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NESP RL Project 3.15 - Developing a National Indigenous Environmental Research Network (NIERN)

Dates

Start Date
01-Oct-2023
End Date
30-Nov-2025

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NESP RL Project 3.15 - Developing a National Indigenous Environmental Research Network (NIERN)
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Start Date
01-Oct-2023
End Date
30-Nov-2025
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English

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The National Indigenous Environmental Research Network (NIERN) is an Indigenous-led strategic initiative to strengthen Indigenous leadership and participation in environmental research, biodiversity conservation and environmental management across Australia. Co-delivered by NESP Resilient Landscapes Hub Project Leader Professor Stephen van Leeuwen and researcher Dr Teagan Shields, both from Curtin University, along with NESP Marine and Coastal Hub via Project Leader Barry Hunter and researcher Dr Leah Talbot, from the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA).

The governance advice and a business case outline the model for establishing a membership-based, Indigenous-led and owned organisation designed to guide national Indigenous priorities for environmental research and provide support services to connect Indigenous research users and research providers.

Indigenous Australians have long called for environmental research to take a rights-based approach supporting self-determination, valuing and promoting culture, strengthening stewardship of Country, improving equity in managing land and sea, and enabling the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge systems in ways led by Indigenous peoples. NIERN has been progressed as a practical pathway to support this shift through the establishment of a national community of practice guided by Indigenous researchers and Indigenous Knowledge holders.

This project investigated models to develop an enduring and transformative NIERN entity that could support Indigenous participation and strengthen relationships between Indigenous organisations, researchers, policy-makers and environmental management practitioners.

Through national engagement, governance design and business case development, the project positioned NIERN as a mechanism capable of securing support and recognition across governments, research providers, academic institutions, the corporate sector and non-government organisations. It created a coordinated framework to drive transformational change in how environmental research is undertaken with Indigenous Australians.
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Contributors

Name Stephen van Leeuwen ORCID Logo (unauthenticated)
Contributor ID ORCID Logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3063-7785 (unauthenticated)
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Contact
Yes
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Curtin University

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Lead Research Organisation
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Start Date
2023-10-01
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Shields, T., Talbot, L., Pascoe, J., Gilbert, J., Gould, J., Hunter, B., & van Leeuwen, S. (2024). Creating an Authorizing Environment to Care for Country. Conservation Letters, 18(1). Portico.
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