Message from the Chair of the Organising Committee, 9th Indigenous Researchers Forum

Dr Jeannie Herbert
Director
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

Re:  Previous Call For Papers

In designing, selecting and sourcing quality content for the Forum it was our original aim to ensure all papers presented were Refereed papers.

To enable to us to achieve this goal, we promoted an initial deadline of end of March - which was further extended to mid-April - to ensure that there was time for Papers to be Refereed.  This would also have meant that all papers chosen for presentation could have been published in the Forum Book.

Despite all promotion relating to this Forum having outlined, since late January, the deadline, we only received two Papers by the stated deadline.  We thank those two people who submitted their Papers and advise that these Papers will go through the referee process.

In further extending the deadline of the Call for Papers until May 31, we have to advise that there will now not be time for further papers to be referred and published prior to the Forum.