Current projects
Japan - Zenadth Kes Project
This collaborative project aims to document, translate and make accessible a major body of archival research about Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait). The research was created by Japanese researchers...
Remix / Rimix – Negotiating Contemporary Arts and Custom
Remix / Rimix – Negotiating Contemporary Arts and Custom works with artists and cultural producers in Vanuatu who are undertaking new creative actions and collaborative research exploring the...
Following the Trade Routes
Following the Trade Routes is a cultural governance and research project established by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC) seeking to create new understanding of cultural...
The Scaffolding Cultural CoCreativity Project
The Scaffolding Cultural Co-Creativity Project (SCCCP) is a multi-sited, 4 year project researching dynamics of creative collaboration and value co-creation across the three overlapping domains of...
Restoring Dignity: Networked knowledge for repatriation communities
This project has continued the work of the Return, Reconcile, Renew team (see below) to build a digital archive of repatriation knowledge. To learn more about the archive see the public information...
Repatriation, healing and wellbeing: understanding success for repatriation policy and practice
A shared understanding of success is critical for best practice in repatriation. However, there is currently little dialogue, or harmony, between museums, agencies, and Indigenous communities about...
Profit and Loss: The commercial trade in Indigenous human remains
This project investigates the global commercial trade in Indigenous human remains. It will employ a multi-disciplinary approach involving history, economic anthropology, economic history, and data...
Heritage and Reconciliation
This project will re-conceptualise heritage from a standpoint of reconciliation. In doing so, it will generate new understandings about how heritage and its management can contribute to...
Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous human remains in Russian collections
Dr Hilary Howes’ current research project ‘Skulls for the Tsar’ aims to produce the first detailed investigation of the acquisition of Indigenous human remains from Australia, New Zealand and the...
Kimberley Aboriginal Caring for Culture Project
The Kimberley Aboriginal Caring for Culture Project is part of the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre’s (KALACC’s) effort to improve resource distribution, foster a collaborative approach...