Mick Dodson will lead new research into deficit discourse after winning an ARC Indigenous Discovery grant.
The ANU will lead new research to improve the public discourse on Indigenous issues, and to safeguard the cultural language of the people of the Western Desert, under new Australian Research Council (ARC) grants. The ANU was one of only two institutions to secure funding for two prestigious Indigenous Discovery grants, worth a total of $936,000 in the ARC's 2015 awards. Professor Mick Dodson, from the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, secured $456,000 for three years for a project to examine deficit discourse, which frames Indigenous identity in a narrative of negativity and deficiency. The research will examine how Indigenous school children are affected by deficit discourse. "We've very excited by this grant. It's long overdue," Professor Dodson said. "We've wanted to look at this question of deficit discourse for some years now.
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