Sydney Met is delighted to partner with the IKL in research, policy and Indigenous community engagement, linking Sydney Met’s teaching, scholarship and research with the world of practice and research.

The IKL is a research, engagement, and advocacy platform that responds to the need for Indigenous peoples to be placed at the centre of a new way of thinking and research, learning, and practice.

The IKL vision emerged from the experiences, hopes, and dreams of Indigenous scholars and practitioners living in a world that continues to suffer from the legacy of colonisation, marginalisation, and injustices. Its founder, Krishna K. Shrestha, is an Indigenous academic and activist-scholar from Nepal’s Newar Indigenous community. Krishna has experienced all forms of discrimination and marginalisation that is associated with being an indigenous person. He thus recognises and appreciates the power of indigenous knowledge in helping eradicate societal injustices. His active and sustained personal and professional engagements within the scholarly, policy, and practice domain of Indigenous and non-Indigenous learnings have provided a robust foundation of experience and networks, on which IKL is built.

The main IKL’s unique advantage is our specialised focus on engaged research on alternative data generation, advocacy and empowerment for Indigenous peoples. The IKL platform attracts and supports a team of Indigenous researchers, knowledge keepers and practitioners whose ambition is to weave Indigenous people’s thinking, policy and innovations into solutions for some of the most pressing issues of our time.