Jemma Solomon commenced as NIKERI Institute Partnerships Coordinator in June 2023. Her role is to engage with community, build partnerships with business and industry contacts and enhance the relationships the institute has with community organisations and schools....

We're proud to have had over 1100 First Nations graduations from NIKERI Institute (formally Institute of Koorie Education). And in October, family and friends joined the celebrations to welcome our newest group of alumni at our 2023 Community Graduation...

Deakin University honoured NIKERI Institute Advisory Board member and VAEAI General Manager, Uncle Lionel Bamblett for his lifetime of dedication and commitment to Koorie Education with an Honorary Doctorate at the recent graduation ceremonies. Wiradjuri/Yorta...

Earlier this year, Vision Australia marked NAIDOC Week by naming a litter of potential Seeing Eye Dogspups in honour of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Four names were chosen demonstrating a strong connection to Country and acknowledgment of First...

From Deakin Library Blog This week the Library have officially opened a dedicated space for First Nations students, staff and the wider community. Named Marrang, a Kirrae Whurrong word meaning ‘great meeting place’, the room is located in the Warrnambool Campus...

Our Marketing and Partnerships team, Georgie and Kiri, have just completed the first of several planned national roadshows for 2021. We spent a week and a half in the Northern Territory visiting, meeting and connecting with organisations and schools from Darwin...

Deakin University celebrated a milestone in March in its commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, with the rebranding of IKE to the National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute. NIKERI Institute Director...

Deakin University media release Deakin's Institute of Koorie Education (IKE) will be known from today as the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation Institute (NIKERI Institute), in a transition acknowledging the growing capabilities and...

NIKERI Institute staff led by Dr Tyson Yunkaporta have recently experienced Knowledge sharing and connection to Country through a traditional boat-building project.  The project has recently been worked on by Dr. James Charles, lecturer in the Master of Public...