Social and public policy supervisors

I am interested in supervising PhD topics which explore the following issues:

• Protected area and fisheries governance: improving models of collaboration between governments and Indigenous Sea Country Managers to better recognise Indigenous modes of decision making and knowledge authority

• Knowledge mapping: supporting Indigenous knowledge authorities to create resources which articulate the multidimensional values of their Sea Country, which they can utilise when navigating complex cross-cultural knowledge authority domains

Dr Judith Lovell is a Senior Research Fellow with 北方学院 at Charles Darwin University.

Research interests:

• Aboriginal community partnerships
• strategic organisational policy – governance and business
• activating capability in remote and regional populations
• arts-based process (health, education, enterprise)
• visual jurisprudence.

Before joining Charles Darwin University in late 2007, Professor Gerritsen was the “Outback Livelihoods” professorial project leader in the Tropical Savannas Cooperative Research Centre (2006-07).

Research interests:

• economic and regional development policy
• remote and northern Australian development
• Indigenous development and community resilience
• natural resource and conservation management
• intergovernmental relations, local government and policy management.

Associate Professor Payi Linda Ford is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the 北方学院. Her knowledge, expertise and research focus on Indigenous issues and her work contributes to understanding locally, nationally and internationally.

Research interests:

• Indigenous knowledge, and ecological knowledge
• Indigenous languages
• Indigenous Women’s Business
• Indigenous community and enterprise development, early childhood, and land management
• Indigenous higher education post-colonialism
• Law Indigenous Studies

Associate professor Andrew Taylor is a Senior Research Fellow at the 北方学院 at CDU. Andrew researches the causes and consequences of population change for the Northern Territory of Australia and northern regions more broadly.

Research interests:

• impacts from population changes in northern and sparsely settled areas
• population projections
• indigenous populations and changing demography
• policy implications for population change at communities.

Professor Steven Bird’s research with Charles Darwin University’s 北方学院 is driven by the question of how to create a world that sustains its languages.

Research interests:

• language maintenance and revitalisation
• language documentation and description
• participatory design
• computational linguistics
• digital archives.

Associate professor Pascal is an economist undertaking research connected to Northern Australia’s development.

Research interests:

• economic analysis
• tourism business and marketing
• evaluation and assessment of policies and strategies aiming to enhance economic capabilities in northern Australia and address workforce challenges, including surrounding Aboriginal communities.

Kerstin is an environmental economist with a background in agricultural science. Kerstin's research looks at the many relationships between humans and nature with a focus on quantitative research and econometric models.

Research interests:

• human wellbeing
• sustainability
• climate change
• farming
• 适应策略
• economics.

Professor Ruth Wallace is the Dean of College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society, and Director of the 北方学院 at CDU.

Research interests:

• workforce development in regional and marginalised areas
• policy implementation in regional areas
• regional development and growth in remote areas
• marginalised learners and access to knowledge systems
• Aboriginal enterprise development in remote areas.

Michaela is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the 北方学院. Her background is in environmental science, sociology, geography and Science and Technology Studies.

Research Interests:

• 当代实践的知识和治理
• Contemporary environmental politics
• Indigenous research development
• Collaborative services design
• Ethnography
•   Science and Technology Studies

Anne Lowell is a Principal Research Fellow in the 北方学院 and specialises in collaborative qualitative research and community education with remote Aboriginal communities.

Research Interests:

• intercultural communication
• Indigenous health and early childhood
• culturally responsive policy and practice
• Indigenous culture and linguistics.

Dr Deepika Mathur is a Research Fellow based at the Alice Springs campus. Her area of research is examining ways regional towns can be made more sustainable and healthy, through the built environment.

Research interests:

• construction waste management
• waste from solar energy systems
• sustainable architecture

Dr Tracy Woodroffe is a Lecturer and Course Coordinator in the College of Indigenous Futures, Arts & Society. She welcomes inquiries from prospective Master by Research and PhD students for supervision in her areas of interest.

Research Interests:

• Indigenous education and leadership
• knowledge systems
• classroom practice and assessment
• teacher education

Michael is a Principal Researcher with 北方学院 and heads the Contemporary Indigenous Governance and Knowledge Systems research team. Michael has lived in and worked with Yolŋu communities for over 40 years.

Research Interests:

• Yolngu languages and culture
• Yolngu philosophy and education
• transdisciplinary and Indigenous research