Nakata, Martin (2013) Australian Aboriginal Studies: foreword. Australian Aboriginal Studies (2). pp. 2-7.

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[Extract] I think it fair to say that almost all Indigenous people in Australia who undertake postgraduate research, especially doctorates, are on a personal journey, as well as a scholarly one. Perhaps this is true generally with non-Indigenous people, as well, but I think for us there is an enormous personal investment in the content of our research and not just in the process and commitment involved in completing a research degree. The content is often emotional and attached to our own, or our fami¬lies’, personal histories precisely because we seek to explore issues that have arisen in our experi¬ences of colonialism and which gnaw away at our sense of ourselves or our sense of justice. I have made this journey as a postgraduate researcher, and in this foreword I have been asked to reflect on how I came to the field of research, to offer some observations of Indigenous research and approaches to postgraduate research theses, and to provide some guidance on some of the issues.

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