Graduate research

Candidates undertaking research degrees at Wominjeka Djeembana are supported to build practice-led research through Indigenous methodologies. The program attracts Australian and international Indigenous and First Nations candidates from all creative practice disciplines including art, design, architecture, curation and beyond. Supervision is provided by Indigenous practitioners, world-leading researchers and award-winning teachers.

As part of the professional development requirement at Monash University, we have designed a program for all Wominjeka Djeembana candidates to learn and explore Indigenous research methods and their application in creative practice. There are four pillars underpinning our program:

  • The premise of Country as an articulation of connection and relationality
  • Place as physical and temporal space as well as the material and immaterial articulations of Country and Being
  • Relationality as the all-encompassing interconnectedness of being
  • Positionality to understand the cultural context and one's position within the research

Candidates are encouraged to: evaluate the cultural significance of source materials and make connections to their own situatedness in Place, space and time; and critically discuss the connection between past, present, and future and how we represent ourselves and communities within the research.

Our candidates are building dynamic research communities that can support their practices into the future. Wominjeka Djeembana is committed to creating pathways for our candidates beyond the life of their research degree.

For more information on how to apply.

Our graduate researchers

Bradley Webb
Examining and investigating how racism determines colonial frameworks (corpus) which then influences both government and media in the continued oppression of the Aboriginal narrative.

Brandi Salmon
My research project explores the tropes of Indigenous representation and (re)presentation within historical and contemporary art.

Ellen Bertani
White hands' and authenticity in the Aboriginal art market

Gabi Briggs
If the virtual realm is land-based, can it return us back to country?
Can we transcend the limits of all physical experience and knowledge to seek sovereignty within the virtual?

Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis
Exploring ways in which visual systems of cartography omit Indigenous knowledges of place, sustaining colonial narratives within Australia and the myth of ‘Terra Nullius’.

Kimba Thompson
Creating an independent gallery for First Nations Artists and World Indigenous Cultures.

Kimberley Moulton
Curatorial modes and the intersection of Contemporary First Nations arts practice and the historical archive.

Kirrakee Teea Watson
Providing a critical Indigenous perspective of the disposition of global Eurocentric architectures - products of colonial regimes alongside Indigenous architectures.

Mariyam Kareen Adam
Adjusting the gaze: using art to “re-represent” notions of tourist Island destinations.

Moorina Bonini
Realigning Western Structures through centering Indigenous Epistemology.

Nisa Yam Richy
Contemporary Yucatec Maaya belonging and artesania

Tyson Campbell
Understanding the legal rights of the ancestor Te Awa Tupua.

Wani Toaishara
Re-imagining the African experience as pertaining to Indigeneity, Antiblackness and Afrophobia.

Currently, no specific graduate research opportunities are available with the Art, Design and Architecture,, but there may be other opportunities within Monash Art, Design and Architecture.