Science continues to exclude Indigenous communities. Fixing this benefits everyone
- Written by Jordan Peter Anthony Pitt, Associate Dean of Indigenous Strategy and Services (Faculty of Science), University of Sydney
An enduring challenge facing science around the world is how to best include and engage Indigenous communities.
In Australia, for example, 0.5% of Indigenous peoples held a university STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) qualification in 2021, compared to 4.9% of the Australian population. Studies have also shown that while...