Australia‘s National Indigenous Languages Survey

About this episode

Dr Alexandra Grey interviews Zoe Avery about the upcoming 4th National Indigenous Languages Survey and its co-design process.

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Zoe Avery, a Worimi woman and a Research Officer at the Centre for Australian Languages within the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Zoe and her teammates are preparing the upcoming 4th National Indigenous Languages Survey. This time around, the AIATSIS team have made some really important changes to the survey design through a co-design process which we will discuss. The survey will be conducted in late 2025 to 2026 and reported upon in 2026. For additional resources, show notes, and transcripts, go here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Dr Alexandra Grey

Guest: Zoe Avery

Topics covered

• Indigenous languages
• language survey
• co-design process
• Aboriginal studies
• cultural research

Keywords

• Indigenous languages
• language survey
• AIATSIS
• Worimi
• co-design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Centre for Australian Languages, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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