Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methodology - Softcover

Maggie Walter is a Trawlwoolway woman of the Pymmerrairrener nation of north east Tasmania and an Associate Professor with the School of Sociology at the University of Tasmania. Her scholarship focus is inequality and race relations with Indigenous peoples at the centre of her research and she teaches and publishes across these areas. Her books include Social Inequality in Australia: Discourses, Realities and Futures (with Daphne Habibis, Oxford University Press, 2008) and Social Research Methods (2006; 2010; 2013 Oxford University Press). Maggie is co-editor (with Aileen Moreton-Robinson) of the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, an elected member of the Research Advisory Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), and a long term Steering Committee Group for the large-scale Australian Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC), Footprints in Time Study. She is also currently engaged in an on-going project embedding Indigenous research methodologies into post-graduate programs in Australian universities.Chris Andersen is Michif (Metis) and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. He is interested in the ways in which the Canadian nation-state has created “identity” categories relating to Aboriginal communities. He is a member of Statistics Canada’s Advisory Committee on Social Conditions, the Office of the Federal Interlocutor for Métis and non-status Indian’s Research Advisory Circle, the co-Chair of the Urban Aboriginal Strategy’s Wicihitowin Research Action Circle, and editor of the journal Aboriginal Policy Studies.