Dr Pekeri Ruska
Pekeri Ruska is a Goenpul woman from North Stradbroke Island and a Research Fellow in the Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures at the University of Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Journalism.
She recently submitted her thesis for examination titled Sovereignty Never Ceded: Quandamooka Embodied Acts of Sovereignty. Her thesis engaged with and expanded upon existing theoretical discussions of Indigenous sovereignty and built upon these foundations to demonstrate Indigenous sovereignty in practice by providing an in-depth historical study to show the continuous and ongoing exercise of Indigenous sovereignty by Quandamooka people.
Core to her community work and research is improving the lives of First Nations people and in 2019 she completed a Fellowship with the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, where her project explored alternative models of home ownership for First Nations peoples.
Pekeri previously served as a Solicitor with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and the General Manager of the North Stradbroke Island Aboriginal Housing Co-op.
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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