 Dr
Sarah Holcombe is a Research Fellow at the National
Centre for Indigenous Studies.
As a social anthropologist
she has almost twenty years research experience in remote and
very remote areas of the Northern Territory, Western Australia
and western Queensland. This research has been a balance of
applied and academic anthropology with eight of these years
spent working as a regional anthropologist for, respectively,
the Central and Northern Land Councils. Sarah’s PhD research
in anthropology was undertaken in the Central Australian Luritja
community of Mt Liebig (Amunturrngu), on the processes by which
this settlement evolved into an Aboriginal community.
Before joining the NCIS, Sarah
was a Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic
Policy Research where she spent five and a half years. Over
this period she worked on three major projects, two of which
were ARC linkage projects. The first was a linkage between CAEPR
and Rio Tinto (Indigenous community Organisations and mining:
Partnering Sustainable Regional Development); the second was
with CAEPR and Reconciliation Australia (Indigenous Community
Governance: Understanding, building and sustaining effective
governance in rural, urban and remote Indigenous communities).
The latter project is ongoing with support from the Desert Knowledge
Cooperative Research Centre's Sustainable Desert Settlements
research program. The final project Sarah was engaged in at
CAEPR was as Social Science Coordinator for the DKCRC.
Research interests include
the engagement of Aboriginal organisations, such as native title
representative bodies and small corporations, with development
issues such as mining; Aboriginal Governance, such as those
issues surrounding regionalisation and local autonomy; Land
tenure systems and decision making processes; Succession processes
and re-territorialisation; The anthropology of the State; The
dynamics of the "inter-cultural" and social change;
collaborative research methodologies and the management of Indigenous
knowledge and intellectual property in research.
E:
Sarah.Holcombe @ anu.edu.au
T: +61 2 6125 8111
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