Language
Language and cultural continuity
Not yet published.
Research at RJKC
Research that supports Indigenous and community-based scholarship — and that treats provenance, consent, and cultural authority as part of the method rather than an afterthought.
Research content
Not yet published.
Approach
A research institute in service of the community
RJKC is intended to develop into a research institute: a base for original scholarship, for community-led documentation, and for collaborative work across Micronesia and the Pacific. It should support language, navigation, history, culture, and contemporary research as connected areas of inquiry rather than separate ones.
It should bridge ancestral knowledge and contemporary scholarship without treating one as subordinate to the other — and without presenting uncertainty as certainty. Research outputs are expected to distinguish what is known, what is remembered, what is interpreted, what is disputed, and what remains unknown.
RJKC's responsibility is to build a trustworthy place where knowledge can be preserved, examined, connected, questioned, taught, and passed forward responsibly.
Research and artificial intelligence
Assistance, never authority
AI may assist research, organisation, transcription, discovery, and other work. It may never independently determine what cultural knowledge is authoritative, culturally appropriate, restricted, or suitable for release.
Retrieval and processing permissions are separate from access permissions and default to denied. Publication permission is not AI permission. Where material is classified as not to be processed with AI, it is not processed regardless of any other permission held by anyone.
Human review is the only path
Cultural and permission review, and every decision about release, sit with named people — the archive curator, the Cultural Advisory Council or the relevant community authority, and the founder. No automated process may make or change those decisions.
This page describes RJKC's stated direction. It is not a governance document.
Research areas
These cards show the shape a research index could take. The subject areas named here come from the institution's own stated directions; the specific projects, leads, and outputs are placeholders, and no programme is announced.
Oral history
Documenting knowledge before it is lost
Not yet published.
Navigation and voyaging
Navigation, voyaging, and inter-island relationships
Not yet published.
History
Dispersed historical materials
Not yet published.
Contemporary research
Contemporary Pacific and community issues
Not yet published.
Stewardship
Indigenous data and cultural stewardship
Not yet published.
Fellowships and support
Not yet established. Fellowship and support programmes, eligibility, and application pathways will be published once approved. No opportunity is open, and nothing can be applied for through this site.
Partnerships and collaboration
RJKC intends to build relationships with scholars, cultural practitioners, archives, museums, universities, humanities organizations, and appropriate funders. No partner, affiliation, or agreement is named on this page, because none is reported.
Research output and data documentation
Research outputs and supporting data would be published through the journal and archive pathways, with citations linked to the records they draw on. Material whose access classification does not permit a given audience is never displayed or cited on public surfaces. No outputs or datasets are published.
