Vicki Grieves
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Vicki Grieves ARC Indigenous Research Fellow
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Vicki Grieves BA (Hons1) UNSW is Worimi from the midnorth coast of NSW and a historian. Vicki has almost three decades experience in managing Aboriginal policy and program developments within universities (where she has also lectured in Aboriginal history and public policy), the Commonwealth public service and in Aboriginal community organisations. She has recently had the opportunity to review major Indigenous education initiatives of the Commonwealth government as a consultant. Vicki’s completed PhD thesis Approaching Aboriginal History: Family, Wellbeing and Identity in Aboriginal Australia presents a case for a new Australian historiography based on Indigenous knowledges approaches and explores mixed-race marriages in Worimi from this theoretical base.
Research Interests
- Indigenous Knowledges development, particularly Aboriginal philosophy and research methodologies
- Aboriginal history, including family history
- Indigenous wellbeing
- Indigenous public policy
Current Research Activities
The ARC funded project Internecine conflict and violence in NSW Aboriginal communities: an historicised assessment of governance and social control
This project involves analysis of the context of conflict and violence in NSW Aboriginal communities through ethnohistoriographical techniques and Indigenous knowledge methodologies, including Aboriginal focus groups, to engage and empower Aboriginal people in innovative approaches to restoring social order. Research outcomes, specific to localities in NSW, have benefits for dealing with conflict and violence in Indigenous communities in Australia and internationally. Research outcomes will clarify the sources of conflict, ensure conflict resolution and ongoing civil societies, enhance the cultural viability of communities, and inform public developments with appropriate governance models, enhancing Indigenous wellbeing.
Publications
Online book
Co-Editor, AWABA: an online database of materials relating to the Aboriginal people of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region, with Prof Hilary Carey and Dr David Andrew Roberts http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/awaba/awaba/group/amrhd/awaba/index.html (2002)
Refereed chapters, articles and reports
“The Battlefields: identity, authenticity and Aboriginal knowledges in Australia” in Indigenous Peoples: Politics of Justice, Resources and Knowledge, Prof Henry Minde (ed) University of Tromsoe, Norway, distributed by University of Chicago Press, January (2008)
“A Sign of the Crimes”: Adam Hill political artist, visionary and critic of Australian whiteness - an interview with Vicki Grieves" special edition Approaching Whiteness of the Australian Humanities Review, Fiona Probyn and Anne Brewster (Eds), August (2007) http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-August-September%202007/Grieves.html
“Indigenous Wellbeing in Australian government policy and the ‘Whole of government’ approach to Indigenous affairs in Australia” AlterNative: an international journal of Indigenous scholarship, June (2007)
“Indigenous Australians: Well-served by current public policy?” in D. Callahan (ed), Australia: who cares? API Network, Curtin University, Perth, WA (2007)
Indigenous Wellbeing: a framework for Governments’ Cultural Heritage activities a report prepared for the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, Policy and Knowledge Branch, Cultural Heritage Division, June at http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/Indigenous+wellbeing+framework (2006)
“Windschuttle’s fabrication of history: a view from the ‘other’ side” Labour History Journal November http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lab/85/grieves.html (2003)
Chapter One: “Indigenous Perspectives” with Laurie Anne Whitt, Mere Roberts, Waerete Norman in Dale Jamieson Ed A Companion to Environmental Philosophy in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series, Blackwell (2001)
"Belonging to Land: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Natural World" with Dr Laurie Whitt, Waerete Norman and Mere Roberts in The Oklahoma City University Law Review Volume 26:1 and 2 Spring and Summer (2001)
Reviews
Review of Henry Reynolds’ Nowhere people: how international race thinking shaped Australia’s identity Viking, Camberwell Vic, 2004 Journal of Australian Colonial History Vol 10 No 1 (2008)
Review of Tim Murray (Ed), The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004 Journal of Australian Studies, Curtin University, WA http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=0521796822 (2007)
