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How First Nations Research Creates Lasting Community Impact | Marijke Bassani – Transcript
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- Marijke Bassani states that good research with First Nations communities involves reciprocity, co-ownership, co-leadership, and co-authorship.
- Marijke Bassani's research focuses on elevating the voices and experiences of First Nations LGBTQIA+ peoples globally who are often forgotten.
- The Deakin Indigenous Research Strategy represents best practice for engaging with and supporting First Nations research.
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I grew up in Cape York Peninsula, which is a very remote part of Australia in Far North Queensland. Those experiences taught me a lot about empathy and understanding and also patience.
Good research with First Nations communities and also marginalized communities more broadly is about reciprocity and co-ownership and co-leadership and co-authorship.
I'm not sure who said this, but I always think about it when I think about uh you know, research with First Nations communities and peoples and it's, you know, about us, for us, and not without us.
And I think that those three pillars are really important when we think about what ethical, um meaningful, and impactful research with First Nations peoples and communities looks like in practice.
Growing up in the Cape definitely gave me a very strong connection to country, um specifically my own country, Lamalama country, Binna Wurra country, and Bulkan Wurra country. And so, I grew up with an understanding we are responsible for our environment and what that looks like, not just as Indigenous peoples and as a First Nations person, but also as a community.
>> >> So, for me, I hope that my legacy is one that uplifts young talent and the next generation and opens that door and stands there with the door open for others to walk in.
Um that's really my job at the end of the day and being a platform for those voices. As a teenager, collaborating with the UN was always something that I wanted to achieve at some point. I just didn't know how I would get there or when I would get there and what it would look like when I got there.
And uh so that was really quite surreal for me and all it did was reinforce that I belong in this world um at the highest level and that level being international human rights law.
I have a voice and that voice is needed. And my research is really about elevating the voices and experiences of First Nations LGBTQIA+ peoples from around the world and it's about highlighting that these are areas where we continue to be marginalized and ostracized and while the rest of our community is you know
making strides in different ways and moving forward, we're often an afterthought or forgotten altogether. I think it's important to provide a space for that activism and that advocacy to be nurtured >> >> and respected and elevated.
First Nations leadership plays a very important role in moving not just our communities forward, but also the nation as a whole forward and you don't need to be First Nations to embrace that and respect that.
It's about making space, real impactful space for First Nations voices, academics and professionals, a space that isn't tokenistic, a space that allows us to play an active role in decision-making processes because without that, we risk
empty symbolism and not true reciprocity. The Deakin Indigenous Research Strategy is what is best practice for engaging with and supporting First Nations research.
My hope for Deakin is that we become leaders in not just Indigenous excellence, but also First Nations leadership in a genuine and impactful way.