How to include Indigenous researchers and their knowledge

Researchers from Native American and Indigenous communities explain how colleagues and institutions can help them to battle marginalization.

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Find a new job Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Despite long-standing calls to increase diversity on university campuses, Indigenous researchers remain poorly represented in academia, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. For example, Maori people make up about 17% of the population of New Zealand, but the percentage of Maori academic researchers is much lower. A 2019 study found that Maori researchers comprise less than 5% of the full-time academic workforce at New Zealand’s eight unive

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