In Australia, much like other colonized locations such as Canada, New Zealand, and the USA, the colonial legacies embedded within higher education institutions, including the history of exclusion and the privileging of Western epistemologies, continue to make universities challenging places for Indigenous PhD scholars. Despite this, and while the numbers of Indigenous PhD scholars remain well below population parity, they are carving a space within the academy that is shifting the academic terrain and enriching the research process. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Indigenous PhD scholars working in the field of health and a qualitative survey of doctoral Supervisors and Advisory Committee Chairs, this paper explores the doctoral experience of Indigenous scholars. What becomes apparent, through this research, is that despite ongoing experiences of racism and alienation, these scholars are finding ways to circumvent inadequate supervisory processes, systems support, and research paradigms, to carve a path that centers Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing.

在澳大利亚，与加拿大、新西兰和美国等其他殖民地国家一样，高等教育机构中所蕴含的殖民遗产，包括排斥历史和西方认识论的特权，继续使大学对土著博士学者构成挑战。 。尽管如此，虽然土著博士学者的数量仍然远低于人口均等，但他们正在学院内开辟一个空间，改变学术领域并丰富研究过程。本文通过对健康领域土著博士学者的深入访谈以及对博士生导师和顾问委员会主席的定性调查，探讨了土著学者的博士经历。通过这项研究，显而易见的是，尽管持续经历种族主义和异化，这些学者正在寻找方法来规避监管程序、系统支持和研究范式的不足，以开辟一条以土著人的认识、存在和发展方式为中心的道路。正在做。