Knowledge co-production enabled via decolonised research approaches can support indigenous leaders to respond to the challenges and opportunities that result from their natural and cultural resource management obligations and strategies. For knowledge co-production to be realised, such research interactions must provide space for Indigenous peoples to position themselves as research leaders, driving agendas and co-designing research approaches, activities, and outputs. This paper examines the role that positionality played in supporting an Indigenous-led research partnership, or knowledge-action system, that developed between indigenous, industry, and research project partners seeking to support development of the Indigenous-led bush products sector in northern Australia. Our chosen conceptualisation of positionality informs sustainability science as a way for scientists, practitioners, and research partners to consider the power that each project member brings to a project, and to make explicit the unique positioning of project members in how they influence project processes and the development of usable knowledge. We locate the research in northern Australia and then articulate how selected research methodologies supported the partnership that resulted in knowledge co-production. We then extend the literature on decolonising methodologies and positionality by illuminating how the positionality of each research partner, and the partnership itself, influenced the research and knowledge co-production processes. In culmination, we reveal how an interrogation of post-project benefits and legacies (e.g., usable knowledge) can enable a fuller understanding of the lasting success of the project and partnership, illustrated with examples of benefits derived by project partners since the project ended.

通过非殖民化研究方法实现的知识共同生产可以支持土著领导人应对其自然和文化资源管理义务和战略所带来的挑战和机遇。为了实现知识的联合生产，这种研究互动必须为土著人民提供定位自己的研究领导者的空间，推动议程并共同设计研究方法，活动和产出。本文研究了定位在支持土著领导的研究合作伙伴或知识行动系统中所起的作用，该伙伴关系是在土著，工业和研究项目合作伙伴之间建立的，以寻求支持澳大利亚北部土著领导的灌木产品部门的发展。我们选择的位置概念化为可持续发展科学提供了一种途径，使科学家，从业人员和研究合作伙伴可以考虑每个项目成员为项目带来的力量，并明确说明项目成员在他们如何影响项目过程和项目发展过程中的独特定位。可用知识的发展。我们将研究地点定位在澳大利亚北部，然后阐明选定的研究方法如何支持导致知识共同生产的伙伴关系。然后，我们通过阐明每个研究合作伙伴的地位以及合伙企业本身如何影响研究和知识共同生产过程，来扩展有关非殖民化方法论和地位的文献。最后，我们揭示了如何审问项目后的收益和遗产（例如，