Centre For The Advancement Of Indigenous Knowledges

CAIK is an Indigenous academic expertise Centre, with a core business focus on the implementation of Indigenous Graduate Attributes (IGA) at UTS.

The Centre for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges (CAIK) was established in February 2015. It began with the appointment of Professor Michelle Trudgett as the Inaugural Director of CAIK and the subsequent appointments of two first-class Indigenous Australian academics — Professor Susan Page and Associate Professor Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews. They were joined in May 2015 by Mr Gavin Stanbrook, CAIK’s Centre Administrator.

CAIK is an Indigenous academic expertise Centre, with a core business focus on the implementation of Indigenous Graduate Attributes (IGA). The Centre is co-sponsored by INSEARCH and UTS. The Centre will also offer postgraduate programs in Indigenous Education commencing in 2017. Academic staff are highly experienced researchers who are always keen to discuss their research and new project ideas while providing the academic supervision support to numerous first year Indigenous HDR Students.