A response to Keith Windschuttle’s “The Whitewashing of Aboriginal manhood” on the Men’s Health Information Resource Centre site at http://www.menshealthaustralia.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=180&Itemid=81 (2007)
Review of Ramsland, John Custodians of the Soil: a history of Aboriginal-European relationships in the Manning Valley of New South Wales Greater Taree City Council in the Manning River Times (2001)
Articles and reports
“What is Indigenous wellbeing?” proceeding of the Mauratanga Taketake Traditional Knowledge 2006, Indigenous Indicators of Wellbeing: Perspectives, Practices, Solutions, November (2007)
Why Australians can have hope: an Aboriginal perspective, posted on the RPR website http://www.rprconsulting.com.au/ Invited lecture for the 10th Anniversary of RPR Consulting, in Sydney and Canberra, November (2005)
“The marriage of William and Annie McClymont 1861 - 1887: visions of a hybrid Australia? Crossings, November http://asc.uq.edu.au/crossings/9_3/index.php?apply=grieves
"Belonging to Land: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Natural World" with Dr Laurie Whitt, Waerete Norman and Mere Roberts in INTOUCH: Searching for meaning in times of change New Zealand (2003)
Editor, Wollotuka staff responses to Minister Brendan Nelson’s report Achieving Equitable and Appropriate Outcomes: Indigenous Australians in Higher Education at i295 http://www.backingaustraliasfuture.gov.au/submissions/issues_sub/issues3.htm (2002)
“Aboriginal Philosophy” in AWABA
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/awaba/awaba/group/amrhd/awaba/culture/wisdom.html (2002)
“Margaret of the Awabakal c. 1829 - 1894” in AWABA
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/awaba/awaba/group/amrhd/awaba/people/margaret.html (2002)
“The role of the State in Indigenous Identity and Wellbeing in Australia” Changing Society for Women’s Health: Proceedings of the Third National Women and Health Conference 1995 (1996)
“Dr Margaret Harper” Australian Dictionary of Biography (1982) http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090201b.htm
“Oral History: A Case for Reconciliation” Oral History Association of Australia Journal October (1981)
Unpublished
History of the Worimi-Kattang Peoples commissioned by the Kattang Elders for the Saltwater Native Title Claim, Taree NSW (1999)
Wellington Wiradjuri Historical Report (Minimbah Consultants and Education Providers) for Wellington Wiradjuri Native Title Claim No. NSD 117 of 2006 (2007)
Research Grants
June 2007 Application ARC – IRDS as Honorary Associate Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney (successful) ‘Internecine conflict and violence in NSW Aboriginal communities: an historicised assessment of governance and social control’.
July 2005 Invited Research Associate Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney to work with Dr Fiona Probyn on the ARC funded project Significant Others: race and the Australian family.
May 2004 Application for the NSW History Fellowship and Indigenous History Fellowship (successful) $20,000 over 2 years to research the biography of Les Ridgeway.
January 2003 Application for an Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) grant (successful $10,800) for research toward the Les Ridgeway Autobiography now for Ridgeway Family History.
September 2003 Application for a RIB Grant (University of Newcastle) (successful $2,000) Seed money for the development of the Worimi Indigenous Australians Historical Database.
February 2002 Application for a RIB grant (University of Newcastle) (successful) With Prof Hilary Carey of the School of Liberal Arts - $7,000 was provided for the development of resources on Aboriginal Missions in NSW for posting on the AWABA website, launched as part of the Birabahn Festival in 2002.
Consultancy
I am the principal consultant in the company Minimbah Consultants and Education Providers. Our most recent work has been:
2007-08 Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training in partnership with Erebus Consultants National study of Indigenous Education Support Centres (ISCs), including their relationship with the teaching and learning faculties in higher education
2007-08 Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in partnership with Erebus Consultants A study into the successful transition of Indigenous children into schools.
2007-08 Cooperative Research Centre in Aboriginal Health (CRCAH) in partnership with Professor Judy Atkinson, Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Knowledges, Southern Cross University Indigenous Spirituality: a literature review.
2006 NSW Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) Development of the report Indigenous wellbeing: a framework for governments’ Aboriginal cultural heritage activities. http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/conservation/IndigenousWellbeingFramework.htm