There is great potential and opportunity for non-Indigenous researchers to support and play a vital role in contributing to Closing the Gap. Great responsibility is currently placed on Aboriginal people and organisations to lead, drive, and model across various fields, placing a significant burden on the workforce. This burden can of course be compounded by systemic racism and the ongoing impacts of colonisation.

Non-Indigenous researchers can, if informed and skilled to form sensitive partnership with leaders in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, bolster that workforce and participate in conducting meaningful community-led research that will impact the Gap. To do so the non-Indigenous research workforce will require knowledge, guidelines and skill to engage in this rewarding space, in a culturally appropriate and sensitive way.

This tool is designed to pull together into one useful online interactive guideline, all of the resources that have been developed nationally by Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander leaders to guide and inform research in and with community.

Thank you for informing yourself, and for critically appraising your research for opportunities and appropriateness.

The Consideration Guidelines and interactive tool were developed by staff at the AEDTRC with direct leadership and ongoing input from the Centre’s national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group. We acknowledge their leadership of this work and the direct input of several organisations in allowing staff to be involved in this work. We would particularly like to acknowledge the Djurali Centre at the Heart Research Institute, the Manna Institute, First Nations Co, the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW, and WellMob.