Alice Wighton joined CAEPR as a Research Officer in 2020. Alice has previously held positions at the Australian Indigenous Governance Institute and the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, where she contributed to several research projects, including a report into innovations in contemporary Indigenous governance arrangements; an edited volume exploring Indigenous self-determined governance for self-determined development in Canada, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States; and an audit of governance education and training available for Indigenous people across a range of Australian industry sectors.
 
Alice’s Honours research problematised and stimulated new ways of thinking about the widespread and largely uncritical use of liberal political reason in Australian Indigenous affairs discourse. Alice maintains her critical interest in liberal systems of thought and knowledge production, and is currently exploring how the contemporary neoliberal university structures students’ engagement with Australian Indigenous Studies.