2025 ICS Indigenous Research Seed Funding Recipients Announced

ICS is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 ICS Indigenous Research Seed Funds. These grants support Indigenous and First Nations early career researchers (ECRs). Aligned with the University’s Sharing Knowledges in Good Spirit Indigenous Research Strategy (2024–2028) these research projects centre Indigenous voices, fosters community engagement, and advances knowledge in areas of critical importance to Indigenous communities.

Projects awarded:

Centring the voices and experiences of Indigenous Young Adult’s Financial Aspirations, Wellbeing and Literacy

Funding: $16,362
Lead investigator: Dr Georgia Durmush (School of Social Sciences)
Co-investigator: Professor Corrinne Sullivan (School of Social Sciences)

CARECountry-Building Allyship around planetary wellbeing.

Funding: $20,000
Lead investigator: Ms Madison Shakespeare (School of Humanities and Communication Arts)

We congratulate the recipients and look forward to the knowledge and impact their projects will generate!

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The Institute for Culture and Society is located in Parramatta, “the place where the eel sets down” in Dharug language,
along the north bank of the Parramatta River. It sits on the traditional lands and waters of the Burramattagal people of the Dharug Nation,
who have been stewards and caretakers of these territories since time immemorial, in what today is referred to as Greater Western Sydney,
one of the most diverse cultural communities in the world and home to the largest number of Indigenous Australians in the country.
The Institute for Culture and Society acknowledges the Dharug, Eora, Dharawal (also referred to as Tharawal)
and Wiradjuri peoples as traditional custodians and Indigenous knowledge-holders, whose storytelling serve
as historical record, a form of teaching and learning, a way to care for Country,
and an expression of Indigenous culture and identity.