CAEPR develops its research program with a variety of interest groups and its sponsors. The research program is then presented to the Advisory Committee for endorsement. As a university-based research centre, CAEPR does not take any official view and all CAEPR research is independent scholarship. A substantial proportion of CAEPR's research is based on fieldwork in Indigenous communities.

Current Research

To learn of Centre's current research in more detail, see:

• CAEPR Strategic Plan 2009-2011 [2.7 MB]
  
• CAEPR Strategic Plan 2006-2008 [2.7 MB]

Previous research plans are archived below:

• Research Plan 2009-2011 [1.3 MB]
• Research Plan 2008-2010 [1.3 MB]
• Research Plan 2007-2009 [57 KB]
• Research Plan 2006-2008 [121 KB]
• Research Plan 2005-2007 [1.8 MB]
• Research Plan 2004-2006 [266 KB]

CAEPR's External Research Links

As well as FACSIA and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, CAEPR has close research links with a number of Commonwealth and State government departments and agencies. In Canberra, these include the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Reconciliation Australia, the Commonwealth Grants Commission and the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination.

CAEPR also maintains close links with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the Australian Anthropology Society. It has also established academic links with a number of interstate research centres and agencies such as the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of NSW in Sydney, the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research, the Australian Institute of Family Studies in Melbourne, and the Vichealth Koori Health Research and Community Development Unit at the University of Melbourne. In Darwin important research linkages are maintained with the ARC Key Centre for Tropical Wildlife Management, the Tropical Savannas Management CRC and the Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management, all at Charles Darwin University.