Professor Daryle Rigney

2019 Cohort

Daryle is focusing on developments in Indigenous nation-building and governance following colonisation.

Daryle is an Australian Aboriginal citizen of the Ngarrindjeri Nation, and Professor and Director of the Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Research Hub, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney. He lives in Kaurna country, Adelaide, South Australia.

Jumbunna is at the forefront of a rapidly expanding area of research, government policy development (Indigenous and Australian) and Indigenous community capacity building, namely that of Indigenous nation building or rebuilding.

At Jumbunna Daryle is focussed on responding to an urgent need for research investigating the nature and imapct of the various self-determination and self-government efforts currently unfolding in Australia and internationally. Along with evaluating their strategic potential for success in enabling the formal recognition of Indigenous structures of culturally appropriate governance, decision-making and the exercise of self-determination.

His work focuses on international developments in Indigenous governance following colonisation where he has been both a practitioner of Indigenous nation building and has published widely and influentially on this subject. His work has traversed the fields of Indigenous education, governance and nation building, natural resources, cultural heritage and local, national and global engagement, collaboration and alliance.

Social change work

Daryle's social change project is to work with the Ngarrindjeri Nation in the strategic realisation of treaty and self-determination outcomes using a ‘nation-rebuilding’ approach.