate new knowledge in proposing culturally safe research as relevant to Indigenous Australia.
- Observe Indigenous research ethics and protocols.
Content
- Welcome, Unit Introduction.
Module 1: Decolonising methodologies
a) Decolonising
b) Location – Space and Place
c) Methodologies
Module 2: Indigenous epistemologies, ontology, axiology
a) The construction and contestation of knowledge
b) Critical Indigenous Studies
c) Indigenous Studies v Indigenous Knowledges
Module 3: Ethics and protocols
a) Who owns it - Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights
b) Research in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Module 4: Developing proposals for decolonising methodologies
a) Reading and Writing Indigenous Research
b) Interpreting Indigenous Research
c) Leading Indigenous Researchers
Module 5: Research in my practice
a) Roles and responsibilities as future researcher
b) Contextual and Professional Practice
Learning Approaches
When teaching Indigenous knowledges, the traditional context allows for a lag period of watching before doing. In our unit, we are constructing learning which supports critical self- reflection and analysis. Our teaching approaches privileges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges, voices and standpoints. A blended learning environment in this unit underpins the holistic nature of Indigenous knowledges. Group discussions, yarning circles (blogs), interactive lectures, tutorials, supported opportunities for a critical self-discovery journey will have deeper and transforming, culturally-safe implications for your discipline studies and practice.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive peer feedback on your grasp of concepts and the perspectives you are engaging with through your contributions to unit discussion groups, yarning circles (blogs), reflections and shared impact of readings and other media you are exposed to. Assessment criteria sheets and individual feedback will support your summative assessment.
Assessment
Overview
Assessments in KKB193 will enable you to develop a research proposal on a topic of your choice. Assessment 1 requires you to read and critique Indigenous and non-Indigenous publications on your chosen topic. Assessment 2 requires you to develop an Indigenous / culturally safe and decolonising research methodology which responds to the question posted in Assignment 1. You will then review and revise your Assignments 1 and 2, to inform the development of a research proposal. Workshops, student led activities and Indigenous scholars will share their knowledge and experience in guiding you to apply Indigenous research protocols when working or researching with Indigenous researchers and communities.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Annotated Biography
You will identify and discuss key ethical issues reported in the literature within your relevant discipline.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Standpoint/ Your story
You will critically reflect on your standpoint, assumptions, and positionality underpinning future research.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Research Presentation
You will critically reflect on how your future research could and should be communicated to a relevant community. This reflection should consider ethical engagement, accessibility of language, cultural appropriateness, and the potential impact of the proposal.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Risk Assessment Statement
There is no risk associated with this unit.