ABSTRACT

Indigenous research leadership can enhance research benefits to Indigenous communities. Our research investigates how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (henceforth Indigenous) leadership is expressed in the context of academic research, and how Indigenous leadership is supported or constrained in such context. This exploratory study includes semi-structured interviews with 20 Indigenous Australian researchers and document analysis. The thematic content analysis suggests that ‘Indigenous leadership in research’ refers to features, qualities or processes that enable certain outcomes, rather than formal ranking. Our research proposes a model connecting Indigenous leadership features in research with the achievement of (social) research impacts. The performance measures valued in academic research reflect a limited part of leadership as expressed by interviewees, hindering the achievement of higher hierarchical positions by those who holistically pursue such a leadership model. We suggest changes in the incentive structure and performance measures to better support Indigenous leadership in research.

摘要

土著研究领导可以提高土著社区的研究收益。我们的研究调查了原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民（以下称为原住民）领导力在学术研究的背景下如何表达，以及在这种背景下如何支持或限制原住民领导力。这项探索性研究包括对 20 名澳大利亚土著研究人员的半结构化访谈和文件分析。主题内容分析表明，“研究中的本土领导力”是指实现某些结果的特征、品质或过程，而不是正式的排名。我们的研究提出了一个模型，将研究中的土著领导特征与（社会）研究影响的成就联系起来。学术研究中重视的绩效衡量指标反映了受访者所表达的有限领导力，阻碍了那些从整体上追求这种领导力模式的人获得更高级别的职位。我们建议改变激励结构和绩效指标，以更好地支持土著在研究中的领导地位。