Provide pathways for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous students into mainstream academia, including academic research and key decision making positions within other UOW faculties and departments; within Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous and non - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous organisations and agencies.
Develop collaborative and multidisciplinary research paradigms for cultural and other resource management with full participation of other UOW Faculties and Departments and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander & Indigenous organisations, agencies and communities in the Illawarra.
Incorporate Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous knowledge systems as a respected and valued body of knowledge in the Australian Higher Education System.
Establish and further refine research methodologies appropriate to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous students, scholars and communities.
Empower and inform Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous students and scholars at UOW, throughout Australia and internationally.
Assist research activities and participation by Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous peoples and the dissemination of research outcomes to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous communities.
