Indigenist health and cultural safety education research consortium: Decolonising nursing and midwifery education

The Muliyan Consortium is a national collaboration of practitioners, researchers, educators, policymakers, funders, and community organisations who share a commitment to providing better care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The Consortium is both a research arm of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) and a community of independent academics/educational researchers working in nursing and midwifery education and training.

The Consortium has been founded partly based on funding from the Lowitja Institute to grow excellence in IFirst Nation health and cultural safety training and education for nurses and midwives, and has been gifted the name of ‘Muliyan’ meaning ‘eagle’ in the Ngunnawal language.

Muliyan Consortium researchers are indigenous and allied researchers from numerous Australian institutions and indigenous bodies, including Charles Sturts’ Professor Juanita Sherwood and Associate Professor Linda Deravin. Professor Sherwood’s valuable experience and cultural insight also resulted in her being bestowed with the honour of being appointed to the Elders Council of CATSINaM in 2021.