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Joshua Waters

(He/Him)
Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Knowledges, Deakin University

Joshua Waters is a First Nations K/Gamilaroi man, PhD student and Senior Research Fellow with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. His work explores the critical role of Indigenous Knowledges in global higher education and institutional contexts.

Joshua is also a core member of Deakin University's Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Lab and a Director of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Collective (IKSC) where he supports a number of regional, national and international partnerships and research projects aimed at utilising Indigenous knowledges and complexity for global systems innovation and change.

Experience

  • –present
    Research Fellow, Deakin University

Education

  • 2023 
    University of Southern Queensand, Masters of Research

Publications

  • 2024
    In Search of Indigenous Knowledges, Beyond the Glass Cabinet: Moving Indigenous Knowledge from static artefact to dynamic process in Australian University contexts
  • 2023
    Journal for Australian Indigenous Issues, An Indigenous Process Method for Conducting the Literature Review
  • 2023
    Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Indigenous systems knowledge applied to protocols for governance and inquiry