Emily McConochie
Emily McConochie (Wakka Wakka) is a PhD candidate in the Indigenous Futures Centre based at the University of Queensland. She has a Master of Development Practice (UQ) and a background in community development and community governance. She was born in Maryborough and grew up in south-east Queensland.
Emily is currently a director on the Bunya People Aboriginal Corporation which administers Ranger programs across the Bunya landscape, supporting traditional custodians in their Healthy Country aspirations and care for Country. Her research interests include community economic development, cultural governance frameworks, Country-led research, decolonising research methods and critique. Her PhD project will investigate mechanisms to support Country-led regional governance and the reinstatement of cultural authority across the Bunya landscape.
She is also affiliated with the UQ School of Social Science, supporting the Indigenising Curriculum agenda across five disciplines and the UQ School of Social Work supporting Professor Healy’s team leading a large multi-study ARC project investigating enablers for parent and family advocacy in the Child protection system.
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures is supported by its partners and funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council.
Acknowledgement
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures acknowledges and honours the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our Centre operates. We acknowledge Elders past, present, and emerging and recognise this was always a place of learning, teaching, and research, and that Sovereignty was never ceded.
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