The Kathleen Fitzpatrick Fellowship recognizes mentoring achievement and capacity; it provides additional support for a mentoring program for early career women in particular, as well as developing Early Career Resarchers and Indigenous training opportunities.
Early Career Researcher workshops
2021
In 2021, we hosted two workshops:
- How to write so that people will read: writing workshop for CABAH scientists
- Deep Histories, Indigenous Futures
2020
Due to COVID-19 our planned workshops for 2020 were postponed.
2019
In 2019 we held a workshop at Harvard:
Workshop on Postcolonial Tensions Harvard 2019.
2018
Our first year was a bumper year for ECR workshops. They included one on the History of Eugenics, Deepening the Time of History, Deep Time and Indigenous Histories:
- Masterclass on History of Eugenics with Professor Philippa Levine, 26 July, Australian National University
- Masterclass: Deepening the Time of History?, 9 August, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia
- Deep Time Workshop, 10 August, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia
- Workshop on Indigenous Histories for Early Career Researchers, 26 September, Australian National University
Right to left: Pete Minard, Rebecca Collard, Lou Glover at the workshop on Indigenous history 2018; Masterclass in Deepening the Time of History at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia 2018; and Samia Khatun at the workshop on Indigenous history 2018.
Indigenous Future Leaders and Skills Training
2020 and 2021
Restrictions due to COVID-19 postponed other planned opportunities for 2020.
2019
2019 was an outstanding year in skills training in Broome, with Nyamba Buru Yawuru (NBY) undertaking a National Library Oral History Workshop and recordings added to the NLA’s Oral History Collection. More members of the Research Centre then had the opportunity to train with the National Library’s equipment at their 2020 Retreat.
- National Library Oral History Workshop, February, Nyamba Buru Yawuru, Broome. For recordings, visit the National Library of Australia’s Oral History Collection
- CASS Indigenous Trainee Program, Kalesha Reed, July-August, Australian National University
- Indigenous Future Leader Visit, Naomi Appleby, November, Australian National University
Shirleene Robinson, NLA and Naomi Appleby, Nyamba Buru Yawuru.